Don't feel bad...nobody matches my Armstrongs... Marilyn (one N) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilynn Masten" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > Funny to discuss Gardners on the Armstrong list but then funny things > happen > on the Armstrong list. > > We haven't a clue where our Gardners came from First show up here in NC > in > 1770. There are people on my DNA page who are descended from the > Nantucket > Gardners. I'd be happy to claim them but they don't match our markers. In > fact, only a guy name LaMor matches us so far which means either my > Gardners > were great lovers or those LaMors had wonderful gardens. I prefer the > former. > Marilynn > IBSSG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marilyn Otterson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 5:09 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site > > >> OK, you guys...I have both Drakes and Gardners in my mother's genealogy. >> In >> fact, Drake was a name I started with when I began this obsessive hobby. >> My >> grandmother was a Drake and she had the genealogy all the way back to >> 1654 >> in this country...and I began with the peripheral names to do more >> research. >> My mother's father had Gardners in his line. Both were New England >> branches. >> >> It's interesting that you are stuck with your Gardners around 1770s. My >> Gardners settled near Salem MA in the 1600s, went to Nantucket with a few >> pioneers who were Quakers. Gardner was a very big name there but around >> the >> time your ancestors are found in the south is about the same time a lot >> of >> folks from Nantucket left for the south including a bunch of Gardners. >> The >> forests had pretty much been cut down, the harbor was silting up and the >> British were harassing the whaling and trade along the coast. My Gardner >> branch was about the only one I've found so far of that bunch who went up >> to >> the wilds of Maine to settle, but many more ended up in the NC area. >> Have >> you looked for your earliest Gardner in New England, specifically >> Nantucket? >> Just wondering... >> >> These folks were my mother's ancestors...then she married my Dad who was >> an >> Armstrong. >> >> Marilyn (the one with only one N) >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas S. Fiske" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:11 PM >> Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] Web Site >> >> >>> Dear MM, >>> >>> One of the members on the Drake List is also a Gardner. Rick Gardner. >>> But he lives in Michigan, I think and is not likely a NC Gardner. Rick >>> is a Drake in my line from about the year 1770 in Virginia. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> Marilynn Masten wrote: >>>> When you have nothing else to do, take a look at our Gardner/Garner Web >>>> Site http://www.usroots.com/~gardners/. We just wanted to prove the >>>> point that genealogical research need not be dry. >>>> Marilynn >>>> IBSSG >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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

"Don't feel bad...nobody matches my Armstrongs..." No one matches mine either, SIGH!!! I DID get an email from an ARMSTRONGE a day or two ago, however, who said he had HIS tree on GenesReunited.com. I went and signed up, uploaded my tree and I now have 86 email in my inbox. Oh woe is me!!!! That's why I've been so quiet, so enjoy it while it lasts! lol Take care, Rob.