Kevin Podgursky wrote: > Hi Karen, > > Sorry to tell you she passed this August, if its the same Rathbun. > She posted to the NS list I think. > > You can search the Lowell archives www.lowellsun.com for a write up > of her. > > Perhaps searching lists.rootsweb.com for her name might turn up some > of her research. Searching the rootsweb archives for body contains "shirley rathbun" year 2008 will bring up her obituary. There might be something in these postins that tell where her files have or will go. Search previous years to find older email addresses. The search for subject Ward or "british home children" from her older addresses to find any message from her that might help you. bob gillis > On 11/6/08, Norm & Karen Porter <kporter54@cogeco.ca> wrote: >> Hello: >> >> I am hoping that Shirley E. Rathbun might be a frequent viewer of >> this site or that someone out there may know her. She might have >> information useful to me in my research. >> >> Proud to be the granddaughter of Eliza Elizabeth Ward one of >> 1000,000 British Home Children sent from the United Kingdom to a >> new life in Canada. Eliza arrived with her sister Ellen May >> (Nellie) in Quebec July 1904 at age 13 years.