Not sure why this ranks as "a dirty trick." If you right click on the obituary, you can save it as a picture in the "My Pictures" folder of your "My Documents" folder (in Windows), and transcribe it at you leisure later, or simply paste it as a picture into a page. Jay Underwood Elmsdale >From Jay Underwood and Railfare*DC Books "Ghost Tracks": http://www.railfare.net/Ghost%20Tracks.html "From Folly to Fortune": http://www.railfare.net/FromFollyToFortune.html "Built for War": http://www.railfare.net/builtforwar.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol MacLean" <[email protected]> To: "Jay Underwood" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [NS-L] Chronically Horrid > You can not copy & paste anymore. Also, the archives is reduced to five > days now. > > Carol > > >>What exactly is this "dirty trick"? >> >>Jay Underwood >>Elmsdale NS >> >>>From Jay Underwood and Railfare*DC Books >>"Ghost Tracks": http://www.railfare.net/Ghost%20Tracks.html >>"From Folly to Fortune": http://www.railfare.net/FromFollyToFortune.html >>"Built for War": http://www.railfare.net/builtforwar.html >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Paul Lalonde" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]>; "Nova Scotia List" >><[email protected]> >>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:06 PM >>Subject: [NS-L] Chronically Horrid >> >> >>>I have only just become aware of the latest dirty trick that the above >>> mentioned "newspaper" has played on the genealogical community. It is >>> a >>> bit >>> worse than I figured. You see, my partner in genealogical crime, my >>> mother, >>> passed away a year ago, and I found it difficult to think about our >>> grand >>> project and have avoided it for almost a year. It still is hard to go >>> on >>> because I see all of her work and remember all of the great quests and >>> discoveries we made and still have to make. >>> >>> I was keeping close tabs on the people of Meteghan, Digby Co. >>> >>> I don't know if there are others who have been interested in this same >>> area >>> who might be willing to share obits from the last year, primarily of >>> Acadians in Clare, with me. >>> >>> I wrote a nasty letter to the "newspaper" but of course, we all know >>> that >>> the newspaper format is doomed like the abacus and if the Chronically >>> Horrid >>> thinks they can put that off by charging genealogists for obits, they >>> are >>> more dillusional than I thought. >>> >>> Grumpily yours Paul >>> >>> ---------------------------------------- >>> Basic List Commands: >>> >>> 1. To post to the list >>> Send a message to: >>> [email protected] >>> >>> 2. How to unsubscribe >>> a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- >>> [email protected] that contains only the word >>> unsubscribe >>> >>> b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- >>> [email protected] that contains only the word >>> unsubscribe >>> >>> 3. How to subscribe >>> Send an email containing only the word >>> subscribe >>> to [email protected] >>> >>> 4. How to change to Digest mode >>> a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) >>> b. Subscribe to Digest mode >>> Send an email containing only the word >>> subscribe >>> to [email protected] >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >>---------------------------------------- >>Basic List Commands: >> >>1. To post to the list >>Send a message to: >>[email protected] >> >>2. How to unsubscribe >>a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- >>[email protected] that contains only the word >>unsubscribe >>b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- >>[email protected] that contains only the word >>unsubscribe >>3. How to subscribe >>Send an email containing only the word >>subscribe >>to [email protected] >> >>4. How to change to Digest mode >>a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) b. Subscribe to Digest mode >>Send an email containing only the word >>subscribe >>to [email protected] >>------------------------------- >>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 >