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From: "Nick Heard" <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Ray Osborn
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:02:03 -0000
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In-Reply-To: <2DDA115E-3644-4AB4-847C-EEDFC77B7489@optusnet.com.au>


I am very sad to hear of the death of Ray. My mother's ancestors were from
the South Hams, and Ray has personally helped me with email solutions to
problems on many occasions. His website has been a truly invaluable resource
for my own researches and I have confidently referred other South Hams
researchers to it in the knowledge that what they could not find there, Ray
would do his best to help with promptly on receipt of an email query.

Kate is so right to say that we have lost a good friend.

Nick Heard
www.heardfamilyhistory.org.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate Boyce" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:31 AM
Subject: [DEV] Ray Osborn


>I was distressed to learn from the Lidstone Family History Society
> newsletter of the death of Ray Osborn, on 3 December 2010. His website
> was amazing for Southhams, and he was endlessly helpful. Hard to
> imagine how he could do all this from New Zealand.
>
> Ann Lidstone is hoping to continue the website, but it is not working
> at present. I fear it might be a bigger task than she imagines.
>
> Ray and I never met, but we corresponded often. I, and all Southhams
> researchers, have lost a good friend.
>
> Kate Boyce
> Melbourne Australia
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