Hi folks, If you are reading this email you are still subscribed to the Scotch-Irish list, which has been quiet. I'm the adminstrator. Feel free to post an email (kinda on topic, please!). I'll be unavailable for rabble rousing for the next few days as I am moving on Friday 550 miles in a car with a dog and three cats. Pray for me. I hope I remember the ear plugs. That means my house here in Massachusetts has sold. I have a new old house near Pittsburgh, PA, where I was born, that should close next Monday. Of course Lord knows when the furniture will arrive, so I'll be camping out. I also don't have an internet link firmed up yet -- DSL or cable???, but I can get on line at my parents. Hopefully by this time next week I'll be starting to recover from the nightmare. And I sure do hope I don't have to go ANYWHERE but maybe Harrisburg for genealogy, till next spring. If you are on I80 Friday I'll be the car going by with the hollering cats... In the meantime Rev. Andrews will be minding the list from Scotland. Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net

Linda, Good luck with your move -- been there, done that with the cat thing! Two cats and a three week old baby from Georgia to Michigan! Took days. Ugh. Anyways, since list is slow, for those interested in how New Orleans is salvaging its priceless genealogy records, you can go to this link. There is an interesting article by Gordon Watts from Canada. http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0076.htm Just scroll halfway down to the article entitled "After Katrina". Take care, Donna Michigan -----Original Message----- From: Linda Merle [mailto:merle@mail.fea.net] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 3:47 PM To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Sc-Ir] Scotch Irish list Hi folks, If you are reading this email you are still subscribed to the Scotch-Irish list, which has been quiet. I'm the adminstrator. Feel free to post an email (kinda on topic, please!). I'll be unavailable for rabble rousing for the next few days as I am moving on Friday 550 miles in a car with a dog and three cats. Pray for me. I hope I remember the ear plugs. That means my house here in Massachusetts has sold. I have a new old house near Pittsburgh, PA, where I was born, that should close next Monday. Of course Lord knows when the furniture will arrive, so I'll be camping out. I also don't have an internet link firmed up yet -- DSL or cable???, but I can get on line at my parents. Hopefully by this time next week I'll be starting to recover from the nightmare. And I sure do hope I don't have to go ANYWHERE but maybe Harrisburg for genealogy, till next spring. If you are on I80 Friday I'll be the car going by with the hollering cats... In the meantime Rev. Andrews will be minding the list from Scotland. Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net

Best of luck with the move, Linda, and you may well be moving to just the right place to do some research for me, on a fellow called Jacob Forsyth, who was "one of the crown princes of the Pennsylvania Railroad" and was in Pittsburgh before moving to Chicago, and then to East Chicago where he became known as the father of the Calumet region. "The "Big Deal Closed In Whiting," headlined in the Lake County Times on Jan. 6, 1914, was consummated by Oliver Osborne Forsyth, the only surviving sane male of Jacob Forsyth's brood of nine. For many years, Oliver had been the person Jacob relied on. He was the steady one. When the Forsyth homestead in Indiana Harbor was wiped out by the holocaust of 1871, Oliver saved the books in Jacob's library. When Jacob was fighting off Hammond's attempts to annex Forsyth property, Oliver was a field general. And on all the property deals after Jacob's death in 1899, Oliver was the one and only voice. Oliver Osborne Forsyth was born in Pittsburgh on June 15, 1856. He attended the Hellmuth College in Ontario, Canada, and later Pennsylvania Military Academy. When his father, one of the crown princes of the Pennsylvania Railroad, transferred to Chicago in 1857, Chicago and the Calumet Region became Oliver's home. At one point in the battle over what became Hammond's 4th War, Oliver found himself in the middle of what could have been a border war. On Jan. 16, 1896, the federal appellate court held for Jacob Forsyth, and the Swamp Baron quickly called for a jollification: "We will have a celebration on the tract and I will be there to see that the boys make a big bonfire and plenty of noise." Jacob sought out cannons "the same size and pattern that are mounted in front of the Libby prison," cannons that would make so much noise when fired over the Forsyth tract that all the citizens of Hammond would be startled. So, Jacob dispatched OIiver to fetch such a cannon. Oliver immediately consulted C.F. Gunther, who owned the Libby prison cannon, and began to negotiate the loan of the artillery for the occasion; a friend of his negotiated with Capt. Russell of Battery D for the services of a squad of artillerymen to work the cannon. Fortunately for interstate relations, Gunther had a cool head. He said that because the Forsyth tract lay "across the border of the friendly state of Indiana," and because the cannon was in the service of the state of Illinois, to haul it across the state line would be the equivalent of declaring war on Indiana. Oliver settled for dynamite." Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Merle" <merle@mail.fea.net> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:47 AM Subject: [Sc-Ir] Scotch Irish list > Hi folks, > > If you are reading this email you are still subscribed to the > Scotch-Irish list, which has been quiet. I'm the adminstrator. > Feel free to post an email (kinda on topic, please!). > > I'll be unavailable for rabble rousing for the next few days > as I am moving on Friday 550 miles in a car with a dog and > three cats. Pray for me. I hope I remember the ear plugs. > > That means my house here in Massachusetts has sold. I have > a new old house near Pittsburgh, PA, where I was born, > that should close next Monday. Of course Lord knows when the > furniture will arrive, so I'll be camping out. I also don't > have an internet link firmed up yet -- DSL or cable???, but > I can get on line at my parents. Hopefully by this time next > week I'll be starting to recover from the nightmare. And I > sure do hope I don't have to go ANYWHERE but maybe Harrisburg > for genealogy, till next spring. > > If you are on I80 Friday I'll be the car going by with the > hollering cats... > > In the meantime Rev. Andrews will be minding the list from > Scotland. > > Linda Merle > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net > > > > >