I have been offline for awhile. I was not satisfied with my new Dell computer or their service, so I sent it back. I had my old computer fixed and, hopefully, it is fine now. I even have all my info back. Wheew. Sorry for not being involved in the list lately. I knew of some Wests who lived near Olmstedville. Clint West was a forest ranger/game protector. I remember him as a shy acting, tall, good looking man, old enough to be my Dad's father. Clint passed away when I was quite young. Dad told me many stories of hunting with Clint and his son, Holly. Clint was one of Dad's "heros". There are relatives of these Wests still living up that way. I went to school with Billy and Joan and Barbara West who lived on Byrnes Road, kind of northeast of North Creek. There were more in that family, perhaps it is the one PMaeve Reed writes of. I haven't any idea if they are all related. I was aquainted with John Hills from over North Creek way for many years before I knew we were probably related. I used to say to him, "You remind me of my brother." John was about my age and died a few years ago with heart problems, sadly, as did his sister not long after. I don't think he ever knew we were distant cousins. John had a lot of musical talent and played in bands around here. He worked for UPS, I believe. He was fairly tall with reddish blond hair( like my bro) and a good looking guy. He had a lovely wife and adopted daughter. It is great to read of other people's memories. JEAN

This is about several things sort of but not exactly about RUBLEE stuff. I may get my wrist slapped but here goes. First about computer troubles. Has anyone considered a MAC? Before saying no just check it out and see if you know what is so or not. If for no other reason then that ALL (or 99.9% of all) virus's are written to only interact with PCs so the virus crashes could be a distant memory. DONE on that topic. Secondly, I just spent an hour or so this morning transferring my MANY Rublee e-mails to a Word file so I could get my e-mail list down to under 300!!! When I began a few days ago I had almost 1000 e- mails... definitely time to house clean. I decided I could "search" in Word for anything I wanted to find. In doing this I'd like to appeal to one and all that we never just hit "reply" as ALL the stuff is repeated in the new e-mail. I have narrowed the 101 pages down to about 87 so far. I wiped out 6 pages just by changing the font from Helvetica to Times New Roman at the same font size. Thirdly, I discovered a neat piece of info this week. I found out about a genealogical speaker by the name of Hank Z. Jones Jr. Has anyone heard him speak? He was an actor and retired from that about 20 years ago. I went to his website and found out he SINGS! I ordered his 4 CDs and have been enjoying his music while I cleaned out my Rublee e-mails. The neat thing is it's MY kind of music... the oldies, redone! So, I'd like feedback on his lectures if anyone has heard him....I'm on the board of my state gen. soc. this year and need help finding speakers... contact me privately if you speak and want to come to the Twin Cities when we don't have 25 inches of new white, but pretty stuff! I'll give you the website if you want to check out his music. http://www.hankjones.com/ And fourthly, did you know that the Smithsonian has traveling exhibits and currently has one on 500 years of Food in America? Another thing I found out about a month ago. I'm so fascinated! Can you tell I'm a BIG history nut as well as into my roots? Good thing only about 2 of my 40+ surnames so far have websites. If they were all as active as we've been lately I'd never get dressed! :) I think many of our "brick-walls" could be scaled or toppled if we knew about the history at the time of the problem! That is why I feel history is sooooo important. Here is the website for the Smithsonian. http://www.keyingredients.org/ I'll be attending the Buffalo MN exhibit! That's all folks! Bergetta Monroe Burnsville MN On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Jean Baker wrote: > It is great to read of other people's memories. JEAN

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bergetta Monroe" <bergetta@isd.net> On March 3, 2007, at 6:24 pm, Bergetta Monroe asked, Has anyone considered a Mac? I sure will be looking at them the next time I go computer shopping. JEAN > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROBLEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/710 - Release Date: 3/4/2007 > 1:58 PM > >