Wow. You do more at 70 than anyone else I know! Good genes :) Happy birthday, and thanks for doing such a wonderful job with the Barry County website! Best regards, Lorraine Allrelated On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Donna Cooper <thedonnacooper@gmail.com>wrote: > List Readers, six years ago a door opened for me that I only I could > understand as one of the most important doors that has ever opened in > my entire life. On January 12, 2006, I became the coordinator of the > Barry County web site - a day I shall never forget. That day I spent > twelve hours at the computer and had 198 e-mail messages that were > straightly for the web site. For months, I worked twelve hours a day > - every day! It was overwhelming! When I went to bed that first day, I > wondered why I had agreed to take on something so time consuming. > > As a coordinator, I have helped you by organizing projects that I > think are important to have on a genealogy web site. We have added > cemetery stone photos, historical newspaper extracts, census, > marriages, war pages, many miscellaneous projects, and thousands of > old photos. When I open Picasa 3 it counts 144,667 photos on the Barry > County web site, I imagine that is probably about ten thousand more > than we really have since some are duplicates. Most of our family > photos are historical - and only a handful was taken after the 1930's. > I generally refuse photos taken after 1950 since that is getting out > of the range for genealogy and historical days and more into the > amusement or pleasure stage of family photos. We do have a Face Book > page with many photos on it - but there, too, most date before 1930. > > The things that make Barry County tick are many, but mostly it is > researchers who care deeply about genealogy - who take pride in who > they descend from and how that they report their records. For a > successful web site like this one, it takes a great deal of time to > post and to keep up with things that need to be updated. At the > present time, I am behind on posting cemetery updates, but those > records will be there waiting for me when I can get to them. So don't > stop posting them - keep on giving us your updates and feedback. We > love it. > > For the first five years, I did not take any time to do my genealogy > or any projects for myself. The past couple of years I have had the > help of Phyllis Long and so I have taken some personal time to do some > things that I enjoy - like traveling. Among all the things I have done > - the projects that I have managed to do and with the time I have > spent away from the web site and computer have been many. I dipped > into remodeling, which has been the most time consuming of all things > . Remodeling an old house built in 1896 is beyond whatever you might > image that it is. It is a job and a half! Then in December, I did DNA > and took time to study the results hoping to solve my Simpson mystery. > I even took some time to do some fictional writing and sold a book. > Many years ago, I published and so this wasn't a new adventure for me > - just one I had put on hold and had in recess. > > I only wanted to say thanks for the great ride - for the friendship > and support that you have given me for the past six years. I hope we > will have many more good days and times to come. We still have a lot > to do. > > With my birthday coming up tomorrow - right now, I am feeling pretty > old. I think that 70 years old is probably too ancient to stand on a > ladder and paint walls. So, I need to find the motor on my paint brush > and finish what I have started. > > Donna Cooper > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >