I just signed up a nice lady named ShaJuan and she will index the school records so we will be in good shape. As far as the Fannin Co. Facts and folks book I spent the evening ironing the pages. My book is old and the first 25 pages I keep getting a funny ripple on in the scans. turned out the scanner is so good it even finds hidden details, my pages are stretched from wear and tear! I didn't think paper did that so easily it has only been opend twenty or thirty thousand times. The front part is the rippled ones, so I'm ironing a book! Never thought I would do that. I hate ironing but this is a nice change from a shirt! I am also going to have to touch up a few pages- ones with notes written in the side part of the pages with words like 'murdered by her sister' or 'He is the one Mr.Garner told me got shot in front of the ...church" ... Stuff like that . (Don't worry I've told my kids that everything in my filing cabinets and in these boxes for this are are to be burned on my death, nobody can read my writing anyway) I sure like the details in the photos, the way they pop out of the pictures. This scanner picked up enough detail at a lowish resolution that I could see things in a wagon I had never noticed. and my monitor is a 15 inch one so most people should be able to save a page image and then close in on a lot of detail. By Golly I never realized how many of yall's ancestors were crosseyed either. Is it my imagination that not very many people are born crosseyed these days? I have only heard of a couple of children born that way. So what causes so very many people in old photographs to be crosseyed? Was it by birth or was it also a result of disease like a common infection. Is anyone in the medical field who knows? Things like that are very curious to me. I am very interested in diseases, such as the horrible legacy measles left in the 1880's and through the first decade of the 1900's . It often blinded folks. Then the same measles went fairly silent becoming just a bothersome disease but rarely blinded anyone. Scarlet fever also blinded people and killed people often. By the time I was a child it was a bothersome childhood disease, but lately the disease if morphing into a stronger one and a friend's dau. was nearly blinded in one eye with Scarlet Fever. Doing some reading it is gaining strengh again. I often wonder why so many died of 'dropsy' who were children. I can't seem to find what kind of disease it was . A virus or just a bacteria that came and went /disappered? So many interesting things to ponder. I do see a lot of middle class children in photographs with bowed legs. That is the common side effect of ricketts, but why are so many children having ricketts when they appear with their families who lived on average income farms with fresh farm foods? These children lived where lots of good food was, why ricketts in them? Darn this project, I'm getting just too close to the photographs! Susan :) Falcon5146@aol.com wrote: > > Susan: > Just happened to see your message in ref to the books. Great, would you > please keep me in mind if you happen across any Kerr's? Thank you and keep > up the great work your doing. > > Sam Kerr, South Dakota > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > Threaded Archives > Search List by subject line in a time period > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/

Susan, I looked up dropsy : edema. edema: an abnormal accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue or in a serous cavity. When I was a child, there was a neighbor that had dropsy, everything she ate or drank turned to fluid in her body. Her heart finally couldn't take the strain; she weighed over 500 lbs when she died. As for the rickets : (origin unknown), a childhood disease characterized esp. by faulty ossification of bone from defective deposition and utilization of calcium and phosphorus due to inadequate sunlight or vitamin D. Thank you and keep up the wonderful work. Sandy Garrett Owsley ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Hawkins To: TXFANNIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:33 PM Subject: [TXFANNIN-L] mostly offtopic I just signed up a nice lady named ShaJuan and she will index the school records so we will be in good shape. As far as the Fannin Co. Facts and folks book I spent the evening ironing the pages. My book is old and the first 25 pages I keep getting a funny ripple on in the scans. turned out the scanner is so good it even finds hidden details, my pages are stretched from wear and tear! I didn't think paper did that so easily it has only been opend twenty or thirty thousand times. The front part is the rippled ones, so I'm ironing a book! Never thought I would do that. I hate ironing but this is a nice change from a shirt! I am also going to have to touch up a few pages- ones with notes written in the side part of the pages with words like 'murdered by her sister' or 'He is the one Mr.Garner told me got shot in front of the ...church" ... Stuff like that . (Don't worry I've told my kids that everything in my filing cabinets and in these boxes for this are are to be burned on my death, nobody can read my writing anyway) I sure like the details in the photos, the way they pop out of the pictures. This scanner picked up enough detail at a lowish resolution that I could see things in a wagon I had never noticed. and my monitor is a 15 inch one so most people should be able to save a page image and then close in on a lot of detail. By Golly I never realized how many of yall's ancestors were crosseyed either. Is it my imagination that not very many people are born crosseyed these days? I have only heard of a couple of children born that way. So what causes so very many people in old photographs to be crosseyed? Was it by birth or was it also a result of disease like a common infection. Is anyone in the medical field who knows? Things like that are very curious to me. I am very interested in diseases, such as the horrible legacy measles left in the 1880's and through the first decade of the 1900's . It often blinded folks. Then the same measles went fairly silent becoming just a bothersome disease but rarely blinded anyone. Scarlet fever also blinded people and killed people often. By the time I was a child it was a bothersome childhood disease, but lately the disease if morphing into a stronger one and a friend's dau. was nearly blinded in one eye with Scarlet Fever. Doing some reading it is gaining strengh again. I often wonder why so many died of 'dropsy' who were children. I can't seem to find what kind of disease it was . A virus or just a bacteria that came and went /disappered? So many interesting things to ponder. I do see a lot of middle class children in photographs with bowed legs. That is the common side effect of ricketts, but why are so many children having ricketts when they appear with their families who lived on average income farms with fresh farm foods? These children lived where lots of good food was, why ricketts in them? Darn this project, I'm getting just too close to the photographs! Susan :) Falcon5146@aol.com wrote: > > Susan: > Just happened to see your message in ref to the books. Great, would you > please keep me in mind if you happen across any Kerr's? Thank you and keep > up the great work your doing. > > Sam Kerr, South Dakota > > ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== > Threaded Archives > Search List by subject line in a time period > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ ==== TXFANNIN Mailing List ==== Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!