On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote:

>
> Plecker was not invincible even in his own time.  He was busy  
> changing birth certificates according to his own racial notions but  
> was challenged by a few Virginians whom, as I remember it, advised  
> him that if he altered the birth certificates they were requesting,  
> they would see him in court.  Plecker then backed down.

I had also heard that Plecker was visited by more than a few FFV  
types who were in fact quite proud of their descendancy from  
Pocahontas. That was when he backed off the absolute purity and did  
the "more than 1 drop" criteria figuring that over time the  
arithmetic progression would dilute the Pocahontas ingredient way down.

Lyle Browning

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