Raymond, you inspired other self taught eejits to do the same!! Best wishes, Pete. ----- Original Message ----- From: "the_researcher" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:05 PM Subject: [NIR-DOWN] start of the website raymonds story > Before i knew anything about genealogy or computers,i started forgetting > small things,so some members of my family advised me to see a doctor,which > i did, he referred me to a psychiatrist, after a few tests the lady said > she thought i had pre senile dementia, so i had to attend an out patients > hospital twice a week.there they explained that loss of memory could be > put down to a few things, i was involved in a serious car crash in my > younger days, anyway attending the hospital was a young chap you lived > near me, like myself he was on a war disablement pension,he having being > blown up in a landrover while serving in Northern Ireland, me being in an > incident while serving in Malaya, we formed a bond both being exservice, > after about two years attending the hospital my pal John said he had got a > computer and advised me to get one, no one showed him how to use the > computer, he was completley self taught, his health condition was that he > had never been in bed for years he slept in! > the armchair, so he had plenty of time to learn the computer, i got a > computer then and he taught me what to do, my memory started improving and > i started to trace my ancestors, my pal said i think i will build you a > website, remember this is a man now in his fifties who still suffers from > his injuries,bodily and mentally, (Jean McCarthy knows him), So he built > the website and between us there was blood and tears in getting it > started, he never put anything on the website as he is not interested in > genealogy, so thats how it all started, two self educated eejits meeting > in a pscho hospital, > > Raymond > ---------------------------------------- > 479 list members as of 1 Mar 2009 - this is a good place to ask your > questions! > ---------------------------------------- > Searchable list archive at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN > ------------------------------- > 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