Re: Smotyfanger
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Re: Smotyfanger
G Davis 8/01/09
This is why I am doing my project. To show amatuer genealogists to search out your OWN family and take everything you find online with a grain of salt. You will get bad advice on these boards. Some have personal agendas to tell everyone they are white.
Here, This person states that they believe that Smotyfanger is really the FANGER family and that they are Germans. but, 4 posts down, COOEY, cannot be COODY.
It's ok to change names or mispell them or shorten them when it's Convienient to the replier.
Do as I do, and search out the oldest member in your family and talk to them, Usually there is some truth to the things they will tell you.
Go to your local library as a start. Check tax records, Pleas and Quarterly sessions books, Civil and Crimal records. Those old books will tell you the truth.
Take a vacation and go back to the old family homestead. You will be surprised that some people with the same last name still live in the neighborhood. Call them, Knock on the door, I have met a bunch of my family this way.
Found old pictures, and learned some good and bad about the family.
Remember, You cannot change your family history, Only learn about it, accept them for what they were, and sometimes, the REASON why sometimes they chose to be NA and sometimes they chose to be white.
Good luck with your searches!!!!
I fully expect to be attacked now.
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Re: Smotyfanger
Kathy Roberts 8/05/09