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From: "Margie Pearce" <>
Subject: [INADAMS-L] Fw: [READ-L] Genealogical Acts of Kindness
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:38:16 -0500


A great idea!

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From: Sandy Read <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 8:48 PM
Subject: [READ-L] Genealogical Acts of Kindness

>Hi everyone,
>
>The Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness website is back online and
>going
>strong after a one week hiatus.
>
>This site was started by two gals with a heart of gold not realizing
>how big
>it was going to become, and found they had no time to properly take
>care of
>it. They were considering closing it down, and asked if the two new
>administrators would like to take it on to keep it going. The premise
>for
>this site is too good to just let it die, and we decided to go ahead
>and take
>it over. We were down for a week, getting the site changed over, but
>now we
>are back !
>
>The site was created as an avenue for genealogists to post their email
>address and area in which they live to do legwork for others far away
>at
>cost. The idea is that many of us do not live in the area that we are
>researching and might need to obtain a copy of a record at a county
>courthouse, picture of a tombstone, etc., and don't know where to turn
>to
>obtain this bit of hard data. Most of us can spare one day out of the
>month
>to do this for others. All of us have been helped by someone with
>their act
>of kindness, and this is a way of returning the favor.
>
>Our goal is to have at least one volunteer in each county in the
>United
>States and with over 1,000 volunteers signed up to date, we are well
>on our
>way. We also have volunteers from other countries and quite a few in
>Canada.
>Drop by our site and check us out. If you can spare one day a month to
>help
>another genealogist, we'd love to have you join our group.
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
>Administrators
>
>
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/
>
>______________________________

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