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Emery Family Research Association
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Oh for a computer system that is fully working right. My XP expired the last Friday of August 2008 and I have made due with a free 95 unit I found 1st of November 2008 and a 98SE that was given to me the weekend before Thanksgiving - but they are not my XP nor do I have my working files as yet. - Have given up hope of a new computer - so goign to start trying to dig in - soon and strat back to work - tho alot of my stuff is still not accessible since what I was working on is still on the XP. Word has just been received today (3 July 2009) of a long time firend via mail - and supporter of the Emery Family Research and manuscript I have been doing since 1982 - Irene Styffe (Mrs. Carl B.) died Saturday 27th of June 2009 at her home in Deland, Florida. she has struggled with several health issues over the last couple of years. she was to have been buried beside her deceased husband Carl B. Styffe Sr. sometime during the week of 29 June 2009. Per her wishes there was no services. Objective: Is to promote free help and research for Emery Descendants and to circulate as much of the findings as possible. I had query as to what the association is - now it is this site. Simple version - cousins helping cousins - I hope. My real main objective was to get my updates for John and Anthony Emery our to all of you as I feel I will never be able to publish any of it - cost is the prohibitive factor - and I do not know how much support I have out there. But I do not want what I have researched, collected and that has been donated over the years to be lost and just sit on my shelf - I want it out into circulation so some one can benefit from it possibly. And truth be known - my children do not - care about their heritage - why I do not know - sorry - I have one person who is a member of UsGenWeb who will get all my files one way or other to help preserve them - for others and for my children David & Susie - just in case they decide what MOM has done is important to them! All I really ask is that as you pass it on to other Emery descendants; contribute to it, and come back often to see the changes made. To all those who I lost contact with soon after 23 August 1990; I do apologize. For those who don't know I lost David on that date and life did change somewhat. I never lost interest in our Emery's only for a time the motivation was not there to continue as I had in the past and priorities changed also. Click the following to view the Emery Family Calendar Here you can add your reunions, church events, genealogy meetings, birthdays, etc. Since the site is under-construction allot of changes will be continual made till I am satisfied or somebody has a better idea to share with me. Anything any one has to contribute as before will be welcome. I will accept a donation of any kind as this has been a one Gal project all these years. My mothers cousin Charles L. Edington and he was since passed on and has been a great loss to my Greene county Indiana reasearch on our lines and moral support. Other wise I sent for books and done research; and relied on distant Emery cousins for donated lines and updates. All my original word files are kept intact and kept up to date - also have burned them to CD as with the site as is. I done away with the old tattered print out that was well annotated and added to by hand and using only the material that is online and in the computer files. I hope we can all renew our friendship and research efforts that we had in the past. Gedcom files will be the most welcome version; also pictures, scans of obituaries. Suggestions for other data etc. always welcome; this is your site too Another year has almost passed - they seem to be flying by faster that I want them too. Sorry I have not gotten more done on the site. My promise is that I will try to do better this coming year. With this upload will be be a start at re-vamping the site; and improving the looks. I Hope you approve. One is I have taken the guestbook off as too much "garbage" is coming in on it that I do not approve of and I have placed filters on it and it is still coming in. I have kept all the enteries from it that relate to this site only and hope to put a forum up for contacts queries and discussions among researchers. This is a start - at a new set-up the opening sidebar will be:
I have an entire line of Anthony's to correct and put up with pictures. And after 31 years of research I have found my great Uncle Jonas Aden Emery's family and some descendants. So there is always hope. He was one of the original Emery descendants responsible for the 1890 book being gathered and published. The counter of number of people entering the page may be off by 1-3 people - as I changed from a commercial counter to ROOTSWEB counter - I got a number count - from a good internet friend and then pulled the main page till I had the new counter installed. Best wishes to all and my good returns in family researching |
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