LDS Users
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In reply to:
Re: NATIVE AMERICAN HARRELLS
KELLY TAGABAN 2/13/02
Read your message and know how you feel about some of the users on LDS.I sent a nice message to one of them a few years back correcting some info they had posted to one of the LDS sites.Seems they had gotten the info from a noted source and that source was never wrong.Trouble is I knew of the source and the person who contributed the info to it.
She is my: 1st Cosuin once removed/2nd Cousin once removed/4th Counsin twice remove (due to early marriages in family between my mom line and dad line as well as one of her lines going back to a common ancestor), and had coppied down the wrong info to post in the source on my mom parents and some other info on my dad, her side, of family directly related to me.So this ended up posted on LDS directly from the incorrect info in the source.This book was last updated in 1987 and is planned to ber updated again but no date set for that....
I got a reply back saying I needed to check my sources, that my info was wrong based on input from the very same sources that I'd told them were wrong......After a few exchanges of info I gave up on trying to get them the right info and stopped messing with any of the LDS sites.
I've gotten info from a few folks who use LDS and found that all of them aren't hard headed fools.Also one must be reminded that not all folks are open minded about the truth of who they come from and when told they might have mixed blood lines they get upset.Simply passed on info from a source once that said a family was once slaves from VA sold in GA and didn't get so much as a 'KMA' or 'TKU' from that person after that.This info was passed based on names and dates that fit the info from my source so I passed it all on as was read from source....
I don't have any links to Native Americans for my Harrells but it possible they did marry as history shows they lived in peace, from VA NC SC GA, with them long before the government came in and spoiled relationships between White and Red people.Have seen some White Holt Cole Bass listed on NA Rolls and know the Harrell married into these family lines, possibly the NA lines.Also have always thought that if I was a grandparent and my child was a halfbreed and faced being marched west I'd do anything to keep that child within my family, even lie about his background.Thus loss of the true history of our family......Wayne