Greetings All. For the past six days I have had the pleasure of having my son and two of my grand-daughters (aged 6 and 9) visiting me. On Friday morning I am taking them camping in my trailer for the weekend and on Monday morning they will start on their way home back to Calgary while I will return home. For the first time in the past five years I will not be taking my laptop computer with me and will be out of touch with the internet and my volumes of email. I will, however, be thinking about our efforts to regain public access to the Census records (in between swimming in the pool with my grand-daughters) and will try to catch up with my email on Monday. I am waiting for an article to appear in one of my own community newspapers and have just been contacted by another reporter for a paper in Enderby, BC. It is gratifying that some media people are starting to pay attention to our efforts. This is a result of our supporters contacting their local papers and reporters and writing letters to the media. Keep up the good work. With the help of you all, we will succeed. Thank you all for your support. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Gordon, By the time you receive this, I hope you had a wonderful time with your grchildren--the time is so precious for us all! Secondly, life is only so short--why not smell the roses? :) Shannah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> To: <IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:52 PM Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Post 1901 Census - A few days respite! Greetings All. For the past six days I have had the pleasure of having my son and two of my grand-daughters (aged 6 and 9) visiting me. On Friday morning I am taking them camping in my trailer for the weekend and on Monday morning they will start on their way home back to Calgary while I will return home. For the first time in the past five years I will not be taking my laptop computer with me and will be out of touch with the internet and my volumes of email. I will, however, be thinking about our efforts to regain public access to the Census records (in between swimming in the pool with my grand-daughters) and will try to catch up with my email on Monday. I am waiting for an article to appear in one of my own community newspapers and have just been contacted by another reporter for a paper in Enderby, BC. It is gratifying that some media people are starting to pay attention to our efforts. This is a result of our supporters contacting their local papers and reporters and writing letters to the media. Keep up the good work. With the help of you all, we will succeed. Thank you all for your support. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== Please don't flame anyone on the list. If you do, you will be unsubscribed. If you are flamed, please contact the list admin privately. ============================== 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