At 07:52 PM 6/1/2004 -0400, Donald Pruitt wrote: >Yes, Linda, my sentiments exactly. Leola really hit it on the head. These magic boxes have made it wonderful for us, though we cannot forget the importance of helping dig thru the stacks and uncover long lost info. The internet has provided me a way that I can find out about some of the ancestors I had long ago given up on. > >May we all keep digging! Those of you who are 'mining data' here on the Internet, and using the sources that have been provided to you, if you wish to pay back those who provided the data, go to your local courthouse and abstract data to place online. That is the way it gets put here. Or go to a local FHC and 'rent' a roll of microfilm for one of the counties you are working on. Abstract the data from that roll. Send it to a County Coordinator of the county you are researching. Or.... if you are digging in Cherokee County, send it here. Place it on the mailing list. It can be 'pulled' out and placed in a file for use on line. Any records are great to have. Newspapers, Old Obits, Deeds, Marriages, Court Minutes, Wills, Estate Records. The list is endless. Many contributed when I was the County Coordinator of the Cherokee County page. I appreciated each and everyone of those contributions. It takes time and effort. But the pay is wonderful. Some researcher writes and tells you they appreciate the fact you abstracted that record. They had been looking for the great grandparents for years. It is a good feeling. To each of you who have been digging and contributing, THANK YOU. To those who will in the future..... Thank You for considering the donation of time. Wyndell Taylor List Manager >Don Pruitt > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Murray > To: GACHEROK-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:07 AM > Subject: Re: [GACHEROK-L] THANK YOU!!!!! > > > Very well said, Leola. I can only ditto your remarks and mirror your > feelings. > > Thank you for remembering to remind us. > > Linda in Marietta > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leola Russell" <ljrussell@earthlink.net> > To: <GACHEROK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 2:33 PM > Subject: [GACHEROK-L] THANK YOU!!!!! > > > > Reading one of the email messages I received this morning reminded me > > how much time and effort others have put into making it possible for me > > to access so much information so economically. > > > > We are the benefactor of the work done by members of local genealogical > > organizations who have walked cemeteries, searched records, collected > > obituaries, and a wealth of other information from their community and > > published it making it available to those of us who live great distances > > from their community. It is certainly more economical for me to buy a > > book than spend the time and money to travel to the area to do the > > research myself. > > > > The internet has made so much more information available to us in our > > homes. It is a wonderful resource, but it is not FREE. People spend > > time collecting all that information. Computers and internet access or > > not free, and someone must post the information, and hopefully someone > > has checked the accuracy before it is circulated around the world. > > > > Few of us take time to consider the cost of maintaining any > > organization. Printing and postage to provide newsletters and other > > publications to those of us who live far away is an ever increasing > > expense. Maintaining a research facility is very costly. Each of us > > should consider the work, effort, and cost of publishing information, > > and remember to give recognition to those who did the work and paid the > > cost. Our purchases and contribution enables the group to maintain and > > enhance their collections. > > > > I cannot say enough to thank the genealogy "angels" who do all the hard > > work and contribute so much of time and money to preserve the > > genealogical and historical material in their community and make it > > available to the present and future generations. > > > > Jonelle ELLIS Russell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== GACHEROK Mailing List ==== > > GACHEROK-L mailing list archives. Search by name, etc. > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GACHEROK > > RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archives. > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/ > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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