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Martha Forsyth was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas in 2023. Friends and admirers are encouraged to visit
her pages at the Caring Bridge website
. ?
Pete Forsyth
(her son)
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from
Boston
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Some day I have to get my act together and say something intelligent on this page, but I've been spending her time learning Wiki trickies and am (still!) not ready to do that.
Basically, a lot of my life focuses on Bulgaria, where I've spent many months recording and documenting "old songs from old ladies". For an introduction to my work, you can:
- (here is a sample from the section about
girlhood
- (here is another particularly cool
story
from my research, not related to Linka);
- meet
ZDRAVETS
("Boston's Friendly Neighborhood Bulgarian Band), and hear some pretty fine music from the band I helped found;
- see some of the
beadwork
that I learned in the small Bulgarian town
Sarnitsa
(
Bulgarian
:
Сърница
), at the northern end of the
Dospat Reservoir
in the western
Rhodope mountains
.
- A more recent (starting August 2007) passion is
HOOPING!
;
- also
Things Made of Paper
,
- and Family History...for myself, and for some friends. I don't have a readily available genealogy page online - yet.
--
Martha Forsyth
P.S. Re "participating in WikiProject Bulgaria"…I
hope to
participate more, so far it's been minimal!
Neat Tools, etc.
- I just discovered a really useful
Wikipedia "Help" Cheatsheet
?not sure if it's new or not, but I need to set myself a quick "bookmark" to it, so here it is.
- Here is a neat
tool
that will show you a complete overview of what I've done on Wikipedia?not all that much, but it's nice to be able to look at it all in one place! You can use the tool to show your own (or any other user's) edits, by replacing my username (Martha_Forsyth) with a different user name. It takes a little while for the tool to assemble the information, patience is a virtue… (Added 16:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC))
- A tool
to check what pages use an image.
- Now, here is a
cool Tool!
(
Wikipedia's "Book Tool"
).
Help:Books
also looks very useful, but I haven't really studied the structure of all this yet. (Right now it's a bit too overwhelming to do more than contemplate from a distance!)
Signpost
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Честита баба Марта!
and if you don't know what this is all about, go to
Martenitsa
. I'm a day late - but I don't think I'm a dollar short yet! --
Martha
(
talk
) 20:56, 2 March 2008 (UTC), 02:57, 21 April 2008 (UTC)