RETIREE'S JOURNALESE SPARKS 'RUDE' REMARK HACK RESPONDS IN HEADLINE STYLE "Why say in four 'graphs what you can say in two decks and a kicker?" quidnunc quips :{D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muriel M. Davidson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [CCC] Why are we doing all this research? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rue_Dee" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:18 AM > Subject: Re: [CCC] Why are we doing all this research? > > Muriel, > Thank you so much for sharing such an articulate observation about > genealogy. > I find most of your messages to be a bit terse, if not downright rude, but > this is wonderful! > Rue > ==================== > Hello Rue:- > > As Gordon often tells me I "write in shorthand" - here is an explanation > of why my memos often seem terse. > I started in newspaper work at age 16, 62 years ago and like many > things, OLD HABITS are hard to break. > The printing trade gave way to proofreading, finally women's editor > and a columnist of our local paper. > A newspaper writer MUST include the gist of the memo in the first > two or three paragraphs, the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY, and HOW. > If paper space is limited, stories are cut from the bottom -- so if you > see a newspaper story cut off in the middle of a paragraph -- this is > the reason. > > However, I never mean to be rude -- not my nature -- except to list > administrators who dump me because I mention the word "census". > > I presume you are referring to my reply re "We are the story tellers" > -- YES, we must be that -- just in case census records are never > released in full. Many feel we should be ashamed our relatives > were in "poor houses" -- but these were the equivalent of the day > of our present nursing homes -- not because they were "short of > cash" -- but needed nursing care. [My grandfather had records of > monies paid for his uncle's care at Hillsview Acres, a new name for > the former Queens County Poor Farm or County Home, located > at Middlefield, Nova Scotia] > > Guess, either you or the rainy weather made me write in "longhand!" > > Muriel M. Davidson [email protected] > Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee