DearMYRTLE - RE: Tribute to my Dad!

DearREADERS,
The outpouring of love in your e-mails has been most kind, and I have forwarded your e-mail responses to my dad. I called him yesterday once phone service was restored in the after-math of Hurricane Gordon.

For Further Reading:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Father-Dad

I had been talking with Blanche about dad's advice to strap myself to a palm tree during the worst of the storm. Floridians know that the palm trees are the first things to go. At that point, dad piped in jokingly "that's WHY I said to do it!" At least, I THINK he was joking! <grin>

Here are some of your comments:
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From: MADFARRELL@aol.com
Wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your tribute to your dad! Also I was impressed with all the wedding dates. As a gift last year, my oldest daughter presented me with a "wedding tree" which she had created - white ink against a dull green background with all our ancestors weddings and dates - we go back as far as 1671 with the marriage of Peter Wyckoff and Wilhemje Janssen Schenck. It has a place of honor on our wall in the front hall. I have been visiting cemeteries lately!!

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From: Cis1052@aol.com
DearMYRTLE,
Nice tribute to your father and Happy Birthday to him. Did he patent all the ideas and is now a very wealthy man?

DearCHERYL,
We ALL wish we had patented all of his ingenious inventions! I'll send him a copy of your cute note!
Myrt :)

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From: PGleich@aol.com
Dear Aunt Myrtle,
I think it's great that you use this site to boast about your Dad! Tell him congrats from me, too! My Dad turned 90 last April and this July we had a surprise party for him. He lives in MT & AZ but comes back to WI every summer so we were able to pull this off. It was so great and we had a wonderful time. This year he stayed six months with us and talk about taking pictures, I took 11 rolls. Have no idea how many the my brother or sister took. They were great pictures.

It's so important to talk to them now and share these times. He answered so many of my questions again, as he usually does. He was just a font this summer. I was able to get a picture of him with each of his five great-great grandchildren (the youngest one only two days old!) and will present him with the collage for Christmas.

I give classes and lectures on these topics so it's fun to hear from someone else enjoying their parents and others. Thank you again for your story.

DearPEGGY,
Thanks for the enthusiastic reply to the column about my dad! I'll send him a copy of this e-mail! I am so glad you have your dad around to learn more about life from his point of view. It you'd like to post a few things on the web about interviewing, I'd love to have you as a guest author. After all, ol' Myrt here doesn't know everything!

Hoping to hear from you!
Myrt :)
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From: (Keith)
Hi, Pat. What a wonderful letter about your dad, your so lucky to still have him. Remember me from your class a few semesters ago, I had to quit because of my wife's health and now it's me. Cancer in the lung that has spread to the Pelvic bones that I'm being treated for now. Thank God for modern meds. Just wanted to comment on your story and the way it made me think about my past with my folks. Still love reading your column keep it up!

DearKEITH,
I DO remember you from our computer genealogy class! I see that you are having some big challenges, and do pray that things go more smoothly for you. I'll send my dad a copy of this e-mail. Could you perhaps do your old teacher here a little favor, and write a series of little e-mails to your family.... ONE FAMILY STORY per e-mail? This would really be special! Sometimes, when we can't do active genealogy research on prior generations, we CAN do some writing of our personal histories. You've got a LOT of things you've done over the years, that your kids and grandkids just don't know about like:
-- life before television
-- life before microwaves
-- your military service
-- how you and your wife met
-- things kids used to do for entertainment
That sort of thing?!!!! It would mean so much to them to have these little e-mails!!!
Thinking of you!
Myrt :)

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From: Dashner@webtv.net
I enjoyed your email about your dad. He sounds like a good man and a great father. I too am descended from a Player in England. Our Players settled in SC in the early 1700's and are still there. Do you know if Player is a fairly common name in England? Have you done a lot of research there? We too are members of the LDS church. My ggrandfather John Wesley Player was baptised in 1893 in SC. Our ancestor who came from England was Roger Player married to Mary Stillery. We still have a question on one link so we're not absolutely sure. We probably have a common ancestor somewhere back in Merry Olde England. Again thanks for sharing your dad's story.

DearLINDA,
The Players in South Carolina came a lot earlier than our group, as you may have realized in my Happy Birthday Dad column. The research that has been done takes the Players back to a Christening Record at the St. Luke's Church in Chelsea, Middlesex, England of William Warner Player, where Charles Player
and his wife Ann were listed as his parents. A further study of the church records (on microfilm through my local LDS family history center) did not reveal a marriage date for the couple nor anything about earlier generations.

There are medieval references to people with the last name PLAYER, but of course, the missing 2 hundred years aren't explained between our known ancestors to those generations. I have attached a McAfee Anti-Virus checked GEDCOM file with the ancestral relations of William Warner Player born 1857, including 3156 individuals and 1270 marriages. Much of the early England research has been done by Madelaine () Player, author of WILLIAM WARNER PLAYER, published in the 1990s (everything of mine is in storage.)

I tried to look for the book for you in the Family History Library Catalog located at:
http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp

Although I know Madeline's book IS on the shelf in Salt Lake, the catalog search came up with only the following hits for the surname PLAYER. I've included them here since there is at least one about the SC Player family, which may be of interest to you!

-- Anthony Rope & Elizabeth Pulley, ca.1754/1759-1984 Greenland, Gwen,
1920-. Player

-- Deeds and documents of the Player family, 1719-1881 . Player

-- Documents of all families [i.e., Rope, Sharp, Gollan, Player], ca.1754-1984 Greenland, Gwen, 1920-. Player

-- A genealogy of a Lee family : ancestry and descendants of David Lee, Sr. : mainly of Old Williamsburg District - present day Florence County, South Carolina Brown, Gerald D. (Gerald Douglas) , 1931-. Player

-- The Gollans, 1779-1984 Greenland, Gwen, 1920-. Player

-- The Hunter and allied families Hunter, Tarol L. Player

-- Player genealogical records, 1759-1974 Player, Hubert E. Player

-- Player, 1778-1984 Greenland, Gwen, 1920-. Player

-- Ryde deeds/Player and Brigstoke : a catalog of holdings Isle of Wight Record Office. Player

-- T. F. Langford collection, dating from 1681 . Player

-- The Trezevant family in the United States : from the date of the arrival of Daniel Trezevant, Huguenot, at Charles Town, South Carolina in 1685 to the present date Trezevant, John Timothée, 1842-. Player

Myrt :)
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