Forwarded message ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Graham" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:11 PM Subject: [RIInc] Joyce Ryerson > With great sadness, I have to inform you that Joyce passed away > last > Thursday, August 30th, aged 95. > > Some of the newer indexers may not be aware of the influence > that > Joyce had on the Index which bears her name. At the May 1999 > meeting > of the Sydney DPS, Joyce offered to give us "some SMH death > notices" > which she had saved, so that we could index them for Ryerson. > The > "some" turned out to be an almost complete run from 1986 to > 1999. > > At this time we were not back-indexing any papers, so Joyce's > gift > gave us the impetus to get to where we are today. > > The following tribute to Joyce was read at last Saturday's > meeting of > the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society: > > > You will be saddened to hear of the passing last Thursday > afternoon > of our long time member and fellow family historian Joyce > Ryerson. > > Her archival activities at her old school SCEGGS Darlinghurst > will be > appreciated by generations of students in years to come. > > Joyce has left a legacy to many of us in company with the > Sydney Dead Persons > > Society who named the Ryerson Index after her because of her > huge > collection of Sydney Morning Herald Death Notices stashed away > in a > laundry cupboard. > > This Index is used by family historians world - wide, some > daily, > some not quite so often, but few have not ever used this index. > > Thankyou for your interest in our Family History Group, your > company, > your family history skills and your friendship. > > Vale Joyce Ryerson. > > > I have added our tribute to the front page of the website. > > John > She will be missed but long remembered MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast

RIP Joyce - you have given so much to family history researchers, thankyou. Glynis Wheeler St Clair, NSW > >> With great sadness, I have to inform you that Joyce passed away >> last >> Thursday, August 30th, aged 95.