( )\ / ) ( ( ) ) * ) ( \#/ ) Good Morning Family! .-"#'-. .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . |"-.-"| \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . | ! | \| |// ...and we even have decaf, | | | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! | | \ / | | ------ '-._,-' Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. Coffee will resume next week TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Bower[s]/Bauer or Baur lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Bower[s]/Bauer or Baur ancestors or any of the 81+ variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. If you haven't visited the homesite of this list yet, you are encouraged to do so. Our home is Bower Community, located at <http://bowercommunity.com>. There, we currently have two sites: The Bower Family Homestead [a.k.a., the Homestead] is our primary homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Smaller is our sister site, the Bower Cottage, which houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by quite a few cousins from our research groups. Find the Cottage is at <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage>. COFFEE WILL RESUME NEXT WEEK The candle you see at the top of the page will be a part of the Coffee logo until the last person has been removed from the rubble of the crash sites in New York and Washington, D.C. ~ and possibly even longer, if the pain in the family is such that it needs to remain there. Family ... it's what we're all about. I wish you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'