Welcome Michele! Good luck with your county! Kim Gordon Clayton & Habersham CC >From: "Michele Lewis" <frugalmom@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GAGEN] Howdy! >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:30:22 -0500 > >I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) > >My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. > >I am a 40 year old, stay-at-home mom of 5 children and I homeschool them. >However, I am going back to work 1 day a week soon at McDuffie County Hosp >in the ER as a RN. My husband has retired from the Hillsborough County >Sheriff's Office in FL so he can stay home with the kids on the day that I >work :) > >We moved to McDuffie Co in Nov. My husband was born in Augusta so we moved >here to be near all of his extended family (inlcuding his dead ancestors!) >I have been doing research in Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and McDuffie >Counties for 6 years now. I am very happy to be able to the research >locally now instead of long distance. > >I am working to update the McDuffie County web page. My highest priority >is getting some of the cemeteries in McDuffie surveyed. We are woefully >behind some of the other counties. Today I posted two new cemeteries (Neal >Family Cemetery in Dearing and Westview Cemetery in Thomson). The man that >surveyed Westview is working on the Thomson City Cemetery which is >WONDERFUL! That cemetery is very big and old and full of great history. > >I have been very lucky in that two local people have stepped up and have >volunteered to help me. > >Another project that I am working on is trying to prove there once was a TB >sanitarium in Boneville in the late 1880s. Believe it or not, I can't find >any documentation though I do have access to some letters that were written >by a man that died in the sanitarium. Porr little Boneville is a forgotten >little speck in McDuffie County. > >And that is about it for me. > >Hugs... > >Michele > > >*** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus *** > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve > the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching >their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals >with just this type of research. Please refer them to: >http://www.adoption.org > _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail