>From: ttg1313 <ttg-inc@comcast.net> Thanks Joyce for getting Olema's valuable information. Cuz, Kathleen S. >Date: Tue Jul 26 23:21:53 CDT 2005 >To: WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WGS] on Olema's research >Dear Cuz Joyce Gail, > Didn't know your were going to surprise us, or I wouldn't have said any >thing. So glad it is safe in your hands, can't wait to see what all you >find. So glad the information is safe, would hate for all her work to sit >around and not be shared. >Hugs Cuz Becky >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joyce Stewart" <jgs0410@cinci.rr.com> >To: <WYNNE-GENEALOGY-SOCIETY-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:21 PM >Subject: [WGS] on Olema's research > > >> >> Dear Cousins, >> >> I know Becky has wrote to you and told you that I was getting all of >> Olema's genealogy research. Well, I went and got it today. I didn't want >to >> say anything until I did have it here for sure. And I wanted to surprize >you >> all. >> For the ones that didn't know it, Olema and I were 1st cousins. Olema >> passed away this past April. Her son Robert [Rob] emailed me and asked me >if >> I would want all of his moms genealogy. Of course I said yes and I feel >> privaleged in getting it. You see University of Kentucky was suppose to >> have got it. Well, today Lonnie [my husband] and I met with Rob and his >wife >> Lenora, in Walton, Kentucky. We had lunch and then we loaded the truck >full >> of boxes of genealogy. >> Olema had been doing genealogy for over 50 years and did it the old >> fashioned way of taking notes in long hand, going places and taking >pictures >> of places and cemeteries/headstones. Joe, her husband, took her to several >> states for her research, that included the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania >> of course and for us being from Kentucky, she traveled throughout the >state >> there. So, you all know for that long, she had accumalated a large amount >of >> research. Right now I have about 18 to 20 boxes, packed full of research. >I >> feel very fortunate to get all of Olema's genealogy /research and when I >go >> through it and organize it, I will be glad to share with you what I have. >> I am sorry if I skipped around on writing this email, but I am like a >> kid at Christmas time. I am excited. I have boxes to open and they are >full >> of surprizes. >> So, cousins, be patient with me until I get everything organize. And >> know, that the research is now with family and not in a Library's basement >> or something, waiting for someone to go through it. >> >> Love Joyce Gail >> >> >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Kathleen M. Spurgeon