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Subject: Re: [FAMILY-NEWSLETTERS] Newsletter titles
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:56:22 EDT
<< That title and logo sound wonderful. I"m assuming the newsletter isn't
for a Skeleton (or Skelton) family. >>
Nope -- descendants of a Hall/Day couple. At least we avoided the temptation
to call it "Hall-a-Day"! <g>
<<Really an accomplishment to have a
newsletter since 1938 (it's as old as I am)...even if it isn't continuous.
Does anyone have every copy?>>
Mom kept a full file, and I've kept a file since I took it over. When I took
it over after quite a gap, I retyped all the old issues and did a
cut-and-paste job to preserve the signatures and illustrations (real "clip"
art), indexed it, added a systematic genealogy showing how everyone mentioned
in the old papers was related, bound it, and offered it to the cousins.
<< While we're on the subject of every copy....how is The Family Skeleton
numbered? Is it issue number? Date? Volume and Number or some other way?
>>
It's volume-and-number, with the first one being Vol. 1, no. 1. We start a
new volume with the April issue, only because that's the anniversary of the
first issue. We start a new volume when the paper starts up again after a
substantial gap. That is, say we published vol. 6, no. 4 but then the paper
went out of print due to an upheaval in the publisher's life. Five years
passes, and we start it again. That new issue would be vol. 7, no. 1.
A little unorthodox, a little confusing perhaps, but that's how we've done it.
Ardis
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