Hi...I am curious about your website, but I am having problems finding it. Could you send a link please? Thanks Arlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert & Janice Blankenship" <jblank@ihpc.net> To: <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: RE: [BLANKENSHIP] Need some help sorting out ... > Kay in this area of research I have relied on Bonnie Varney and other > researchers I hope to in May spent some time in Pike Logan ((WV) and the > Tomahawk creek area. If you have seen or will check my web site > http:pws.ihpc.net/ushpnet.jblank/ I have put my sources down in the notes. > Census records of Floyd Co. and Pike Co. have given me most of hard facts. > There is some degree of assumption in the four children listed as being > children of Molly and not Martha Riggens. I would have to go back a study my > notes. The Trents, Dillions, Blankenship is what I am currently trying to > understand in the Tomahawk creek area. Why they settled there, and why the > moved on. Who went with Isham and who stayed and who went to Pike and Logan > Co. I think they followed the Tug River. > > I have yet to find support of my own when Martha Riggens died or William > married Molly Trent. I have tracked the Trents quite a bit as my great > grandmother and great great grandmother were Trents, an it is possible that > Molly Trent was the mother of Barnet, but most researchers say no that it > was William Buck b. 1790 and Ann Osborne. The only hard fact I know is that > a William gave permission for Barnet to marry in 1835, but both, William son > of Isham, and William son of William, were alive in 1835 in Pike Co. (Maybe) > > God; I love a mystery and these are better than any murder mystery you could > read. The interrelationship of various families and why this or that > occurred. You can spend a life time trying to unravel it. I hope in Heaven > we get to go back and find those answer. I would love to see those men and > women who came to this country with no roads only a wilderness and scratch > out a life in conditions we can only image. James Fillmore (Drums along the > Mohawk- Deer Slayer) wrote in such detail of the forest and the giant trees > you could get a feel from his narrations of the feeling of smallness of men. > > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: BKAYMEL@aol.com [mailto:BKAYMEL@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:17 PM > To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Need some help sorting out ... > > > In a message dated 1/21/2003 3:58:13 PM Central Standard Time, > jblank@ihpc.net writes: > > > William (Son of Isham)and Molly married after 1800 > > and children are Presley b abt 1800,Solomon abt 1802, Spenser abt 1804, > and > > Isham abt 1807. Conley and William Buck sons of William and Martha Riggens > > came to Floyd/Pike Co ky. > > > > Bob - > > Thanks so much! Do you have documentation I can note for these changes? > > Thanks, > Kay > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > If you have copies of BLANKENSHIP documents - birth, marriage, military, > baptism, death records, etc., please consider sharing a copy with List Admin > for the compilation of a central source of BLANKENSHIP documents to be > offered to BLANKENSHIP Researchers in the near future. Contact > BKAYMEL@aol.com for more information. > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > Submit your family lines to the BLANKENSHIP master files - contact list admin at BKAYMEL@aol.com for more info ... > > >

Yep I made an error it should be http://pws.ihpc.net/ushpnet.jblank/ I just checked it and it worked perfect. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Arlene [mailto:nadadime@mkl.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:50 AM To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Need some help sorting out ... Hi...I am curious about your website, but I am having problems finding it. Could you send a link please? Thanks Arlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert & Janice Blankenship" <jblank@ihpc.net> To: <BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: RE: [BLANKENSHIP] Need some help sorting out ... > Kay in this area of research I have relied on Bonnie Varney and other > researchers I hope to in May spent some time in Pike Logan ((WV) and the > Tomahawk creek area. If you have seen or will check my web site > http:pws.ihpc.net/ushpnet.jblank/ I have put my sources down in the notes. > Census records of Floyd Co. and Pike Co. have given me most of hard facts. > There is some degree of assumption in the four children listed as being > children of Molly and not Martha Riggens. I would have to go back a study my > notes. The Trents, Dillions, Blankenship is what I am currently trying to > understand in the Tomahawk creek area. Why they settled there, and why the > moved on. Who went with Isham and who stayed and who went to Pike and Logan > Co. I think they followed the Tug River. > > I have yet to find support of my own when Martha Riggens died or William > married Molly Trent. I have tracked the Trents quite a bit as my great > grandmother and great great grandmother were Trents, an it is possible that > Molly Trent was the mother of Barnet, but most researchers say no that it > was William Buck b. 1790 and Ann Osborne. The only hard fact I know is that > a William gave permission for Barnet to marry in 1835, but both, William son > of Isham, and William son of William, were alive in 1835 in Pike Co. (Maybe) > > God; I love a mystery and these are better than any murder mystery you could > read. The interrelationship of various families and why this or that > occurred. You can spend a life time trying to unravel it. I hope in Heaven > we get to go back and find those answer. I would love to see those men and > women who came to this country with no roads only a wilderness and scratch > out a life in conditions we can only image. James Fillmore (Drums along the > Mohawk- Deer Slayer) wrote in such detail of the forest and the giant trees > you could get a feel from his narrations of the feeling of smallness of men. > > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: BKAYMEL@aol.com [mailto:BKAYMEL@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:17 PM > To: BLANKENSHIP-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BLANKENSHIP] Need some help sorting out ... > > > In a message dated 1/21/2003 3:58:13 PM Central Standard Time, > jblank@ihpc.net writes: > > > William (Son of Isham)and Molly married after 1800 > > and children are Presley b abt 1800,Solomon abt 1802, Spenser abt 1804, > and > > Isham abt 1807. Conley and William Buck sons of William and Martha Riggens > > came to Floyd/Pike Co ky. > > > > Bob - > > Thanks so much! Do you have documentation I can note for these changes? > > Thanks, > Kay > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > If you have copies of BLANKENSHIP documents - birth, marriage, military, > baptism, death records, etc., please consider sharing a copy with List Admin > for the compilation of a central source of BLANKENSHIP documents to be > offered to BLANKENSHIP Researchers in the near future. Contact > BKAYMEL@aol.com for more information. > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== > Submit your family lines to the BLANKENSHIP master files - contact list admin at BKAYMEL@aol.com for more info ... > > > ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== Please remember to post your family information putting the SURNAME in all caps and using dates and places. The more information you provide, the easier it is for someone to make a connection.