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To: Rambi who wrote (5454)	12/21/1997 2:18:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

Apparently the history of the Revolutionary era was vanishing down the memory hole until about the 1830s, at which time some folks began assembling "patriot handbooks" to preserve the record. I guess people just took the events of that time for granted after the first flush of independence wore off. If my dad hadn't developed an interest in geneaology after he retired, we wouldn't know of an ancestor who served in Virginia's House of Burgesses with Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and a few other notables. You would have thought he would have merited a mention in the family history, but he didn't. The lack of interest in the early history of the U.S. does appear to have been quite widespread. Maybe everyone was just too busy with their own lives to be interested in the past.