I am a Barnett descendant. I believe that that as far as I can do back is gggdfather, John William Barnett who I believe was born in the 1950s, though I am not sure. I have joined the Wood County (Texas) genealogy society and am just starting to comb through the records that they have available. James P. Barnett, Jr.

Jim; I am sure you meant to say 1850 and NOt 1950's. Boy I guess was not far off abt ATTY. I just knew it was. There also is a Robert Armstron g into gen. who has something to do with writing books, and in a Colege there. I saw him when a little boy in Yakima, Wa in late 1930's as his Uncle O V Armstrong had a big Chicken place where we lived on some of his prop. We played with a cousin of his Beatrice Bell. now desceaced. If your 2rd grt gfa was b in Tx then ancestor could have been one who left SC Va , Pa or even N C as that is where many were with exception of when they came to USA from Ireland or even England into Phil Pa. Many lived there some till land was opened in other places as NC/Sc Va. One clan went into Alabanma from Va I have found. And many hundreds there. When I first started out yrs ago. There were two bro's a William and John If i remember correctly , that came into Colony states and one proclaimed to have said. " I am going into Ga and populate this new place with Barnett's ". An I beleive he did .the other one went to Florida.. I have a Barnett book done by a Gen soc that got the imfo from a collector who lived in another state and was a proffessor in a college. He died before he could do his book and left a certain amount of money to do his book for him. The imfo was left to a Gen place in a big town. Abt 5 plus yrs passed before it was able to be gone through and deciphered for a book by of all people, volunteers who weren't related, unfamiliar with it etc. Of course prices had jumped dramaticlly on many things by the time the book got to be done. The gen soc had to move and much was stored and some was sent from the researcher's estate to wrong place etc. I personaly went to the gen. place that did the book and bought 2 of them. I also went through, taking 5 days ( full) at the place going through the (remnants) (say that ,as that is what it was) 4 file cabinett dreawers full of this that etc, ( unorganised) that was left after it was decimated by cutting portions from letters that had been written on both sides etc. They should have made copies of pages and cut them apart leaveing the originals alone but didn't. This imfo was collected from 1920's to when he died ,by mail from all over USA. I was mortified at what they had done to this imfo. So the book I beleive could and prob have many mistakes in it. I plan on posting some of the imfo in my words with what I have found and researched otherwise for others to check for them selves. It just relates to one of two brothers that came into Lancastor Co Pa. Glancing through the book it has some birth dates as late as 1956 Many in 1900's to 1956. Which now isn't allowed to be publicaly done except when they have died. They have numbered references as to the sources of the imfo that is in book when it was told where source came from mentioning many books / Court Houses, wills bible records etc of which some in on file in lib. I will see what I can find for any one you have named , but some dates will help as so many John's, William's, James, Thomas's, etc. Have you gone through the censuses of Tx for any Barnett's there as some of yours . ( the BLM land records will probaly hep you as well.0, ( with 22 ch back in 1800's) could have gone to many other of the umteen Co's Tx has. I also have surnames of PUMPHREY and connections, Tx. BALDWIN in Ft Worth , Brownfield etc., Lane's, Layne's, White, Davis, Hanning, Rutherford, Hayes, etc. Many are bur in the Hall Cem in near Sherman, Howe Tx. at least almost 200 of them. Maxine Wilton mmwaw@sprynet.com Maxine ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jimbarnett@aol.com> To: <BARNETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [BARNETT] Need battle of barnett sent to you?? > I am a Barnett descendant. I believe that that as far as I can do back is > gggdfather, John William Barnett who I believe was born in the 1950s, though I am > not sure. I have joined the Wood County (Texas) genealogy society and am just > starting to comb through the records that they have available. James P. > Barnett, Jr. > > > ==== BARNETT Mailing List ==== > If you write an effective query to the list you are more likely > to get results. This article by Kelley Kerstens is excellent. > http://ANCESTRY.COM/library/view/columns/extra/3976.asp > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >