Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> On the other hand people are seldom as upset by
> 'black sheep' nowadays as they
> were a few generations ago. I once knew a girl who
> was proud of her descent from
> a long line of cattle rustlers, which according to
> her was a family tradition
> going back to the Old country where they'd rustled
> sheep. Then there was the
> woman who upset her father-in-law by discovering
> one of his forbearers had been
> shot by Wyatt Earp. I think it's fair to say that
> most people of our generation
> and later ones would be thrilled to find
> themselves descended from an Old West
> outlaw who died in a shootout with a famous lawman
> - I know I would!


Uh, I think you'd better speak JUST for yourself on this one. Why would ANYBODY be thrilled to find that their ancestor LOST? (Your example is like somebody a century hence saying "Michael Jackson molested my g.g.g.grandfather, isn't that amazing?"...... or "my g.grandmother was murdered by one of the Kennedy family")

Personally, What *I* take pride in is the fact that those of *MY* people (ahem) who lived on the other side of the law....... didn't get shot.... THEY did the shooting, instead (those family members who got killed were NOT direct ancestors).

(offended emphatic sniff).

Kenuchelover