Even though I am an AOLer, I haven't been having any problems that I know of, anyway. But just in case some of you might have: ================================================== 1. NEWS AND NOTES. 1a. Solving Problems with AOL AOL and RootsWeb's mail-delivery issues were resolved after amicable communication and work with the Internet Service Provider. RootsWeb thanks the postmaster group at AOL for its work with us on the various issues that were involved. AOL users are encouraged to re-check their subscriptions to mailing lists at PasswordCentral -- click on the PASSWORD tab at the top of the RootsWeb Home page: http://www.rootsweb.com/ Information and instructions for mailing lists can be found by clicking on MAILING LISTS tab at http://www.rootsweb.com/ 1b. AOLers and RootsWeb: New List and Some Tips Since AOL subscribers make up a large percentage of our mailing list members, RootsWeb has created a new mailing list that is being announced today. The mailing list is named AOLers-RootsWeb. It is to assist AOL users with questions related to their use of the RootsWeb mailing lists. Hopefully this new resource will help to forestall any future difficulties from arisng between AOL and the RootsWeb mailing lists. The new list may also prove helpful to RootsWeb list administrators who are not AOL subscribers in answering questions for their list members who do use AOL. It will provide a place to direct AOL users where they can obtain accurate up-to-date information and assistance with RootsWeb mailing list issues that are specific and unique to AOL users. You will find this new mailing list categorized on the mailing list webpage at http://lists.rootsweb.com under OTHER/RootsWeb Support/ The direct link is: [This is a 2-line URL; copy and paste carefully]: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/ AOLers-RootsWeb.html During the past week or so RootsWeb mailing list subscribers who use AOL (America Online) as their ISP (Internet Service Provider) to receive list mail experienced a disruption of service that lasted several days. Family history researchers, who are often addicted to their daily "fix" of mail from their favorite RootsWeb lists,began sending e-mails to their lists in an attempt to ascertain whether or not the lists were working, for some, alarm set in. Don't panic if RootsWeb's list mail doesn't appear to be reaching your mailbox as it normally should. Instead, do the following: 1. Check the HelpDesk's yellow announcement box for news of any technical problems at RootsWeb or with your ISP's delivery of list mail from RootsWeb. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ or click on HELP tab at the top of any RootsWeb page. 2. Check your currently subscribed lists here: http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ or click on the PASSWORDS tab at the top of any RootsWeb page. 3. Check the threaded mailing list archives to view the current month/year messages for your lists at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ 4. Contact the list administrator for help or information by writing to: LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com (replace the word LISTNAME with the actual name of the list -- using no -L or -D). NOTE: If there is a general problem involving RootWeb mail delivery to a specific ISP and the list administrator to whom you are writing also uses the same ISP, he/she probably will not receive your inquiry for the duration of the problem with that ISP. 5. Contact your ISP's tech support representative and explain that RootsWeb list mail is not spam and this is e-mail you wish to receive. Enlist the support of your ISP in resolving the matter. Internet Service Providers should be more than willing to assist you -- their paying customer -- so that you are able to receive the mail you want. Here is what NOT to do if you suspect you are not receiving your mailing list messages: 1. Do not send repeated messages to the list asking if the list is working or if anyone has received your message. 2. Do not send any "TESTING" messages to a list. Remember that just because you are not receiving a message you have sent to the list doesn't mean that other list subscribers are not seeing your repeated messages and becoming annoyed by them. The mailing ists are for genealogical research for a specific subject and not for test messages. Use the above guidelines instead to help resolve any non- receipt of mail problems. You will find guidelines concerning non-receipt of RootsWeb list mail in a recent issue of the RootsWeb Review. You might want to print out this information and save for handy reference. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/20040107.txt It's Bev {: )

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WCE.2ACIB/285.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a Laura Offlighter who was 1856 she married William Henry Davis and died in IL in 1880 does she fit in your Offlighter group . I cant find a marriage lic nor her death certificate but but her son and daughter death certificates say she is from Virgina.Any thing you have would help greatly . Thanks Mary

I do not know that there is a connection on this page I found, but it certainly seems to fit with the H.H.W. Biggs name that I have seen several times. You can check it out and see......it is a page on Henry Harrison Wells, that had a daughter who married a Biggs. This Wells gentleman was from Tippah Co., MS. _http://store.yahoo.com/datatrace/hehawe.html_ (http://store.yahoo.com/datatrace/hehawe.html) It's Bev {: )

Robertson Mills Biggs, farmer, merchant and iron manufacturer, was born Feb. 9, 1804 at Mt. Sterling KY. He was the son of Andrew and Judith (Robertson) Biggs and grandson of Rev. William Biggs, a Presbyterian clergyman, who emigrated from Ireland about the close of the Revolution. His father was an Indian fighter and a soldier of the war of 1812. The Robertsons were Scotch-Irish, and belonged to the same family as Judge George Robertson, of Lexington. The subject of this sketch rec'd his education at Mt. Sterling, but, when a young man, went to reside in Greenup County. Under the singular working of the old Constitution, he became sheriff of that county and held the office as much as sixteen years. He also carried on a farm, and engaged in merchandising in that county until 1847. He was of medium build, full of activity, never wearying of business or duty. He was one of the thirty or more who lost their lives, January 4, 1868, b the sudden explosion of steamer "Harry Dean" on the Ohio River near Gallipolia. Capt. Biggs was marr., Oct. 22, 1834 to Ann E. Culver, daughter of John Culver, of Greenup Co., one of the earliest iron men of that region. They had three children, two daughters and one son. Their dau., Virginia, is wife of Dr. M. H. Young, a prominent physician of Ashland; Elizabeth, wife of F. K. Ferrell, of Ashland, KY; and Robertson Mills Biggs, Jr. is a young business man of Ashland. It's Bev {: )

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biggs, Norman, Riley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/3.63 Message Board Post: The George BIGGS that I am researching was born in ENG, married Catherine NORMAN who was born in MN. I found Catherine and the four sons living in North Dakota and he was in WA. Their sons George and Samuel lived in WA at a later date and Catherine died in WA. Her birth is around 1860. Does this fit? Her father was Nelson Norman and mother Mary Riley.

I do not find her in our Database. I did take the liberty of adding her to our Biggs Burial Sites pages. These pages are for ANY and ALL Biggs buried anywhere. Hopefully through these pages researchers will be able to locate some of their long lost Biggs ancestors. Additions are always welcome here. happy hunting and successful searching belinda melton hughes www.bjhughes.org -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of CCHaltom@aol.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:19 PM To: BIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BIGGS] Re: Caroline BIGGS b. TN, mar. Charles HEMMER This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/881.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My great grandmother was Caroline Biggs, born in Knoxville, Tenn. about 1848 or 1849, Married Charles McCarty Miller. Died in Vimy Ridge, Ark. 1907. buried at MMt. Olive Cemetery, Sardis, Ark. THis is all the information I have. Carolyn Haltom Odessa, Tx. ==== BIGGS Mailing List ==== What came before us, is like a path....we can follow it or make our own!! bev

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/881.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My great grandmother was Caroline Biggs, born in Knoxville, Tenn. about 1848 or 1849, Married Charles McCarty Miller. Died in Vimy Ridge, Ark. 1907. buried at MMt. Olive Cemetery, Sardis, Ark. THis is all the information I have. Carolyn Haltom Odessa, Tx.

This came to me from another list, thanks ConnieSue: This Link gives the tribes in every state: http://www.500nations.com/Alabama_Tribes.asp It's Bev {: )

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Thank you for sharing this site with all of us. I will be adding these listings to our Biggs Burial Sites pages soon. thank you belinda melton hughes www.bjhughes.org -----Original Message----- From: Bebalebok@aol.com [mailto:Bebalebok@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:34 AM To: BIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BIGGS] Benton Town TN USA Cemetery You will find a bunch of Biggs listed here: _http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/bencem.htm_ (http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/bencem.htm) It's Bev {: ) ==== BIGGS Mailing List ==== What came before us, is like a path....we can follow it or make our own!! bev

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biggs, Underhill, Arndt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCE.2ACIB/1065 Message Board Post: Searching for information regarding children of Reid Oscar BIGGS and Ina UNDERHILL who removed to Hammond, Ind. in the period 1926-1935. They were: Richard E. Biggs (1907-1985), Dorothy Isabelle Biggs (1911-2001), Frances Josephine Biggs (Arndt) (1913-2000), Donald Return Biggs (1915-1984), and Douglas Frederick Biggs (1915-1978). Richard later removed to Greenfield with his family. Frances and Donald removed to Sacramento, Calif. Please email me. Chuck

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BIGGS, Otis A., M.D., Caldwell Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 486. Edited by Alc‚e Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association. Biggs, Otis Alexander, M. D., leading physician and well known citizen of Grayson is a son of Dr. James Alexander and Mary Salena (Yeager) Biggs, and was born Dec. 7, 1874, in Caldwell parish. His father was born in Mississippi in 1852 and when 9 years old he moved to Caldwellparish this state. He was a Methodist Episcopal minister from about 25 years of age until his death. He graduated from the medical department of Tulane university in 1891, and practiced medicine in Caldwell parish. From 1908 to 1912 he was a member of the state legislature and at the organization of the Grayson Bank he was the chief factor and was its president from the beginning. Dr. J. A. Biggs' first marriage was in 1872 and to this union there were 2 children: Otis Alexander Biggs and Emma Priscilla, now Mrs. William Hammett. The second marriage was to Ascalia, daughter of Henry Meredith and a relative of J. J. Meredith, former railroad commissioner of Louisiana. From this marriage there were 3 children: Moses, Essie, wife of W. H. DeClark, and Grace, wife of I. L. Yeager. Dr. J. A. Biggs' third marriage was to a sister of his first wife. Dr. Otis A. Biggs spent his youth in Caldwell parish and received his early education in the public schools. Later he attended the Kentucky scool of medicine at Louisville where he graduated in 1902 with the degree of M. D. Even before his graduation he practiced from 1898 to 1902 in Drew county, Ark. Since graduating he has practiced in his native parish. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Columbian Woodmen, the Benevolent Knights of America and a democrat. In 1900 Dr. Biggs married Gertrude, daughter of John M. Henley, of Drew county, Ark., and they are the parents of 3 children: Henley, Ethelynd, and O. A., Jr. Dr. O. A. Biggs' paternal grandfather died in the Civil war. found at this url: _http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/caldwell/biographies/biggs.txt_ (http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/caldwell/biographies/biggs.txt) It's Bev {: )

You will find a bunch of Biggs listed here: _http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/bencem.htm_ (http://www.tngenweb.org/polk/bencem.htm) It's Bev {: )

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