ISSN #1055-1891

Volume 9, No. 3                                                                      September 1996

Dear Cousins all:

Hope you all had a great summer, and now that the leaves are falling and the evenings are chilly, it's time to stop sunbathing, swimming, boating, vacationing and the like and get back to the serious job of "root-digging".

I'm a little down in the mouth because 32 subscribers didn't sign up again, but it's happened in the past and many come back in a year or two. And there's always the people who discover us for the first time. Someone put us on PRODIGY and we hear from persons now and again who eventually join with us. And there's always word of mouth. As long as we continue to amass the tremendous amount of information we do we will always be viable as a data center.

Had requests for back issues many times, mostly from new signups, thus the large printing bill we have this quarter. I'm also printing up 225 copies of each issue so that in the future I won't have to add to our files at a much costlier rate. (For example; We have the issues printed up for about 2.7¢ a page when it's printed up for over 100 copies ... but it's 4.9¢ per page when we print up less than 100 copies.)

About the ghost story on pp 43 and 44; I hope no one will be offended by it. It's a traditional story which people believed at the time, and still do in many cases, and even though the malefactor is a ROLLINS, and particularly since ROBERT and Sallie left no heirs, it seems that other ROLLINS should feel no embarrassment. We all have skeletons (you should pardon the expression) in our ancestral closets, and after all, perhaps ROBERT 'and Sallie were innocent.

Have a happy Hallowe'en and most bountiful Thanksgiving.