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Thread #66536   Message #1105639
Posted By: Sam L
30-Jan-04 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Convict ancestry?
Subject: RE: BS: Convict ancestry?
Miller brothers, with the Jesse James gang. In the most recent movie they were brutish doofuses. In the geneology it was a rumor, but in the Pinkerton photo Clell Miller looks exactly like my uncle Joe. I don't get the upside of that particular group of outlaws. Seem like dumb thugs to me, on the wrong side of the war and the law.

   Apparently the south is postponing rising again for another year or so.

   In America a lot of geneologies were corrupted because pretentious rich southern women wanted to be like European Aristocrats and wrote whatever they could make up, based on their tawdry fantasies of themselves. That's why the American south has a rich deep cultural tradition much much older than the country itself, somehow. It's a spiritual essence, emanating from a bunch of old biscuit recipes. But it produced a lot of good literature that stands up to anywhere.