I talk and I talk and I talk...with so many young people out of work in the off school seasons, and looking for supplemental income, what a delightful job for some of the more historically minded ones, to earn some extra income. As I understand it, education is now in the pockets of the Scottish students now, whereas in the past it was relatively free. Not like here in Canada. The summer break, of up to four months for University students, is like a cattle market with kids clamouring over each other to get the few to none really good jobs, with the rest having to hunker down in restaurants and deal with the most hardened of owners and patrons. A job not worth a slave's time of day. They are abused and overworked like castoffs from society. But that is the way it has always been. Farmers won't hire them, so they import West Indian and Mexican workers, that work slow but can tolerate the heat and humidity. Now, if I could look forward to a minimum wage job, involving scouring the archives, photocopying and alphabetically setting up those new sticky photo albums with row on row of cut out obits, death, marriage and birth notices, and even social comments...I would put up with a relative low pay to be both educated, add to the worth of my community and be of assistance to all those who are desperate for the information. Then some bright soul could scan the results and post them on the community's web site...seems every little burgh has one these days. But, alas, it is too easy to imagine and too fragile a concept. Just think of all the community resources waiting to be transcribed. And, these little gaffers can even read and write. That is more than can be said about those who did it once, long ago. Add to that, a specified format in the form of a template...why the body just shivers to think what could be the result of such wayward and "dilettantish" thinking! Al Dempster [always the radical lunatic] Marion Baker wrote: > > Wouldn't it be great if somebody posted deaths from old Nairn > Newspapers. I wonder what is the oldest for the town of Nairn. > Marion > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. -- GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE... COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN, AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE...so don't get mad, get even by using logic! In the Book of Islam we are told to do first with the word, then with the deed, then with the hand...ask, exemplify and then act...but above all...think. "There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance." Boyd Lopez - --------------------------------------------------------------------- You may get fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-school-of-hard-knocks technical advice at this address from yours truly. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- I use the following fave progs AND services, but I do not advertise their use. SEARCH: COPERNIC 2000: http://www.copernic.com/ SOFTWARE: http://www.winfiles.com/ ANTI-VIRUS: http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/ : http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ LATEST VIRAL UPDATE: http://www.antivirus.com/trendsetter/virus_report/ SECURITY: http://www.astalavista.com/ [plus lots of naughty bits] SUBSCRIBE: http://www.antivirus.com/subscriptions/default.asp GENEALOGY: http://www.mytrees.com/ + http://www.kindredkonnections.com/ LDS CENTRE: http://www.familysearch.org/ WAR STRATEGY FOR ALL OCCASIONS: http://www.chinastrategies.com/ LEGAL: http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/ BEST COMPUTER MAG: http://smartcomputing.com/ ANY QUESTION: http://www.askme.com/