I think you are a very smart person.. Sincerely, Carmen Barber Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: Becky Striggow <bstriggo@peachnet.campuscwix.net> To: <BARBER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:00 PM Subject: [BARBER-L] Barbers on the move: Medium-long post > I'd like to try an experiment: I wanted to map out where the various > Barber bunches started out from and ended up . > Could you send me the names of your Barbers, the years involved, where > they started out and where they settled? And where they lived in > between? > I was struck by the number of Barbers who are seemingly unrelated but > who lived in Bertie Co., N.C....for example. Or the number of Barber > families who happened to move to Washington, Ga. in Wilkes Co. Or to > Clarke County, Ga. Or the whole bunch who moved to Fla. or to Texas.If > there are a number of Barbers who lived in North Carlina, for example, > and who moved to Washington, Georgia in the same time frame and who > lived in close proximity....then there are questions to ask. > Maybe we could compare notes that way or brainstorm and see what > documents we could be hunting. > I'm primarily interested in the Southern Barbers, but maybe someone > would like to do this for the Northern Barbers, the English Barbers, and > the Australian Barbers. If we're stuck at brick walls and don't have > brickbats we may have to use brute force to tear it down! > I live in Athens, Georgia which is one hour away from Washington, > Georgia and plan to go genealogy hunting when I'm back on my feet. (I've > had 3 surgeries and shingles in the last 13 months....actually, since I > really got into this Barber hunt......hmmmmm.) So maybe I can look for > some information. I plan to start looking at the old newspapers for > Washington and Oglethorpe County. > Any comments, suggestions? > Becky > > > ==== BARBER Mailing List ==== > BARBER Family Mail List Archives: > courtesy of Rootsweb, our gracious host! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Just type in the mail list's name: BARBER >