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Page 60 Spring 1992 COLLIN CHRONICLES
Editorial
Aurora Howard Chancy
Dear Friends, has been suggested that we need a research
I would like to thank the contributors of team to help those members out of state.
articles for this issue: Jeanette Bland, Nancy Maybe those people join only because they
Morian, Joy Gough, Frank McDaniel, Alta are looking for help in researching their
Sue Duncan, Thomas Brown, Kit Amos , ancestors in our area. Those who came to our
Barbara Ashby, etc. Without you there would beginner workshop felt that was a great help
be no Collin Chronicles. but we have an awful lot of members who
I have been thinking about a couple of cannot travel that far for just a couple of
issues involving the society and would like names and dates. Are there any researchers
your input. What do you want to see in the out there willing to volunteer a little time and
Chronicle? Some of the quarterlies we energy. Maybe, if you are new, you can pair
exchange with devote a percentage of their up with someone more experienced and learn
pages to how-to articles, where to find things, something yourself.
and information about other societies. Our The last issue goes back to the first.
newsletter covers much of this, but due to Claudia Edwards, our quarterly exchange
page restrictions cannot cover how-to articles. person has been entering all the quarterlies in
Would you like to see more of this type our library on her computer. This includes
article? For example, notes on Kelvin's talk exchanges, donations and quarterlies we
about how to research tax records. Do you subscribe to. They are not on the computer at
know that there is a roll of tax records for Harrington Library, yet. There is some great
Collin County in our library? Do you want stuff in them. Please take a look at them next
more lists? Indexes to books? family time you come to the library. We have also
histories? abstracts from newspapers? land been binding them into books of a year or two
deeds? Those of us who are willing to do the each. Unfortunately the money allotted to this
research need to know what you want. project has run out and we have a lot more to
Which brings me to another issue. We do. Someone suggested taking donations.
have great news. For the third year in a row This is fine and we will be happy to, but we
our membership has gone over 200. We are just collected for the birth index and have
growing very fast. Something that bothers started collecting for the death index.
me, though, is why about 40 people who were I have not brought this to the board, yet, but
members last year did not rejoin, and we lost I propose we form a research team, which
about that many the year before. It is nice to would accept donations, which would be used
replace these members with new ones, to to bind the quarterlies. One of the neighboring
maintain the numbers, but I wonder what we counties does this and it works rather well.
could do to keep the ones we already have. It They suggest $5 and a SASE, per name, per
event, one hour time limit. You must include
as much material with the request as you can,
to help with the search: pedigree charts,
Wylie Area Heritae ancestor charts, family group sheets,
whatever, and tell us where you have already
looked. Include permission to publish in the
Beb Fulkerson Chronicle. You must also take into account
that county birth and death records were not
304 S. 1st St. kept until 1903, and that some things may be
Wylie Tx 75098 1 impossible to trace. I hope I'm not biting off
more than I can chew, so if you send your
$35.00 inc tax.
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