I wonder if any of our people were in MS, LA, or AL? See below. Betty Pace From: "HopeStanley" <HopeStanley@mchsi.com> To: NCJOHNST-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:39:16 -0400 Subject: : A letter to other states Subject: A letter to other states > > We all know what a chore it is to find answers, locate records. Have you > thought about all of the genealogists in the path of Katrina that fled > their homes, leaving their > computers and their data behind? Not today, but someday, they will be in > a position to return to their genealogy, and have no idea where to start. > A group has just been started to help. Please join! > > Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/Katrina-Genealogists > Group email: Katrina-Genealogists@googlegroups.com > Description: Genealogists banding together to recreate data for those who > lost their records in Katrina. Collecting surnames, names of genealogists > who lost data, those who want to help. Initial startup will be spent > brainstorming what we can do. > > We know many of you are not in the south as you research. There is no > shelter near you that you can volunteer for. Perhaps this will be a way to > help. If you have ideas, or are just available to do something once we > formulate tasks, please join us. (At this point we are the blind leading > the blind and need any ideas we can get.) Please pass the word. > > Katrina Genealogists > Katrina-Genealogists@googlegroups.com ______________________________