Dearest Rachel; I would like to be among the first to announce that you are truly a great person. You have done a great service for the clan and I would like to also be the first to say that if anyone could organize Mayham, it would have to be you! Knowing you as I do through the many letters and the feelings we shared concerning family, school and most of all, the ramblings that you allow me when I use you as a sounding board after a day with the "Boys." I thank you for the time that you gave from your daily life to answer my letters! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I have never understood where you get the energy to do the things you do. Working at a steady job and being a supermom and the best partner to your husband that any man could wish for. Buz and I are both fortunate in that respect. Being the wife and mother that I know you are deserves the highest commendation that can be bestowed on anyone. I have never heard you complain about your duties as a working mom or the other responsibilities that come with living with the excellent students and athletes that you also share your home with. Now I want to thank you for our web page, I hope we can all use it to it's greatest possible capacity. One more request! Could you share with us where you get this energy? Hugs and kisses from all the Pyle Families, I'm sure! Ron ---------- | From: The Meyer's <buzmeyer@bright.net> | To: pyle-l@rootsweb.com | Cc: piguy@goldrush.com | Subject: Organizing the Mayhem | Date: Friday, August 29, 1997 2:03 PM | | Dear Pyle Cousins: | | I've been overwhelmed recently by all of the information flying around | on our dear Pyle / Pile ancestors. Tonight I decided to make an attempt | to do something about it. While I consider this ONLY A BEGINNING and | I'd like to have a LOT of input on the finished product, I think we may | have to resort to something like this: | | http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer/pyle/index.html | | I also envision a huge descendant chart of the PYLE line as it is | documented from the first John on down - at least down through maybe 8 | or 10 generations. And, woe is me, some of us are as yet unable to link | to these notorious men, thus, the query section which will identify | where each of us are chipping away at that "stone wall." | | While the query pages on the GenWeb pages I'm hosting don't have any | requirements for the query format except to keep it as brief as | possible, I think we could better serve each other and new Pyle | researchers by maintaining a specific format in our queries. I'm not | saying the one I've posted is the "perfect" format either. But I think | it will be helpful to all of us to show our lineage as we know it, and a | short paragraph about the information we are searching for. It might | also be fun to include a quick sentence telling how we are related to | each other. | | Okay cousins, time to get our thinking caps on. Please look at this | small attempt to organize our "good stuff" and tell us all what you | think. I'm open to any and all suggestions. If we want to try a few | more submissions, I'll gladly add some to this - and in the process we | can decide on the format we want to ultimately use. | | Also, if we get really ambitious, we will need some server space. I | think we could accomplish this by using a little here and a little | there. Most of us get free server space with our subscription to our | internet providers. If you don't know how to upload pages, I think I | can upload to any server and directory as long as I have a correct | password - except for AOL. Another alternative would be to attach files | via e-mail for several of us to upload to our own servers. | | In order to build a stupendous Pyle page, it will take efforts from many | of you - and knowing the amount of great information everyone has been | sharing, I think we can all work together to do this. Maybe we need a | committee...??? No doubt there will be some points that will call for a | decision one way or the other...perhaps a committee voting on issues | would be helpful. | | We could also include some text files about the history of the family | members. That would really be interesting. One thing I always try to | keep in mind is that once it's online, people may take it for granted | that it's documented fact. So I try to be very careful to point out | what is fact and what is speculation. Thus, if we begin an all | inclusive descendant chart, we'll have to be careful to post only what | we know for sure, and add the speculation in our queries. | | I'm getting really tired...that's why I'm rambling. I'm going to | bed...but I'll expect some comments (yea or nay) tomorrow. | | Night cousins, | Rachel Meyer | -- | Find out more at: http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer | Wohleben Family Online Reunion -- | http://www.bright.net/~buzmeyer/wohleben/index.html | Auglaize Co. OH GENWEB Coordinator -- | http://www.genweb.brightusa.net/index.html | Pickaway Co. OH GENWEB Coordinator -- | http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohpickaw/index.html