I have known Linda for about a year now. I love the work she is doing and I help to transcribe some things for her. If you find it within your heart and time she is always in need of a volunteer. She is doing a wonderful job and I know how much she appreciates your input and support. With the great people that are on this list I'm sure she will have a wonderful story or two to put up! Just my 2 cents, Rikki > > To all of you who have investigated the Poorhouse site at > http://www.poorhousestory.com/ or will be doing so and might have a > story to share, please contact the "poorhouse lady" from her website > and offer those memories to be posted on the poorhouse site. That > knowledge shouldn't be wasted - the stories are just too important to > go untold. Thank you for sharing some of them with me, Susan McIntyre > > --------------E4DF99F08FCE1A6BD462CCD9 > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Received: by rei.mich.com (mbox sbmc) > (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Sun Jan 28 16:26:14 > 2001) > X-From_: phlady@jump.net Sun Jan 28 16:05:07 2001 > Return-Path: <phlady@jump.net> > Received: from mail15.jump.net (mail15.jump.net [206.196.91.15]) > by mercury.mich.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09103 > for <sbmc@mich.com>; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:05:07 -0500 > Received: from lindac (jump-v90-2085.customer.jump.net [207.8.69.85]) > by mail15.jump.net (8.10.2/) with SMTP id f0SL56328826 > for <sbmc@mich.com>; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:05:06 -0600 (CST) > From: "Poor House Lady" <phlady@jump.net> > To: "Susan McIntyre" <sbmc@mich.com> > Subject: RE: Poorhouse Website Inquiry > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:03:29 -0600 > Message-ID: <NEBBLIGFELEJADFEFAGNIEIBDCAA.phlady@jump.net> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 > In-Reply-To: <3A7486D7.3345B55C@mich.com> > Importance: Normal > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > Oh, Susan! Thank you so much for the kind words. I LOVE IT when folks > share their personal memories. That's a favorite part of the > site...where I post NOTES FROM READERS. I really, really hope that > none of those folks who wrote to you are too shy to contact me. I > would love hearing from them...and you can (and I hope WILL > <grin>)...tell 'em I said so! > > Thanks, > Linda > > PS If you did that (sharing the link) yesterday...I BELIEVE you! > Yesterday was the third highest number of hits we have EVER had on the > site in one day. (You must be on a LOT of lists...and folks must > believe your recommendations!) I can't figure out any other reason why > the count went so high yesterday. (But I don't think very many of them > contacted me. Shucks!) > > PHL > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan McIntyre [mailto:sbmc@mich.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 2:54 PM > To: phlady@jump.net > Subject: Poorhouse Website Inquiry > > > Hello Poorhouse lady, > > I wanted to contact you and tell you how much I appreciate your site - > it is amazing. I also wanted to let you know that when I first saw > your site (posted on the Frederick Co, MD mailing list) I was so > impressed that I offered the link to other mailing lists that I belong > to, which I have done in the past with other interesting sites. Well, > I couldn't believe the response that I got from that simple act of > sharing a link. A number of people have contacted me to share their > memories of poorhouses and poorfarms in their areas. One gentleman > even told of working in the CCC in 1936 at the poorfarm in his area > and another gentleman told of his family running the poorhouse in his > town. > > I have been advising these wonderful storytellers to contact you and > offer their stories for your site. The 19th century information of > course is great and as someone working on their family tree it is > greatly appreciated. But while the people who have first hand > knowledge of the poorhouses that your site deals with are still alive > and willing to tell their stories - I hope that you will continue to > offer them a place to share their knowledge with the rest of us. We > can all use a lesson in how hard life can be and that we should truly > appreciate what we have. Thank you for all your work on your > fascinating site. 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