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To: alias who wrote (9112)	10/20/2000 6:58:28 PM
From: Voltaire	Respond to of 65232

Hi alias, lot to be said for that. V

To: alias who wrote (9112)	10/21/2000 5:36:17 PM
From: freeus	Respond to of 65232

remutual funds Well I've been in mutual funds before and they would not have made me a millionaire, but I made myself one.I just have to learn how to cash in when I am doing well, as many of us do. I'll look into Oak because it may be a very strong company with an ability to regularly do 50% which would be EXCELLENT. However, because I'm me, I couldn't put all my money into it: I'd have to have some that I was investing myself. It's going to be my part time job next year. (And after that). But I am definitely interested in taking my money (now in cash) that was in Fidelity funds and putting it back into other funds so I'll check out Oak. Thank you very much. Of course you know by now, if you've been lurking and reading, that I live on drama. I like to be happy peaceful and content sometimes but I need the drama part too. Freeus

To: alias who wrote (9112)	1/26/2001 1:07:56 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 65232

Rich dead voters leave it All Behind........ JW call home Friday, Jan. 26, 2001 Need Money? Check List of the Dead CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of hopeful heirs have bombarded a Web site to comb lists of the dead who passed on without wills and left behind $30 million in unclaimed assets, local authorities said on Thursday. In the two days since cookcountytreasurer.com went on-line, the site has been visited 461,000 times and telephone calls have come in from as far away as Poland to ask about making claims, the county treasurer's spokesman, James Allen, said. "Some people die not only without a will, but they die alone and they die with money," said Allen. Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas launched the effort to locate the heirs of 1,550 people, with a total of $30 million in assets, who have died since 1964. Most left estates worth between $2,000 and $10,000 -- though they range from $1 to $800,000, and names are being added all the time. "Because Chicago is a melting pot, there are many people who may have come alone, died alone, and their only heirs would come from overseas," Allen said. "We've had many phone calls from people asking, 'What do I do next?"' After locating a dead relative, potential heirs must go through a court process to determine their share. Unclaimed estates will pass on to local government bodies.