Forwarded message ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Graham" <johngrah@ozemail.com.au> To: <ryerson-index@rootsweb.com>; <ryerson@topica.com> 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 long be remembered Bye MargM List Admin

Thanks for letting us know.......I used her index many many times over the years. Mary Cunningham née CARTER >> > > She will long be remembered > > Bye > > MargM > List Admin > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have been using the Ryerson several times almost every day and would battle without it Well done Joyce and my sincerest condolences to her family Patrick Callaghan -----Original Message----- From: aus-nsw-sydney-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-nsw-sydney-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Cunningham Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012 8:18 AM To: aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ANS] Vale Joyce Ryerson Thanks for letting us know.......I used her index many many times over the years. Mary Cunningham née CARTER >> > > She will long be remembered > > Bye > > MargM > List Admin > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post > any reply...... Thank you! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Patrick Callaghan wrote: > I have been using the Ryerson several times almost every day and would > battle without it > Well done Joyce and my sincerest condolences to her family Here Here!! I was a DPS member c. 1993. For me those days were blessed with FIDONET free communications. No colours on screen, no charges! or, very cheap rates, no porn, no Nigerian Letters. Junk mail only rarely. The ISPs were called NODES and some 60,000 plus volunteers around the world handled our <netmail> on their home desktop. Thus I could message rellies overseas much faster than by airmail. Blessed are the Volunteers. A dying race!! it seems...... ALISTAIR M CAMERON > Patrick Callaghan > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-nsw-sydney-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:aus-nsw-sydney-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Cunningham > Sent: Friday, 7 September 2012 8:18 AM > To: aus-nsw-sydney@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ANS] Vale Joyce Ryerson