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VERY NICE of you to say so Gary! I'm going to guess that the unstated "other" place referred to in the "too" is the RootsWeb site!? I've been "visiting" both for many, many years! <grin> I started to say GenForum has been the longest, but if I count the old days of when RootsWeb was "just" a Bulletin Board in the days before the Internet became "public," then it would certainly be earlier; although I'm not sure if I left any messages related to the RAT(C)[D]LIFF(E) surname at the "old" BBS RootsWeb ("ROOTS BBS"). Back in the "Old Days" I spent much more time on the genealogy boards on FIDONET and the Genealogy interest groups at DELPHI, GEnie, and CompuServe then on the Roots BBS. Boy, I used to run up some phone bills in those days too! Living out in a rural section of Texas in those days, just about everyplace online was a "long distance" call for me and strangely enough, it was less expensive for me to call BBS boards that were out of the state as "Interstate" long distance calls were less expensive than "Intrastate" long distance calls! Back in those days "busy signals" were all too common if one was calling during the "peak hours of the evening" so it was actually an advantage in that respect that I had to call long distance no matter what as I could choose from several different BBS in different towns and states if my regular BBS was busy. Of course those users in the "big" cities could probably find several different boards that were local calls for them carried FIDONET. My last regular BBS was one called STARSCAN in Alabama. I understand the FIDONET is still up and running, but I've not checked it for years which is perhaps my loss as there probably are some other "older folk" who still have up and running their old Commodore 64, or Radio Shack CoCo, or Apple II, or Timex Sinclair, one of the other "extinct dinosaurs" of that "Golden Age" of the personal Computer and have never gotten around to connecting to the Internet. Some of those "really old timers" (I'm old enough for AARP membership, but still too young for Social Security <grin>) have great stories to relate that they had heard from their grandmothers. My grandmothers were both born, respectively, in the 1880's and my Mom's were born in the 1850's or 1860's respectively, which really kicks it back some. Her grandfather Curtis was born in the year 1850 and so was old enough to remember the Civil War as a boy and she was ten when he died so she was old enough to remember some of his stories for that time period stories that might have been "lost" otherwise. I was also fortunate to have been able to hear stories of one of the family's former slaves who had continued to live and work near the family after the Civil War had ended and who lived to be more than 100 years old. Mother, and two of her cousins both were able to relate to me stories that this elderly lady was able to recall. I have more than one account of the day the "Yankees" rode through in December of 1864, but account by the former slave is by the far the better of them. I know that the homes of at least two of my ancestors were raided and plunder and that of a third was put to the torch and burned all during that Union calvary raid in through Mississippi in December of 1864. As the "Greatest Generation," that of the World War II Generation are leaving this world in really great numbers now, the link of those of us who are younger with those who heard "first hand" accounts of that time period will soon be over and all the unrecorded stories will be gone.
It amazes me how so few "young people" these days can even name a single Civil War battlefield, much less be able to relate how that terrible war affected their families AND THUS THEMSELVES, assuming of course that they had family "here" at the time of the War.
Oh boy, I'm rambling something bad today! <grin> Didn't get much sleep last night (Actually, none!) as I had some unexpected problems arise at the house that I had to stay up all night repairing. I got finished at around 7:30 AM and was ready to finally "hit the sack" when my sister called and said she needed some help before she left for her compute to the job in the "big City." By the time I got finished assisting her I was my "third wind," and so figured I'd log on real quick and check for messages, and then catch some Z's So much for real quick! Here it's almost lunch time (11:15) and...suddenly the eye lids are beginning to feel heavy again! <grin> Take care Gary and again, thanks for the kind words!
... Jay
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