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From: "Jane Lyons" <>
Subject: [MON] Fw: LDS fees or "Because of Others"
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 01:51:44 +0100

There has been a bit of a discussion on one of the Antrim mailing lists in
relation to a change in fees charged by the LDS library for photocopying.
Shirley Coneen Olfert wrote this post as a reply..........

and with her permission I am forwarding this to the various lists I
admin..........it is a mail that all of you who share, either through your
web sites or by emailing to lists deserve to receive.............and those
who receive by that sharing also deserve to read this mail.

Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: "coneen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: LDS fees or "Because of Others"


>
> In response to "LDS fees", I am titling this:
>
> Because of Someone Else
>
> At the "click" of a mouse the world becomes ours.
> We can know who we are, where we came from, and how far we have to go.
> New friends, new family, new dreams, tears of happiness, tears of sadness.
> We can wander the corridors of great Universities,
> cross the vast oceans, dust off old, forgotten records
> searching for just one clue to find "wife of Mr. Cuneen"... "
> "lived 4 hrs"... "Loyalist"... "died WW1-wife Susie"... and never leave
> home
> Because of someone else.
> Census records, old Parish records, Wills, Probates, Deeds, documented,
> indexed,
> filed alphabetically, numerically... all for me to search, pour over and
> then
> discard....
> All because of someone else.
> And questions - oh, so many questions.... Who will answer my questions?
> Why did their oldest son die at 18 in a far-away land by himself? When
did
> he arrive?
> Why did he choose Saint John instead of Boston or New York? Why did he
die
> so young?
> Who knew him? Who buried him?
> And his family in Ireland - how could they have let him go? How did they
> hear
> about his death... who even knew of them to write to them or even where to
> find
> them...
> What's this?! Cholera Deaths: Saint John City, 1854 PANB Film #F128
> 1854 - that's when he died!
> I email a distant relative. We have never met. He saw a posting of mine
on
> a message board. We have become fast friends.
> I tell him... We are both excited! He'll go to the Archives to check it
> out.
> I wait. I wait. I don't want to 'bug' him.
> Now why hasn't he gone already?! I would have left immmediately!
> I need to get busy.
> A "click of my mouse" and I'm at the IGI.
> Cobham - too late, too early - not right area - none mine!!
> Because of someone else, I can check the library... Sligo - he signed on
in
> Sligo.
> Which films should I order?
> IGI: James Cobham baptized 10 Sep 1837
> Parents: James Cobham and Laura
> St. Peter's Parish, Thanet, Kent, England : FHL Film #1836278
> This film held the key to my family in England ...
> Because of someone else.
> Could there be another that I'm overlooking?
> An email arrives:
> #1808 James Cobham 1854 Bur: July 27th Age 18 yrs. Cholera
> I now have an answer.. because of someone else.
> Records are neatly typed, evenly spaced - all for my own personal
research.
> And should I care to choose one to be added to my ever-growing,
> collection that will document, verify and validify my existance....
> It's because of someone else.
> What?! I have to pay?! Oh, perish the thought!!
> "This is mine, mine, mine for the taking!"
> Quoted from: Disney's Pocahontas
>
> Shirley
> in Canada

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• [MON] Fw: LDS fees or "Because of Others" by "Jane Lyons" <>