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    1. Re: [FL-WFGS] Sid Thomes' floppies
    2. Cynthia Dean
    3. Sally, At the time of Sid's death, I was singing the the Christ Church choir with your sister, Lucy. She knew of my connection to Sid and the WFGS and made arrangements for the Deagan's and me to go to see your mother who told us we were welcome to take anything that pertained to genealogy. She felt she had no reason to keep that stuff. Tom and Ginny took some books, and I took the floppies, because the Deagans didn't have a computer that used that size disk, and I did. I have asked on several occasions if anyone could open them and help figure this out. There is one disk that says First Methodist Church Vital Records. I am very much interested in that. There was a time that Anne Todd (WFGS charter member) told me she had found some old Methodist records that had been lost. She gave the date of a marriage in 1873 and found that the grooms' youngest brother was baptized on the same day. But, those records are no longer at the First Methodist Church. I don't know who ended up with them. I'm hoping these might be the records Sid recorded. Here's the story of how I first met your folks. I was over at the beach by myself looking for a house to rent for a few weeks in the summer. I locked my purse in the car, and my husband was out of town and nobody to call for a key. I just started knocking on doors, and Sid let me in to call the Ford company to see about a key. He didn't know me from Adam's house cat but drove me to Pensacola to Muldon's to get a key made and drove me back to the beach. It was some years later that I met him at the WFGS and thought the name was familiar and asked him about it. He remembered. I'll never forget his kindness. I am very much involved in getting ready for a high school reunion this week, but when I get a chance I will type up a list of what I have of Sid's. I don't suppose you kept his computer? Cynthia Dean

    05/09/2011 03:21:44