Good day fellow researchers, As some of you know I have been contributing to this forum with historical items edited from Concordia Historical Institute's Today in History feature. It occurred to me that there are many more items that might be of interest to us. Beginning Wednesday the 15th of December 1999, with Mary's permission, I am going to enlarge and expand the information that is available to us for a one week trial and evaluation. For this effort to work and be worthwhile I ask that you help us by; 1) withholding your comments until Saturday the 18th of December so that you do not jump to any conclusions based on a limited viewing and see note 3) <grin> 2) that you direct your comments to me or Mary and not to the mailing list . To do that please do not hit the reply button, but rather open a new e-letter, copy and paste one or both of our e-mail addresses, near the bottom of this message, into the address box of your new e-letter [if you use both addresses seperate them by a semicolon and a space]. All we need for your response to this trial is the acronym _ PSA _ in the subject line and your comments in the body of the e-letter. We do not need copies of this message unless you find fault with the message itself. 3) following instructions 1) and 2). Mary is too modest to tell you how busy she is and I don't have time to rework messages that have useless content. [This is not an attempt to create a contest of wills-just being candid] Be advised that because I am using only one "Today in History" resource, we are not favoring or endorsing one Synod over another in this forum. for now, contributor John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net The list owner is Mary D. Taffet mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu