Right on! Dan Kimel At 12:45 PM 6/25/2000 -0600, you wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------132C3FD95CB78645AC9922AA >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >--------------132C3FD95CB78645AC9922AA >Content-Type: message/rfc822 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Disposition: inline > >Return-Path: <djd@oz.net> >Received: from vodka.micron.net ([198.60.253.180]) by > mismail.micron.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id > FWPWYD00.F8N for <wschwart@micron.net>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:11:01 -0600 >Received: from 10.224.0.202 ([10.224.0.202]) by vodka.micron.net > (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with SMTP id FWPWYC00.J8K for > <wschwart@micron.net>; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:11:01 -0600 >Return-Path: <djd@oz.net> >Received: from emerald.oz.net (emerald2.oz.net [216.39.128.2]) by with SMTP (MailShield v1.5); Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:10:58 -0600 >Received: from douglass (sense-sea-mas-6.oz.net [216.39.130.6]) by emerald.oz.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03385; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:09:25 -0700 (PDT) >Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000625091219.01c53c00@oz.net> >X-Sender: djd@oz.net >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) >Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:12:19 -0700 >To: dbechard@harbornet.com, jmo2@earthlink.net, hardin@pop.seanet.com, > wschwart@micron.net, bubba2@centurytel.net >From: "Donna J. Douglass" <djd@oz.net> >Subject: Ho Ho >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >X-SMTP-HELO: emerald.oz.net >X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: djd@oz.net >X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: emerald2.oz.net [216.39.128.2] >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > Dear ________: > >I am your _________ (insert relationship) and living in the early 21st >century (or late 20th, but let's not go into that right now) here in > ___________ (insert city/state/country). > >I am sitting in front of a microfilm projector (I'll explain what that is >in a later email) in a special library run by the LDS (nice people, but later >on about them, too) trying to decipher the small and shaky handwriting of >your parish's minister/vicar/curate (pick one). He must have been either >vertically challenged or had palsy - because it's unreadable! At least I >think it's your parish and I'm not even sure of the decade! > >Thanks a lot for leaving such a good paper trail. (Sarcasm intended.) >According to family legend, you and your wife/husband (pick one) >___________ >(insert name) had _____ children, some of whom lived beyond infancy. Yet >not >a single one was recorded in the parish records! I can't even find your >marriage certificate. You two WERE married, right? Didn't you know that >there would be legions of people like me fanatically spending their waking >hours and small fortunes looking for any and all traces of your lives? >Were >you just stubborn, couldn't afford the fees, or not members of the >Established Church? > >You're wondering, "What's all the fuss about, we're dead as doornails?" >We're not sure, but I think down here we're infected with the same >disease: >"Rootsus Obsessionus." Of course, WE are going to leave better records >for our descendants! My husband/wife (pick one) doesn't understand this >disease and wants to divorce me. I'm OK with that, really. Although I'd >lose a >spouse, I'd gain another family tree branch! > >Anyway, I'm glad I was able to vent my frustrations upward. If I couldn't >do that, I'd have probably popped the obnoxious researcher next to me who is >right now translating an old record in German from the village of >Schlippenzefallen - and out loud, for God's sake (oops!). > >I have an idea.... When I'm "dead-on" (pardon the expression) to finding >the correct record, give me some sort of sign. Make the projector bulb >flicker twice. Or, if it must be done in the privacy of my home, I have a >Labrador Retriever. Talk through her. That will get my attention for sure! > >Thanks for listening. I'll be much better in the morning..... I'll be >back at the library tomorrow night for Round 14, so catch me there. PS: I'm >the one with the REALLY bloodshot eyes. > >Sincerely, > > _______________ > (Your name here) > > >Donna J. Douglass >Gig Harbor, WA >USA > >eFax (603) 804-5863 > >Home Page http://www.oz.net/~ccaine/djd/ > > > > >--------------132C3FD95CB78645AC9922AA-- > >