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EDITOR'S DESK
In the continuing saga of Beatrice Bayley, Elizabeth Ross, The
Genealogy Room of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Halberts -- all of whom
have been deluging genealogists across the nation with their offers of
researched information on their own family names -- apparently the Post
Office has taken a hand, and are investigating these and others doing
likewise. According to the Antique Week (formerly the Tri State Trader)
in recent weeks, Beatrice Bayley has declared bankruptcy, and it is
reported that the postal department has refused delivery of mail (with
the exception of requests for refund) to some, or all, of the others.
Clytes Cullar, a former board member of DGS, is well known to most
of our members. She has helped in copying records at the Courthouse in
years past enabling us to publish the early Dallas Deed Books, and has
helped in countless other ways to further the business of our society. In
the past two or three years, Clytes has headed both the Gen. Levi Casey
Chapter, DAR, and the Dallas branch of the Magna Carta Society. She has
authored several genealogical books -- of recent vintage, "Carriages
Along the Trinity," the story of the Guillot family of early Dallas.
Clytes, who had polio as a child, is suffering from a "post polio syn-
drome," causing her to lose her power of speech, with many other compli-
cations, including the inability to eat solid foods. The doctors offer no
hope for improvement or cure, but she is a person of great faith and
courage. We owe her a debt of deep gratitude for her generous service
to us. She has recently mcved, and I will be glad to furnish her
address to any of our members who will call me (942-0550).
Your new editor, as of the September issue, will be Madalyn Crane.
I have thoroughly enjoyed being your editor, and I know she will enjoy
it, too. If you find good genealogical "filler" material, or material
you feel she might want to publish, please send it to her at the DGS P.
0. Box No. And --please be sure to keep her provided with queries for
the Query Section of the Quarterly. I don't know how some other genealo-
gical quarterlies can publish page after page after page of queries, as
we just don't receive queries from you in such quantities. A good query
section will help draw interest to our society and its members.
As I leave office, I would like to say a special "Thank you" to
those who have been so helpful to me. Margaret Ann Thetford obtained
permission for us to use "METRO PAST" items from the Dallas Morning News
which have helped to provide a special Dallas "flavor," to our Dallas
Quarterly. Jeanne Tabb has copied for us a number of interesting census
excerpts and other material for publication. Margaret Hudson, following
the death of Mrs. Morris, has prepared our Book Reviews. Kelvin Meyers,
when he found we were running out of early Dallas Marriages, headed to
the Courthouse, and copied some more years for us! -- and Pat Hatcher has
consistently alphabetized the Dallas County Marriages. My own computer
will do the comparatively small job of alphabetizing the index to the
Quarterly, but I don't have a program that will handle all those mar-
riages! -- And then, of course, there is our Board, each one of whom has
contributed of his or her time and effort to "make it all come together"
for us. Robert Johnsey, aside from tending to the mailings, has been of
special help to me. Both he and Pat Hatcher have the same kind of
computer as mine -- and I've issued many an S.O.S. to one or both of
them. I've really had lots of willing helpers, not the least being our
president, Norma Cansler! It became necessary to postpone publication of
ie Trees Cemetery records, as they included some interesting fineline
awings of the cemetery. They will given to Adrienne Jamieson to in-
ude in the DGS cemetery project. I thank Hazel Peterson for providing
with the 1878-1881 Ledger of the Gabriel Friend Jack mercantile estab-
shment of Newport, Texas, probably including forebears of some Dallas
families of today. Hazel, a charter member of DGS, now lives in Denton.
So now, while you are all heading off for far interesting places to
summer research, I'm going to try to find out once again what it feels
I i ke to be able to get to the Library for my own research! I hope you
all have wonderful results from your summer searches -- and that I can
rind ou how to go about it once agan!
With best wishes --
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