Thanks for posting a comment, Alan. I'm in one or two on both myself.
I've never set up either, but it shouldn't be hard. Anyone else want to
add their 2 cents?
On 11/14/2011 11:36 PM, Alan - School wrote:
I am on FB and G+. I would like to see a cousins group on either or
both.
Alan Jacobus
(a great, great, great, great grandson of Joseph Campbell and Mary Harper)
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Bill Thompson<billthompson76(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> LONGEVITY
> For a minute this morning I thought I'd found the longest living
> Campbell. Give me a break --- I hadn't had my coffee yet, and the type
> in the microfilmed newspaper was blurred. This was on the Wellsboro's
> Green Free Library's newspaper archive pages. What first caught my eye
> was "who is 111". We have some great genes in our clan for longevity ---
> both Campbell descendents and some of their spouses --- but this was
> higher than any I'd encountered before.
>
> The newspaper archive website, has done an OCR (Optical Character
> Recognition) scan of the microfilm. You can copy the image and paste the
> OCR output.
> This gave me
>
> FarmingtoE Hill Facts. ....
> Mrs E. C. Thomas was In Nelson
> Onus Severn] dnvs IftFt week, caring for her
> aunt Mrs. Carrie Hazlett. who is 111.
>
> Sometimes OCR make a lot of mistakes! When I looked more closely at the
> screen, what it actually said was:
>
> Farmington Hill Facts. ...
> Mrs E. C. Thomas was In Nelson
> several days last week, caring for her
> aunt, Mrs. Carrie Hazlett,. who is ill.
>
> Which makes a lot more sense.
>
> I have no idea who Mrs. E. C. Thomas was, nor do I care at this moment.
> "Mrs. Carrie Hazlett" would have been the former Carrie Amanda Buckbee,
> wife of Edgar Hopsetill "Hope" Hazlett.
>
> That's a long story and not particularly important, but it got me
> wondering who was the longest living Campbell descendant? And the
> longest living spouse.
>
> The oldest living one I know of is Faith Jean KIMBALL Black. In a couple
> of weeks, she'll be 104. She's the last surviving writer of letters
> published in "The Campbell Cousins Correspondence". For any new
> subscriber --- those letters were published in the mid 1920's.
>
> Some of the recent long-timers that come to mind are Cousin Dora SEELY
> Church (1904 - 2009) 104y 7m 5 d; and CC Iva DEATS Sayre (1907 - 2008)
> 101y 2m 11d.
>
> And many spouses were long lived, such as Martha Jane PHILLIPS Young
> (1890 - 1996) 105 y 4m 9d.
>
> The oldest attendee at a Campbell Reunion was probably David Cook Kemp,
> who was 97 when he attended the 1929 Campbell Reunion.
>
> FACEBOOK GROUP
> The number of our living cousins who are on Facebook is many times
> greater than the number of subscribers to this list. Very few people
> post message to our mail list. There's no need to discontinue this mail
> list. It's for our relatives who are interested in the genealogy of our
> family. Or northern Tioga Co., history. The subscribers (of course
> yourself excepted), tend to be older. And because the messages are
> archived and searchable by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., those of us who
> have privacy concerns don't say much about living people.
>
> But many of our cousins, especially those under 30, are on Facebook. And
> many are Facebook "friends" of a number of our Campbell Cousins. Of
> course many of them are interested in social and personal things --- not
> genealogy. But we could form a Facebook Group, each of us join it, and
> each invite all of our Campbell Cousins that we are Facebook Friends
> with. It might be a good way to reach people we never will via phone, US
> mail, or even e-mail. I know that there many for whom I lack "regular"
> contact info for. Facebook is the only way I have of reaching them. It
> might be a good way to disseminate info about next summer's Campbell
> Reunion.
>
> BTW, for those of you who have seen the movie "Social Network", I've
met
> the Winklevoss twins and their father. They are much nicer people than
> portrayed in the movie.
>
> GOOGLE + CIRCLES
> These may be even more flexible and easier than Facebook Groups. But
> lots of people have not yet signed on to Google+, even though it's free.
>
> Perhaps we should set up both a Facebook Group and a Google+ Circle, and
> try to catch whichever social network they prefer.
>
> COMMENTS?
> What do you think?
>
>
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