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Re: Evelyn McMain Stiles

Posted: 1 Nov 2010 1:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Before I left for Texas to attend a Fabulous Fifties high school reunion I did a long response to your posting but it got wiped out and I didn't have time to redo it.

You asked, "Do you know if she passed her love for genealogy to her daughters?" The short answer is 'no'. When Evelyn was preparing to move back to Shreveport, and into an assistant living facility, she asked me to come get her forty-plus years collection of genealogy research collection because none of her family was interested.

My son and I drove to Winnepeg, boxed it up and brought it back to Chattanooga. She and I agreed that the library in Alexandria, LA would be an appropriate facility for it because Rapides Parish families were such a big part of it. However, the library couldn't accept it for lack of space. They are hoping to build a new, larger library but, so far, nothing. I'm still holding it and have never been through all of it.

Re: Evelyn McMain Stiles

Posted: 4 Nov 2010 3:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Stiles
Several responses:
1) a Fabulous Fifties high school reunion had to be a blast!

2) Good for you for taking care of Evelyn's work - what a shame that her daughters have no interest. Sometimes younger folks are so busy in life they do not realize how precious reflection on ancestral lines can be.

3) Evelyn's interchanges with me were special - she was a very caring and intelligent woman.

Respectfully,
Sally
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