Michelle graciously took over the admin duties for the list while I was out. A great big Thank You to her! I just finished reading the archives as I had stopped all my email while I was away for the past week. Which if you ever need to find them are located at: MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L searchable archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MO-STLOUIS-METRO MO-STLOUIS-METRO-L threaded archives to see listings by dates: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MO-STLOUIS-METRO Glad to see we have some new members. Welcome! I was at a convention where my Aunt Lorraine was given a lifetime achievement award. I found it very interesting that even companies and industry associations are starting to look at the contributions that their members have made over the years. My Aunt Lorraine had worked in the industry for 54 years. That is longer than I have been alive. It was really neat hearing the things she did. I got lots of great human interest stories to add to my genealogy about her. Look in unusual places and you may find some really interesting material on your family. This experience gave me the idea that company and industry awards may be a good place to look for information on people as there might be a news article or even text of a speech that exists. We had discussed some of the treasures you find in old school records and yearbooks. Joan Yeckel has recently posted some great data from an organization's roster from the mid 1900s. That was great information and I hope it helped some of you. If you have any material from 1925 or earlier we should not run into copyright issues and you can post it if you think it would help the list. Thanks again to Michelle for doing a great job as admin! Laura