-----Original Message----- From: PDietlein@aol.com <PDietlein@aol.com> To: jkhouck@primenet.com <jkhouck@primenet.com> Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:21 AM Subject: Jefferson Co. Heritage Book >Hi Kathy, > > Your post to the Alabama list was forwarded to me. The Jefferson County >book has recently gone to the printers. > > A quick overview of the process might help you see why it is almost >impossible to project an exact time the book will be available. The printer >typesets the pages and sends them back to the committee in sets of perhaps 50 >pages at a time. The committee then goes through these, proofing against the >original material and trying to recheck every date and name spelling, etc. >Then the pages are sent back for any corrections. This process is repeated >for each set of pages. And, at the very end, after all the corrections, we >get all the pages back to highlight all the surnames which are matched to the >corresponding page(s) on which they appear for the index. > > Because of the anticipated large size of the Jefferson book, we expect >this to take several months and likely well into the summer or even later. >We received well over 2,000 separate articles, so there is just a lot of >material to work with. Of course, that also means, the book is going to be >superb!!! We are all excited about it and eager to see the final product. > > By the way, we are recommending to all our friends who anticipate >ordering gift copies later -- that they not wait, but do so now. They can >take advantage of the present price of $75.20 (includes shipping). We have >been forewarned that that price is very likely to increase when the printer >is able to get a better handle on the final number of pages in the book. > > Please feel free to pass along the above information to any others who >may be interested. > >Sincerely, > >Pat Dietlein >Family Coordinator >

Since a lot of us ordered the Book a year and some over a year ago. How can we make sure that you still have our name on the list? Our checks cleared the bank a year ago. At the time we sent our money in we were under the impression that the books would be here by late 2000 and now you say maybe late summer of 2001, If we were told all of this in the beginning that would have been different , We were lead a different path. At this time I am not sure that I would ever order on a "pre-need or want "again. But Thanks for letting us know, In hopes it is not 2002 that we get the book. Peggy psueg@bellsouth.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy" <jkhouck@primenet.com> To: <ALJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:10 AM Subject: [ALJEFFER] Fw: Jefferson Co. Heritage Book > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDietlein@aol.com <PDietlein@aol.com> > To: jkhouck@primenet.com <jkhouck@primenet.com> > Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 12:21 AM > Subject: Jefferson Co. Heritage Book > > > >Hi Kathy, > > > > Your post to the Alabama list was forwarded to me. The Jefferson > County > >book has recently gone to the printers. > > > > A quick overview of the process might help you see why it is almost > >impossible to project an exact time the book will be available. The > printer > >typesets the pages and sends them back to the committee in sets of perhaps > 50 > >pages at a time. The committee then goes through these, proofing against > the > >original material and trying to recheck every date and name spelling, etc. > >Then the pages are sent back for any corrections. This process is repeated > >for each set of pages. And, at the very end, after all the corrections, we > >get all the pages back to highlight all the surnames which are matched to > the > >corresponding page(s) on which they appear for the index. > > > > Because of the anticipated large size of the Jefferson book, we expect > >this to take several months and likely well into the summer or even later. > >We received well over 2,000 separate articles, so there is just a lot of > >material to work with. Of course, that also means, the book is going to be > >superb!!! We are all excited about it and eager to see the final product. > > > > By the way, we are recommending to all our friends who anticipate > >ordering gift copies later -- that they not wait, but do so now. They can > >take advantage of the present price of $75.20 (includes shipping). We have > >been forewarned that that price is very likely to increase when the printer > >is able to get a better handle on the final number of pages in the book. > > > > Please feel free to pass along the above information to any others who > >may be interested. > > > >Sincerely, > > > >Pat Dietlein > >Family Coordinator > > > >