Listers: I received the following email, regarding the "happy ending" post I sent to the list this past Monday, Oct 14. Julie was kind enough to email me about my omission of the correct URL for Petunia Press. I am sending the following as a courtesy to her correction. No offense taken on my part, and I apologize for any inconvenience I might have caused. Just remember to include any URLs and the proper citations that are listed with such articles or posts. Regards, Marybeth Corrigall << Hi Marybeth, Thanks for spreading the word about the success story related to Butler County. I have one quibble, however, and that is that your reference to MISSING LINKS omitted the critical element, the URL for Petunia Press. It is critical because without the URL it is impossible for an interested person to find the archive of back issues (they are not at RootsWeb, not even those that were published when MISSING LINKS was a RootsWeb publication) or the fully searchable database of all back issues of both MISSING LINKS and SOMEBODY'S LINKS, or the link to SUBSCRIBE to the mailing list used to distribute the two free e-zines. FYI, here is the permission paragraph and the citation that should have been used. As I said, yours was fine except that it lacked the URL. PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from MISSING LINKS is granted unless stated otherwise, provided: (1) the reprint is not used for commercial purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in MISSING LINKS, Vol. 7, No. 41, 13 October 2002 http://www.petuniapress.com Cheers, Julie Julia M. Case juliecase@prodigy.net Editor, Missing Links and Somebody's Links http://www.petuniapress.com/ http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <ACMBJC@aol.com> To: <juliecase@prodigy.net> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching "Missing Links" ================================================================= ==== A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ================================================================= ==== Source: PABUTLER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PABUTLER-L] A Happy Ending! Read the following on the "Missing Links, Vol. 7, No. 41, 13 October 2002". What a Happy Ending to a very interesting story. Thanks Mickey! Regards, Marybeth Corrigall ========================== << SUCCESSFUL LINKS: FERGUSON Bible Goes to College By Mickey Cendrowski 74bug@nauticom.net http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/3027 On September 22, 2002 I rescued an old Bible from a flea market table in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The seller wanted $25 for it and while I knew that I was soon to be laid off from my job of 28 years, I found that I could not let this Bible remain on that flea market table. The printed date in the Bible was 1859, with the earliest marriage record being for R. G. FERGUSON and Emma M. HUBER, who were married January 28, 1868 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Once I got home with the Bible it took me less than 10 minutes to find this family living in Franklin County, Pennsylvania in the 1870 census. Two days after I purchased the Bible my notice about it appeared in Missing Links, Vol. 7, No. 38, 24 September 2002. I received about four inquiries, but found no family matches; however, one of the responses prompted me to do some additional searching for this family on the Internet. Would you believe, just four days after I purchased the Bible, I found a new home for it that was much more appropriate than a flea market table. As it turned out, R. G. FERGUSON was Robert Gracey FERGUSON, who was the president of Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1906. The FERGUSON bible was full of dates of family births, marriages, and deaths, with some of the events recorded having happened long before the Bible was published. The Bible also contained a paper giving the ancestry of the family. It was a gold mine and would have been wonderful for any connecting family member. It just so happens that Robert Gracey FERGUSON was famous, but I would have been happy just the same if he weren't and I still had gotten this Bible back into the hands of family. I have since been in contact with the college archivist and in a few weeks the Bible that I rescued will be in their hands. * * * * * >>