As most of you know, a group of us have been transcribing the Troy, New Rochelle and Yonkers censuses for almost three years now. We finished the 1880 Troy census and ongoing are the 1870 Yonkers, 1870 New Rochelle and 1900 Troy census. Today there are 30 transcribers working. When we started in the Fall of 1999 we had a core of 10-15 transcribers and there are still 5 of them working diligently to get the censuses transcribed so all those from the far reaches of the world can have free access and will hopefully find their ancestors. In this project everyone, including myself, works at their own pace. Some do a page a month, some do a page a week, some do a page a day and others, like one particular individual do two pages a day! I want everyone to know about Bob McConihe who lives outside of Boston MA. He has been doing at least two pages a day for about two and a half years. Yesterday, he informed me he had finished his 1,000 page! This man deserves congratulations and thanks from all of us for being so dedicated and for giving up his time every day to help others. Thank you Bob. It is people like Bob who make this genealogy community so wonderful. When I asked Bob, if it was okay for me to mention on the mailing list about him completing 1,000 pages, this is what he wrote back to me: > It is certainly OK for you to mention my 1000 pages, I am happy to >have been able to last this long. When I started I did not think that this >would hold my interest as long as it has. I look forward to seeing the pages >and the challenge of trying to decipher what has been written over a 100 yrs >ago. It is fascinating and keeps me action and thinking. > Again, thanks, Bob. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002