CORY FAMILY SOCIETY MEETING
MINUTES

Sunday, August 8, 1993

(Charlotte Mueller and her Committee are recognized)

Charlotte: The head of our committee is Edna Snell, so you know that if she has anything to do with it, I get lots of verbal help. As a matter of fact, a few weeks ago she said you are coming early so that I can check everything you?re doing and make sure you say the right things. And when I did my little article on her, she took her black magic marker and she went through and made corrections.

Edna was a lot of help although she?s not physically able to be with us all of the time and to do a lot of the running around. I would like to introduce you to Libby Beaumont if you have not met her who was our other assistant.

All of you have heard of the research that was done by Jane Fletcher-Fisk and Wayne Wilcox. And the correspondence with Frances D. Cory you did that beautiful red loose-leaf notebook. He mentioned that when the original Fish research came out, he wrote to a cousin in England and asked the cousin to find out about the possibility of having research done in Bristol, England.

The cousin went ahead and hired a couple of researchers who went in to Bristol, England and sent him the results of their work. It seems that Wayne Wilcox and Frances Cory were both researching the same records at the same time.

Mr. Wilcox has lost his job and is no longer able to afford the cost of doing research, and Francis D. has evidenced interest in continuing to do the research. Both of them have leads of new records to search and of course Vernon has also done some research in the Bristol records. So we have three people now working in the same areas and my suggestion was I would love to donate a little bit of money, but I didn?t want to donate money that was going to be wasted in duplication researching the same records.

So we decided it would be a good idea to sort of exchange information and ideas and maybe the three of them can set some priorities.

Also, some of those records have been photographed and are available for research in the Mormon library, which can be done for about a $3.00 rental of film tape.

So I just wanted to let you know that there are areas to research and there suggestions available, and we?re going to make some attempt to get some kind of exchange of information between the three men so that research can continue but not on the same records at the same time.

So look for new information. There is plenty of it over there. Frances sent me copies of church records that look just about like copies of our early records. Some of you can read, and some of it you can?t read. But I do have copies of some of those early records on William and his grandparents and his father.

So things are moving along. And we?re very hopeful that new information will come out.


Transcribed by:
Marybeth Abodeely
MBA Transcription
Phoenix, AZ

And Edited by Fred C Corey
Phoenix, Arizona