Scot, do you have a connection to Carpenters , Parks or Webbs?....you name looks familiar......MJ [email protected] wrote: > thank you, betty. i'll try my best. i love clay county, and whenever i visit my family in the memphis area i try to make a trip up to corning/heelstring. > > funny story -- i have an older brother who has always pooh-poohed my interest in genealogy. last spring, when my parents were unable to make the drive from memphis to corning, my brother & his wife drove me up. we got to corning about an hour earlier than planned, so we went to richwoods cemetery where our grandparents are buried. the last time he & i were there together was in 1971 when our grandfather died. naturally, he started asking me where various other relatives were buried, so i showed him their tombstones. along the way, i pointed out countless others that are connected to our family. at first, he started making jokes about how it seemed the entire county is related to us. but when we got back into the car he was visibly moved by the experience. he came to realize that our history with that area goes back nearly 180 years. i think he gained a bit of respect for genealogy. > > scot > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 8:22 AM > Subject: Re: ARCLAY clay county web site > > > Scott, > I want to welcome you as the new Clay County coordinator. Congratulations! > Your interest and knowledge of Clay County, as well as your ability and > desire to work with others in order to make your goals for the website > successful, will surely prove to make you a most valuable asset in this > effort. > > Betty Tucker > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:12 PM > Subject: ARCLAY clay county web site > > > >> hello, y'all. wanted everyone to know that i am the new coordinator of >> the >> clay county web site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclay/). it has been >> re-organized, and i'm hoping some of you readers out there will contribute >> even more to >> this already-great web site! >> >> if anyone finds broken or incorrect links, please e-mail me so i can >> correct >> it. >> >> gina, the coordinator of the clay county archives site, and i will be >> working >> together deciding what goes where, so that information will not be >> duplicated >> on both sites. >> >> also, a few files (mainly in the photo album) have been inadvertently lost >> in >> the transfer. so if you have contributed something in the past and don't >> find it, please let me know! >> >> and finally, special thanks go to previous coordinators (cathy barnes & >> dona >> bradley -- is there someone else i don't know about??) who put so much >> hard >> work into the site. their efforts are quite obvious! >> >> let's see, have i forgotten anything? oh yeah -- SEND ME YOUR STUFF TO >> POST!!! >> >> scot >> NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political >> announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, >> etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for >> removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact >> "Don E. Wright" [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > > > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. > (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact > "Don E. Wright" [email protected] > ------------------------------- > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ > Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact > "Don E. Wright" [email protected] > ------------------------------- > 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 > > >

carpenter & webb, no. parks, sort of. my mother's maiden name was PARK (no s). her uncle arthur park married sallie parks. to my knowledge, that's the only connection between the park and parks families of clay county. scot -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:42 PM Subject: Re: ARCLAY clay county web site Scot, do you have a connection to Carpenters , Parks or Webbs?....you name looks familiar......MJ ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.