Good morning everyone! It is snowing, right now! I love the snow, makes everything look clean. I have never been to Orkney, but plan to someday soon! This would be my most, exciting trip ever. In British Columbia, Canada, the forests were thick, but with clear cutting, the forests are thinning out quickly. If clear cutting isn't stopped, we too will be saying "where are all the trees"?. Very sad question. Here, in Edmonton, we get the Northern Lights all the time. Some nights, they are bright and seem to dance in the winter's sky. I love taking my dog out for walks around 11pm, just to watch them. All the pictures of the Nothern Lights in Orkney are beautiful! As for Betty Corrigal's grave, and the old Corrigal Farm, I do not know if they belong to my family. My great great grandfather, James Corrigal was born 1794 in Orkney. I have lots of information after arriving to Canada in 1813. I do not know anything about him or his family before 1813. This is were my search ends, but I want to know more. Steve Davie, are you a teacher? Your note was very powerful and makes one think! And all your spelling is correct. I am the worst speller as you will notice! Cheers Tammy Corrigal

Dear Tammy: When I took off on my tree tangent yesterday, I afterwards underwent a red-faced period of concern for what I had done, or overdone. Thankyou for your comments. Very timely. No, I am not a teacher. I simply have broad and diversified interests and have been in the habit of standing up for time to time for what I think seems rightminded. I am trying to compile, while I am able, our Orkney history in it's final form, from work that three successive previous generations have worked on. I have a son who is a teacher, living in Taiwan. His old mysterious island blood curdles like yours, and next year he is going to move to Manitoulin Island in Georgian Bay/Lake Huron, when he will live out his life in a special quiet place, which I observe draws parallels to Orkney. It is often said so of that place. It is heartwaming to see a Canorky (Orkney rooted Canadian) respond in kind with reference to our national passion for dead- end clear cutting. It fascinates me that your gg grandfather James Corrigal bears the same name as the football great James Corrigal from here. I think I still have his phone number in the USA. He is a CFL legend. Thanks Kido.........Stephen On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:13 PM, Tammy wrote: > Good morning everyone! > > It is snowing, right now! I love the snow, makes everything look > clean. > I have never been to Orkney, but plan to someday soon! This would > be my most, exciting trip ever. > In British Columbia, Canada, the forests were thick, but with clear > cutting, the forests are thinning out quickly. If clear cutting isn't > stopped, we too will be saying "where are all the trees"?. Very sad > question. > Here, in Edmonton, we get the Northern Lights all the time. Some > nights, they are bright and seem to dance in the winter's sky. I love > taking my dog out for walks around 11pm, just to watch them. All the > pictures of the Nothern Lights in Orkney are beautiful! > As for Betty Corrigal's grave, and the old Corrigal Farm, I do not > know if they belong to my family. My great great grandfather, James > Corrigal was born 1794 in Orkney. I have lots of information after > arriving to Canada in 1813. I do not know anything about him or his > family before 1813. This is were my search ends, but I want to know > more. > Steve Davie, are you a teacher? Your note was very powerful and > makes one think! And all your spelling is correct. I am the worst > speller as you will notice! > > Cheers > Tammy Corrigal > > > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the > word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >