ISSN #1055-1891

Volume 13, #3                                                 September 2000

Dear Cousins:

Sorry the Newsletter is 4 pages short but your Editor has been occupied with serious serious personal matters and couldn't get to preparing and writing the newsletter on time. I'll make up for it by adding four pages onto the December issue.

We've had several new subscribers come to us from the contacts on the Internet. We're even attempting to aid in the reuniting of a family (see P.36). I hope that effort is successful. In this issue we are speaking of two more Family Histories our subscribers have compiled. Note the addresses to contact to ascertain if any of you might be helped by either obtaining the books or learning from them.

It's fall...my favorite time of year. Unfortunately, living in California, one does not have that glorious change of season weather except in the Sierra and the counties in the northern part of the state. But I remember my child-hood and twenties and thirties in Canada, particularly Ontario. We could hardly wait for the first snow. And pumpkin pies and apple cider....burning leaves and polishing the ice-skates to be ready in plenty of time for that first turn on the backyard rink. For those of you living in Arizona and Louisiana and Texas, New Mexico and Florida, you won't know what I mean. But I'm sure you have your own memories of autumn, other than going back to school in warm sunshine instead of being bundled up in scarves, mittens and boots. Oh to be young again!

Well, enough of this reminiscing. Have a great Thanksgiving...treat the kiddies at Hallowe'en, and I'll do a better job on the next issue.