Jane: What a good ending to your story. We almost all have the same problems and are always hopeful of finding that missing link. Kathryn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Thursby" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:44 PM Subject: [BALTGEN-L] The Note finally Worked! I was contacted today! > Well, the stake out didn't work BUT THE NOTE DID! > > After 2 plus years, I received a call today from a Margaret Slacum Phillips. > She was at the cemetery today with her mother to put flowers on the > great-grandparents grave. Her mother is the daughter-in-law of Barbara > Fischer Slacum. The gravesite is Barbara's parents and one sister. Margaret > 's father and grandparents are also in New Cathedral and that is really why > they come. > > When I went last year on Good Friday, I had missed them by ONE day. She > comes and brings her mother who is 88 always on Maundy Thursday and then > around Christmas sometime. > > We had a long talk and she filled me in on some bad information I had. The > first bad information I had was that Barbara had no living descendents. > This bad information was both my fault and a Slacum researchers > confirmation. Margaret's father was married twice and had children by > both wives. The first wife had one child before dieing and the second-still > living-had three. > > Also in the obit of one of the Fischer siblings it listed the one daughter's > married name as Homer. I could not find them anywhere. Well, it is not > Homer; it is Hoover; a transcription/typo error. Margaret told me that all > the pictures went to the Hoover boys when Barbara Fischer Slacum died. She > is going to email me when she gets home to West Virginia the contact > information for them. > > This taught me a lot. I will never trust newspaper's obits as the truth. > Why I did when even my father's obit had me living in the wrong city in the > wrong state. It taught me the follow through with every obit and death > certificate comparing the information provided. > > But the most important lessons were patience and persistence, two years and > four notes. Apparently the cemetery was removing them or they fell off. > Well not this time! > > Thanks to everyone for all the good thoughts and advice. It paid off! I > think I will write this up and submit it to one of the genealogical > magazines. Even the process of finding Frederick and Susan P. Fischer's > gravesite in the first place was a trip. Do you now how many Frederick > Fischer's died between 1900 and 1910 in Baltimore-with that exact spelling > yet? > > Jane Thursby > >From England to Maryland by the early 1700's and still Maryland. > Researching: > Thursby, Stinchecum, Seward, Clag(g)ett, McNamara, Barnes, Muckelroy, > Watkins, Kennard, Fallin, Snyder, Griffin, Benson, Cullison, Shipley, Beall, > White, Wheatly, Mullineaux, Lee, Norris, Waugh, Oldner, Davis, Sasscer, > Fell, Keith, Benton, Hitchcock, Clark, Moxley, Norwood, Lewis, Tydings, > Lamb, Gassaway, Holland, Musgrove > Also through George Schaffer (Chip): > Schaffer, Appel, Dinsmore, Fischer, Yeagle, Suman, Soellner, Franz, Baker, > Albert, Miller, Buzzard, Kitzmiller, Loeb, Stougel, Rohr, Turner, Wilson, > Schichadanz > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > Please note that hitting reply will send your response to the entire list. > Please respond to people privately and not through the list unless your response > contains information of general interest. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/310 - Release Date: 4/12/2006 > >