I am forwarding this letter from Jeff to all of you on the HOLMES list. Please read it,for we all have too do something about this. Each and everyone of us should all get involved.We all need too send a letter or email too the Govs office.Im sure we can get the address from google.com..My God if we loose the Archives and the Library,we will loose all the old records,records we all need in search of ancestors.Please ya all,lets get going on this.As I told Jeff,one lady got the prayers out of our schools,one lady.Ohare was her name. Theres a lot of us,and I think we can all get something going.Any ideas besides mailing a letter too the Gov? Please let us all know. Right now Im as mad as a Hornet.. Lets do something, Best Regards Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Armstrong" <karmstrong70@comcast.net> To: <FLJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: [FLJACKSO] Possible closing and/or disperal of the Florida Archives and Library > Governor Jeb Bush, in his re-inauguration speech a couple of weeks ago, > wistfully mused about how nice it would be if all of the state government > buildings in downtown Tallahassee could some day be empty. The crowd of > thousands listening to his speech, many of whom were Florida state > government workers, were horrified. > > I happened to go down to the Florida State Library and Archives Building the > next day after his speech, and I was kidding with the staff there about how > much I was going to miss them all. We all had a good laugh about it that day > because we all thought such a thing could never happen. > > I was absolutely stunned when I heard within a week at how prophetic that > turned out to be. > > Disperal and loss of the Florida Archives would be a devastating loss of our > country's cultural heritage, because Florida's unique history of having been > under the dominion of Spain and Great Britain makes its archival records > unlike that of any other state in the country. And this invaluable resource > had already been suffering from several years of neglect under the > leadership of the contemptible Florida Secretary of State, Katherine Harris. > > It is a sad day, indeed. > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >