Elmer Spear

Just received this news about Elmer Spear. Pls keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Hi, Megan - I don't know you directly but I thought you might be able to spread the word to the genealogy community quickly. I just finished IGHR 2011 and Elmer Spear was a classmate in the Genealogy as a Profession group. There was a heavy downpour in Birmingham as the course was letting out yesterday and I just learned from Elmer's wife June that Elmer was involved in a serious auto accident and is in intensive care at University of Alabama with head trauma (he is awake and talking). Any chance you would tweet to the genealogy community to keep him in their thoughts? They can join the Elmer's Genealogy Corner Facebook page for updates on his progress. Thanks - Jennifer Arthur
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Thank you, Megan. At IGHR, I found out how wonderful the genealogy community is.

When I met Elmer last week, I was amazed and impressed to learn that he has spent much of his life giving generously to the genealogy world. He and his wife, June, amassed a stunningly large collection of genealogy materials and shared them with others at Elmer's Genealogy Library in Madison, Florida. That library was recently merged with the Huxford Genealogy Library in Homerville, Georgia, to form the Huxford-Spear Genealogy Library, one of the larges private genealogical libraries in the United States.

As David Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch, said in his speech to IGHR at the banquet on Thursday night, we are all related. With the Internet, we are a virtual community, too.

— Jennifer Arthur