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From: Bill Utterback <>
Subject: A Call For Support
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:10:29 -0500

My friends -

Greetings from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where I will be until late
Thursday.

I had planned on bringing you a data post today for Graves County, but I am
going to postpone that item until tomorrow, and, invoking the privilege of
the chair, so to speak, I want to tell you that one of our dear friends -
and a friend to all of the Kentucky Internet Genealogical Community - is
facing a crisis for which she needs the support of all of us. That is why
this message is going out to all of the JP area lists which I host.

Those of you who attended the Jackson Purchase Homecoming event last year
will remember Nancy Trice. She attended in her capacity as State
Coordinator of KYGenWeb, which is a part of the USGenWeb, and she surprised
me greatly by presenting an award to me on behalf of KYGenWeb.

Nancy has been ill recently, and, this week, has been diagnosed with a
potentially life threatening problem. She will be seeing specialists this
week who will assess her condition more fully and will lay down a treatment
program, which may require major surgery, among other things.

Nancy's contributions to the Internet genealogical community in KY are
legion. I first "met" her six years ago when the KYGenWeb was still a dream
of its creator, the late Jeff Murphy. After Jeff left the arena, her great
common sense and her ability to bring people together in what became the
KYGenWeb proved to be invaluable, necessary resources for that type of
undertaking. She was, for a short time, the National Coordinator for the
USGenWeb, but left that job to return to her first love - Kentucky. I am
proud to know her and to call her a colleague and friend - as she is to all
of us.

I am asking that all of us - whether you attended the JP Homecoming or not
- join together in sending Nancy a veritable "flood" of e-mails and
e-cards, expressing our collective and individual hopes and prayers for her
full and swift recovery. Nancy has always been there for us, defending the
KYGenWeb when it was attacked from without, and doing all that she could to
preserve free access to genealogical records on the Internet, even when she
came under sometimes vicious personal attack. I was proud to stand with her
on more than one occasion. Now, we need to be there for her.

I hope you will send Nancy an e-card, or an e-mail message, expressing your
wishes for the rapid return of her health.
Knowing our subscribers, as I do, I know you will respond.

Her e-mail address is:

Thanks for standing by Nancy in these difficult circumstances, and for your
understanding in this departure from our normal List postings. Only in an
extraordinary circumstance would I "break protocol". This is one.

-B
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