Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 15:13:06 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news: Dick Eney
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  In a few months his birthdate will show up at
>  http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/.  I suggest we lay the issue to
>  rest until then.
>
>  That site bases their data on Social Security records, and that
>  government agency tends to be pretty careful about people's ages, for
>  obvious reasons.
>
>  It's an amazing site.  But it does tend to run a few months behind.
>  Since it's intended for genealogists, I guess there's no reason for
>  it to be updated more often.
>
[...]
>
>  I checked my "50 years ago" column in the WSFA Journals I produced,
>  and Dick Eney apparently didn't attend in 1954 or 1955.  He shows up
>  often in the "40 years ago" column, plus I know he mentioned WSFA in
>  his Fancyclopedia II in 1959.  Of course he may have attended prior
>  to 1954, I don't know.

In 1954 he was out of the country.  But he was a member prior to that.
Exactly when is the question.  But it's not an important question and I
gather Barry would like to see it all dropped, although I'm not sure why.

--Ted White