Anyone home? This list has been quiet for a long long time. How about everyone taking a moment and sending in a small query about the AMBURGEY line(s) they are looking for. Larry Listowner

Ok Larry, This isn't necessarily a line question but I was wondering if anyone knows it copies are still available of Dot Amburgey Griffith's book? And, if so, where can I purchase one? My line is: Reubin Amburgey b.abt 1846 d. Sept. 241915 Letcher Co. KY +Elizabeth "Betty" Franklin b. abt 1846 Letcher Co. Ky Rachel Amburgey b. 1869 Knott Co. on Burgey's Creek +Jasper Collins abt 1872 married 5-3-1894 son of Robert and Grazilda Collins Always searching for more info! Terry in MO.

Well folks the time has come to be rather blunt. I need someone to step forward and take over the running of this list. If someone doesn't then I will have to have rootsweb cancel the list. I have received a promotion at my place of employment that requires a great deal more of my time. I also have a three year comittment to a Boy Scout adult leader training program that I am involved in teaching. As important as our ancestors are, today's youth are more so. I know the list doesn't generate much traffic and doesn't require a great deal of time but someone needs to take over the list. It's up to you... Let me know... Larry Gaian

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Smith <blychris@hotmail.com> To: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com <AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, January 03, 1999 9:06 PM Subject: [AMBURGEY-L] Casander AMBURGEY >Am looking for the Ancestors of Casander Amburgey. I believe they are >from Letcher Co., KY >Here is what I have so far: >1 Casander AMBURGEY b. 22 May 1891 d. Feb 1963 > 2 Prova AMBURGEY b. 6 Sep 1915 d. Feb 1982 > 3 Jerry AMBURGEY ****Living**** > 4 David AMBURGEY ****Living**** > > >Am doing this for a friend, Thank you in advance. > >Chris Smith > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > Well you've hit the right spot, Casander Amburgey was my grandfather. He was married to Betty Ison, they had several children the eldest being Prova Amburgey (my father) who had a twin brother that burn up in a fire as a child. The second child was a girl Bonnie Amburgey, Clova Amburgey is the third child (female), Casander Amburgey, JR. is the Fourth, Otis is the Fifth child, Lottie Mae Amburgey is the Sixth child, Jack Lloyd is child is the Seventh child. Otis was killed in a car wreck several years ago, all the others are living. Jerry Wayne Amburgey is my younger brother who lives in Gainesville, Florida. Patricia Ann Amburgey is our older sister she also lives in Gainesville, Florida. My mother's name is Mabel Louis Holbrook she also lives in Gainesville, Florida (Prova's Wife) and is 79 years old. I am the middle child of Prova and Mabel my name is Prova James Amburgey and I live in Sherman, TX. I hope this is of some value to you, if you have any more of The e Amburgey history from Casander Amburgey I would love to have a copy. God Bless Jim Amburgey

Chris, i will check my files and see if there is something I missed. Will keep you posted. Alinda

Chris, If you haven't already, you should check out the Letcher County Page at the USGenWeb site. It's a great site and I found quite a bit of info on my Letcher Co Amburgeys. I don't recognize your names right off, but mine were a little earlier. Keep me posted, we might "connect". Alinda M. Miller

thanks!! Yes have checked out the site. didn't find any connections, but there are some Amburgeys listed there.. Chris >From amburgey-l-request@rootsweb.com Sun Jan 3 20:13:49 1999 >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA22735; > Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:05:21 -0800 (PST) >Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:05:21 -0800 (PST) >From: Ladyh19777@aol.com >Message-ID: <48d3120a.36903fbc@aol.com> >Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:12:44 EST >Old-To: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Subject: Re: [AMBURGEY-L] Casander AMBURGEY >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 230 >Resent-Message-ID: <"fKf99D.A.DjF.B4Dk2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/6 >X-Loop: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: AMBURGEY-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Chris, > >If you haven't already, you should check out the Letcher County Page at the >USGenWeb site. It's a great site and I found quite a bit of info on my >Letcher Co Amburgeys. I don't recognize your names right off, but mine were a >little earlier. > >Keep me posted, we might "connect". > >Alinda M. Miller > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Am looking for the Ancestors of Casander Amburgey. I believe they are from Letcher Co., KY Here is what I have so far: 1 Casander AMBURGEY b. 22 May 1891 d. Feb 1963 2 Prova AMBURGEY b. 6 Sep 1915 d. Feb 1982 3 Jerry AMBURGEY ****Living**** 4 David AMBURGEY ****Living**** Am doing this for a friend, Thank you in advance. Chris Smith ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Thanks Joseph. That is interesting information about someone in our background. So much of the time, we just know them by names and dates. I will be interested in what else you come up with. Connie

Here is that letter translated by a friend of mine who just happens to be a German teacher. Joe Amburgey here it is... Dear Mr Amburgey, please excuse me that im just today answering your letter. I hope you have a chance to translate, because unfortunately my english skills arent up to letter writing. The book you cited, The changing history of a joint-heir city, is a complete chronology of the city with about 470 pages. Boenningheim was a joint-heir city and was divided into 4 parts. The peasant war ended in 1525. The joint-heir fortress was destroyed. A new city structure brought peace again, and protestantism was introduced. The 30-year war (1618-1648) brought need, misery, and the plague. Many inhabitants died and the houses and walls decayed. It took a long time for a normal life to develop. in 1727 the joint-propriety was dissolved and the city was sold to the earl's stadium (translator's note: Ya got me on that last one, but its all i could get out of it!) One of your ancestors is mentioned on page 93: 3 shoemakers, Kasper Maner, Stoffel Kegel, and Hans Amberger, rejected the guild in Besigheim. Therefore they were brought before those in charge and ordered to form a new order among their trade and to understand the masterworks. (?) The guild, the association of any trade, was compellingly dictated in the medieval cities. Their predecessor Hans Amberger had joined a guild in a neighboring city of Besighem and therefore was sent to prison in a dungeon. At any rate the guild was should have been restructured. I will copy and send to you different pages from the book in the next weeks. Maybe I can find more about your ancestors. Unfortunately the city archives burned in an attack on April 7, 1945 sincerely,

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C085D008DC838DBBBCB9C073 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here is a letter from a gentleman in the very town of our German descent who has some wonderful info regarding one of our ancestors in Bonnigheim. This letter is in German but an English translation will follow this email. Joseph Amburgey --------------C085D008DC838DBBBCB9C073 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <fischerkaelte@t-online.de> Received: from mailout05.btx.dtag.de (mailout05.btx.dtag.de [194.25.2.153]) by ns3.zoomnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id EAA15484 for <jamburg@zoomnet.net>; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 04:54:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from fwd00.btx.dtag.de (fwd00.btx.dtag.de [194.25.2.160]) by mailout05.btx.dtag.de with smtp id 0zeyrd-0001tb-00; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:53:01 +0100 Received: (0714321702-0001(btxid)@[62.156.28.8]) by fwd00.btx.dtag.de id <m0zeyra-0007UTC>; Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:52:58 +0100 Message-Id: <m0zeyra-0007UTC@fwd00.btx.dtag.de> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 10:52:58 +0100 To: jamburg@zoomnet.net Subject: Boennigheim X-Mailer: T-Online eMail 2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Sender: 0714321702-0001@t-online.de From: fischerkaelte@t-online.de (Richard Ritter) X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 15. Nov. 1998 Sehr geehrter Herr Amburgey, bitte entschuldigen Sie, dass ich Ihren Brief erst heute beantworte. Ich hoffe, dass Sie eine Moeglichkeit zum Uebersetzen haben, leider sind meine Englischkenntnisse derzeit fuers Briefeschreiben nicht ausreichend. Das von Ihnen angefuehrte Buch Die wechselvolle Geschichte einer Ganerbenstadt ist eine umfangreiche Chronik der Stadt mit ca. 470 Seiten. Boennigheim war eine Ganerbenstadt Ganerbe - Miterbe und war in 4 Teile zerschnitten. Der Bauernkrieg ging 1525 zu Ende. Die Ganerbenburg war zerstoert. Eine neue Stadtornung brachte wieder Ruhe, der evangelische Gottesdienst wurde eingefuehrt. Der 30-jaehrige Krieg 1618 - 1648 brachte Not, Elend und die Pest. Viele Bewohner starben und die Haeusser und Mauern verfielen. Erst langsam entwickelte sich wieder ein normales Leben. 1727 wurde dann das Ganerbiat aufgeloest und Boennigheim an die Grafen Stadion verkauft. Auf der Seite 93 wird einer Ihrer Vorfahren erwaehnt: Drei Schzuhmacher Kaspar Maner, Stoffel Kegel und Hans Amberger haben sich zu Besigheim in die Zunft begeben. Sie sind deswegen in den Turm erkannt und zugleich ist ihnen befohlen worden, unter ihrem Handwerk eine Ordnung zu machen und auch das Meisterstueck zu begreifen. Die Zunft - der Zusammenschluss jedes Handwerks - war in den mittel- alterlichen Staedten zwingend vorgeschrieben. Ihr Vorfahr Hans Amberger hat sich gegen die Ordnung der Zunft in der Nachbarstadt Besigheim angeschlossen und kam deshalb in das Gefaengniss im Turm. Ausserdem sollte sich die Zunft in Boennigheim neu ordnen. Ich werde in den naechsten Wochen verschiedene Seiten aus dem Buch kopieren und Ihnen zusenden. Vielleicht kann ich noch mehr ueber Ihre Vorfahren finden. Leider ist das Stadtarchiv bei einem Angriff am 7. April 1945 verbrannt. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Richard Ritter Eberhardstrasse 88 D-74357 Boennigheim e-mail Adresse fischerkaelte@t-online.de --------------C085D008DC838DBBBCB9C073--

Please consider starting the new year off with a post to your favorite Surname List. Happy New Year.... Larry

Individual List - 13 Nov 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can anyone tell me anything about the descendants of Denver and Oma? Also, which MELTON line did Oma descend from. Thanks in advance for you assistance. Larry AMBURGEY, Denver-41430 (M) Father Rubin "Rube" AMBURGEY-41270 (Feb 1891-) Mother Minnie ADAMS-41429 (1 Oct 1891-1971) Birth 25 Feb 1912 in Carr, Knott Co., Kentucky Death 12 Nov 1955 (age 43) Spouse/Mate Oma MELTON-41432 Marriage 18 Mar 1933 (age 21) Child Unknown AMBURGEY-41433 (16 Nov 1933-) Child Billy AMBURGEY-41434 (16 May 1934-) Child Mary M. AMBURGEY-41435 (13 Sep 1937-) Child Martha AMBURGEY-41437 (26 Nov 1939-) Child James AMBURGEY-41436 (26 Dec 1941-)

Tagline Test--Larry

Her email address is: dotgriff@juno.com She had some eye surgery a few months ago. Have not heard from Dot for some time. She is truly a pioneer in research on our line. Joe Amburgey

Hi Larry, Here is Dorothy Griffith's email address. dotgriff@juno.com Have a great day, Janie -----Original Message----- From: Larry Gaian <gaian@pacbell.net> To: AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com <AMBURGEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:16 AM Subject: [AMBURGEY-L] Dorothy Griffith's email address Does anyone have dorothy Griffith's email address. I know she used to have one, but seem to have lost it. Thanks Larry Gaian Listowner

Hi: When I was looking for the Amburgey books, I hunted all over for Doroty Griffith. Ended up a calling a Dorothy Griffith who had just died! (Not the one your lookin for). There is another Dorothy Griffith in that area, however, and I didn't get around to calling her. (Sorry don't have the phone # anymore). It sounds like this Dorothy Griffith has moved at least once. I originally got the two phone numbers through information. I was unable to locate an e-mail address anywhere. Good luck! Jo Nell

If you have both Amburgey Ancestry in America AND the new supplement would you take a look at th follow people and try and explain to me what is meant. Take a look at page 70 in AAA, person 111233B1. It says thomas Anderson AMBURGEY is a son of Margaret AMBURGEY (born out of wedlock) Now take a look at page 50 of the supplement. It shows Matilda COMBS marrying Thomas H. AMBURGEY but information makes reference to Thomas Anderson AMBURGEY even giving the same reference number. Did Matilda marry her half brother.... Can anyone shed any insight on this. Larry Gaian Listowner

Does anyone have dorothy Griffith's email address. I know she used to have one, but seem to have lost it. Thanks Larry Gaian Listowner

Hello Everyone, Thanks to all for welcoming me to the Amburgey family list. Alinda, here is some info on Ambrose. If I can help out with anymore info please feel free to ask. Ambrose and Rebecca Francis Amburgey had 8 children. John Amburgey born 1820, died 1/16/1890 Jane "Jennie" Amburgey born 1/11/1821, died 11/26/1912. Wiley J. Amburgey, born 4/27/1823, died 11/17/1916. (this was my g-great grandfather) Thomas Francis Amburgey, born 4/13/1825, died 2/25/1897. William J. "Tanner Bill" Amburgey born 4/4/1829, died 1/26/1914. Umphrey (Humphrey) Wilburn Amburgey, born 1833, died 1865. Elizabeth "Betty" Amburgey, born 9/28/1835, died 1931. Susannah Amburgey, born 9/18/1841, died 6/27/1926. Elizabeth was a native of Perry County, Kentucky, Hazard; was in Letcher County, Little Carr in 1842. She married Benjamin Everage, native of Knott County Kentucky, Carr Creek. He died at the age of 90. All of this info can be found in the "Amburgey Ancestry in America" by Dorothy Amburgey Griffith. Here is the info on purchasing the book if anyone is interest: 1..AMBURGEY ANCESTRY IN AMERICA, published 1976, revised 1982, 231 pages, pictures, and every name index. This history begins 1717 in Virginia. 2..AMBURGEY (AMBERGER) ANCESTORS &DESCENDANTS, A SUPPLEMENT TO AMBURGEY ANCESTRY IN AMERICA, published 1997, 247 pages,pictures and every name index. This book begins in Germany in mid-1500s and must be used with the first book for full benefits. Includes many female descendants. PRICE FOR EACH...$35.00, PLUS $3.50 POSTAGE & HANDLING. OT,if ordered together (or 2 of same book to one address) send $70.00 plus $3.50. Make checks payable to AFA, c/o Janine Warner, 7122 Nottingham Ave., Shrewsbury MO 63119 (e-mail Jlwarner76@aol.com)Jlwarner@aol.com -