Hi, I'm new to submitting information, but here goes. I found this on a site about Coffey County Kansas. This is his Biographical Sketch, which was in a book called, "History of the State of Kansas" written by William G. Cutler. "S.W. Bowers was born in Pennsylvania in 1828, and lived in his native State seven years, and moved to Clark County, Ohio, and remained in the State thirteen years, and moved to Champaign County, Illinois, and lived there ten years, and moved to Kansas in the spring of 1870 and located in Burlington, and has been engaged in house and sign painting. Mr. Bowers was married in Champaign County, Illinois, in 1854, to Miss Lora Orme, a native of Ohio, and have two children, Charley and Grace. Mr. Bowers was married again in Burlington, in 1872, to Miss Nellie Laughton, a native of Vermont, and have four children, George, Gerty, Glenn and May." I hope this helps someone out there. Denise

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] Bklyn. natz---BAUER Resent-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:07:53 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:07:39 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com NATZ-- L/lieber P/page These are final papers and have nothing but name of witness and seldom, an address. BAUER, Frederick 10/25/1875 L57 P217 witness: Geo. VIGELIUS BAUER, Christian 10/25/1875 L57 P412 BAUER, george 10/25/1875 L60 P23 BAUER, John 10/9/1876 L65 P47 BAUER, Kilian 10/17/1876 L71 P119 BAUER, Franz 10/18/1876 L71 P255 BAURBENSTEIN, Christan 10/18/1876 L73 P238 BAUERSFELD, Henry 10/16/1876 L72 P21 BAUR, Jacob 10/2/1876 BAUER, John 1880 L518 P25 L70 P81 BAUER, Wm. 1880 L115 P483 L32 P324 [OPP relatives in Manh., 137 2nd Ave.] BAUER, Charles F. 10/24/1888 L188 P208 BAUER, George W. 10/24/1888 L188 P218 BAUER, M. Philipp 10/24/1888 L189 P88 BAUER, Theodore 9/27/1888 L169 P110 BAUER, Henry J. 10/1/1888 L171 P22 BAUER, Julius 10/1/1888 L171 P27 BAUER, John 10/3/1888 L172 P159 BAUER, Martin 10/4/1888 L174 P24 BAUER, George 10/22/1888 L187 P56 BAUER, Peter 2/28/1902 L316 P201 BAUER, Heinrich 5/23/1902 L319 P112 BAUER, Peter 12/19/1902 L322 P127 BAUER, Gustav 4/1//1889 L190 P200 BAUER, George 10/22/1889 L195 P237 BAUER, Fred 10/22/1889 L196 P60 BAUER, Frederick 10/25/1875 L57 P217 witness: Geo. VIGELIUS Barbara : ) ==== BAUER Mailing List ==== Bower Cottage, sister site to the Bower Family Homestead, homesites of the Bauer research group -- http://bowercommunity.com/cottage ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

I am searching for George Ernest Bower. All I have for proof of his existance is an old photo with his name on it. I believe his parents to be William Henry and Gertrude Bower. He was possibly born around Buffalo New York in the fall of 1915. I base this on an old postcard from Gertrude. William Henry is a complete puzzle. He was my great uncle born in Greene County, TN and died in New York City in 1955(?). He was the black sheep of the family, possible had two or more wives. His very clean and vague obituary written by my grandmother and his sisters do no mention this or any children, yet I know there were some. I have long wondered about these "lost" cousins. Hoping someone knows. Thanks, Jan

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUR] Anna Baur - Germany Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 11:18:16 -0600 Resent-From: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:18:12 EDT From: CelticGale@aol.com Reply-To: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUR-L@rootsweb.com I'm seeking information on Anna Elizabeth Baur b. 1682, Homberg, Hesse-Kessel, Germany. d. 1755 same place. married Johann Henrick Quantz Bef 1712 Their children: Michael Henrich Quantz Anna Elisabeth Quantz Elisabeth Quantz Urban Quantz Anna Catharina Quantz Johann Andreas Quantz Anna Maria Quantz Johann Andreas Quantz Anna Catharina Quantz (their birthdates span from 1712-1733) Thanks, Shari ==== BAUR Mailing List ==== Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those settings through their servers and will only return them to you.

Hi everyone, Below are two topics I had meant to cover in yesterday's Sunday Morning Coffee, however just didn't have the time to. ANCESTRY.COM Have you been having trouble getting through to ancestry.com the past several days? Are you being told it's been removed from the Web? Well, it hasn't. Nor is it just an AOL problem like many people are thinking. Ancestry is experiencing a network problem. There are major servers that are down between some hubs and Ancestry. One of those hubs is AOL. This explanation from someone on another list might help explain the problem a little better: "Basically, the problem is a DNS issue. When you access a Web page you type in something like: http://www.ancestry.com/ and expect your browser to take you to that page--and it usually does just that. But a Web page is really not an address as simple as http://www.ancestry.com/ It is actually located by means of a series of numbers called an IP address. A Domain Name Server (DNS) is used to translate the numbers into a usable address such as ancestry.com. At the present time Ancestry's DNS is not resolving correctly for many Interner Service Providers. The problem started for some users (primarily AOL users) late yesterday afternoon and seems to have spread to quite a few others today." (This message was written on Saturday, 1 Sep) If you'll go to Rootsweb's helpdesk page <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi> you'll see the following message at the top of the page in red: "ACCESS PROBLEMS: Some users may not be able to reach our message boards or the Ancestry.com site. The problem has been resolved, but it may take a couple of days until the changes have propagated to all service providers. We apologize for the inconvenience, and appreciate your patience." Another route people are having success with is using Ancestry's IP address <http://216.10.103.21>. PREVENTING E-MAIL VIRUSES The following comes from another list. Because of the whopping load of messages I receive, I'm trying it myself. I don't know if it works, but hey ... it's sure worth a try! :) "...Along the lines of preventing virii from sending mail to all the addresses in your address book as Outlook Express is highly vulnerable of doing: To avoid spreading computer viruses, create a contact in your email address book with the name :** !0000 with no email address in the details. This contact will then show up as your first contact. If a virus attempts to do a "send all" on your contact list, your pc will put up an error message saying that: "The Message could not be sent. One or more recipients do not have an e-mail address. Please check your Address Book and make sure all the recipients have a valid e-mail address." Your messages to an individual or individual addressees will not be affected. You click on OK and the offending (virus) message would not have been sent to anyone. Of course no changes have been made to your original contacts list. The offending (virus) message may then be automatically stored in your "Drafts" or "Outbox" folder. Go in there and delete the offending message. Problem is solved and virus is not spread. Try this and pass on to your email contacts. The more people that use this technique, the less vulnerable we will be to viruses that spread in this manner!" That's it, cousins. I wish you all a mystical, magical, MAGNIFICENT Monday! :) Colleen

I am a descendant of Augustin & Anna BAUER who came from Bavaria on the Sophie in 1865. They settled in Maryborough. Would like to hear from others of this family. Regards Bob

Hi again family, The following came off another list. I know there are people here who are interested in knowing this; I just wish I had known it when I was getting my own: :-| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here is a URL for the cheap death certs from the State of Ohio. It does take a while but the cheapest route to go. They have 1945 to the present for three cents plus postage. Mail postage rates are usually 34cents for the first 4 copies, then add 23 cents for each additional ounce. http://www.odh.state.oh.us/Birth/vr_uncert.htm The address is at this URL http://www.odh.state.oh.us/Birth/vr_obtain.htm Ohio Department of Health Vital Statistics 35 E. Chestnut St., 6th Floor P.O. Box 15098 Columbus, OH 43215-0098 Mail a check or money order drawn on a United States Bank and made payable to the "Treasurer, State of Ohio." Please do not send cash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Colleen

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] natz Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:45:51 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:45:47 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Albany County Hall of Records Mary Wallen, Executive Director 95 Tivoli Street, Albany, New York 12207 (518) 436-3663 Naturalization Record name - from - to - date - petition book - page Bauer Georg Germany Albany 12/8/1961 17720 N/A N/A Bauer Helmut Germany Howe Cave 5/10/1967 19226 N/A N/A Bauer Henry Germany Albany 3/20/1890 N/A 23 N/A Bauer Josephine Germany Hudson 12/6/1957 16375 N/A N/A Bauer Katharina Germany Albany 7/10/1941 10983 N/A N/A Bauer Louis George Germany Albany 4/5/1921 2232 N/A N/A Bauer Ludwig Germany Albany 4/26/1935 8859 N/A N/A Bauer Reinhold Germany Ghent 6/16/1960 17123 N/A N/A Bauer William Germany Albany 12/31/1888 N/A 23 N/A Bauer William Germany Green Island 8/7/1901 N/A 10 152 Bauerle Helen Germany Stuyvesant Falls 2/14/1968 19429 N/A N/A Bauermeister Jelucs Germany Albany 3/12/1887 N/A 23 N/A Baurs Frederick Germany Valatia 9/12/1888 N/A 23 N/A Barbara : )

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] natz Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:45:51 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 22:45:47 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Albany County Hall of Records Mary Wallen, Executive Director 95 Tivoli Street, Albany, New York 12207 (518) 436-3663 Naturalization Record name - from - to - date - petition book - page Bauer Georg Germany Albany 12/8/1961 17720 N/A N/A Bauer Helmut Germany Howe Cave 5/10/1967 19226 N/A N/A Bauer Henry Germany Albany 3/20/1890 N/A 23 N/A Bauer Josephine Germany Hudson 12/6/1957 16375 N/A N/A Bauer Katharina Germany Albany 7/10/1941 10983 N/A N/A Bauer Louis George Germany Albany 4/5/1921 2232 N/A N/A Bauer Ludwig Germany Albany 4/26/1935 8859 N/A N/A Bauer Reinhold Germany Ghent 6/16/1960 17123 N/A N/A Bauer William Germany Albany 12/31/1888 N/A 23 N/A Bauer William Germany Green Island 8/7/1901 N/A 10 152 Bauerle Helen Germany Stuyvesant Falls 2/14/1968 19429 N/A N/A Bauermeister Jelucs Germany Albany 3/12/1887 N/A 23 N/A Baurs Frederick Germany Valatia 9/12/1888 N/A 23 N/A Barbara : ) ==== BAUER Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bauer mailing list -- http://bowercommunity.com/homestead ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] Re: Elmhurst Baptist Church, NY, NY Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 08:22:53 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:22:46 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com In a message dated 9/2/01 9:52:02 AM, jamesed3@home.com writes: >I am seeking the address of the Elmhurst Baptist Church, NY, NY. > >Recently, I came across an email sent to a rootsweb.com mailing list in >1998. It contained transcribed notes of the Rev. Alva C. Bowers, Elmhurst >Baptist Church pastor, from September 1926 to August 1935. These notes >pertained to funerals he had conducted during that period, including that >of my relative - Chapin S. Fleet - died 11 Feb 1931. The address for Mr. >Fleet is given as 34-48 80 St. JH. > >Is or was Elmhurst a "neighborhood" in Manhattan? Was the area on the east >or west side of the city? Could it be in Queens? The address given is >simply "Elmhurst Baptist Church, NY, NY." Any guidance would be sincerely >appreciated. > >Carole Jackson Dilley >Portsmouth, RI >

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BOWERS] Silas BOWERS d. 1818 OH Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 06:28:09 -0500 From: "Jim Lewis" <jbarlew@axs4u.net> To: BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com My GGGranny was Clarissa BOWERS, b abt 1805, either Long Island NY or "On the Ocean", who married Rufus LOVE in Huron Co OH, 22Mar1821. They were in Norwalk, Huron Co OH, on the 1840 Census, but I have not located them after that. Their daughter, Elmira LOVE married Jared SMITH, supposedly in Monroe Co MI, in1848, altho there is no record there. Elmira was my GGranny. Clarissa's father was Silas BOWERS, mother Marvel ? There is a writeup about the early pioneers in the "Firelands Pioneer", Nov1858, which states that Silas BOWERS came into Fairfield Twp in 1816. It describes how, in early 1818, he froze to death while hunting deer. In addition to Clarissa, he and Marvel also had a son Silas, who was also a minor when Silas died. Ring any bells? Jim Lewis, Seguin TX ==== BOWERS Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bowers mailing list -- http://bowercommunity.com/homestead ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

) ( ) Good Morning Family! .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . \| |// ...and we even have decaf, | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! \ / ------ Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. A new family is added 3. Labor Day quiz TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Bower[s], Bauer or Baur lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Bower[s], Bauer or Baur ancestors or any of the 81+ variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. If you haven't visited the homesite of this list yet, you are encouraged to do so. Our home is Bower Community, located at <http://bowercommunity.com>. There, we currently have two sites: The Bower Family Homestead [a.k.a., the Homestead] is our primary homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Smaller is our sister site, the Bower Cottage, which houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by quite a few cousins from our research groups. Find the Cottage is at <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage>. A NEW FAMILY IS ADDED Yep, effective today, another of our variant spellings is added to the 'B' Consortium and that group is the BOWRA-L. Next Sunday our welcome message will be altered to reflect their addition to our family. When you research for our surnames, please add the Bowra surname to your list. They had no archived messages until I took the list over 2 weeks ago. They now have a few. Cousins, help me to help them, will you please? LABOR DAY QUIZ As is true with just about all our holidays, over the years Labor Day has evolved from its intended purpose of celebration into a "last fling of summer" festival. Originally, speeches were given by prominent men and women who placed emphasis on the economic, spiritual and civil significance of this holiday. Labor organizations sponsored activities to pay tribute to workers' contributions and honor the strength, prosperity and well-being of the country. Speeches were followed by massive displays and huge parades. After a while, the large industrial centers tired of these unwieldy celebrations. Today, Labor Day has come to be recognized as the unofficial end of the summer season as vacationers take one last advantage of the waning hot season while September presses in to mark the beginning of autumn. In many parts of the U.S., a student's summer vacation season ends with Labor Day. Many colleges and schools begin clases immediately after Labor Day. So, let's see what you know about this holiday. This five-question quiz should perk you right up this morning! :) 1. What is the reason for celebrating Labor Day? 2. When was Labor Day first celebrated? 3. What U.S. President proclaimed the first national observance of Labor Day? 4. In what year did Congress make Labor Day a national holiday? 5. Do any other countries celebrate Labor Day? If so, name at least 3 of them. Well, how'd you do? (You'll find the answers at the very bottom of today's Coffee.) Today's Coffee is a brief one, and for that I apologize. I have in-life family commitments today, but wanted to spend at least a little time with all of you. To you September babies - the cousins and I wish you a very happy and exciting year ahead. Happy Birthday! You are loved! Family ... it's what we're all about. Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you today. I wish each of you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.' (Answers to Labor Day Quiz) 1. It's a day to honor the working class. 2. September 5, 1882 in New York City with a 10,000-worker parade. 3. Grover Cleveland 4. 1894. The States of Oregon, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey had already declared it a state holiday in 1887. 5. Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island, the Canal Zone

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] Bklyn. BAUER death certs: Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:51:19 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 13:51:16 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com BAUER Bklyn. deaths: Albert 1 yr. 7/22/1883 #7887 Barbara 7 1/18/1883 #641 Charles 1 2/14/1883 #1591 Charles 1 4/5/1883 #3628 Detleff 57 6/18/1883 #6208 female George 6 2/14/1883 #1590 Harriet 36 1/30/1883 #1158 Hattie 10 m 4/9/1883 #3764 Joseph 11 11/14/1883 #12228 Louisa 3 2/6/1883 #1306 Mary 18 7/18/1883 #7825 Mary 23 5/27/1883 #5448 Nellie 1 8/8/1883 #8799 Stephen 55 2/21/1883 #1843 Wilhelm 10 m 8/3/1883 #8526 BAUERVIEND, John 4 m 6/12/1883 #5932 BOWER, Margaret 37 yrs. 7/23/1883 #8078 BOWERS: Jerry 69 yrs. 1/14/1883 #485 Jacob 43 5/15/1883 #5073 Bessie 5 1883 #883 Mary A. 60 1/22/1886 #931 Barbara : ) BOWERSAN, Josephine 3 yrs. 8/8/1883 #8802 ==== BAUER Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bauer mailing list -- http://bowercommunity.com/homestead ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] Bklyn BAUER wills Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 08:28:46 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 10:28:43 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com BAUER, Fred`k will, Feb. 26, 1870, nothing there but his wifes` name, Elizabeth. BAUER, Adolph [spelled BOWER on front page, BAUER thruout document], 1/3/1905, 11 1/2 yrs. Petition of Clemens BAUER, 300 Covert Ave., Queens, father, mother Ida BAUER. BAUER, Katharina, AKA Kattie & Katie 7/25/1909 Husband, John, 761 Franklin Ave. Anna Rose daughter George son No further info, Barbara : )

Does anyone have a Matheus Bauer ? He married Maria Rosina .She was born in Seebron, Germany.(No Date) They had 1 child Quailburt Bauer . He as born July 07,1758 in Linx, Baden, Germany and died Nov.09,1811 in Halfingen,Wurteemburg, Germany. He married a Barbara Thailesinger Oct.12,1778 in Ergenzinger,Germany. She was born in Ergenzinger, Germany. Anyone with this information.....would be very helpful to me. Thanks ~Deb~

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] Re: [Bklyn] Oct 23, 1918 - WW1 Casualties Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:26:04 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 17:26:00 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com >Private Harry S. Bowyer. >Private Harry S. Bowyer was killed in action Sept. 5. He was a member >of >Company M, 308th Infantry. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Gilroy Bowyer live >at >108 Marion street. Bowyer was drafted in July, 1917, and sailed for France >in September a year ago.

I'll post in here that my Bour's, Boor's, Bower, or however you choose to spell it are also Norfolk/Suffolk region. I'm away from my system with the GED files but will forward when I get a chance. I'm on holidays this week. Is there a posting group I can put attachments or I can sent to individuals directly. Dave Bour dcbour@home.com dbour@nortelnetworks.com -----Original Message----- From: macha [mailto:macha@waihekeisland.net.nz] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 6:05 AM To: BOWER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BOWER] BOWERS My BOWERS were from the Norfolk/Suffolk border in England - anyone out there with the same family. Washing Day. Our grandmama's and all the girls in the family certainly did have a tough washday - especially if it was wet or icy. Bless them though; they weren't as clean as we are today. I think the more efficient our machines are the more washing we seem to gather in. So it can still be a drudge trying to do everything during the evenings after a day out at work. Still I wouldn't want to go back to those days. No decent shampoo, deodorant and perfumed soap!!! Regards. Macha in NZ ==== BOWER Mailing List ==== The Bower Family Homestead, homesite of the Bower mailing list -- http://bowercommunity.com/homestead

Hi Dave, Your Bour/Boor data is very welcome here! :) No attachments can be sent through the Rootsweb servers, hence the list itself cannot receive attachments. If you have material you'd like to submit for display at the Homestead or Cottage, you need to send it to me. I just need to know what you have and when you're ready to send your data so I can watch for your attachment, okay? You can contact me at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. The only requirement is that we don't display data on any living people. Other than that, you're good to go for pretty much everything. I wish you a SUPER Sunday! :) Colleen David Bour wrote: > > I'll post in here that my Bour's, Boor's, Bower, or however you choose to > spell it are also Norfolk/Suffolk region. I'm away from my system with the > GED files but will forward when I get a chance. I'm on holidays this week. > Is there a posting group I can put attachments or I can sent to individuals > directly. > Dave Bour > dcbour@home.com > dbour@nortelnetworks.com

) ( ) Good Morning Family! .-.,--^--. ( Come on in. . . \\|`----'| - The coffee pot's on. . . \| |// ...and we even have decaf, | |/ tea, and hot chocolate! \ / ------ Today's topics include: 1. Welcome to new cousins 2. On posting messages 3. Trivia from the American Civil War 4. Let's remember our cousins who can't get out TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~ On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list, please send in your Bower[s], Bauer or Baur lines so we can all see how we're related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything to do with Bower[s], Bauer or Baur ancestors or any of the 81+ variant spellings we research that might help someone, please feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated. If you haven't visited the homesite of this list yet, you are encouraged to do so. Our home is Bower Community, located at <http://bowercommunity.com>. There, we currently have two sites: The Bower Family Homestead [a.k.a., the Homestead] is our primary homesite and the gathering place for much of our information. It waits to join us all in welcoming you into the family at <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Smaller is our sister site, the Bower Cottage, which houses most of our projects including an online GEDCOM fed by quite a few cousins from our research groups. Find the Cottage is at <http://bowercommunity.com/cottage>. ON POSTING MESSAGES With everyone returning to the family after their summer haitus, it's important to remind our newbies and novices of some query-posting pointers: 1.) Don't type your message all in capital letters. It is very difficult to read a message so-styled, and in netiquette it's considered yelling. 2.) Give your message a subject line proper to the material in your message. Subject lines are your introduction lines and capture a reader's attention. Make yours count! If you're not sure of how to create a subject line watch what everyone else is saying in theirs, and do the same. Or, you can contact me with your material and I'll give you a couple ideas <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. 3.) When posting queries, please give as much information on your lines as possible to help us identify your ancestors. Names, dates, and places are critically important! Give as much of that information as you can. Also, please proofread your query before posting it to clean up grammatical and punctuation errors that often make it difficult to understand what you're saying. 4.) **EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:** Please... DO NOT post information about living people in your messages. This is for your protection and that of your loved ones. Identity thieves are always happy to assume an identity if they can get enough of the right information on your family, and we genealogists are their favorite targets! Keep in mind, most credit card companies have your mother's maiden name as your password. Protect yourself and don't identify her! In addition, we don't research the living, so we really don't need to see their information anyway. 5.) How long has it been since you last posted? Remember, new cousins are finding us everyday. You should try to post at least once a month. 6.) Have you posted and not gotten a response? Try re-wording your last post and add more information. Perhaps nobody can identify your lines from the information you've already given. I might not descend from your great grandmother directly, but from one of her siblings, and I also might not know that person's parents. Only your posting those siblings will help me identify and tie into you. 7.) Another important point... Inline Cousin #1: "I'm a lurker, simply monitoring the list looking for my ancestor, Quasi Doe. Nobody's posted anything about my lines and I need to trim the number of messages I'm receiving, so I'll unsubscribe this one." Inline Cousin #2: "I'm brand new, scared to death to post. I want to find someone who's related to Quasi Doe. How do I do it? Where do I send to? I've been sitting here for several months now (lurking) and I still haven't seen anybody researching my line." ...And so it goes. A lost opportunity for two inline-cousins because neither one posted and now, one is gone from the list. Don't let this happen to you. TRIVIA FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR I found this little goodie at <http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html> while surfing the Web earlier this week. I thought you all might be interested in reading it. According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of the Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years old. Data gleaned from government records reveals figures that may surprise you. Here are the statistics from the total enlistment of Northern soldiers during the Civil War: Age Number of Personnel 10 ............ 25 11 ............ 34 12 ............225 13 ............380 14 ...........1602 15 ........104,987 (3.5%) 16 ........231,051 (8.0%) 17 ........884,981 (28.0%) 18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%) 19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%) 22-44 ......52,696 45+ .....Not given How old was your ancestor when he served in the Civil War? Keep his age in mind as you see portrayals or read battle accounts. How would your 17-year-old son fare? LET'S REMEMBER OUR COUSINS WHO CAN'T GET OUT With the start of school, we begin to settle back into our homes. For those of you still lucky enough to be able to continue researching outside the home, please remember we have cousins who are shut-ins and watch for those morsels of data posted to the list. If, during your searches at libraries, archives, historical societies, and cemeteries you should come across our surnames, please... won't you extract the data to share with us here? Variant spellings are very welcome, too! With your added material they just might be able to tie-in to another cousin, and it could be YOU! :) After all, it's family ... and that's what we're all about. Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you today. It's an interlude I truly enjoy. I wish each of you a week filled with health, productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love. ) ( ) _.-~~-. (@\'--'/. Colleen ('``.__.'`) `..____.'

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [BAUER] No Subject Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:48:37 -0600 Resent-From: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:48:27 EDT From: Caffecupz@aol.com Reply-To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com To: BAUER-L@rootsweb.com Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 91 page 78 [p.78] Miss Kate Augusta Bowers. DAR ID Number: 90233 Born in Cambridge, Mass. Descendant of Isaac Bowers, as follows: 1. Charles Eyres Bowers (b. 1798) m. 1828 Catherine Hanshaw Dinsmore (b. 1805). 2. Isaac Bowers, Jr., m. Mary Eyres. 3. Isaac Bowers m. 1760 Priscilla Dodge. Isaac Bowers (1741-1808) served as private, 1775, in Capt. John Perry's company, Col. Timothy Walker's regiment, Massachusetts Line. He was born and died in Groton, Mass.