Sonja, I started the original portion of this "never-ending" Saratoga research project, as my Pennsylvania colleagues call it, in 1989. After I was disabled in 1993, it became my occupational therapy and helped me keep my sanity. One of these centuries, I’ll be finished enough to publish. Congratulations on getting passed your brick walls. That is truly good news. Leslie ----- Original Message ----- From: <sonavan@aol.com> To: <nysarato@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [NYSARATO] Leslie Potter to talk on Saratoga Patent June 12 > > Hi Leslie, > > > > I really wish I had been able to hear you. It had to be a very interesting > talk and I completely understand you wanting to get your work published. > Have you thought about self-publishing? I know absolutely nothing about it > but I have heard people mention they have done it in the past. Of course > that doesn't necessarily get it where you want it to be...but my best of > luck to you. This has been a passion with you for as long as I have been > writing to you. > > > > In the good news department, I should be receiving the results of my > professional genealogical work I hired out about 3 months ago. I just > called them today with my credit card number to finish paying for > it..about $1152. Not too bad since I have been trying to break through > these brick walls for probably as long as you have been working on the > Saratoga Tax District! Maybe even longer...I think at least 10 years or > more. Yours may not have taken that long. So hopefully they will have > finally found where Wright and Hannah Newland Brown were married and where > their kids were born and when...and who..Trying to finally tie Samuel > Right Brown to him has been a nightmare, even everything pointed to the > connection, I had absolutely no proof..so....keep your fingers and > everything else crossed! I will die if they were unable to find all the > answers. Believe me, you will be one of the first to know!! I should > receive it in 3-4 days out of Salt Lake City to LaQuinta, CA... > > > > Thanks for thinking of me. I really appreciate it. > > > > Sonja > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leslie B. Potter <lbpotter@comcast.net> > To: nysarato@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 4:59 pm > Subject: Re: [NYSARATO] Leslie Potter to talk on Saratoga Patent June 12 > > > > > Hi Sonja, > I have just returned from the Sataroga Tax District. (Actually, I got in > at > 2:35 a.m. this morning and have not even started to unpack my trailer > yet.) > The talk that I gave to the Old Saratoga Historical Association was a > ombination of the main parts of my paper entitled, "A Lawyer's Analysis of > urgoyne's 'Wilderness': The Saratoga Tax District of Albany County" and > Debunking Burgoyne's Rationale for the British Defeat at Freeman's Farm". > I am sorry but I can not post either of the original papers or the > combined > aper on the internet if I want to get my research published by a reputable > ublisher. Make no mistake about it, I do want to get my papers > published. > ast year after the 2006 Conference on New York State History, I submitted > y "Burgoyne's 'Wilderness' " paper to the RECORD. The editor of the > RECORD > as interested in my paper. So I just have to make the formatting changes > hat the editor requested, before I send it back to the RECORD. > Eventually, > hope to produce a book on the civilian population of the Rev War Era > aratoga Tax District, but I still have a lot of title work and > genealogical > esearch to do first. > However, I am still willing to share and swap information from my database > ith other researchers. I am not sure how to access the material now, but > I > ave posted the 1779 Saratoga District Tax Lists on the NY Gen Web Archives > nd some of the individual county Gen Web sites. So if list members can > ccess those lists and then contact me, I'll be please to lend them a hand. > Please be patient with the pace at which I am getting my research > published. > Sincerely, > Leslie > > ---- Original Message ----- > rom: <SONAVAN@aol.com> > o: <nysarato@rootsweb.com> > ent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:17 AM > ubject: Re: [NYSARATO] Leslie Potter to talk on Saratoga Patent June 12 > > That is wonderful. Leslie has worked hard on this project for a long > time. > I just hope for those of us who can not be there, she will post it on the > Internet on the Saratoga genweb site. > > Thanks for informing us. > > Sonja Abate > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYSARATO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYSARATO-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > he message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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