This sounds like a good idea, I will do what I can. I am a mother of 4 children and I work fulltime for the local school district as an educational aid. I am also taking 3 hours at the local junior college. I am taking Algebra. I have next week off for a winter break and I will see what I can type up. My Akers were in New Jersey as early as 1698, than Pennsylvania, than Virginia, and then Tennessee in about 1816. Cathy -----Original Message----- From: CraigH9557@aol.com <CraigH9557@aol.com> To: AKERS-L@rootsweb.com <AKERS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2000 2:31 PM Subject: Re: mailing list — let's get something going... >I would like to propose a research project for those on the list who are >intertested. What I hope to do is to make a list of all referrences to Akers >on a state by state basis with the names in cronological order. > >What good is this? > >All of us have been collecting various bits of info on all sorts of Akers's >families some related to us some not, some who knows? My info is all over >the place and not in any particular organization. It would be very helpful >to be able to look at a state and see if any of the names matched. This >could show us migration patterns, marriage patterns etc. > >How do we go about it? > >We start with one state. Everyone gather up what info they have on any Akers >in that state and post it either to this site or to me. I will be in charge >of gathering up the material for certain states that are of interest to me >and I hope some of you will take charge of states of interest to them. Every >so often we will post the list in progress (they will probably never be >finished as we will be adding new info) > >What info do we want? > >The name of the Akers person/s >Other names associated with this record (i.e. spouses, witnesses, neighbors >etc.) >The date of the record >The location (state, county, town, address) >keep it simple if you have an entire will just give us the names/dates/places >involved and a note that the entire will can be viewed if desired. > >Will someone steal this information? >Most if not all of what we deal with is already on the public record. We are >mostly interested in Names, places and dates. I would hope not to get hung >up on this as it really hurts research. > >What states shall we do? >I have already started with New York state so that will be my first state. >Other states I personally will do: New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois. I would hope >to find volunteers to handle Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and any other state >of interest to this list. > >What years? >To keep things manageable I would like to do from as early as possible to >1850-1875. Then at a later time from 1850-1875 on. > >What do you think? > >Craig Herron >ggggrandson of Rachel Akers > > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >