--part1_29.45c5d76e.2c655d80_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have sent the following message to [email protected] and both times I have received a notice stating the receipt is unknown! Help, did I type the address incorrectly? Diane --part1_29.45c5d76e.2c655d80_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: BarryColby Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:59:33 EDT Subject: Please read at the August 14th meeting To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10637 To Whom It May Concern I read in the Palladium Times Online that there is a very real possibility that Barbara Dix might loose her position as Town Historian due to lack of funding. Barbara is not just your Town Historian, she is also Oswego's Good Will Ambassador! On July 23, I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara for the first time when I donated the Poorhouse Records to the City of Oswego. On her own time, she came to the restaurant were the Oswego Genealogy Society took my husband and I for dinner, as she wanted to meet us. The next day we went to the records department to drop of the book and met Barbara again. This time she was on the job. Barbara is a very warm and caring person, and this attitude is also carried over to her work ethics. Barbara cares about the records that she is responsible for and it shows. The storage area is the cleanest records holding area I have ever been to! She explained a numbering and labeling system that has been put in place to retrieve records. She also explained how the records are protected from water damage. It was during this visit that I knew the Poorhouse Records book was going to be loved and looked after in the more than capable hands of Barbara Dix! The Poorhouse Records book was on Ebay and I asked my husband to purchase this for my 33rd wedding anniversary present. We discussed why and what I wanted this book for. We discussed how my grandmother met and married my grandfather when he was stationed at Ft. Ontario. My grandmother's obsession with going to the poorhouse. I, myself was raised in Buffalo and never believed there really was a poorhouse, I thought this was just a story to stop me from asking for nickels to go to the store! After we won the bid on Ebay, my husband and I had a problem about the placement of the book. I asked for recommendations and over and over the same name kept coming forward. Barbara Dix and the records department would take care of the book. My husband and I drove from Buffalo, New York to Oswego and we stayed for two nights in one of the hotels on the waterfront. Because we stayed during Harborfest, we paid a normal one nights rate and the next night the room rate more than doubled. We ate two dinners in Oswego, two breakfasts, and two lunches. In addition to the restaurants we ate in, I spent about $100 for death certificates for my great, great relatives. This $100 is almost pure profit as this took someone all of about 10 minutes from the time the documents were retrieved until they were photocopied. We decided as long as we were there, we drove up to Malone, New York and Ft. Covington, New York. Other areas that my family came from. We have not gotten our credit card bill yet, but I think all in all we spent a nice chunk of cash on this little trip. At each stop I knew right where to go because Barbara gave me the names and numbers of folks to help. Other Town Historians! Please find the money to keep this very important position filled by Barbara Dix. I Thank you for taking the time to read my email. Diane Colby 43 Argus Street Buffalo, New York 14207 --part1_29.45c5d76e.2c655d80_boundary--