Re: [Sansevierias] Naughty Taxonomists

At 11:21 AM 10/16/2013, you wrote:
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>I enjoy genealogy as a hobby and have a long list of French Canadian 
>ancestors, and a short list of Scotch/English forebearers, the 
>latter from Hunmanby, Yorkshire, Eng. I am loathe to report, 
>however, that none of them ever grew a single sansevieria as a house 
>plant. Its a bit embarrassing. If any reader has an interesting 
>ancestor, I for one would like to read about them here. I raise my 
>glass to you, Roger! Allow me to mention that my lovely wife has a 
>ggg grandmother, Sara Hanks, whose sister, Nancy, was mother to 
>Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves.

I actually knew a Hanks, who was a descendent of Nancy, but she was a 
regular person, this just happened to come up in a conversation about 
HISTORY. My own pedigree is so sparse, I could not be registered by 
the Patterdale Terrier Club Of America. Yes, I do not have enough 
ancestors to be registered as a dog!  my great grandfather, being the 
farthest back I can go, was a horse vet in the army of Czar Nicholas 
2nd. this was not an exalted position. having such a job kept a 
person from the front lines, I was told. It is possible that I am the 
most famous person in my known family, and you can see how 
unspeakably big a deal THAT is.

There were deliberate destructions of my family history since it 
involved marriages with Gypsies and some kind of Hungarian which the 
rest of the family held to be tribally substandard. Our mother called 
them "Red Dogs". No idea why.

Roger has actual ancestors who were painted by Gainsborough, after 
whom towns in Massachusetts were named. He could not care less.

Hermine



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