The Water Cooler

My 'first love' in high school was adopted. I think when he was in his 20's he did some research about his origins. I imagine that's a very complicated decision to make. Ever thought about doing it?

Ha, you'll love this; it's so Jerry Springer. I'm adopted, but not in the truest sense. My mom divorced my 'bio dad' shortly after I was born. She remarried when I was 3 and I was raised to think that the man she married was my bio dad. I found out when I was 12. She would never have told me.

You can do the same thing I did. Talk to the oldest relatives you have, and get names, places, whatever you can. Then go talk to the Mormans! lol They are into geneology big time, and if there is a tabernacle anywhere near you, go there and ask for help. They have all kinds of incredible databases. After I got more info about who they were, census reports (Mormans have those), etc., I was able to get copies of war records, medical records, and even pay records. It is amazing what you can find with a little bit of effort.

By the way, the Mormans never tried to convert me or anything - there were simply very helpful.

Sorry, I live in Memphis. We have a bunch.

We have some around here. There is a family that is politically prominent locally that are LDS.

Mullet: How in the world did you know that about Mormon's and geneaology? I get that they would keep meticulous records on members of their church, but general population? Live and learn, eh?

The Mormons do baptism by proxy for dead people. That's why the obsession with geneology. You won't find that in the BoM.

Yep. They believe missionaries will visit the baptized person and if they accept the "restored" gospel, they go to heaven.

Speaking of Cam Newton, what are the thoughts around here about Dyer leaving Auburn?

First, how are we (the south) thriving?

Second, this is the UNITED States. We have differing view points and differing people and we all coexist under one government. That is what makes us great. We do not turn tail and run when something does not go our way. We work together and come up with solutions.

Finally, my forefathers, including my Granddad (flying over Germany in 1943) and my Dad (Vietnam) fought for a UNTIED country and not a political ideology or agenda. It seems you have an agenda that is not being pursued. "Well lets leave the party!" Why not affect political change through working within our system of government? Do you quit at any challenge?

Just an addendum: I would like to quote Andrew Jackson (a prominent southerner), during the nullification crisis, " But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation, and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union." (He also threatened to personally hang his VP "from the the tallest tree in South Carolina" and personally lead a federal force to crush the traitors who suggested succeeding from he Union)

RMFT

You just made the extermination list. Sleep with one eye open.

Internet sleep or real life?

CPL Samuel Francis Bondurant, Co. D, 4th Alabama, recuperating in Chimborazo hospital after Gettysburg. 21 years old. My Great Great Grandfather.

Ironically, in Uniontown, AL.