On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:27:10 -0000, Jean Wood <jeangrahame@live.fr> wrote: > How I feel for you! > I have just returned from a day in town - very wet and miserable - to > find a huge amount of email on this one subject. Oh, how I understand. > My slap-backs have been mainly in other fields and yes, IT HURTS! I can > give you a recent example. Hi Jean, Thanks for your kind words. You are right it does hurt and not for just the fact that there was no reply, but the fact that my correspondent was annoyed with me for 'checking' ancestors on the internet and had decided not to contact me any more. Your recent example is very interesting. I put myself in your place and feel the shock and horror you must have felt. > What has this to do with your case? Well. I was close to tears and also > a bit afraid of continuing. Like you said, we could stop doing it. But > equally like you and your impeccable research, we are good at it. We > just have to develop a thicker skin and try not to change what obviously > works so well. I'm sorry to say that I gave in to tears for a day and a night. There's a flicker of a smile on my face now for being so silly. This morning, though, with a dodgy computer and another family of people I wanted to research for a new correspondent just getting into family history research, I questioned whether I should continue. > As for the computer - I notice that some on the list have offered - but > do you also have a friendly local specialist who might be able to give > it a good going over? And now I am smiling because I do have a specialist on hand -- my Ian, the Long Suffering Spouse, who was once an IT specialist, himself! He has tried everything he can think of and now thinks he has to replace the hard drive. > Happy New Year, here they say "Et surtout la sante" (and above all good > health) Thank you and a Happy New Year to you, too, or Blwyddyn Newydd Dda as it's said in Wales. Josephine