what list as mentioned in your email. My family didn't come from Ellis Island but were there in the 1880s. Interested?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Gail Meyer Kilgore <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:27 PM Subject: [COLAKE] News Article > A project for all of you.... > > OLD TIMERS UNITE! CONTRIBUTE YOUR STORIES TO BOOK > > Everyday I hear or read that another old timer passed away, taking all our > precious history to the grave. Every single family in the following list, > and other not listed, who have moved here, have an interesting, exiting or > even sorrowful experience they can share with all of us, who loved them, > lived around them, went to school and church with them. > > Everyone contributed something to this wonderful city. Are we going to let > it all die? Please don't. Let's all get together, and reach into our > memories for anything we can preserve for future generations. What an > interesting book it would make. A part of each and every one of us, who > lived thru the good times and bad times of this city. Those of you who > moved away, will never forget our town, so please put down all you remember, > and send it to me. Everyone of you, in your own words, will become a part > of history of the families who made Leadville once the very great city. You > can't forget, you made it so. > > After the book is completed, I count all the pages it contains. They > usually cost ten cents a page to print, $1.00 for the cover, and $2.00 to > put it together. This will be your cost, when you order the book. I will > order a book made to only those people who have contributed and made this > publication possible. No extra books will be made. So, if you don't send > in your "history," you will never be able to buy this book, at any price, > and believe me this will be your most treasured book, because you wrote it, > I'll just put it together. > > All my six previous books were made this way. Remember my Genealogy book, a > book of 285 family tress for people who came her to Leadville from year 1865 > to the present? Every state in the union participated, and many from > Yugoslavia. Many people thought this book would never amount to much, since > it took four years of research. So they did not contribute. Not only did > they not get included in this, they never got the book. After they read it, > they begged and pleaded for a book; of course, there were no extra copies. > Several families bought copies for the entire family. One family bought 22 > copies and another 18. I am proud, I was able to do it. > > When you contribute, I want your grandparents name. Where they were born, > when they landed in Ellis Island, when they were naturalized, when they came > to Leadville, when married, to whom, what they did, all the names of their > children, grandchildren, and their families, what they are doing and when > they died. Any other interesting item you want to add to your history. > Only you can do this; this is a legacy you will be leaving for your > children, and they will love you for it.... > > Mail all your stuff to Marie Schlamann, 22 West 7th St., Leadville, Colorado > 80461 or bring it to my home. > > Signed > Marie Schlamann > Leadville, Colorado > Printed Herald Democrat 26 July 2001 > >