Sandra, Just for the record, maybe we'd better make that "LDS"? Some web site monitor might get the wrong idea about what we're talking about!!! Yes, I will check with Walter about that. Lorraine [email protected] On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:15:20 -0400 "Sandra Ferguson" <[email protected]> writes: > Lorraine, As you know someone who was actually involved with the LSD > filming, could you ask him if they were aware of other 'dumping' > places of > records, if they considered them, etc? > > S. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:28 AM > Subject: [OHBELMON-L] Repenting for "Old Records" > > > > Dear fellow listers: > > > > In view of the initial skepticism over the feasibility of such a > project, > > I began to feel bad about mentioning it. > > > > In view of the responses of the past couple of days, where people > are > > putting their heads and hands and hearts together to figure out a > way it > > might work, I feel like doing a little dance all around my kitchen > while > > exclaiming "Yippee, yippee, yippee!" > > > > Since that is a mental image that should probably never be > inflicted on > > even my worst enemy, I guess it's time to start repenting again! > > > > * * * > > > > Seriously, as some of you know, I have done quite a bit of > transcribing > > from the early Belmont records. I am familiar with a lot of the > names > > (although you may not believe it from some of the transcriptions > that > > show up in the books that have been produced...but we can only > write down > > what is there!). My free time has become severely restricted > recently and > > may remain that way for a few years. That might suffice to explain > why > > the next will and deed volumes are still sitting in my computer > only > > partially done! Profuse apologies offered!!! > > > > However, if there is something I can do from several hundred and > several > > hours away, I would certainly do my best to support a locally > sponsored, > > promoted, and administered project. I don't know if I'm rather > biased, > > but it seems to me that the Belmont County records are very > important for > > solving research problems all across the country. (Maybe every > county is > > like that to everyone who has been researching for several > decades?) But > > after over 30 years of trying to figure out my family and its > > associations in Belmont, I am awfully curious about what lies in > the > > midst of all those papers. > > > > I do know that one of my favorite cousins, Walter Kinsey, worked > closely > > with the LDS filming crews during their latest session in Belmont. > So he > > probably knows what was filmed at that time. Wouldn't it be > wonderful if > > the necessary evaluating and organizing could be done in order to > justify > > another trip out? > > > > OK. I've got to go do some laundry. (Why do all these temporal > things get > > in the way of our family history pursuits???) But on the way out > of the > > kitchen, I might just do a couple of those dance steps and maybe > just one > > or two of the "Yippee"s! What a glorious uniting of purpose and > resources > > has developed on this list. The Belmont settlers must have been > pretty > > special to have generated such terrific descendants!!! > > > > Lorraine I. Quillon > > [email protected] > > > > >