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

So happy for you?? Gives me hope that I will someday find some of my lost ones. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Thursby" <mejanemd@suscom.net> To: <BALTGEN-L@rootsweb.com> 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. > >