Hello Group, Your many prayers have been answered. I had the conversion yesterday and it has been a success so far. I am now breathing normal again. Of course there is a chance of the procedure not holding and then I would probably have it again. It was kind of interesting to hear some of the facts. Like the procedure is 99.9% effective. It only takes about 2 minutes to due the procedure but all the prep time and post monitoring is what takes up the time. I also found out that they can do the shocking from my pacemaker. But in my case the battery was too low so they shocked with an external power source. But here comes some good news that is unbelievable. I know that you've all heard of putting the phone next to your pacemaker and the doctor at the other end can make the necessary adjustments. Well when I get my new pacemaker I'll be going wireless. The pacemaker will have a small internal antenna and will transmit the information to either my telephone which goes to the doctor. This way I don't have to do anything. It's all done while I'm asleep. But the latest system, and I don't know the particulars, is that the info is sent over the internet. Either way I won't have to go to Philly to have it checked. Modern medicine is wonderful. But what is even more wonderful is that the Good Lord must have heard your prayers and watched over me. For that, I am ever grateful. And I must apologize for not getting back to the group yesterday afternoon as promised, but I was totally wrung out from no sleep the night before. Thanks for your prayers once again. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 Tested on: 2/3/2006 11:46:05 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

The best to you=- prayers will be said for you- Marie G

Love and prayers to you in the morning. Hear from you in the afternoon and all will be well. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Allen" <tippy1@comcast.net> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] It's That Time >I have to be at Jefferson hospital in Philly tomorrow morning at 6:30 am to > undergo an electro cardio conversion procedure on my heart. I hope it > works. > I'll let the group know tomorrow afternoon. > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 > Tested on: 2/1/2006 9:15:10 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Keeping you in my thoughts. Linda Jack Allen wrote: > I have to be at Jefferson hospital in Philly tomorrow morning at 6:30 > am to undergo an electro cardio conversion procedure on my heart. I > hope it works. > I'll let the group know tomorrow afternoon. > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 > Tested on: 2/1/2006 9:15:10 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > >

Good Luck Jack. Diesel

Jack: My prayers are with you. Ann In a message dated 2/1/2006 9:15:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tippy1@comcast.net writes: I have to be at Jefferson hospital in Philly tomorrow morning at 6:30 am to undergo an electro cardio conversion procedure on my heart. I hope it works. I'll let the group know tomorrow afternoon. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 Tested on: 2/1/2006 9:15:10 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx George Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Hi Jack, Is your heart beating very fast and won't slow down? Or are you having arrhythmia of some kind. Mine beats fast all the time and a doctor showed me how to slow it down myself safely. Also sometimes my problem is because my Potassium is low and if I drink some orange juice it corrects the problem. This is only for my case. If you want to know what I did write me off group and I will tell you. I will be praying for you. Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Allen<mailto:tippy1@comcast.net> To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:15 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] It's That Time I have to be at Jefferson hospital in Philly tomorrow morning at 6:30 am to undergo an electro cardio conversion procedure on my heart. I hope it works. I'll let the group know tomorrow afternoon. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 Tested on: 2/1/2006 9:15:10 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com<http://www.avast.com/> ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx>

In my own genealogical research I've run into a few "brick wall" ancestors that I can't trace -- no names for their parents or no places of birth, etc. Now I know why <g> Thanks to Kaye in Frostbite, Ontario for the forward. Cheers, Warren ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Geneology mysteries solved! NEWS FLASH. 1852 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS SOLVE GENEALOGICAL MYSTERIES. It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry HYDENWELL sits at his desk by candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to writes his New Year's resolutions. 1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name at least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to give the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming year. 2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row. 3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never list the same age or birth year twice on any document. 4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different church -- either in a different faith or in a different parish. Every third child will not be baptized at all or will be baptized by an itinerant minister who keeps no records. 5. I resolve to move to a new town, new county, or new state at least once every 10 years -- just before those pesky census enumerators come around asking silly questions. 6. I will make every attempt to reside in counties and towns where no vital records are maintained or where the courthouse burns down every few years. 7. I resolve to join an obscure religious cult that does not believe in record keeping or in participating in military service. 8. When the tax collector comes to my door, I'll loan him my pen, which has been dipped in rapidly fading blue ink. 9. I resolve that if my beloved wife Mary should die, I will marry another Mary. 10. I resolve not to make a will. Who needs to spend money on a lawyer?

I have to be at Jefferson hospital in Philly tomorrow morning at 6:30 am to undergo an electro cardio conversion procedure on my heart. I hope it works. I'll let the group know tomorrow afternoon. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0605-4, 02/01/2006 Tested on: 2/1/2006 9:15:10 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Can anyone suggests grants programs I might apply to, for the preservation of old records and photographs pertaining to Bergen County and the Village of Ridgewood? Since my father passed in August 2001 I became custodian of his vast collection of records. because I am writing a book about the Romans of Ridgewood, NJ utilizing the materials contained in my fathers files as research materials. I spent the past few years contacting the organizations in which my father was a member, about which my father has information in his files. As this concerns many Ridgewood and Bergen County organizations. I want to offer these records/memorabilia as a donation to the various organizations in his name after I have completed the book. Or rather books as it turns out the files are more involved than originally anticipated. Some of the organizations do not even exist anymore. Those records will be donated to the Genealogy and the Historical Societies if they have room for them. And if I can take appropriate measures to preserve them in the meantime. There are records for the West Side Presbyterian church that burned a few years ago. They lost the archives and I have already been corresponding with the Historian about our eventual donation of their records. The Department of Emergency Management lost early years records to flooding, from when it was Civil Defense, then CDDC. My father was director for many years and we can rebuild their earlier records from his files. I don't image we would be rebuilding files for all of the organizations of which he was a member, but we do know that for some this may be all that is left. During my fathers final illness I became his personal assistant. The first project I was given was to inventory all 7 of his file cabinets. The inventory consisted of 57 pages of files listed by file folder labels, and sectioned by file cabinet and file drawer. This did not include the boxes of loose files he had stored in his office, as well as in a spare room used for storage. These were considered current files that he kept close by for easy access. We found out after his death, when attempting to find files that were needed for estate matters, that he had gone thru and rearranged files after they were listed in the inventory. To give you an idea of the scope of working on Pops records, it took me 4 days to clean up Pops office after he passed away. And only then did we find out the he had a broken desk chair buried underneath all the piles of files in there. Our guess is he planned to fix the chair one day. We knew there were files in the office, and spare room, and a small two drawer file cabinet in his bedroom. What I had not anticipated were the piles of files also to be found in his bedroom, as well as tucked away in the livingroom, and familyroom. An attempt was made to consolidate all of his files, to fit the loose ones in with those already filed in the cabinets. Pop originally had 1 two drawer file cabinet, 1 five drawer cabinet, 3 three drawer cabinets, and 2 four drawer cabinets. I have added 1 four drawer cabinet, and 1 two drawer cabinet. And we still have boxes of files sitting in front of the row of file cabinets. More boxes were added as I came across them throughout the house. All had been preserved in case the estate needed any information that had not yet been located. I became custodian for our fathers files for genealogical purposes once they were no longer needed for estate matters. There were some files presented to each of us, those that pertained to us personally. It has taken almost 3 years to get to the point where I could actually get to work on Pops file cabinets. First I needed to weed thru the thousands of notebooks he had collected on Emergency Management and Banking. After contacting the bank he used to work for, and the EOC here he had volunteered with it was decided to discard the contents of the notebooks as all the information was now either out of date or stored on computers. Next was boxes stored in the garage that we hadn't known about until moving things around after a part of the ceiling collapsed. These were boxes of every canceled check my parents had ever written, and the statements from these accounts. It wasn't a difficult decision disposing of these as they basically disintegrated when being touched. Later accounts records were shredded once they were no longer needed. After that I tackled a multi drawer 3x5 card file unit. I regret that numerous drawers also had damage, as these had contained the cards he used to call people to help with the offering at the West Side Presbyterian church on Sundays. Pop had written in pencil the names addresses and phone numbers, the dates he had called them and the dates they had been able to help. These cards were based on membership lists. Unfortunately they were past salvaging, a few were so worn and smudged you could no longer read what he had written on them. The majority of then turned to dust/powder when touched. My brother had received all the home movies, which had been converted to Video and DVD for the rest of us. I have come across more home movies many having the 4th of July parade and other Village events from each year. As to Pops photo collection. He and I had discussed donating those not pertaining to family to the Bergen County Genealogical Society. I only learned after his death that Pop had at one time had his own dark room and developed his own photographs. Pop had a number of inventories of the Polaroid photographs. And had written on each one who was in the picture the date and where it was taken so those won't be difficult to go thru. He also inventoried earlier photos, with corresponding numbers on the photos. But had altered the inventories and added numbers so it will be difficult figuring which inventory was the most accurate. Then there is a large unit in the garage which I always thought contained tools, which actually contains many small cigarette boxes, that had old small photos and negatives. Have yet to locate any type of inventory for these. Have found some old pictures on cardboard in my initial scanning of my fathers files which have the names of the individuals on the cardboard. There are also numerous pictures of Pop while he was in school with his classes. My progress was hindered slightly during my mothers final illness. Then I was laid off and had to step up my own lecture travel. These boxes still need to be inventoried, and the file cabinets reorganized. There are 11 various sized file cabinets as well as several boxes of loose materials. Many of the organizations are not interested in the records and have given me permission to use them as book research and donate accordingly after that to Genealogical and Historical Societies in the area. Some are comparing the information we have to what they have in their records, and sending us information about my grandfather and father that we did not have. They in turn will receive a donation of the materials from my fathers files. Any they are not interested in will be offered to the Genealogical and Historical Society. That is if I can keep them from deteriorating like the 3x5 cards did while using them as research materials. I recently came across Progress reports from Pop and and my Aunt about their Pianoforte studies with Miss Marble and programs from three of their recitals which lists the other students. I have already made arrangements to curtail my own travel so that I can concentrate on the files. Organization and Preservation of the records and photographs is my main concern at this point. It has been suggested that if I can obtain funding for initial proper storage, then scanning the materials onto computer discs. At least the information will not be lost, even if the documents themselves do deteriorate further. Thank you for any suggestions anyone might have about grants. Laurie Beth Roman

Sorry - it was in Long Branch!

Anyone on the list an RHS Alumnist? I am trying to locate contact information for the orgainzer of the Alumni luncheon in Sarasota Fl. Thanks in advance. Laurie Beth Roman

In a message dated 1/18/2006 1:09:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, lrfoster@isp.com writes: Way back when, there was a cocktail lounge , i.e. nightclub, where we saw both Bob Eberle and Lee Wiley. Can't remember the name...help? ============= Ruth, What town?? Dot

Way back when, there was a cocktail lounge , i.e. nightclub, where we saw both Bob Eberle and Lee Wiley. Can't remember the name...help?

In a message dated 1/18/2006 11:18:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, thos@comcast.net writes: "Dr. Karl Hoppe , jan 17, 2006; 08:17 p.m. As an erstwhile resident of the Garden State, I will throw out a saying they have in South Jersey: New Jersey is run with the efficiency of Guatemala, but without the good weather. " ============ Jerilyn, I never heard of it either and, to tell the truth, I don't like it. Dot

Ran across this interesting quote contradicting a complimentary reference to NJ state gov't - never heard it before. Jerilyn "Dr. Karl Hoppe , jan 17, 2006; 08:17 p.m. As an erstwhile resident of the Garden State, I will throw out a saying they have in South Jersey: New Jersey is run with the efficiency of Guatemala, but without the good weather. "

----- Original Message ----- From: <DieselDis@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: Alcohol Slush > > In a message dated 1/7/06 5:02:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, > Tacy413408@aol.com writes: > > Jack and Ellen, > > Thanks for the tip. The only alcohol(amaretta) slush I was familiar with > was > the type you consume. > > LOL > > Will give your type a try. > > Pat > > > > Pat, > I really enjoy a few shot's of Amaretta around the holidays. How do you > make a Amaretta Slush Diesel > > Pat, You don't use Amaretta for slush Diesel, you use Amaretta to SLOSH Diesel. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0602-0, 01/09/2006 Tested on: 1/9/2006 2:29:35 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

In a message dated 1/7/06 5:02:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, Tacy413408@aol.com writes: Jack and Ellen, Thanks for the tip. The only alcohol(amaretta) slush I was familiar with was the type you consume. LOL Will give your type a try. Pat Pat, I really enjoy a few shot's of Amaretta around the holidays. How do you make a Amaretta Slush Diesel

Dear Friends and Family, As most of you know Lee was out of work for about 4 months with no Unemployment the last half of last year and just started back in November. We have been trying to catch up with the bills, we sold everything we had to sell in the meantime, but first he was not getting full-time hours, then they were taking out the wrong taxes on his paychecks. Then the truck broke down the day before Christmas. So anyway this is to let you all know that tomorrow--Monday, January 9, 2006, our telephone will be shut off. I have no idea when we will be able to pay it to have it put back on. Lee gets paid again on Thursday, but so far the paychecks have only been enough to get us food and gas for him to get to work. The Church has helped with the utilities. I have already used up my Food Stamps for the month. Atleast the rent is paid. But the auto insurance is not, and the mechanic is not and the truck needs inspection and more work to get it passed. So, I am not sure what we are going to do ! Just to let you all know because it may be a while before we can afford to pay the phone and have it put back on. Of course this means no internet. So if anyone has an emergency and needs to get in touch with us, here are a couple of EMERGENCY phone numbers ONLY: our next door neighbors- Macon and Bonna Vaughn--540-586-1925 and our landlords(not home very often, and he is currently on chemo treatments himself)- Penn and Jennie Martin--540-586-1629 Anyway our address is: Lee and Ravyn Guiliani 1328 Homeplace Rd. Bedford, VA 24523 PS: Please pray for me. Lee is working all kinds of shifts--it is changing from one day to the next and my health is at an all-time low. Yesterday my blood pressure was unmeasurable on the left arm and the right arm said 200/100. I will have no way to contact anyone and it is very frightening. I am going to try to be calm and quiet, I have all my medications, and we have food right now. I will miss you, hopefully it won't be for too long. Ravyn --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

Jack, I hope that you make it to 120. My husband is aiming for 105. Pat