Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday! Fran Black >________________________________ >From: Donna Cooper <thedonnacooper@gmail.com> >To: mobarry@rootsweb.com >Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:23 PM >Subject: [MOBARRY] Whee, Six Years! > >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 > > >