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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> Huh?  There was more French spoken there, even more
> Spanish than English 
> until quite late in the history of the state.

Missouri didn't become a state until 1821.  It was
certainly not admitted to the Union as a bi or tri
linguel state.

> 
> While doing geneology research for folks I've had
> occasion to communication 
> with the folks at the Missouri History Museum.  They
> even publish their 
> stuff in French, Spanish and English.  A lot of the
> old legal documents I've 
> gotten were still being written in French until the
> early 1800s.

OF course documents were written in French until the
early 1800s, since the Louisiana purchase was 1803.