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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 05:45:05 -0700 (PDT)


--- 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.





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