Carol I can tell from way over here in Tennessee the work all of you do. It takes time to send email, arrange meetings with speaker and continue on and on and over and over with research. You have to love research to do this and it gets old and sometimes you have to walk away from it but you will go back and pick it up again because it is something you love and enjoy.. I can not imagine all the leg work that had to be done before computers. Computers are a wonderful invention that allow people over in Tennessee to read about the good people of North Carolina. I have enjoyed so many of the email since I have joined and I renew my membership so I can continue with this opportunity. This is a gift that I stumbled into a few years ago and I am so grateful to have found your web site and to make this possible. Over these few years I have hit on someone else's idea and use it for my on research and sometimes it will open another door for me. I want to thank all of you for all of the work you do and to keep up the good work. I want to visit the Orange County area some day and to spend a week to take a good look around at the places my ancestors lived and are buried. These are some of the same places fellow members write about in your email's. You can make it seem real and not just a place I have heard of in my research. Judy -------------- Original message from [email protected]: -------------- > Charlotte, > > I appreciate your enthusiasm and I'm certain we all know it is genuine, but > the ones who really do the work of studying and honoring the generations gone > by are those who year after year quietly go about reading, writing, and > publishing the carefully gathered facts and stories of Old Orange County. They > are > rarely the ones who have something to say every time there is an opportunity - > they are too busy getting something done! We see a lot of these local experts > regularly come to the meetings, listen to the presentations, then go home to > get back to work gathering the history. > > I wish all the "distant D-OGS" could know how many local people work hard > year in and year out to make certa in that the history of this region and its > people is made available to everyone whether near or far. The work of a local > genealogical society may not directly impact those who are here to do the actual > ferreting out of the facts, but they benefit indirectly in the same way from > folks in other regions who are finding the answers to their brick walls in other > communities to which they don't have easy access . > > You are very kind and I wish you every success with getting your folks > identified. I know someone will really appreciate your efforts. > > Carol > > > ************************************** > See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > & gt; ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message