awwwww I can't speak Best of luck yo you Jane :o) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Lewis" <facets@telus.net> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Cc: "kathleen Torrisi" <kathleentorrisi@tt360.com> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:35 PM Subject: [ENG-MAN] thank you > Just wanted to thank you Kath and all the members of this list for the > wonderful thing that happened to me today. At your suggestion I wrote to > the Manchester Evening News looking for any information about my long-lost > and elusive maternal grandfather. To my amazement I received a letter > today from a lady who was a bridesmaid at my parent's wedding in Salford > in 1945, and whose father was a good friend of my grandfather. Reading > her letter brought me to tears, and I am still choking up with emotion as > I write this. I will be writing back to her just as soon as I can put pen > to paper without tearing up again, and hopefully we will be able to locate > the missing parts of my family tree. > > Kath, you have been such a help and inspiration to me - I can never thank > you enough. And all the other members of this list are just as amazing in > their generosity and willingness to help. I learn from every posting, and > I feel so much closer to my "roots" from reading about the places and > people of Manchester. Even though I left when I was only 3 months old, I > feel almost like I know the place. > > Many thanks again from a 'stray' Mancunian, > > Gail > Vancouver Island, BC > Canada > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message