Hello Everyone,

 Well, it appears that our little experiment in old tyme writing did not go well. I expected that! I was showing you how hard it is to read old records. Should you at some time decide to go to Scotland to the parish of your ancestor, and asked to see the old documents, this little experiment was to give you a sample of what you might find there. I am going to enclose TIME CAPSULE in this issue, it is a copy of an old Turnbull Document. This document was sent to Dorothy Berk by our Scottish founder John F. Turnbull. The translation of the document is on the back side. It was made in 1759, you will note the damage done by age and that at some time it had been folded, it was written by an educated man with a fairly descent handwriting and it was most likely originally on parchment. The shield has damage in the middle, should have three bull'stest heads, the helmet has a bull'stest head on the top. Remember that the older the records, the more damage you are going to find, from aging paper or parchment, improper handling and care, water, mold, poor writing and splotches of ink from the drips off the quill pens, and the spelling of some words was different then.

 Terry Trimble of Tennessee has volunteered to head up a DNA project. This is the coming of age in Genealogy. It takes a look at not only our DNA strings, and how we are all similar in some manner but the diseases that follow family lines. Hereditary genetics for example in my family, I have allergies to pollens and grasses, three of my children have them also. From my mother I inherited migraine headaches, two of my children have them. Diabetes runs in families, as does heart disease, and many other diseases. I think Terry is taking on a big project for TCA, and we need to give him our support. There will be more on this as it takes shape, any one interested in helping Terry can contact me and I will forward it to Terry until he is ready to put his address in the newsletter.

  Congratulations to Sandy Turnbull and his future bride, who will be married this month, all our love to them on their special day. Many years of happiness.

 Our President John G. Turnbull and his wife Silvia remarried in the Roman Catholic Church recently, this in celebration of their 20^th anniversary. It was attended by John's son Kenneth and his wife Leslie, and other family members. Happy Anniversary!

 Membership now stands at 178 active members…Remember we need your family histories. Velle Turnbull, Ann Weller, and Dorinda Wolentarski are your Genealogy workers. Jim Turnbull in Australia who has some copies of TCA data from Dottie in 1980’s is going to send copies of that data. So the Genealogy is off and running.