Recently, while reading about password security, I read what I thought was a great idea. The suggestion was to think of a phrase that you will remember and use the first letter of each word for your password. I, too, deleted the hacker's email of Marilyn being stuck in Spain, asking for $. Knew it had to be a scam. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, marilyn <marilynkwash@aol.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Recently I found all my e-mail related folders marked "The folder > is empty." I stopped trying to use the e-mail, but I had a hard time > finding someone reliable to try to fix it. Unfortunately, I can't get the > e-mail back and my list of automatic contacts is gone, but all else seems > OK. > > In addition, my daughter says my e-mail sent out a post saying I was > stuck in Spain and needed $200 dollars. Correspondents who knew both she > and I contacted her. "What is your mom doing in Spain?" > > I have received this sort of e-mail before about other contacts, > but now it hit me!! I had no idea that this had happened, or how many of > my contacts received the request. When I got this sort of post in the > past, I sent an e-mail back to the person who supposedly contacted me, so > they would know it had happened. Little did I know what a mess it would > make. Supposedly I am protected now, but who knows? > > I am definitely still in PA, although I just got a renewed passport > [wanna bet that is what started all this hacking?] and am planning to go to > Europe to see my daughter later this summer. But be assured I would not > ask any of you for money!! > > So, if you had anything you sent to me, or any requests for data, > please resend it and I will attempt to take care of it. > > I am especially anxious for newly found relatives in the Knorr, > Kline, Zettl, Mack, Reilly, Stoltz, Trinkly-Drenkel families to contact me > again. I have found most of what they wanted in my files. Thank goodness > I keep paper files, too, even though dragging them around has been a pain. > It is only the most recent information that I completely lost. > > Through some very helpful distant relative connections I have > discovered recently that the only Trinkly-Drenkel relatives with that last > name, John George Trenkly-Drenkel and his family, sold their farm on Old > Dutch Road in East Carroll Township, to my direct ancestor Charles > Feighner and his wife, Sophia Ebig, [half-sister of John George > Trinkly-Drenkel], and John George Trinkly-Drenkel moved to Kansas after the > Civil War. His full-siblings, children of Berhnhardt Drenkel-Trinkley, > married into the Stoltz, Hartman [John George married Sara Hartman], and > Zorn-Zirn families. All the other Trinkley-Drenkel families in Cambria > County MAY be related, but they were from collateral branches of the > family. My descent is from John George Trinkley-Drenkel's half-siblings, > the Ibig-Ebig children of his mother, Geneova [Eve or Genevieve] Schwand, > and step-father, Roman Ibig-Ebig. [So far, Roman is the only member of the > Ibig-Ebig family to emigrate. The name is often confu! > sed with the various spelling of the Illig family.] > > If that seems to be a lot of repetition, I wanted to attempt to make > it completely clear. > > Marilyn Kline Washington > - - - - - - - - - - > > Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: > http://www.camgenpa.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >