My name is Judy Hanke and I'm also retired. I am from Ky Wise's. My grandmother was Phoebe Wise from Estill Co., Ky. I can't go far back but love looking. Hi everyone. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Price" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [WISE] Greetings, Felicitations, and just plain HOWDY > Welcome to our world Billie, I hope you enjoy the ride. My WISE family > comes > from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana also, we may be cousins. LOL > I'm retired, Gloria WISE Price. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Billie Erin Walsh > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:21 AM > To: WISE > Subject: [WISE] Greetings, Felicitations, and just plain HOWDY > > A short time back I noticed that the list was up for adoption. SO, I'm > the new list administrator. Not that it's such a tough job or anything. > Anyway, I just wanted to say hello. Fell free to e-mail me with any list > oriented issues you might have. > > I see there are 155 of us on the list. > > My name is Billie Walsh. I'm 62 years old and {re}tired. I firmly > believe that genealogy is about a lot more than just names and dates. > Family stories are just as important. It's the stories that make our > ancestors live again for us. I was a mechanic for a number of years and > when good ol' Uncle Arthur got to me I made a career change into retail. > Spent seventeen years in a Big Box Store. I thought it was fun [ for the > most part ]. My foray into genealogy began when one of my daughters > asked me, well basically, "Where do we come from?" At that point I > didn't have an answer so I started digging to get her one. It's been an > interesting journey. Sometimes fun and some times frustrating. Every > time I find one answer I get two more questions. *<]:oD > > As long as things don't get to far afield I see no problem with posts > related to just about anything WISE. [ family stories, old family > recipes, etc. ] > > For some that might not know, typing in ALL CAPS is allowed for surnames > on genealogy lists and is preferred [ see above ]. [ In some other areas > typing in all caps will get you blasted. It's considered shouting ] It > helps those reading messages to pick out related family names quickly. > It's not a hard and fast rule but I would ask that anyone posting please > use all caps for surnames. > > I promise not to be a dictator and hard to get along with. I want to see > sharing be fun. > > As for myself, I can definitely trace my WISE line back to Indiana/Ohio > and tentatively back to Pennsylvania. I'll get around to posting > something more later. > > Lets see if anyone reads down this far. > > How about everyone introduce yourself. Just hit reply and tell us a bit > about yourself [ we'll get around to trees later ]. > > -- > > > Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message