[Genealib] This week's chuckle

[Brannan, Joyce A.]

I had a patron insist that she had seen a slave census for  Alabama and Mississippi for 1870 & 1880.  I absolutely could not convince her that there were no such censuses.  
 
Joyce Adams Brannan
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470

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Subject: [Genealib] This week's chuckle



I knew you'd all appreciate this. I had some out of town
genealogists come in this week.  They asked for city directories
and telephone books.  No problem there, we have both.  But they
were interested in people who were here in the 1860s.  I had to
tell them that the telephone hadn't been invented yet.

*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-*
Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com
http://www.BuffaloResearch.com <http://www.buffaloresearch.com/> 

"Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living.  City living by its definition is crowded.  It is tolerant of other people.  It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates."     --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)
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