For those Blount County researchers who may not have checked the Blount County Genealogy Home Page in the last month or so.... I'm in the process of transcribing the 1907 Blount County Census of Confederate Soldiers. So far, I have all surnames A-G online at: http://members.aol.com/Blountal/1907/1907_Census.html I've trancribed the entries as they appear in the original document, which means that they are basically in alphabetical order, with some variations. Information requested of each veteran was: name, current place of residence, date and place of birth, as well as service related info. Sincerely, Glenda Savage Blount County Alabama Genealogy http://members.aol.com/egun/Blhome.html

Hello all! I've just joined ALBOUNT-L (thank you Carol for creating it!!!) and would like to begin by posting my Blount and Jefferson County lines that were early settlers in the area: FOWLER - In Wake Co., NC by 1745> Blount Co., AL by 1818 - Earliest settler: John and Lucy (WHITAKER) Fowler. HUDSON - In Union Co., SC by 1814> Jefferson Co., AL by 1819> Blount Co., AL by 1839 - Earliest settler: William H. and Elizabeth (___) Hudson. REID - In SC (place unknown) by 1797> Jefferson Co., AL by 1819> Blount Co., AL by 1860 - Earliest known settler: James and Polly (REID) Reid who married in Jefferson Co. in 1819. GURLEY - In Pendleton District, SC by 1800> Blount County, Alabama by 1818 - Earliest settler: John West and Mary (___) Gurley. HUFFSTUTLER/HOFSTALAR - In Fredericktown MD by 1763> NC>MD>NC>TN> Blount Co. AL by 1821 - Earliest settler: George Huffstutler (Rev. Soldier) Hoping to meet new "cousins", Glenda Savage

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>Have considerable data on these lines. Would like to share data with others with these lines touching their families. > >Lee Ponder >

Cousins, Listmembers - 1) The person referenced in the post I forwarded to the list the other evening has apologized and closed his site. The data belonging to USGENWEB is still available at USGENWEB sites and the USGENWEB archives at RootsWeb. Other data is available at original sites linked from Gresinet and Cyndi's, all of which are linked at http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch 2) Further discussion of the problems of the past weekend is not appropriate on these genealogy lists. Copyright-L is the list for that sort of discussion. 3) One of the features of RootsWeb which some of you may not have tried is the Roots Surname List. This month, for the first time, I have entered a few of the surnames I am researching - and have already had responses!!!! Overview of the Roots Surname List (RSL) Updated 29 January 1997 Contents What is the RSL? How to Search the RSL How to Submit Data for Inclusion in the RSL If you prefer to learn about things by doing instead of simply reading about them, and if you have access to the web, you might want to mosey over to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/rsl and poke around... I. WHAT IS THE RSL AND HOW IS IT USED? The Roots Surname List (RSL) is a list or registry of surnames (at the time I write this, there are almost 200,000 surnames that have been submitted by over 20,000 net.genealogists, with additional names arriving at the rate of over 600 a day). Associated with each surname are dates and locations, and information about how to contact the person who submitted the surname. If you are researching a family with the same surname, in the same area and similar timeframe, then you might find it useful to contact the person who submitted the surname to share and compare notes. Do be realistic: if you're researching Woodbury in Alabama in the 1800s, a person with info on the Woodbury family of England in the 1600s isn't likely to be of much help. I mention this because some submitters have withdrawn their data from the RSL due to the flood of e-mail they're received, much of it as off target as the example I just gave. What does it cost? There is no charge to participate, although RootsWeb, the major sponsor of this effort, does accept voluntary contributions. If you find the RSL useful and would like to support it financially, please please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html for information. (Really, we do need and appreciate your support! It's amazing how this beast is eating computer cycles and bandwidth.) If you'd like to have your surnames included in the RSL, there is a submission form on the web at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslform.html Alternatively, data may be submitted by e-mail. Directions on how to do so are included in Section III. If you see a surname listed that interests you, especially if there is a good match on dates and locations, contact the person who submitted the surname. If you're accessing the RSL via the interactive search on the web, all you need to do to learn how to contact the submitter is to select their nametag, listed at the end of each surname entry. Otherwise, you'll need to order the individual address from the mailserver at genealogy.org, as described in Section II. All the addresses listed are fairly current (verified within the last twelve months) and the best we currently have on file. There's no need to contact us about a bad address: if the submitter doesn't resurface with a valid address before the annual verification process, their data will be dropped from the list. Due to the amount of data scrubbing involved, the web-searchable RSL is currently only updated once a month, on the first Sunday of the month. (We're exploring ways to update it more frequently without going nuts. Please be patient!) Starting the next day, the new surnames are posted to rsl-update (an Internet genealogy mailing list -- to subscribe, just send the message "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) to rsl-update-request@rootsweb.com) and to soc.genealogy.surnames (the USENET genealogy newsgroup devoted to surnames) and alt.genealogy (a general purpose genealogy newsgroup). The first day, the new A surnames are posted, the second day the new B surnames, etc. (The full RSL is simply too large to be posted in such a manner.) Included in the posted update is contact information for the submitters of the new and updated info. The databases accessible via e-mail are typically updated a few days later. Section II describes how to check the RSL for your surnames of interest. Section III explains how to submit your data for inclusion. II. HOW TO SEARCH THE RSL A. Via the World Wide Web If you have access to the World Wide Web via Mosaic, NetScape, lynx, or most other web browsers, visit the URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/ and you can query the RSL for individual surnames, click on the submitter's nametag to be shown the submitter's contact information, etc. B. Via e-mail There are now two mailservers that provide RSL lookups via e-mail. They each employ a different syntax, so be sure, whichever you choose, that you use the commands specific to it. One mailserver was created by Michael Cooley of genealogy.org. To use it, send e-mail to server@genealogy.org. Commands go in the subject line, one per message. To check for the surname Keithley in the RSL, use the subject line find rsl Keithley To get the contact information for submitter karen, use the subject line find rsl-addr karen The second mailserver was created by Jeff Trembath. His program will search for multiple names and return the contact info all in a single pass. Send mail to rsl@genealogy.mksi.com with each surname on a separate line in the message. For more detailed information, send mail to rsl-info@genealogy.mksi.com. Or check out his RSL Search Homepage at http://gen.roc.wayne.edu/fsl.html. III. HOW TO SUBMIT DATA FOR INCLUSION IN THE RSL There are two ways to do this. One is simply to use the form on the web at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslform.html It will guide you through the process and get the niggling details right, and you can skip the remainder of this document. Or you can do it the old-fashioned way, via e-mail. In which case, read on... Please read this section carefully before submitting data. I receive a gazillion messages each month having to do with the RSL, and I and the other folk who prepare the data for inclusion in the RSL sometimes get cranky about the time wasted by obviously improperly formatted or otherwise inappropriate submissions. (You'll do fine as long as your submission looks a lot like the examples below.) And if the presentation below is too confusing, the one in the family.faq may suit better. BASIC GUIDELINES Send new entries and contact information to us at one of the addresses listed at the end of this note. New data received in time will be included in the next release of the RSL, typically on the first Sunday of the month. If it's late, it will be included in the release the following month. See below for format information. Please follow these guidelines: * Send ordinary text files. Please do not compress, zip, uuencode, or MIME encode your file. (The best way to avoid accidentally doing these awful things is to cut and paste your information into your mail message, rather than attaching it.) * Be sure to submit "how to reach you" information as well as surnames. At the very least, that means your name and your e-mail address. * Do not submit more than 100 surnames. (You can submit another 100 next month, if you want to.) * Do not put your surnames in CAPS. * And no Tiny Tafels. They don't conform to the RSL format, and they don't really contain the right information for the RSL. If you don't know what a Tiny Tafel is, you're in little danger of sending me one accidentally. Currently, I'm unaware of any site that is collecting Tiny Tafels. The two sites I used to list here are no longer doing so. FORMATTING YOUR "HOW TO REACH YOU" INFORMATION If you are submitting data for the first time, we need one or two lines of address information indicating how you can be contacted. The format is fairly flexible, but should include a short nametag (less than eight characters, all lower case) and at the very least your name and e-mail address. Most submitters also include their postal addresses, but that's not required. If the selected nametag has already been taken, we'll conjure up a new one. Feel free to suggest alternate nametags when you send in your data. The lines for karen (me) are: karen Karen Isaacson, karen@rand.org, karen@rootsweb.com P.O. Box 6831, Pine Mountain Club, CA 93222 FORMATTING YOUR SURNAME INFORMATION In the same message as the "How to Reach You" information, include one line of data for each surname you are submitting. What should the surname entries look like? Each entry should be on one line of no more than 80 characters in length, and should consist of five parts. Entries that don't contain at least one date and location will not be added to the database. The five parts are: 1. The name of the family, in mixed case (Smith not SMITH or smith). 2. The earliest date for which you have information about the family. (For instance, the birthdate of the founder of the family, or the year he or she first showed up in the records.) 3. The most recent date for which you have information about the family. (When the last person with that surname died or skipped town, for instance. Use "now" if you know people of this surname that are still around -- yourself, for example. It's up to you whether a woman is considered under her maiden surname, married surname, or both.) 4. The migration of the family. For instance, if my ancestors started out in Virginia, moved to Kentucky, then on to Missouri, this would be VA>KY>MO,USA. If I still have room (remember, all fields should fit on one line -- the long Keithley entry in the example below is pushing the limit), then I add some county information to further distinguish the family: OrangeCo,VA>KY>GentryCo,MO,USA. There is a list of most of the abbreviations that are in use. It is in a file called family.abbrev and perhaps the easiest way to retrieve it via e-mail ist to send a message to server@genealogy.org with a subject line that reads (without the quotation marks) "send RSL/abbrev". Or just spell out the location in your submission, and the person who does the final data entry will put in the proper abbreviation, if any. 5. The nametag of the submitter. This is so you can be found in the address list. See discussion above for how to select one. The Roots Surname Index is rather oddly computerized. There aren't any firm restrictions on the presentation of the data, but do try to use something like the format suggested above and illustrated below. Here are a few sample entries (my own, funny thing): Bell 1780 1940 OrangeCo,VA>KY>GentryCo,MO,USA karen Carr - see Kerr (karen) Keithley c1750 1823DEU>PA?>MD>RowanCo,NC>FloydCo,IN,USA karen Keithley c1750 1923 DEU>PA?>RowanCo,NC>KY>StCharlesCo,MO,USA karen Kerr 1760 now HuntingdonCo,PA>VenangoCo,PA>IA,USA karen Kicheli - see Keithley (karen) WHEN TO SUBMIT Try to get your additions or modifications in by the Thursday before the first Sunday of each month, when the monthly update is published. If you miss a deadline, not to worry: your surnames will have arrived in time for the next deadline and will be included in the next month's list. WHAT HAPPENS THEN? Shortly after a new submission is received, a form letter acknowledgement is sent. The new information will be included in the next monthly update. Shortly after the update has been released, you'll receive a form letter showing all the data we currently have on file for you. Your surname(s) will continue to be listed in the full RSL (the one on the mailservers and web) for a year. At that time, you'll receive a second form letter checking whether you can still be reached, and whether your data is still current. A positive response results in another year in the RSL, after which you receive another form letter, etc. WHERE TO SUBMIT Where do you sent your data so it can be included in the RSL? Internet: rsl@rootsweb.com <- preferred karen@rootsweb.com Postal: Karen Isaacson <- not preferred P.O. Box 6831 Pine Mountain Club, CA 93222 Carol Carwile Head <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch Listowner for the GEN-MAT lists (new/used genealogical materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents research), RAN-CLAY (east-central Alabama counties), ALBLOUNT (Blount county, AL), ALTUSCAL (Tuscaloosa county, AL), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan, King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.

These are my Blount County families: BLACKWOOD: Isaac BLACKWOOD (1773 - ?) m. Mary JONES (1800 - ?) James BLACKWOOD (1827 - 1891) m. Aytcha DAILEY (1830 - 1887) Robert BLACKWOOD (1851 - 1923) and Hannah ALLRED (1851 - 1885) Asbury BLACKWOOD (1871 - 1942) m. Manervia JONES (1872 - 1966) ALLRED: Lemuel ALLRED (1795 - ?) m. Sarah LATHAM (1796 - ?) Andrew ALLRED (1826 - ?) m. Lavicia EASLEY (1828 - ?) JONES: Joshua JONES (1771 - 1842) m. Sarah ? (1774 - 1860) Wiley JONES (1802 - 1886) m. Roenna CARLTON (1814 - 1883) Milton A. JONES (1832 - 1912) m. Martha L. HANDLEY (1850 - 1932) EASLEY: Daniel EASLEY (1805 - 1871) m. Eudoxy BRINDLEY (1805 - 1889) -- Tony Jordan Huntsville, AL TeeJack@ix.netcom.com

Cousins, listmembers - Because of concern for those of you who work so hard compliling your data for your web pages, I thought you should read this message posted to several lists today. if you receive more than one copy, please excuse. Also, if you are entering info into your website, please join us on Copyright-L as detailed in the post below. Carol (Listowner for the GEN-MAT lists, IMMI-GRAND, RAN-CLAY, ALBLOUNT, ALTUSCAL, Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan, King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and Thompson) ******************* >From: Dayna Cohen McMullen <mcmullen@bigfoot.com> >Subject: BEWARE--Your data could be taken next..(long) > >Hi Folks, > > Just a quick warning about a "person" who is building quite >a nice web site by taking our data right off the web pages where >we either put it ourselves or where we gave someone permission >to post it..... > >The site: "The World Genealogy Archives" (not be confused with USGenWeb!!) >TWGA is located at: <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/> >Maintained by a dirtbag named Matt Roller. > >I found the Alligood Cemetery records I transcribed to my Colquitt Co., GAGenWeb >page there this morning. He DID NOT have my permission to lift them off my web >site! He didn't ask! When I confronted him, he won't answer me or the others >who have also emailed him. > >I also found both of the TATE bibles and the MASHBURN bible text I submitted to >Anna Buxton's site "The Bible Archives at Matt Roller's site this morning. Anna >told me today that he never asked her to use them. He sure didn't ask me. >He even >used my dialog verbatum, including the people's nicknames from our bible >records. > >If you have records online like these, census, wills, deaths, burials, obits, >marriages, births, diaries, journals, newletters, and so on...you might want >to check there to see if he has taken your info too. > >I talked to several people on the GALINA list this morning who also found their >records at his site after I told them where to look. There are more victims on >the new Copyright-l list too. > >What can you do about this you ask.....you can subscribe to a new list and find >out more about your rights to your data. It's called COPYRIGHT-L and to >subscribe >send a message to: >COPYRIGHT-L-request@rootsweb.com > >with this command: subscribe in the body of the message. Don't forget >to turn >off your signature block. > >Another thing you can do is visit Matt Roller's guestbook and tell him what you >think of people who steal data off our web pages. The url for his guestbook is: > >http://144.35.8.177/search/guestbook.htm > >And finally, you are free to contact his internet host which happens to be >(can you believe it?) Salt Lake City Community College > > >Contributed by Dr. Brian Leverich and added here with his permission: > ### > >Frank W. Budd <-- Campus President, Head Honcho > >Department: President's Office >Phone: (801) 957-3311 >E-Mail: buddfr@slcc.edu > > ### > >Marjorie Carson <-- Second in command > >Department: Vice President >Phone: (801) 957-4884 >E-Mail: CarsonMa@slcc.edu > > ### > >It's probably possible to dig all sorts of other interesting >addresses out of the www.slcc.edu Website: I'd particularly >recommend looking for the Executive Dean or somesuch and the >Department of Public Safety. Senior deans and campus police both >(for different reasons) tend to take dim views of things that cause >problems off-campus. -B > >And lastly, you can boycott his site, other than to tell him what you think >in his guestbook, and >show your support to the many people he has stolen from. People think he >has worked so hard at >building a nice web site but little do they know how he got most of his >data. Rather than just >decide not to put your data out there for someone to take, why not stand up >against people like >him and put them out of commission. Let's not deprive ourselves of the >wonderful sharing and >exchange we now enjoy because of people like Matt Roller. Thanks for your time! > > > >Dayna Cohen McMullen mailto:mcmullen@bigfoot.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Genealogist against plagiarism--Please Boycott: >* GenForum by Cliff Shaw at: <http://www.genforum.com/> >* World Genealogy Archive by Matt Roller at: > <http://oasis.slcc.edu/search/> > NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH USGenWeb Archives!! >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dayna's Southern Genealogy Page >http://home.texoma.net/~mmcmullen/welcome.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Need a web page? Drop by: >Dayna's Web Designs--Genealogy & GenWeb sites >http://www.10mb.com/daynadesigns/welcome.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >

Would like to exchange information with others working on the surnames THAMES, TIMS and PONDER. Lee Ponder

Sorry I sure don't! Helene Do you by any chance have mention of an AYCOCK in those probate records? Also, do you mind sending this to the ALBLOUNT-L@rootsweb.com list? There are some folks on that list from North AL. Carol At 09:41 PM 7/17/97 -0600, you wrote: >I have mention of a John Lynch in the following will: > > >!Madison Co. Probate Records: 1869/68 Page 217, there is a petition to >probate >the will of Vincent Gravett, deceased, who died in July 1862 leaving a >widow, >Belinda Gravett. He left no children. As far as the petitioner can >ascertain >the heirs at law are: the children of Jesse Gravett, deceased, a brother of >testator who died in his lifetime; viz Larkin M. Gravett, William D. >Gravett, >Yancy L. Gravett and Vincent G. Gravett, all over 21 and residents of >Arkansas. >(2) the children of Loudouck Gravett, a brother, who died in his lifetime, >viz >Vincent Gravett and Eliza Gravett who is supposed to be married but the >name of >her husband is unknown and Jackson Gravett, all over 21, residing out of >the >state in parts unknown. (3) the children of Eli Gravett, brother of >descedant, >viz: William Gravett and a girl child, name unknown, under 21, residence >unknown. (4) the children of Mary Dupree, deceased, formerly Mary Gravett, >a >sister of testator who died in his lifetime, viz: William Dupre and >Margaret >Lynch formerly Margaret Dupre wife of JOHN LYNCH of Madison County, Alabama >(5) >the children of Nice Roberson, deceased, formerly Nice Gravett, sister of >testator who died in his lifetime, to wit: Linsey Roberson, John Roberson, >Leonard Roberson, Sarah A. Roberson, now the wife of Newton Parvin, Susan >Parvin, Ella Counts formerly Ella Roberson and now wife of ---- Counts and >Mary >Roberson, all over 21 and residing in parts unknown. (6) the children of >Susan >Parvin, deceased, formerly Susan Gravett a sister of testator who died in >his >lifetime, viz: Louisa A. Parvin, Sophronia J. Parvin, Belinda M. Parvin, >John >Parvin, Jesse Parvin and Susan E. Parvin, all over 21 and residing in parts >unknown except Belinda who resides in Madison County, Alabama. 30 Sep. >1862. > > >

Cousins, If any of you have tried to contact me today, PLEASE resend. My ISP's router has been down most of the day, and my mail was lost. Apparently this has also happened off and on for several days for short periods of time, so if you have posted to me and I did not reply, please resend the post. PLEASE REMEMBER to use my name - CAROL - as the SUBJECT so that your post will not get "lost" in my inbox. Thanks!! Carol Carwile Head <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch Listowner for the GEN-MAT lists (new/used genealogical materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents research), RAN-CLAY (east-central Alabama counties), ALBLOUNT (Blount county, AL), ALTUSCAL (Tuscaloosa county, AL), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan, King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.

Hope this message finds it's way to the person involved. ---------- > From: Brenda Nichols <nixx@dixienet.com> > To: DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > Subject: [D-S] Urgent Request > Date: Tuesday, July 15, 1997 2:42 PM > > Please feel free to post this wherever it is allowed. Our family and > friends on the web is our only hope. Thank you for your help. > > Hubert Russell Nichols from Walker Springs, AL, please get in touch with > your family. Your mother is dying. Call Gerald at (334) 246-4250 or Phil > at (334) 246-9468. The entire family is here. We need you with us. > > ----------------------!!------------------------- > TOPICS are now available on this list. > SEE http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm#topics >

I am searching for information on JoAnn JOHNSTON/JOHNSON b Oct 7, 1871 who married John Thomas TANNER b July 4, 1869 and had at least six children, Mabel TANNER SPRADLEY (b. May 11, 1898,in Calhoun CO AL), Winnie TANNER SEARCY, Ruth TANNER HOBBS, William TANNER, Hoser/Hosea TANNER and Johnny TANNER. They may have lived in Hokes Bluff AL at some time. Mabel TANNER SPRADLEY married Clarence Victor SPRADLEY Oct 23, 1912 in Talladega CO, Al, and later moved to Tuscaloosa. If you have any info that you can share with me please respond to Patsy Spradley Davis, davisdwd@earthlink.net or davisdwd@aol.com Surnames I am researching: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DESHAZO, JOHNSTON, LEACHE, SAMMENS, SPRADLEY,TANNER ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Cousins - I am looking for the parents of Dorinda ANDERSON, who was born in Blount county in 1862. In 1860, the only ANDERSONs on the census were William, William and Mary. In 1870, Dorinda was ilving with an elderly YOUNG couple - but there is no YOUNG/ANDERSON marriage that I can find. Was Dorinda an orphan in 1870, or were these her grandparents? If her mother had been a YOUNG, and had married someone other than Dorinda's father first, a YOUNG/ANDERSON marriage would not have been recorded, so I'm thinking that might be the explanation - do ANY of you have ideas, or know anything about Dorinda? Carol <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch LOOKING FOR parents of: ANDERSON, Dorinda, b. 1862, Blount co., AL AYCOCK, Martha, b.1833 Blount county, AL GARRETT, Mary Susan, b. 1827, Lowndes co., AL JORDAN, Thomas, b. 1832, Bibb County, GA KING, Benjamin B., b. 1802, NC> Newton co., GA area bef. 1823 WOOD, Elinor S., b. 1805 "North GA" or SC> Newton co., GA area bef. 1823

I am researching Isaac Whorton and his sons; John Marion Cicero, Augustus Ulysses Reeves and William Wilson in Blount County and Asa Hays in Cullman County. Bill Whorton Cusseta, AL