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   Message 13,522 of 15,187   
   Graeme Wall to Ian Goddard   
   Re: Event-based program for genealogical   
   22 Mar 17 12:27:37   
   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   XPost: soc.history   
   From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 22/03/2017 11:38, Ian Goddard wrote:   
   > Actually I never mentioned a paper trail except in reply to Denis who   
   > introduced the term.  I mentioned evidence.  If someone tells you   
   > something that's evidence.  If someone tells you something that someone   
   > else told them it becomes hearsay.  Transmit verbally a few more steps   
   > and it becomes legend and hey-ho, keep the legend going and we're all   
   > descended from Wodin or Edward III or whoever   
      
      
      
   Actually my wife is, fairly reliably, descended from Edward III :-)   
      
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