Margaret

Thanks for the nice welcome!  Not everyone on this list was as nice/friendly as you were.  But they chose to email me privately with their stinging - hateful remarks one of which I have cut and pasted a portion of his e mail:  

" person who truly doisn't want to start another wave of negative comments, 
I would think, would keep her freakin' yap shut. signed Chuck West"

I have blocked them from my mail box as I don't have time for the "hot heads" on this list.

Now as for genealogy and the reason I joined the list I am searching for information about the WOOD/WOODS family for starters.  I understand the brothers arrived in America during the early 1600's.  There are some descendants who were active in the RW.  Not sure but I think they intermarried with the McDOWELL and REID families.  They all are referred to as the "Scotch/Irish"being from Ireland but of the Scottish descent.  Would greatly appreciate any info the list might have.
 Sincerely, Kay
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Margaret Kerr Beckwith 
  To: Kay 


  Welcome aboard, Kay!

  I read your comments and have similar feelings.

  As patriotic genealogists and family historians, we seem to have a greater 
  understanding and respect for what our forefathers fought valiantly for!

  Margaret Kerr Beckwith
  Elkins, West Virginia


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Kay" <[log in to unmask]>
  To: <[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:26 PM
  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] New List Member


  I am a new member to this list and after reading the post from Mr.
  Richards I was curious enough to check the Archives to see what it was all 
  about.  I see there was, in my opinion, a serious "rush to judgment" in as 
  much as the remark someone made about Obama wearing his hat backwards.  I 
  too noticed this on TV and I must admit that I wished that our President 
  elect would act a bit MORE presidential.  Wishing he looked more 
  presidential even on a beach somewhere is not in the least a racial comment. 
  I returned from Europe last week where I spent Christmas and New Years.  I 
  eventually became quite annoyed when European friends and just ordinary 
  people I met on a bus or a taxi driver(they dearly love to talk to 
  Americans) ask me If I liked having a President who "thought" he was an 
  arrogant rock star or some center fold model (their words - not mine).  I 
  truly respect the office of the United States President and have always 
  refrained from making negative remarks no matter which party he represents. 
  I pray for his success as do the rest of you on this list.  Calling someone 
  a Racist without even knowing this person, is a Racist of the highest degree 
  and was used a lot during the battle for the presidency.  It seemed everyone 
  was scared to death of saying a negative thing about Obama for fear they 
  would be labeled a "Racist".

    'Nuff said - don't want to start another wave of negative comments.

  My family roots run deep in Virginia as do they in the New England area.  I 
  have enough DAR Patriots and others who have fought for our freedom to know 
  how much we have to loose if we forget WHO we are as Patriotic Americans and 
  remember why we are a free society and what it is going to take to remain a 
  Free Society.   The men who wrote our Constitution had to have had an 
  insight as to what we Americans were going to eventually face because we 
  became complacent and lazy - totally forgetting that our cost for freedom 
  was a dear price that our military, through the years, have paid....  These 
  men are now shifting nervously in their graves wondering if their ultimate 
  sacrifice has all been for naught.

  I wish the best 2009 for everyone on this list and hope I may ask your 
  advise or perhaps help me in the near future to run down some of my Virginia 
  roots.

  signed- another multi-cultural American

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