The Civil War held absolutely no interest for me until I started researching my Alabama ancestors about 4 years ago; now my kids are asking if I've "found out anything" yet....... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frieda" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] (no subject) >I wasn't going to chime in. But here I am My great grand parents Robert > Washington and Mary Jane Moore (Maternal family was Franklin) Glenn left > Jefferson Co. just after the 1850 census. But I have really enjoyed the > stories that were told. Even though they were long after my family left. > I > went to my local Los Angeles, California site and was very disappointed. > I > could get pictures of old Los Angeles etc. But none of the stories. I > spent more than a couple of hours reading your stories and was very sorry > that I don't have back ground for my Glenn-Moore family. You are right > Alice about the stories. I am pushing 75 myself. My grandchildren really > don't know me or no about the wonderful town that my husband there > Grandfather and I were raised here in Sunny Southern California. I > definitely will add a lot to our story. > > I had the experience this last summer of meeting one of the newer > generation > (age 21) of GLENN'S. His grandfather had been a favorite of mine and I > started telling Stories about his grandfather Billy Glenn. Billy had died > in the early 60's. Kyle sat for hours listening to me and the other > cousins > gathered around and started talking about the family where they lived, how > they made a living, the Civil War, how many of the family were killed, > where > and WHY they move onward. Kyle then wisely said. If our history and > geography teachers would have us study American History like this maybe we > would like it and understand it more. In another words GENEALOGIST add > meat to your story!!!!!!!!!! > > Had to put my two cents in even though its been a long time since my > AMERSON-HALLMARK family left BLOUNT CO., Alabama in 1868 and GLENN-MOORE > family left JEFFERSON CO., Alabama in 1850 to meet in IUKA, TISHOMINGO > CO., > MISSISSIPPI. > > If any of your families went to Tishomingo Co., Mississippi I do have the > family book that was put out in 1997. Also I have the Alcorn Co., Ms > book > put out in 1998. > > Frieda Glenn Bennett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alice Campbell" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 12:33 AM > Subject: Re: [ALJEFFER] Message from the list administrator > > >>I joined the ALJeffer list for the specific purpose of finding out about >> the community, the people who lived there, their occupations, all so >> that I could place my ancestors into their proper place in their >> community. >> >> For those 'nouveau genealogists' who only want a list of names, dates, >> parents, & offspring, perhaps this purpose does not serve them so well. >> But a real genealogist IS looking for just those little things that will >> tie his family and their neighbors together into a recognizable whole. >> >> So I, for one, encourage the sort of banter that we've been having and >> wish there were more of it. Every little bit of knowledge we have >> brings us that nearer whatever genealogical goal we have. >> >> For those who are just collecting data to fill the blanks and don't want >> to know about the people they are collecting, well there is the delete >> key to use. Lord knows, I use it on lots of surname queries for people >> that I have no info on. It should work both ways. I don't mind that at >> all, because I might have known the surname. You other guys ought not >> to mind deleting posts on local history that you aren't interested in >> reading. >> >> Keep up the nostalgia!!!! We are genealogists and because of it we are >> historians too. Lots of us are old enough that we need to dump our >> memories NOW onto the younger ones so the information in them will not >> be lost. I spent 2 weeks last month in Birmingham with my last >> remaining 84 year old aunt asking all the questions I had about her >> parents (my grandparents), her siblings, her friends, where they lived, >> how they lived, who certain people were, all that sort of thing. We had >> a grand time, laughed a lot, got lots done, but I still left with a >> bunch of questions unasked and left for the next visit, which I >> anticipated would be Christmas. Unfortunately she fell & broke her hip >> the day I left, and didn't survive the surgery. I am sitting here so >> glad to have asked all those little things, and realizing that I will >> just have to find the other information somewhere else. Whatever you >> know - pass it along. When you die, leave a will stating what should be >> done with your records and files, making sure the valuable information >> you have collected is not lost again. Write things now, don't put them >> off. Etc... Don't really want to turn this into a lecture, but I think >> you get the point. >> >> Alice >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >