[Magdalen] (SPAM: ?) Litany of British saints for use by those who want S...

[James Oppenheimer]

No problem.  Those ancestors of yours may well have been RCC.  The
reformation is such a new thing in terms of ancestors.

Go back far enough and we all are Orthodox, the true cradle of Christendom,
except, of course for that inconvenient Jewish lineage.

Go back a bit further and we all are pagans, however, so....

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 9/18/2014 11:38:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>
> At least  some of your ancestors sound like they might have come from the
> reiving  clans on the Border, Kate.....>>>>
> I have no known direct Scottish ancestry.
>
> Thanks to my recent DNA analysis, I know for certain that 32% of
> my ancestry is "Irish" - in this case Scotch(Scots)-Irish.  In  turn,
> these people came from Scotland and from the northern border
> English counties.  They were most certainly all Presbyterians,
> about which I have mixed theological opinions.  Most of these
> ancestors eventually became Methodists or Baptists secondary to
> the inability of the Presbyterians with their daunting educational
> requirements for clergy to supply the necessary ministers.
>
> Thus, my direct Loyalist ancestors, banished to PEI in Canada,
> are heavily Methodists with a few Presbyterians.  My great-great
> grandfather (taken in by his paternal Aunt Mary after his father
> was executed near Poughkeepsie, NY for Tory spying and on
> orders of General Washington) became a wealthy merchant, and
> gave the land for the first Presbyterian church in his PEI village,
> and then eventually gave the land for the first Methodist church.
>
> I still do hope the vote is "no".
>
>
> David Strang.
>