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Many thanks for keeping me on the CHRISTMAS list. I will try to email you my Christmas lineage as time permits. Otherwise you can go to ancestry.com, OUR Families, A to Z and see it there.
PLEASE keep doing all that you do to maintain this list. It is so important and I very much appreciate all that you do.
Betty Smith Horne403 Kershaw RoadSummerville, SC 29486 (note this is a new ZIP...last # changed from "2" to "6")
My email ads continues to be bettyhorne(a)bellsouth.net
cell ph # 843-312-4628 (I think the area code will chg in the near future)
The Christmas web page was updated today; address is: christmas.whturner.com
The web page is in its 19th year, and I thank
each of you for your help over the years.
Several people (Gayle, Jeb, Becky, Dianne &
others) volunteered to help by editing sections
of the PDF books, and adding photos, obits, death
certificate; all of this is included in this web page update.
Your help is needed again. The web page can be
quickly updated for errors, but not the
workbooks. If would be most helpful, if you would
check the web page, and let me know of errors,
anything you would like changed, or added. The
workbooks are ready, but I will wait until
October 1, before mailing, to include your edits.
The workbooks are PDF, in descendant narrative
form so you can print your line or the entire book. The books are as follows:
Jonathan Christmas of South Carolina 2122 pages 143MB
Thomas Cross Christmas of Virginia 1282 pages 74MB
Thomas Christmas of Louisiana 122 pages
Henry Christmas of England - 161 pages
William Christmas of England 42 pages
Unconnected Christmas Families 124 pages
Those that have helped or will help in editing
the web page, I will be happy to send you a book
on your line; please send your postal address to
my email account <mailto:wht@whturner.com>wht(a)whturner.com
I will mail the books on a CD/DVD. I uploaded the
Thomas Cross Christmas book to my web site, but
Gayle said it took a very long time to download.
If you would also send me the address of your
local genealogy society or state archive, and the
person to contact, I will send them all of the
workbooks. Each workbook contains a Copyright, to
prevent someone from posting it on the Internet
or some fee charging genealogy site.
Finally, the Christmas mailing list is very
rarely being used. I'm getting tons of spam/junk
mail weekly. I try to clean it 2-3 times a week. Today, I got this message:
Subject: 175 CHRISTMAS moderator request(s) waiting
From: christmas-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
To: <mailto:christmas-admin@rootsweb.com>christmas-admin(a)rootsweb.com
If you would like to keep the Christmas List
going, I will keep deleting the junk mail, provided the usage increases.
Thanks for all of your help.
Best regards,
Herbert