The Olden Times Updates Newsletter
December 9, 2001
Hi Ya'll!
Whew! I can't believe I'm online again! I am one of the many people who've been left without an internet connection by the excite@home bankruptcy. What's worse, our AT&T phone service was accidentally disconnected before the change over to SW Bell, so I can't even use the dialup option! AT&T had decided not to continue local telephone service for our area, but they and SW Bell have left us high & dry without a telephone at all, each claiming that the other is responsible for the situation, and that it's impossible to correct until some time next week. . The only reason I'm able to post this newsletter and to email you that it's available is because I'm sitting in a hotel room and connected to AOL's 800 number.
I apologize for the lengthy delay in getting this most recent Updates newsletter online! I have been fighting with my computer, and it looks like it's gonna win, too. I haven't yet figured out if my hard drive is really dead or if it's just playing possum. In the meantime, I've had to begin rebuilding almost from scratch on another computer, and have lost access (I hope it's only temporary) to some very special new pages I was building with links to medical information, both of a historical variety (i. e., what's dropsy?) and current (what does cutaneous anthrax look like?).
Unfortunately, I cannot get to most of my email, which I was already behind on at the time my now-comatose computer crashed, so I apologize if you've emailed me and you're still waiting for a reply. Of course, that doesn't mean I would have gotten to it by now... I am usually behind in my replies. I wish I had more time and energy, not only to update this site with more of the wonderful material I have (stacked all over the house), but to also answer your emails!
I'm also having trouble locating bad links and other errors at the moment, and I appreciate your patience. If I am unable to get into the other computer's hard drive, I may end up having to rebuild the entire site from scratch, but that might not be all bad - I'm sure that there will be lots of changes I'd like to make!
Of course, my main priority is teaching my children, which leaves considerably less time for this website than I might have if this were my profession. We use the Calvert School's Home School program, which they thoroughly enjoy, and which I appreciate because it provides the curriculum, the materials, the books - the works!
Nevertheless, I fully intend to have everything up & running the way I want it to run soon, and then you can look forward to tons of new material as quickly as I'm able to get it online!
This newsletter doesn't reflect all of the new material I've added since the last newsletter, because of the big chunk of newsletter that is now residing on that unavailable hard drive, so this is just a bit of what's new in The Olden Times!
Thank you so much to all of you who have supported this website, whether you have purchased a genealogy CD from Genealogy.com, printer ink from All-Ink.com, holiday gifts from Amazon.com, or simply sent me a supportive email. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Also, thanks for letting me know when the links are broken, so that I can fix them! I hardly have time to build this site, much less surf it.
As always, thanks for your patience, and thanks for visiting.
Barbara
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Notable
Did MILLER get a Fair Chance in Fairchance? PA, 1903
African Americans, Freedmen or Slaves
Slaves named in Thomas ALLEN Will, Fayette County, Tennessee
Fraternal
Samuel Meredith MAY, Member of the Rome Lodge, 1877
Knights of the Golden Eagle, Cumberland Co., PA, 1903
Military
3rd Artillery, U. S. Army, 1876
4th Artillery, U. S. Army, 1876
5th Artillery, U. S. Army, 1876
10th Artillery, U. S. Army, 1876
The troops above were sent from Fort Monroe, in Virginia, to Columbia, South Carolina. most likely they were being sent because of the violence that had torn South Carolina through the summer of 1876, and which would continue through that year's contested presidential and gubernatorial elections.
Accidents
Accidental Shooting Death, VA, 1875
Mr. GREEN Almost Loses an Eye, PA, 1903
Diseases
Postcards
View of the Loop, Chicago, 1943
Birds-Eye View of Johnson City, Tennessee by Moonlight
Recipes:
From Amazon.com: Meals and Memories : How to Create Create Keepsake Cookbooks
My Families:
The Hunter family of Virginia and North Carolina
The Will of John HUNTER, Guilford County, North Carolina
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