In a message dated 9/17/01 10:06:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I apologize if this has upset some. But this is my life's history and the > history of my sons. I will now step down from my soapbox. > > If someone is upset, then they have real problems. Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts to all this travesty. I run one of the larger Native News and Issues Lists on the Internet--it's global---I run posts all day long, answer my phone, etc. after 6 years, seems I'm "like family"---Not that I'm an oracle, but, if someone needs to talk---voice or email--then--they need to talk. Out of my Firehair addie, I'm running a family type daily letter--and several have said they are glad, even tho they may not comment--we're all kin on that one, kind of. (actually, if you have ancestors in Wayne Co., PA---we are probably all kin anyway--either by marriage or by blood---LOLOL) Problem with some People, as I see it from my own personal spot---they seem to get their priorites all messed up. Since when is filling in the next balnk on a chart matter more than --as you pointed out--folks losing their family tree in one horrific blast. My kids are saving the posts I forward them, as one said-- "Someday, maybe we'll have children, and we can show them what was being said and written, first hand--when this happened--like you have from when Kennedy got killed, Mom, and the Black Out, and the Blizzard of 66 , and Woodstock. (which I was at briefly, impresses them more than about anything I've done!!) Genealogy is People---People are History--and we are ever in the midst of it. Can't have one without the other. Thanks for posting, Faye---your words are on target. Soapbox away---most of us will listen, bet on it. Sheila Stover // Firehair author of: "Families of Southern Tier New York, Northeastern Pennsylvania Vol 1" Adams, Hopkins, Jenson, Kellam, Lord, Parsons, Davis, Parks, Mitchell, Smith, Zurn (available now) "Families of Southern Tier New York, North Eastern Pennsylvania Vol. II" Geer, Wm. Lord, Lukens, Kimball, Parks, Peake, Tyler (available Dec)