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From: Joan Doyle <>
Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories]
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:45:45 -0500
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Hello,
That is really a great story...I loved it. It also gave you some really
good insight into the kind of ancestors you had. That to me is a very
special addition to the tale itsself. Like the person who read the
guestbook..I too got goose bumps. Great story!!

Joan
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories]


> Joan,
> Tonight I am the speaker at the March meeting of the Salem County
> Genealogical Society in Woodstown.The tale that I am telling,is how about
a
> year ago my best friend and I were in Salem County Historical Society's
> Library researching our respective families;Carol ,her Biddles;and me, my
> Goslings.
> After we came home,I wrote a thank you note to the librarian,Alice Boggs
for
> her helpful attitude.Several weeks later,I was surprised to get an answer
> from someone in Ohio.When he read my guest book entry,he got
goosebumps,for
> in the 1820's three men migrated from Salem to Green County Ohio and
started
> a Methodist Church near Cincinnati.Those three men were; his
ancestor,John
> Coleman;Carol's ancestor ,William Biddle;and my ancestor ,Samuel Gosling.
> Incredibly,almost 200 years later,the three decedents were reunited
because
> I had the manners to write a thank you note.
> The moral of the story is always do what your parent's reared you to
do,and
> that is,be polite!
> Jerilyn
>
>
>
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