Everyone is invited to join us Monday night for an all-state Alabama genealogy chat: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm 9 pm Eastern; 8 pm Central; 7 pm Mt.; 6 pm Pacific This chat is a time to share questions, resources, lookups, and advise on researching your roots in Alabama. We'll cover any and all counties. Be sure and have your family tree printed out and your genealogy books handy. Previous chat transcripts can be seen here: http://huntsville.about.com/library/blalchat.htm If you've never been to a chat before and need instructions or would like to be added to my private chat reminder list, just send me an email. Hope to see you Monday! Jean Brandau huntsville2@comcast.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/747 Message Board Post: Looking for a John Abner Phillips, married to Mary Petit. He died in 1863 in VA, so presumably was in the Confederate Army, but can not find him in any unit roster from AL. He was from Etowah or surrounding counties. Help! Howard

Unsubscribe: davecarl@bellsouth.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dena Horton" <dreaming_yet_awake@hotmail.com> To: <AL-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:34 AM Subject: [AL-Civil War] An explanation and guidelines re: SPAM > Okay folks, let me explain my standing on this subject. > > It was not, and never was, the information I am against. It is sending > someone to your list, web site, or service without being asked, that I > consider spam. Out of the blue offering is generally considered spam if you > do not know what the rules of each list are. If someone has a specific > question about something, I see nothing wrong with someone telling them they > have the info on their web site, or know where they can go and find it. But, > if you are offering in the tone of this email, I will consider it spam, > unless you have gone through me first. If I didn't do this, we would have > spam running out of our ears, seeing as how I get over 20 emails a day with > the list address as the intended > target. > > I, being in charge of this list, have to make decisions based on what I > get in my inbox. Most of what I get is similar to this email. I meant no > disrespect, and did offer a different choice. I would be more than happy to > list anyones services, volunteering or otherwise, on our proper website. Not > in our email list. > > As for there being Alabama Union soldiers, I know this too well. I have > quite a few on my daddies side of the family that lived in and around > Winston County. One who served and helped Bill Looney, of Looney Taverns > fame. I am not now, nor ever have been, ashamed of these men. They had their > own ideals of what was right and died proving it. > > If you are in question of what is and what is not allowed, my email > address is posted in the same area where you signed up for the list, or you > can send an email to the list and ask. It is not only polite, it is > required, before sending out an email on a list offering a service, free or > otherwise. I myself have given out many addresses to places that I may not > use, but someone will, but not without some thought as to what they are for > and who is offering them. > > I truly hope I did not offend anyone else. I just wanted the matter to > be upfront and open. I am not against information, and I will privately > email anyone that sends something I think would be better suited to be on > the web page, then tell the list about our newest form of getting > information in an email myself, so that no one gets the wrong idea about > what is spam and what is not and/or what is allowed and what is not. I would > not spam my own list, nor do I allow everyone to send in this type of email. > If I let one person do it, I would have to allow everyone to do it, I just > didn't feel that was the purpose of this list. > > If I am being too harsh, please someone tell me, it is your list as > well. If you would like a free day to offer a service, let me know. If I > should post more of these kinds of services, tell me. If not I will continue > to go along as I have been. > > Thanks for reading my babble....and as always, good luck guys and gals > in finding that elusive one. > > Dena Ward-Horton > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

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Okay folks, let me explain my standing on this subject. It was not, and never was, the information I am against. It is sending someone to your list, web site, or service without being asked, that I consider spam. Out of the blue offering is generally considered spam if you do not know what the rules of each list are. If someone has a specific question about something, I see nothing wrong with someone telling them they have the info on their web site, or know where they can go and find it. But, if you are offering in the tone of this email, I will consider it spam, unless you have gone through me first. If I didn't do this, we would have spam running out of our ears, seeing as how I get over 20 emails a day with the list address as the intended target. I, being in charge of this list, have to make decisions based on what I get in my inbox. Most of what I get is similar to this email. I meant no disrespect, and did offer a different choice. I would be more than happy to list anyones services, volunteering or otherwise, on our proper website. Not in our email list. As for there being Alabama Union soldiers, I know this too well. I have quite a few on my daddies side of the family that lived in and around Winston County. One who served and helped Bill Looney, of Looney Taverns fame. I am not now, nor ever have been, ashamed of these men. They had their own ideals of what was right and died proving it. If you are in question of what is and what is not allowed, my email address is posted in the same area where you signed up for the list, or you can send an email to the list and ask. It is not only polite, it is required, before sending out an email on a list offering a service, free or otherwise. I myself have given out many addresses to places that I may not use, but someone will, but not without some thought as to what they are for and who is offering them. I truly hope I did not offend anyone else. I just wanted the matter to be upfront and open. I am not against information, and I will privately email anyone that sends something I think would be better suited to be on the web page, then tell the list about our newest form of getting information in an email myself, so that no one gets the wrong idea about what is spam and what is not and/or what is allowed and what is not. I would not spam my own list, nor do I allow everyone to send in this type of email. If I let one person do it, I would have to allow everyone to do it, I just didn't feel that was the purpose of this list. If I am being too harsh, please someone tell me, it is your list as well. If you would like a free day to offer a service, let me know. If I should post more of these kinds of services, tell me. If not I will continue to go along as I have been. Thanks for reading my babble....and as always, good luck guys and gals in finding that elusive one. Dena Ward-Horton _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Dena, I'm with you. John

Subscribers,,please read the email at the bottom replying to my FREE GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH OFFER Although I am unsubscribing,,,,,my FREE offer still stands. Hi Dena, You have my most humble apologies as I was under the impression that the roots web was for people to help people find information on their ancestors. As you may or may not know, there were many guards from Alabama Regiments here , who suffered and died as well as these " Yankees". There are more than 1500 confederates on record here that I was under the impression that many genealogist from your state might qualify as descendants of Confederates....who might want information on those brave soldiers who died for their cause. My research here is FREE,,,and not SPAM. I don't charge the first dime for anything research I do while looking for descendants of "Yankees" or "Rebs". My work, if you would spend a few minutes at my site,,,,is to help people find their ancestors,,,no matter what side they were on. Although my main work is near the only Civil War POW site close to me..I have many links to the prison camps in the North that again...I was under the impression that a su! pposed Confederate State,,,might have genealogist looking for their ancestors. My dedication is to ALL POWS...NOT just " YANKEES" I truly thought that Confederate soldiers might qualify as an Alabama Civil War Issue. Your website does not say Confederate civil war,,,and since there were not only Alabama soldiers held prisoners here,,,but died and are buried in this national cemetery. They were not Confederates, but Union Alabama regiments. Yes, believe it or not,,,there was such a thing.Again, you might have Alabama genealogist looking for their ancestors who might be buried here. I would think that many of your subscribers looking for their ancestors,,, would find a great amount of information on my site since it has many links to Northern Prisoner of War sites. Again, I hope that you and your subscribers will forgive me for offering my FREE services,,,and my FREE resources,,to a site that I thought revolved around Alabama Civil War subjects. Im sorry for intruding on your site, but am real curious to what this site is for? If it is not for Alabama Civil War subject......then what is it for. You even have a quote at the bottom of this page, that ROOTSWEB IS ALWAYS FREE...... That's what I thought I was doing.... Please,,don't bother to unsubscribe me as I am going to do it myself. This must be an awful boring site if Alabama Civil War Subjects are banned. By the way,,,you asked about my roots.....My Mothers Grandfather was left an orphan....his father killed fighting for the Confederacy...as well as my Wife has many who fought and died for Georgia regiments.......One was a Guard at Andersonville. Have a great day. Kevin Frye TOTALLY VOLUNTEER,,,,( NOT SPAM ) Alabama Civil War link to POW sites. Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Dena Horton To: frye@gnat.net Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [AL-Civil War] Andersonville POWS Please do not advertise your services on this list. It is called spam and we do not pass that along to our list memebers. We also keep our list contained to ALABAMA civil war issues. As Andersonville was a yankee prison, in Georiga no less, not many of our list would find that helpful. This will be your only warning about passing on services. If you send anything else you will be unsubscribed to my list. If you would like to have your services listed, I suggest you send it to me privately or do a search on Rootsweb for the proper place to add this information. Did your Alabama fore-fathers serve in the Civil War? Send a blank text email with the word Subscribe in the message body to: AL-CIVIL-WAR-L-request@rootsweb.com for mail mode or AL-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode Talk to others trying to find their Threadgill families. Send a blank text email with the word Subscribe in the message body to: THREADGILL-L-request@rootsweb.com for mail mode THREADGILL-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode Rootsweb is always free! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: Click Here

I would like to welcome those of you new to this site and tell you there are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. My sources are the following....... There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list which has the names and grave numbers of some 13000 graves with only 460 marked as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of the 45,000 who were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I visit the prison site every couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. .I also wish to thank the patience of those regular subscribers for my frequent postings. If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, please just ask. Kevin Local Andersonville Volunteer / National Park Service Volunteer Hammer the Americans hard enough and you forge the best weapon in the world. --- Captain Simeon Ecuyer ...in a letter written to Colonel Bouquet during the siege of Fort Pitt Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

Will Peek, I don't know the reason that Thomas Taylor migrated to Baldwin County, Alabama. He was in the 1860 census of Baldwin but not the 1850 census. I would guess that he came sometime between 1850 and 1860. Significantly, in 1860 he was 36 years old and living with a Martin Taylor, age 68. There is no female in the age bracket that could have been a wife to either of them but there were 4 small children. It sounds as if they were both widowers. They were both born in South Carolina, and probably both in the Lexington District. One soource has said that there were 4 different Taylor families in the Lexington area. You might want to consider looking there for your Robert Taylor. Quite honestly, I don't know enough about Thomas' family to know if he had a Robert in his line. I really wish that I did. Where in Alabama was your Taylor/Peek family located?? He was in the Home Guard during the War but I don't know what he did with this group. B.W. Carlson

In the book "1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers in Alabama" it states that my ancestor: THOMAS TAYLOR: b. 1823 Lexington District, South Carolina. He enlisted at Camp Watts, Alabama, in the Home Guards and continued service until the close of the War in 1865. What exactly were the Home Guards, why would he be doing that and where can I find out more about Thomas Taylor and the Home Guards. Thanking you for your kind attention, I am, B.W. Carlson davecarl@bellsouth.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/746.1 Message Board Post: There are no Confederate service records or Alabama pension records for this name. As you are aware, this name can be spelled any number of ways. However, I found nothing useful under any of them. As recorded on the 1860 census, Lazenby is married with four small children. In his situation, it seems highly unlikely he would volunteer. He's also 36 years old. The draft law of April 1862 required men up to age 35 to enlist, but Lazenby would have been 38 or so by then. My study of Barbour County showed little evidence of men like this entering the army even after the top age limits were raised. There's also the possibility that he has some physical disability that disqualifies him. You might ask the ADAH in Montgomery to review the Calhoun County militia files. If any muster rolls exist for home guards or county reserves, his name might appear there. That's about the only possibility remaining. Usually an obituary of a Confederate veteran will mention military service. If this man was living in Alabama at the time, you could also check the 1907 census of Confederate veterans. It's important to know where he lived at the time. Good luck!

Alan, I recommended your services to another just recently and this msg confirms I did a good thing. One point you made to me in a msg was that you could discuss information, something no gov't office can accomplish and this email is prima facie evidence of your "walking the talk." This is a very good bit of reporting. Explanatory yet concise, offers another approach and best of all was straight to the point, a rather good piece of "cut to the chase" Good show Alan. Will pittsaj14@hotmail.com wrote: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/746.1 Message Board Post: There are no Confederate service records or Alabama pension records for this name. As you are aware, this name can be spelled any number of ways. However, I found nothing useful under any of them. As recorded on the 1860 census, Lazenby is married with four small children. In his situation, it seems highly unlikely he would volunteer. He's also 36 years old. The draft law of April 1862 required men up to age 35 to enlist, but Lazenby would have been 38 or so by then. My study of Barbour County showed little evidence of men like this entering the army even after the top age limits were raised. There's also the possibility that he has some physical disability that disqualifies him. You might ask the ADAH in Montgomery to review the Calhoun County militia files. If any muster rolls exist for home guards or county reserves, his name might appear there. That's about the only possibility remaining. Usually an obituary of a Confederate veteran will mention military service. If this man was living in Alabama at the time, you could also check the 1907 census of Confederate veterans. It's important to know where he lived at the time. Good luck! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 "...may the rainbow always touch your shoulder" old Ani'-tyu'-wiya blessing --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/742.1.1 Message Board Post: The service record shows that this young man enlisted at age 16 on June 20, 1864. The roll shows him absent, sick, Aug. 10, 1864, and another entry has him in a Marion Ala. hospital on Sept. 1, 1864. When the war ended he was paroled at Demopolis Ala. on June 12, 1865. The parole shows him to be a Greene County resident.

You can also contact the Ala. Dept. Archives -- far cheaper and quicker than NARA. Yr. Obt. Svt., D. A. Bass-Frazier 36th Ala. Regiment & Ala. Genealogy http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oldfedrd/ Ala. Division, UDC http://mywebpages.comcast.net/alaudc

May I suggest trying http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm, Might try just the last name and whether Confederate or Union. Then browse the list. It will show the unit etc. and a Roll #. You can get a copy of military records from NARA or send an email to pittsaj@hotmail.com for service records. There is a fee at both sites. Will Peek lazenby@megagate.com wrote: This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/746 Message Board Post: I am trying to find if there was a service record for my gg grandfather John J. Lazenby. An 1860 census listed him as living in Calhoun County, Alabama. Any help would be appreciated. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 "...may the rainbow always touch your shoulder" old Ani'-tyu'-wiya blessing --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send greetings for Easter, Passover

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/746 Message Board Post: I am trying to find if there was a service record for my gg grandfather John J. Lazenby. An 1860 census listed him as living in Calhoun County, Alabama. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/743.1.1 Message Board Post: I reviewed the records of this company. All members were from Coosa County and enrolled at Rockford AL on July 25, 1864. All members were between the ages of 45 and 50 years old. Of the eighty names in the list, most signed a clothing receipt on Aug. 3, 1864. One member entered Ross Hospital at Mobile for treatment of an illness during September. No other records of medical treatment or deaths were recorded. It may be of interest that a lieutenant submitted his resignation in early January of 1865, saying that he was elected against his wishes and claiming exemption from military service due to his position as a Justice of the Peace. He further stated that he remained at home in Coosa County when the company left for the Gulf Coast. About twenty members signed paroles after the war ended. All were dated late May or early June of 1865 at Montgomery AL.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/745.1 Message Board Post: I'm curious about the Selma reference. Company "E" of this regiment was recruited in Butler County. Its captains were: Richard W. Carter. Appointed Major [July 15,] 1864, to rank from May 17, 1864. Joseph J. Allen. Promoted Captain [July 15,] 1864, to rank from May 17, 1864. Accepted in Confederate service at Bethel Church, Alabama, March 29, 1862, this company mustered at Camp Stone, Montgomery, Alabama, April 3, 1862. Commissions were dated April 23, 1862. The regiment began its service on picket north of Pensacola. During the spring of 1863 it was sent to northeast Mississippi. From that time forward it served with the 56th Alabama, history mentioned in another recent post. Please contact me if you need a copy of an Alabama service record or pension application.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RASH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/745 Message Board Post: I'm seeking information on this unit, Co.E, 2nd Regt, Alabama Calvary. My g-grandfather, JOHN RASH, served in this unit and joined in Selma. Any and all info would sure be helpful. Thanks