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From: Marilyn Bridge Brown <>
Subject: Re: GEN-EDITOR-D Digest V97 #49
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 10:21:48 -0600


In reply to the editor who was asking how to handle the problem of race:

We have had contact with a few Fletcher descendants who are black and
I've found that their queries and stories almost always speak for
themselves without addressing the question head on, e.g. mention of
slave schedules or searches for Fletcher slave owners in specific areas.
This has also held true for some Philipino descendants. If I use any
labels at all, I'm careful to use only those they have attributed to
themselves in correspondence or documents.

-----Marilyn Bridge Brown
-----627 Polk 412
-----Mena, Arkansas 71953
-----e-mail:
-----researching: BRIDGE, HARRINGTON, ETTER, FLETCHER, KUNKEL
-----editor/publisher: Fletcher Family Research Bulletin
-----editor: Polk County [Arkansas] Pioneers

"If ye don't know the past, then ye will not have a future. If ye don't
know where your people have been, then ye won't know where your people
are going." ---Forrest Carter, "The Education of Little Tree,"
University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

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