We are in the last month of 2001 and time to get ready for Uncle Sam
and the income tax papers to fill out next year.
As of now I have no words of wisdom from the group's President so we
will go on without it this month.
Our next meeting will be 9:00 AM, December 15 at the usual Community
Room location at Bannister Mall. I kind of like to sit in those
soft movie theater seats last month. The program is to be group
discussion on questions and hopefully answers to the problems that are
troubling you on genealogy or the computer.
Minutes of MCG, November 17, 2001
Our meeting convened in the theater of Bannister Mall at 9:20. When we
arrived at the usual meeting place, we found another meeting in
progress. So this month we got to sit in the luxury of the movie
theater and its soft cushioned chairs.
Judy Revare introduced the speaker, Ron Francis of the Micro Center in
Overland Park. He called the store the "Best Toy Store in
Town". He brought many items with him, and as each item was
described, he passed it around. Then he answered our questions and
gave each of us a 20% off coupon.
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Respectfully submitted, Mary Robinson
MCG Genealogy Data
Bank
Remember that Bill Hawkins offered to set up a data base for surname
searches and he has asked to include this request of the needed format
for information he would like in this newsletter.
Format for submitting SURNAMES.
Required information
| Your last name |
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| Your first name |
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| Your e-mail address |
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| Your phone number |
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| Surname |
PHILLIPS |
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| ST / County / Date(s) |
AL / Calhoun /
1800-1830 |
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| ST / County / Date(s) |
AL / St. Clair /
1840-1860 |
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Optional Information
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| Birth |
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| Marriage |
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| Living |
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| Other |
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You may submit unlimited number of Surnames. Will only give out your
last name, email, Phone #.
Surnames submitted will be included in the MCG not-for-profit
Genealogy Date Bank.
Prefer you submit by e-mail to bihawk@earthlink.net
Or you may use Snail mail to the following address
Bill Hawkins
5436 Flint
Shawnee, Kansas 66203
Notable Quote
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21,
I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven
years.
---Mark Twain
Thought For Today
"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the
past, he is a parent of the future."
---Herbert Spencer
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Ever wonder about the following?
REASONS WHY THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS HARD TO LEARN:
1)The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
- There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple
nor pine in pineapple.
- English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in
France.
- Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,
are meat.
- We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we
find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a
guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it
that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and
hammers don't ham?
- If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth
beeth?
- One goose, 2 geese, so one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,
that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If
you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't
preachers praught?
- If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
- Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed
to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people
recite at a play and play at a recital?
- Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and
feet that smell?
- How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise
man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be
opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
- Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when
they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a
strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
- Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled,
ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring
chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
- You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which
your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a
form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going
on.English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects
the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race
at all).
- That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible.
- However, when the lights are out, they are invisible. Why,when I
wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end
it
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Below is a bit of information about Santa Claus and his reindeers that
I got off an email list.
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According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male
and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male
reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late
November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers till
after they give birth in the spring.
Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's
reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen- had to be
a girl.
We should've known. Only women, while pregnant, would be able to drag
a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and
not get lost.
(author unknown)
Guess will close it down for and get this on the road to all of
you. I need to get this a bit more on the computer and genealogy
lines in the future. Have one last comment that if you know
someone who is interested in the group pass along their email address
and we will include them in the mailing list as it is no cost as of
now to add interested for a while so they may learn about the
group. I did say would include a list of members but didn't get
it done this month for one reason or another.
Contact members of the group are as follows:
President
Wayne Boydston 816-230-3140
odessssadoc@juno.com
Vice President Ralph
Stirlen 816-532-0229 rstirlen@swbell.net
Co-sec
Ivan Waite
816-318-0892 ilwait@earthlink.net
Co-sec
Mary Robison 913-384-3339
MHRobinson@aol.com
Program chair Judy
Revare 913-491-1768
judy@revare.com
Treasurer
Lewis P. Hahn 913-631-7998
lewhahn@giv.net
Group dues are $12 a year and the year runs from June 30th to July 1st
of the following year.
New member dues are prorated at a dollar a month for balance of club
year remaining.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Don Bjuland 816-461-4948
Editor.
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