[or-roots] what is AFF

[Dorothy Wogh]

I remember when gas sold for 4 cents a gallon because of a gas war.
Watermelons were 19 cents each.  Anybody else remember those days.  Candy
was any place from 1 cent to 5 cents.  Holsum bakery was coming out with a
new bread and they ran a contest to get a name for it.  Later was Wonder
Bread.

Dorothy Wogh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: [or-roots] what is AFF


> Dan;
>
> thank you for that link, i know have that web page save to my
Genealogy/Info
> misc folder where I will promptly forget I put it.
>
> I have another question about that cryptic note;
>
> "I have a lot of AFF. collected from my great grand dad, seems he did a
> lot of that, I wish I knew if he really knew those people or if he did it
> for money ?"
>
> Grandfather took affadavits for money??
>
> as part of the WPA program or whatever??
>
> I know there are millions of words of valuable history that were preserved
> there and a lot of which are now available online, but if not that, how
> would taking affadavits be connected with making money.
>
> Also from what I have read and heard, these folks often became friends to
> the person doing the recording, sometimes because they were the only
person
> who ever "listened" to something the talker thought was important to say
(a
> feeling I can relate to very well from my experiences as a returned peace
> corps volunteer when folks ask me where I served) and sometimes just
because
> the "listener" discovered a very fascinating person behind whatever facade
> the person being interviewed normally presented to the world.
>
> I just had my memory jogged by my son of an interesting fellow I knew as a
> child, seperate email to follow on subject, sorry all you folks who hate
> Or-roots blitzes, but compelled by subject matter.
>
> Les C
> reedsportchapmans at verizon.net
>
>
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