Jeremiah would be first one in my ancestral family who I would conjure up if Family Tree Maker offered a Digital "Conjure up Your Dead Ancestors" software program. He is person in my family's past I never met but who I most admire. I am sorry that I will never get to meet him face to face. That is, unless someone finds a photo of him and posts it to DeadFred.com.

How many of you reading this lost a relative during this horrible pandemic? If you have a story to share, send it to webmaster@deadfred.com.

Here are some links for more information on 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/1998/influenza1918.htm

This link will give you a example of mortality rate in month of October compared to other months of 1918: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paschuy2/1918.html?o_xid=0038314405&o_lid=0038314405&o_xt=38314405

From Schuylkill Co., PA. Compliments of Schuylkill County Ties

Many large supermarkets have a creche or playroom, BUT if you have two or three kids cost may be beyond you. Wouldn't it be great if they could forget about making money for a while and provide these commodities for free. Imagine how their sales would soar if moms and dads knew they could do kids free shopping at no extra cost, other supermarkets wouldn't get a look in unless they followed suit.

Do those top dogs that sit back raking in money realise that it is families that bring in their bacon. and if they just gave a thought to harassed moms and what it would mean to them to have somewhere free to park their children whilst shopping, how much happier every one would be.

Even one or two days a week kids free shopping would a boon to many families.

Bliss, happy parents and happy kids.