Dear Gene, James Aussie Carpenter started his slow decline about that time period. His wife has since died and he is in a convalesent facility as of January 1999. It is true his later work declined but some of his earlier works were pretty good. At one time, he was the only Carpenter publishing a general newsletter on Carpenters and especially the Southern Carpenters!. The most current Carpenter newsletter is being done by Bette Butcher Topp. I do not know how much longer she will keep printing however. John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA Gene Saunders wrote: > > Hi, John. > > I sent my CARPENTER work to this guy a couple years ago: > > James Ausie Carpenter aka: > PO Box 1356 2101 Nashville Rd > Bowling Green KY 42102-1356 Bowling Green KY 42101 > > He prints (printed?) "The Carpenter and Related Family Historical > Journal" (ISSN 0740-6673), but there is apparently no way to carry on > a private conversation with him (hope he's not one of your relatives, > but my experience with him was really bad). > > He asked which branch I was working, and I didn't have anything really > ready, bu I sent him a non-edited DRAFT of a TMG [The Master > Genealogist] report, just to give him an idea. The auto-generated > prose sounded really awful (like a Tarzan movie!) but he printed it > verbatim -- no attempt to clean it up, never asked if it was okay to > print, etc.. Far as I can tell, he prints EVERYTHING you send him > without EVER thinking (so no social security numbers, credit card > info, medical information, etc). My final communication with him was > over 3 years ago. > > My 2c. (Murphy's Law .. he'll be your father, but just in case he's > not, I thought I'd warn you;^) > > -gene saunders > dallas TX