Genealogy Computer Classes Classes will be December 7 and 14 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am Wednesday mornings. We are showing you how to use message boards at the genealogy websites. How to write a query about your family to post on the message board and how to search for your family inqueries that pertain to your family. How to get genealogy forms to help in your research. Bring information about your families that you would like to search. Earl Gates - President Lafayette Genealogy Society
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. . . . .and to all those you hold dear. http://www.thepastwhispers.com/Thanksgiving_2005.html
Acadia Genealogical and Historical Society Another important book from Pointe de l?Eglise: Acadia Genealogical and Historical Society is Acadia Parish Marriage License Index, Volume I, 1887-1930. This is a nice companion volume to go along with Acadia Parish Probate Records, An Alphabetical Index, 1887-2000. The information was gathered from files of the Acadia Parish Clerk of Court?s office. This book contains a listing of some 13,670 marriage license applications retained by the Acadia Parish Clerk of Court from the beginnings of Acadia Parish in 1887 through 1930. Future volumes are expected to contain about the same number of records and continue through at least 2000.
Fake family trees online may trip up genealogists By Lee Davidson Deseret Morning News Genealogists beware. A software company is marketing a new program to Internet advertisers that could quickly generate Web sites full of extensive, but fake, family trees. Critics say the approach appears to be part of a new money-making scheme to lure people who search for family names on Google, Yahoo or other search engines to Web sites that use bogus data to help ensure they appear high on "hit lists." They then make money if visitors click on advertisers' links. They worry that novices might download false information that is designed to look real, and then corrupt others' family trees if they share that bad data online or through family history databases such as those offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or the commercial Utah-based Ancestry.com However, Don Harrold, co-creator of a program called "Fake Family," which he sells for $75, says data it produces has "absolutely zero chance" of matching any real person or family. He says he has offered the program to fewer than 30 self-described Internet advertisers, so its use is not widespread, and he has not made money on it. Why make it then? "Why not? I enjoy trying to find ways to create computer simulations of organic life," Harrold told the Deseret Morning News. But online chat groups of both genealogists and Internet advertisers are buzzing about what the new program could do to genealogical research, and why Harrold is marketing it, even if, as he says, to a small group. Dan Eastman, author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, wrote this past week that he believes Harrold "wants to flood the Internet with bogus genealogy material, all for the purpose of making easy money." Online information that Harrold wrote says his product can "create thousands of pages of unique . . . content with almost no effort. Neither humans nor search engines will be able to tell whether the content is 'real' or 'generated.' " How could that make money? Josh Anderson, an Internet advertiser from Idaho, who also is a genealogist concerned about the product, explains Web hosts can program their sites to display "sponsored links." Advertisers pay search engines to have these appear on screen whenever certain key words such as "genealogy" are part of a search. When such links are clicked by a visitor, the Web site host and search engine company split revenue from an advertiser. (Of course, Web sites can also offer other forms of advertising.) "It can be a very profitable source of income. Some people make millions of dollars a year doing it," Anderson said. "The whole purpose (of Fake Family-style sites) is to trick the search engine, so they get a top listing for some search words" to attract more visitors and potentially more revenue-producing mouse clicks. Search engine companies say they hunt for and remove from listings any sites that are bogus or that scrape content from other sites merely to act as a vehicle to carry advertiser links. But Fake Family boasts in written information that it can fool search engines. It does not merely produce lists of random names, but links them generation-to-generation with bogus birth, marriage and death dates and places. It adds that its randomly generated names "are era-specific," meaning you will get more names such as Orville and Bertha in the 1880s than the 1980s. Infant mortality, marriage rates and migration data is also encoded, and more. It's the rich family "experience" that Fake Family provides that is significant and makes the output stunning in its ability to look real to humans. Internet advertisers helped the Deseret Morning News identify a few genealogy sites that appeared to contain only bogus information, along with plenty of advertiser links. Harrold, however, said he only knows of one generated by Fake Family (even though he said in written information that he has "monetized" several family history sites). "This is scary to me," said Mindy Koch, an Internet advertiser from North Carolina and an avid genealogist. "There is a great chance that a novice could think this is real. If they download it, and then later upload it into repositories like (the LDS Church's) Ancestral File, those databases would include lots of people who never existed." Also, she added that it potentially could make search engines more difficult to use for genealogy if bogus sites slow them or account for all the "top hits." Harrold says such threats are imagined and not real. He said the chances of randomly selected first and last names, coupled with randomly selected places and dates, being shown as married to the same persons as people who actually lived "are not just slim, they are nonexistent." He said if someone still mistook such information as real and downloaded it, "that's their fault." He adds, "If you want real family information, why are you not looking at Census records? If you're not paying for it, and I didn't ask you to take it, and the name and date don't match your family tree, why are you taking this information? Any onus is on the people who take this information." Some in genealogy chat groups, however, complained that a name that looks even roughly plausible could be mistaken as real by a novice, or cause even a genealogy expert to spend a lot of time and money to eliminate the possibility it is the person for whom they are seeking. "Boo hoo," Harrold told the Morning News in response to such complaints. He said "the real story" is how Google and other search engines do not verify content they seek and guide others to for profit. He said databases by the LDS Church and Ancestry.com also contain some incorrect information submitted by patrons. His obviously false data creates less threat to genealogy research than they do, he said. Harrold suggested in chat groups that he might sue people who referred to his work as a "scam." He also warned the Morning News to be careful what it said about him. In turn, makers of the Legacy Family Tree software threatened to sue Harrold if he did not remove from his Web site instructions about how to download free software from them that could assist the Fake Family program. Meanwhile, Mary Kay Evans, spokeswoman for Ancestry.com, a Utah company that, as part of its service, offers a large database of names, said, "It is so unfortunate that there are predators on the Web who target people interested in their genealogy. Genealogy is such a popular hobby that predators are moving to take advantage of that." Evans, as well as many genealogists and even Harrold himself, urges genealogists to verify carefully all sources of information in genealogy, especially any obtained online from people they do not know. "That is a primary role of Ancestry.com, to help people see source records," Evans said. Anderson, who operates a small family Web site, also encourages genealogists to actually talk to people operating such sites and ask for all source information. WHAT YOU FIND ON THE INTERNET NEEDS TO BE VERIFIED Earl Gates Lafayette Genealogy Society
Lafayette Genealogy Society November Meeting ovember 17, 2005 Regular Meeting Bring a friend Call to order our regular meeting ? 6:30 p.m. at the downtown library. General Welcome Moment of Silence for our military, for our hurricane victims and Cindy?s daughter Krista. Pledge Recognize new members and guests and lasts month?s new members. New Topics: Genealogy Banquet December 1, 2005 at the Petroleum Club at 6:30 p.m. Speaker will be Warren Perrin. Genealogy Computer Classes ? November 23, December 7, 14 at 9 ? 11 am Wednesdays. We had a good turnout of 12 people and I hope some are here tonight. Workshop tonight is on Computer Genealogy and we hope to show you how to do research on the internet by using www.ancestrylibraryedition.com using www.aapld.org/sources.htm, heritagequest from www.godfrey.org, www.familysearch.org and how to google your ancestors. How to find Louisiana genealogy websites. Warren LeBlanc will cover the Treasurers Report New Business ? Need help the first Saturday of the month December 3, 2005, should we have genealogy computer classes next year then we need to schedule(days and nights)? Inqueries by guests and members. Announcements Adjourn Earl Gates - President
Hi! Just found some interesting cajun email sites. www.thecajuns.com www.cajuns.com Have some interesting things to look at. Enjoy! This is from Eula Earl
Bonjour Cousins, Below are several websites that have superb information on the Acadians - their history and their genealogy. With two exceptions these websites only cover the Acadian history and genealogy in Acadia (i.e., 1600's to 1760's). I hope you enjoy using some of these sites for your research or to just browse around. Merci, Marty Martin Guidry 6139 North Shore Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70817 guidryrm@cox.net Les Guidry d'Asteur, Inc. Les Guedry d'Asteur Genealogical Association http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~guedrylabinefamily http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~guidryrm/Guedry-Labine "An Acadian Parish Remembered" - A photocopy of the original church registers of St-Jean Baptiste Parish in Port-Royal from 1702-1755 with a search engine for finding individual persons http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/acadian/ "Acadian Heartland: Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Derangement, 1714-1768" - Superb site with three excellent sets of records: (1) Selections from T. B. Akins book 'Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia' which is filled with transcriptions of Acadian documents; (2) the Andew Brown Collection's 'Papers Relating to the Acadian French' and (3) 'The Journal of Colonel John Winslow" covering the expulsion of the Acadians from Beausejour (Beaubassin) and Grand-Pre in 1755 http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/deportation/ "ABCGenealogy (Nova Scotia)" - Superb links to Acadian websites http://www.abcgenealogy.com/Regional/Canada/Nova_Scotia/ "Nova Scotia Historical Atlas" - Superb maps of historical and modern Acadia by region; names of people in each historical area of Acadia http://collections.ic.gc.ca/neo-ecossaise/ "Digital Archives of the Argyle District Acadians" - Excellent website on the Cape Sable region of Nova Scotia and and the Acadians there; has a genealogy section. The Argyle District is the southwestern end of Nova Scotia where West Pubnico is located. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/argyle/html/home.htm " The West Pubnico Acadian Museum and Archives" - Contains interesting information on the Acadians of the Cape Sable Region including 100 articles written by Father Clarence d'Entremont about the Acadians. http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/index.htm "Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and History" by Tim Hebert - A superb website for the beginner and expert. Excellent historical and genealogical material on the Acadians from the 1600's to the present. http://www.acadian-cajun.com/ "The Acadian Odyssey" - Another excellent website on the history of the Acadians. The information is more condensed than that on Tim Hebert's website above. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/acadian/english/toce/toce.htm "Baie Saint-Marie" - The Clare tourism website with information on the history of this area where many Acadians live today. Meteghan is part of the Municipality of Clare. http://www.baiesaintemarie.com/tourism/en/index.cfm "Fort Point Museum" - Website of the Fort Point Museum at LaHave, Nova Scotia. It contains an excellent history of the area which include Merligueche by Joan Dawson. Also, has list of names of early Acadians that lived in this area. http://www.fortpointmuseum.com/history.asp
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Archivists work to save parish sacramental records from mold, mildew By Ron Brocato _Catholic News Service_ (http://www.catholicnews.com/index.html) BATON ROUGE, La. (CNS) -- Although all of the records and artifacts most vital to the Archdiocese of New Orleans were saved before Hurricane Katrina struck Aug. 29, many of the individual parishes' sacramental records were lost or badly contaminated. Charles Nolan, archivist for the New Orleans Archdiocese, and his counterpart in the Baton Rouge Diocese, Emilie Leumas, have been working feverishly to save the recovered records. They anticipate a new set of document preservation procedures will rise from the mold and mildew. "All the sources we know of on a national level (pertaining) to records recovery for conservation when things are wet say to do (certain things) within the first 48 hours," Leumas said. "Well, our records have been wet for 48 days or more, and there is no playbook for this." There is no proven process to salvage items that have been ravaged by a combination of murky water, heat and humidity that accumulates in closed quarters. "But when this is over, we will be able to talk at national meetings about what we did," Leumas told the Clarion Herald, New Orleans' archdiocesan newspaper. "It will create an entirely new chapter in restoration guides." Records from nine Catholic parishes have been sent to Louisiana State University and are undergoing a procedure that freezes a document at minus-20 degrees Fahrenheit for 72 hours to kill the mold. Nolan and Leumas will then clean and preserve the records on microfilm. "The most valuable records, things like the old church wardens' records that go back to 1756, and valuable photographs that we have from the (Hilaire) Belloc collection, we got out of the (Ursuline) convent immediately," Nolan said. "So we have not lost any of the historical records so far." But sacramental records from 25 of the archdiocese's 151 parishes and missions still are unaccounted for. These records include marriages, baptisms, first Communions, confirmations and funerals. "The pastors who took their records with them when they evacuated before the storm or took the records to a safe place, those records have come here" to the archives at the Catholic Life Center in Baton Rouge, Nolan said. "Thankfully, many of the pastors in St. Bernard (civil parish) did that so we will be able to save very much of that parish's history." But some pastors felt, in good faith, that they had safe places to store their sacramental records in their rectories. They discovered that while the storm itself did not harm the vital papers, other elements did. Some journals are badly decomposed to a degree the archivists say they may have to re-create them from scratch. "A lot of priests thought that if they wrapped the records in plastic and put them in a safe, they'd be OK," Nolan said. "One priest put his church's records in an ice chest on the second floor of his rectory," he added. "They survived the hurricane, but the looters came in and stole the ice chest. Fortunately, they left the sacramental records." He said the archdiocese has to develop a policy to safely send away sacramental records when there is a mandatory evacuation for an impending disaster. "The lesson learned from this is that it could happen again, and if it does happen again, how do we prepare for it and prepare for it better than we did this time," Nolan said. He estimated that about 98 percent of all sacramental records have been backed up and most are saved on microfilm. New Orleans is the only diocese in North America ("and maybe all the Americas") that also records weekly church bulletins on microfilm, Nolan said. Nolan, who lost homes in New Orleans and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, called Leumas "my guardian angel" for offering the assistance of the Diocese of Baton Rouge archives and staff, taking charge to save some of the New Orleans records and making key contacts to get the restoration process started. "In the first two weeks it was hard for me to concentrate, so she guided me through the decisions," he said. "Her staff has been working side by side with us. "I'm not sure if she is my right-hand man or I'm hers," Nolan said.
Local funeral homes coping Families of deceased are understanding Saturday, October 22, 2005 By Bruce Nolan Staff writer The family of Elizabeth Franz gathered at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home in Metairie on Friday to celebrate her life and mourn her death five days ago -- but having done that, they were unable to bury her. She can't be buried until Monday, another in the many continuing disruptions of life left by Hurricane Katrina. Greenwood Cemetery, the site of her grave, is still not operating normally. Stripped of workers like so many other New Orleans businesses, the cemetery is scheduling burials on a limited basis, said Charlie Eagan, the funeral director who coordinated events for the Franz family. Seven weeks after the storm, New Orleans area funeral homes are still struggling through formidable obstacles to restore a sense of normality for families who must bury their dead. Some major New Orleans funeral homes are flooded and inoperable. Some work out of borrowed quarters and use cooperating homes' facilities to embalm the dead and prepare them for their funerals. More problematic, some large cemeteries have lost most of their workers, delaying funerals or, in the case of the Franz family, creating a two-part leave-taking. "We're offering some sense of normalcy, but I don't think people understand what it's like behind the scenes," said Billy Henry, manager of the House of Bultman. "When I tell you I'm struggling, I mean we're all struggling." New Orleans funeral directors say they are working through a backlog of cases and asking families to accept disruptions in timing and normal funeral convention. "We're still serving families every day, still providing honor and dignity, and still being honest with our clients and families," said Kathleen Rhodes Astorga of Rhodes Funeral Home. Rhodes lost four of its six funeral homes and 75 of its 100 employees, she said. "I just call it challenging. We're not used to saying to a family, 'You can't have Saturday, you have to take Tuesday,' but now we have to because we're booked," she said. Majestic Mortuary Service in New Orleans resumed operations this week. Its parlor on Oretha Castle Haley remained high and dry, but looters stole one of Majestic's limousines and vandalized three other vehicles, said Cecilia Robert, president of Majestic Mortuary Service. Other New Orleans funeral homes are in much worse shape, all but destroyed physically. Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, situated in a sprawling complex of cemeteries and mausoleums around the foot of Metairie Road, stands open and empty, gutted to the studs. A waterline testifies that water stood four feet deep in its chapel. Lake Lawn is working cooperatively with E.J. Fielding Funeral Home in Covington to do funerals; meanwhile, Lake Lawn's surrounding cemeteries and mausoleums often host interments directed by other funeral homes, said Lake Lawn community relations director Jerry Schoen. But not as in pre-Katrina days. The Lake Lawn property, once a leafy, manicured spread that conveyed the aura of tranquillity its managers aimed for, is now a blasted flood plain. Work crews have hauled away downed trees all over the property. But soft green postcard views are now replaced by the drab browns and grays of dead foliage and thick dust. Katrina stripped the cemeteries' workforce from 60 to fewer than 15, Schoen said. The manpower shortage has limited Lake Lawn to eight interments a day, four days a week. Now families and clergy gather on the edge of the grounds under a huge white tent to hold services that might once have been at a grave site deep in the verdant cemetery, or in spare, dignified interiors of its mausoleums, he said. But now cemeteries are scarred, and the mausoleums are stripped of carpeting and bereft of electrical power. Schoen and other managers gently explain that while a few family members are welcome to enter the mausoleum to see a loved-one's final interment, the building's dark, dank interiors do not convey the sense of peace they once did. "The last thing we want is an awkward memory from those last moments with mom or dad," he said. "We're asking families to understand. Hopefully, most do," he said. "From the people I've been talking to in the industry, everything I'm getting is that everybody's doing their best to make this work for families," said Astorga, of Rhodes. "And I'm getting a lot of understanding from families. We're all still dealing with a lot of pain from this storm."
October 20th Genealogy Meeting at the downtown library 301 W. Congress at 6:30 pm. Our speaker will be Bruce Turner, Professor of Library Science, Head of Archives and Special Collections, Friends of Edith Garland Dupre Library/BORSF Professorship will be speaking on how to preserve our photos, documents and records. Earl Gates Bring a friend to our meeting
Genealogy Meeting Genealogy Workshops October 20, 2005 1. Learn how to use the Personal Ancestral File (PAF). 2. Introduction to Family Tree Maker. 3. Making the Most of Cemetery Records, mortuary records, coroner indexes. 4. Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor ? Passenger Lists, Immigrant and Naturalization Records. 5. Military Records: Too Young for the Revolution; Too Old for the Civil War ? Military Records Between the Wars, discharge records. 6. Finding Your Ancestors in Print, 7. Genealogy 101 8. A trip Through Time with the Census (from 1790-1930). Unlocking the Secrets in the US Census, agricultural census, and state census. 9. Migrations Into and Across the South. 10. Finding Your Ancestors in State Land Records, ancestors day in court, wills and the probate process, old homesteads, land and local records. 11. To Be, To Wed, To Pass: Finding Vital Records. 12. More Computer Genealogy focus on using your computer for research, Family Tree Maker, Heritage Quest.com, Godfrey.com,Family Search.org and Googling your Ancestors online. 13. Finding Your Ancestors through Church Records. 14. Organizing Your Genealogy Information. 15. Researching from Old Newspapers 16. Preservation of Family Papers & Heirlooms 17. Genetics & Genealogy in the 21st Century: DNA Research. 18. Going Digital: Using a Digital Camera and Scanner for Family History. 19. More research on Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. 20. Others__________________________________________________. These are some of the Workshops we can have. We want you to list other Workshops along with these we should have for next year. 1.____ 2.____3.____4.____5.____6.____7.____8.____9.____10.____11.____ 12.____13.____14.____15.____16.____17.____18.____19.____20.____ Bring to the meeting or send to GatesEarlG@aol.com Earl Gates
Just want to let you all know that Cindy Hofmiesters daughter was involved in a bad accident and they don't think she is going to pull through. I don't know what hospital as of yet. As soon as I do I will let you know, if you don't already know. Cindy Buffington Just a note regarding the message from Cindy B. about Cindy's H. daughter. She is at Lafayette General in ICU. She's in critical but stable condition and in a coma. I haven't heard that they don't think she will pull through. I went up there yesterday and talked to Cindy on the phone today. They will just have to wait and see at this point. One day at a time. Cindy and her husband can usually be found in the ICU waiting room on the 7th floor close to visiting hours. 9am, 1pm, 5pm and 9 pm or a half hour after, when they come out. The emergency room elevator will take you right to it. Linda Earl Gates
Genealogy Tragedy in Erath, Louisiana Hurricane Rita's winds did little damage in Vermilion Parish, but the surging water that the storm pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico and Vermilion Bay was a different story. Flooding destroyed scores of homes on the edge of the marsh and pushed north of the coast up to Erath, where the air smelled of marsh muck and bleach days after the storm. At the Acadian Museum, founder Warren Perrin pulled out stacks of Cajun genealogy books, history books, maps, and stacks of files with names like Truman Visits Abbeville Photographs, Vermilion Parish Railroads and Thibodeaux Family Genealogy. All were stacked in a heap behind the museum, destined for the trash. Perrin said everything within 15 inches of the floor was soaked. "They weren't letting anyone in on Sunday, but we managed to get in with the help of the Marines," Perrin said. "They gave us an hour. We got a truckload of the rarest items." Perrin said he trudged through about six inches of mud and grabbed most of the Acadian textiles held by the museum "and as many of the original maps that we could carry." The many genealogy books stored on lower shelves were damaged beyond repair.
Computer Genealogy Classes October 5 9 am - 11 am, Wednesday Morning October 19 9 am - 11 am, Wednesday Morning We have covered Googling Your Ancestors and Message Boards. In October we will cover Genealogical resource with searchable databases, family trees, mailing lists, and writing a query for a message boards. Items that come immediately to mind that are important: 1. Verify ALL that you find on the internet. Do not believe all that you find but consider it a lead, a guide for your brick walls. By verifying this information, it doesn't lead you in the wrong direction and waste your time. Just because you got it from a book (the internet, Aunt Susie, Ancestral File, etc., etc.) doesn't mean it's true. No record, person, or document is infallible, and some are less reliable than others. 2. Note the source of every piece of information in the event you need to check again or pass it on to others. Document, everything! Even though you "think" you'll remember where the data came from, think in terms of a person looking at your data a hundred years from now. They will wonder where you found that little piece of information. 3. Learn how to post queries on the mail lists. Capitalize surnames, change the heading bar to pertain to your query and never write ."Looking for grandma." Remember, many of us subscribe to dozens of mail lists. Your post could be deleted by a cousin that doesn't read those vague subject headings. Also give dates and places when you request data. " I have a grand parent John ? where is he? No Information that some could respond. "I have a grand parent John Smith, born Abt 1800 in Mississippi might get a response. 4. for information from individuals: Name, address, e-mail and relationship of the person who gave you the information, when and where they spoke or talked to you. 5. Keep track of URLs (web sites) got for data you find on the internet, along with a written description of where the data was found. Earl Gates
The Genealogy Computer Classes of Lafayette Genealogy Society These classes will focus on various genealogy sites, including Family Search.org, Ancestry Library Edition.com, HeritageQuest.com, USGENWEB project and Googling. Genealogy Computer Classes October 5 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm 19 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm November 16 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm 23 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm December 7 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm 14 9-11 am Wed morning, break 1:30-1 pm Genealogy Searching on the Internet, learn about some of the Internet?s best genealogy sites in this hands-on workshop session. Bring your family names for Googling your Ancestors during class. There are millions of genealogy sites out there, but which ones are worth your time and what can you find? Learn about sites with compiled genealogies that may include your family name, mailing lists and more. Instructor: Earl Gates ? President of the Lafayette Genealogy Society
Our Genealogy Meeting will be Thursday September 15, 2005 at 6:30 pm at the Dupree Library 3rd floor Louisiana Room. Speaker will be Dorothy Burleigh about her trip to Salt Lake City researching and doing her family genealogy. Let's see what she found and should we go next year. Earl Gates
Our Genealogy Meeting will be Thursday September 15, 2005 at the Dupree Library 3rd floor Louisiana Room. Speaker will be Dorothy Burleigh about her trip to Salt Lake City doing her genealogy. Earl Gates
Dear Patrons, I am emailing you to let you know that the Family History Center in Lafayette will not be open Tonight,Thursday- August 25, 2005. I am sorry for the inconvience but due to illness we are unable to fulfill our responsibility. Please excuse us for this unfortunate situation. Just to let everyone know that the Library hours are as posted: Tuesday morning: 9:00 - 12:00pm. Wednesday night: 7:00- 9:00pm Thursday night: 6:30- 8:30pm 2nd Saturday of each month 4th Saturday of each month Please be aware that if there is any changes made I will email everyone and let them know. I apologize again for the inconvience. Sincerely, Cindy & Tony Buffington Directors of FHC