My friends - Greetings from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where I will be until late Thursday. I had planned on bringing you a data post today for Graves County, but I am going to postpone that item until tomorrow, and, invoking the privilege of the chair, so to speak, I want to tell you that one of our dear friends - and a friend to all of the Kentucky Internet Genealogical Community - is facing a crisis for which she needs the support of all of us. That is why this message is going out to all of the JP area lists which I host. Those of you who attended the Jackson Purchase Homecoming event last year will remember Nancy Trice. She attended in her capacity as State Coordinator of KYGenWeb, which is a part of the USGenWeb, and she surprised me greatly by presenting an award to me on behalf of KYGenWeb. Nancy has been ill recently, and, this week, has been diagnosed with a potentially life threatening problem. She will be seeing specialists this week who will assess her condition more fully and will lay down a treatment program, which may require major surgery, among other things. Nancy's contributions to the Internet genealogical community in KY are legion. I first "met" her six years ago when the KYGenWeb was still a dream of its creator, the late Jeff Murphy. After Jeff left the arena, her great common sense and her ability to bring people together in what became the KYGenWeb proved to be invaluable, necessary resources for that type of undertaking. She was, for a short time, the National Coordinator for the USGenWeb, but left that job to return to her first love - Kentucky. I am proud to know her and to call her a colleague and friend - as she is to all of us. I am asking that all of us - whether you attended the JP Homecoming or not - join together in sending Nancy a veritable "flood" of e-mails and e-cards, expressing our collective and individual hopes and prayers for her full and swift recovery. Nancy has always been there for us, defending the KYGenWeb when it was attacked from without, and doing all that she could to preserve free access to genealogical records on the Internet, even when she came under sometimes vicious personal attack. I was proud to stand with her on more than one occasion. Now, we need to be there for her. I hope you will send Nancy an e-card, or an e-mail message, expressing your wishes for the rapid return of her health. Knowing our subscribers, as I do, I know you will respond. Her e-mail address is: trice@vci.net Thanks for standing by Nancy in these difficult circumstances, and for your understanding in this departure from our normal List postings. Only in an extraordinary circumstance would I "break protocol". This is one. -B ============================================================================ =============