Many of us have used the Ryerson Index in our FH search............Vale to the lady who did so much. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MargM <genknut@exemail.com.au> Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:22 PM Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] Vale Joyce Ryerson To: AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com, AUS-SAGEN@rootsweb.com, genanz@rootsweb.com Forwarded message ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Graham" <johngrah@ozemail.com.au> To: <ryerson-index@rootsweb.com>; <ryerson@topica.com> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:11 PM Subject: [RIInc] Joyce Ryerson > With great sadness, I have to inform you that Joyce passed away > last > Thursday, August 30th, aged 95. > > Some of the newer indexers may not be aware of the influence > that > Joyce had on the Index which bears her name. At the May 1999 > meeting > of the Sydney DPS, Joyce offered to give us "some SMH death > notices" > which she had saved, so that we could index them for Ryerson. > The > "some" turned out to be an almost complete run from 1986 to > 1999. > > At this time we were not back-indexing any papers, so Joyce's > gift > gave us the impetus to get to where we are today. > > The following tribute to Joyce was read at last Saturday's > meeting of > the Ku-ring-gai Historical Society: > > > You will be saddened to hear of the passing last Thursday > afternoon > of our long time member and fellow family historian Joyce > Ryerson. > > Her archival activities at her old school SCEGGS Darlinghurst > will be > appreciated by generations of students in years to come. > > Joyce has left a legacy to many of us in company with the > Sydney Dead Persons > > Society who named the Ryerson Index after her because of her > huge > collection of Sydney Morning Herald Death Notices stashed away > in a > laundry cupboard. > > This Index is used by family historians world - wide, some > daily, > some not quite so often, but few have not ever used this index. > > Thankyou for your interest in our Family History Group, your > company, > your family history skills and your friendship. > > Vale Joyce Ryerson. > > > I have added our tribute to the front page of the website. > > John > She will be missed but long remembered MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast AUS-SAGEN Archives are here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/AUS-SAGEN/ Websites of Interest on our Blog: http://aus-sagen-genealogy-websites.blogspot.com/