Hi Ya'll, I'm fairly new to the list. I'm looking for my 2nd great grandfather's parents and siblings. James Archey Bransom was born 16Jan 1824 in KY. He married Darcus Wood(b.1828 in MO) in MO. Her dad was Charles Wood.mother/unknown Any information would be appreciated.TIA Debbie debco@flash.net ICQ 29339056 AOL IM djk284

EXPERT GENEALOGY Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Vital Records Subject: New Texas Legislation Date: April 21, 1999 Last week I posted the wrong address for the FHC. The correct address for the Family History Center Online is - http://32.96.111.13/default.asp Here is an email message from Mic Barnett concerning Texas Vital Records: HI Fellow Genealogists: In case you have not heard there is a bill in the Texas Legislature that might close the indexes to death and birth records in Texas for 25 and 50 years, respectfully. My column on Saturday April 24 will state most of what we know about the bill at this time. The column is already on my website at http://barnettesbooks.com Just click on read the columns. Scroll down and click on April 24. The column was submitted this morning for a Saturday publication date. Since being notified of this bill by Tommy Burns of Houston, I have found out only a little bit more. Supposedly, the bill was submitted to clarify the current law. The intent of the bill was to clarify the existing law and help open birth and death indexes in counties where the county clerk felt they were closed (At the same time, other county clerks felt the indexes were open). While in committee an amendment was placed on the bill stating the indexes would become open and public when the actual records (birth and death records) became open and public. According to the amendment the indexes would be closed for 25-50 years until the records themselves are public. The HB 836 passed the Public Health Committee in the State House of Representatives on March 30. It was referred to the Senate State Affairs Committee. As of today, the bill does not have a Senate sponsor. If we cause enough rancor, it is possible no one will take on the sponsorship of the bill and it will die in committee. On the otherhand, if a sponsor is found, we want to be on record requesting a hearing. At that hearing, we would need to flood the room with genealogists and other concerned citizens. While a law clarifying the present confusing law might be welcome, amendment on HB 836 closes the birth and death indexes until the actual records become public which is 25-50 years. .Monday night I contacted Jack Brissee, Chair of the FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee. Jack and his committee work with genealogists and other organizations all over the country when records are threatened with closure or misuse. He jumped on it and has faxed a letter to the Chair of the Senate State Affairs Committee. He has urged everyone to contact all genealogists, genealogical, historical and other concerned organizations to write a calm, collected, but, concerned letter to the Chair of the Senate Affairs Committee and to our own Senator concerning this bill. The Honorable Florence Shapiro Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs P.O.Box 12068 Capital Station Austin, TX 78711 Another bill in the legislature each of you should be aware of is HB13. This bill seeks to allow adoptees to obtain their original birth certificate upon reaching the age of 21. HB13 has met with the hostility of child placement services and birth mothers. Currently it is held up in committee where it may die. Part of the HB 13 awareness may have had some effect on HB 836 because both have to do with vital statistics registration If you wish to pass this letter around, please feel free to do so. I have included this mailing to a number of my columnist colleagues around the country who might wish to be alert to what is happening, down here, in Texas. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who hears any news on this matter. Thank You, MIC Mic Barnette's Writes a Weekly Genealogy Column In The Houston Chronicle. Read it on the Web At Barnette's Family Tree Book Company http://barnettesbooks.com

Listers, I realize now I should have provided a little more info regarding rootsweb mailing list archives so here goes. ALL messages posted to the rootsweb mailing lists are archived. No one, not even the listowners, can edit those archives (which is why erroneous messages, irrelevant subject lines, etc. are so critical to the archiving process). What is posted, goes in. Archives are used to search for messages regarding surnames, discussion topics, etc. posted to the mailing lists. We have been working on various archiving methods for a long time. Archives MAY not be available for as far back (chronologically) as you'd like to go. You may want to try all the different archives. These are the archives available to all rootsweb researchers. REGULAR ARCHIVES: These appear on the web page: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=BRANSON You do NOT need a user name or password. They are "searchable" by keyword but are not "threaded". If I enter my Liner BRANSON, I will get a list of all messages posted to the list where Liner or BRANSON appears in the subject line. THREADED ARCHIVES: These appear on the web page: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BRANSON-L/ You DO need a user name and password. (the archive will prompt you to enter one, if you don't have one there is a button to set create one, and you will have immediate access). You will use it each time you visit the archives (regardless of which mailing list). These are archives created by our own Marc Nozell who has been working for over a year on an efficient and research-friendly archiving system for the mailing lists. What is "threaded"? When a message is posted to the list and no one answers it ("replies" to it), it is a single or unthreaded message. When a message is posted to the list, and one or more people answer it, reply to the reply, etc. - it becomes a "message thread" - that is, the messages are connected to each other (via the computer system). So say I enter my Liner BRANSON b. 1790 KY as a subject line and post it to the BRANSON list., and someone replies to it. When I go to the BRANSON Threaded archives and enter "Liner" or "Liner BRANSON", I will get my original message (among others). I will see on the left side of my computer screen options to for "next" or "previous". That will bring up the messages "threaded" to my original message. These archives were just established so there aren't archives earlier than around Feb. 1999. DIGEST ARCHIVES: This is a temporary feature so enjoy it while it lasts. If you are away (unsubscribed for a period of time), you can retrieve the recent digests by date and digest #. This is done via email. Send an email message to BRANSON-D-request@rootsweb.com (note it is "D" not "L" and you need the word "request") with the word ARCHIVES in the subject line. In the body put: ls volume99 (EXACTLY as it appears above - recommend "cut and paste"). You will get back via email a list of the archives for 1999 ( as it gets later in the year, the list gets truncated). Note the date and digest number of the ones you want. Let's say it's digest #34. Send a NEW message to the same address as above with the following in the body text: get volume99/34 (EXACTLY as it appears above - recommend "cut and paste"). If you want all of the digests in the "thirty" series, your message would look like this: get volume99/3* (* acts as a "wildcard"). You can also enter this way: get volume99/34 get volume99/37 get volume99/42 You will only get those three digests. The digests will be returned to you via email. Hope this helps. Email me with additional questions. Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List Thomas Day BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson

Listers, We are testing threaded, searchable archives for rootsweb lists. When you visit the page below, you will need to enter/establish a user name and password. This will work for all the threaded archives on rootsweb. Check it out: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BRANSON-L/ Let me know what you think. Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List Thomas Day BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson

The BRANSON Most Wanted web page has been updated. There are now 23 names. Please visit at http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html and see if your elusive BRANSON (or variant spelling) is there! You will also find links to the GenConnect BRANSON Query Boards. Good luck! Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson

I am seeking information about the following individuals Rara Branson b.? m. 18 Jun 1902 (Missouri or Kansas) d.? sp. Roseta (Rosita) Handley b. Sept 1887 d. ? I do not have any information beyond this. Thanks in advance. Barbara Handley handley@pacinfo.com

<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ImaBR/page2/index.htm">BRANSOM / BRANSON INFORMATION CENTER </A> If you haven't visited the BRANSOM / BRANSON Center lately, there has been a lot of new info to most of the pages. Gladys

If any of you have ancestors from Franklin County, KY and have not visited their page in a couple of months, check it out. After many years of trying to find who the wife's maiden name of Charles BRANSON was, I found it there among the births!! This was like Christmas for me! They have added LOTS of info there. Gladys <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ImaBR/page2/index.htm">BRANSOM / BRANSON INFORMATION CENTER </A>

At 4:29 PM -0500 4/3/99, Jerry Casey wrote: >I have a Amos BRANSON b. abt 1755 in Hardy Co, VA (now West Virginia). His >father and >mother were Lionel "Lindell" BRANSON b. 1708 Burlington Co, NJ >and Rebecca ROGERS. >There children were: >Lionel Branson b. 2/17/1753 Hardy Co, VA (now West Virginia) married >Rebecca Millar >Elizabeth Branson b. 12/28/1755 Hardy Co, VA (now West Virginia) d. >Chathaw Co, NC >married Daniel Claud >Amos Branson (above) >(Unknown) Branson b. abt 1757 Hardy Co, VA (now West Virginia) >Hannah Branson b. abt 1779 Hardy Co, VA (now West Virginia) married Moses >Lehew >4/15/1800 Frederick Co, VA >Mary Branson b. abt 1781 >Lionel "Lindell" Branson parents are Thomas L Branson and Elizabeth Day >they were married >10/4/1702 in Burlington Co, NJ >Amos Branson is my 1st cousin 8 times removed Jerry, I'm going to copy your message to the BRANSON-L in this reply. We have Thomas BRANSON Elizabeth DAY Family File Web Site at http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm which hasn't been updated with new info in quite some time. Your Lionel info is very interesting. At his point I can't connect your BRANSONS to mine (but I'm convinced we're all related somehow). Thanks for the info! Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson

These records were compiled in a Prewitt family history, the publication info of which I can't put my hands on right now. I'll get it to everybody, but in the meantime, here are part of the records. These are all from Virginia, but there were Pruett/Prewitt records from all over the country. Marriage Bonds - Tazewell Co VA Benjamin PRUITT m. Mary MALONEY, 7 Jan 1806 Rubin PRUETT m. Nancy VANDIKES, 30 Oct 1817 Joseph PRUITT m. Susannah CLEVINGER, 2 Jan 1818 Sally PRUITT m. Henry STUMP, 26 Mar 1818 Moses PRUETT m. Jane WINGO, 21 Jun 1829 Archibald PRUETT m. Elizabeth BREWSTER, 3 Dec 1833 Pelina PRUETT m. Michael HICKMAN, Oct 1836 Rebecca PRUETT m. Philip H. VINSEL, 27 Oct 1839 Will Records Will of Samuel PREWETT (13 Nov 1801) mentions children: (sons) Philip Zachariah Samuel Benjamin Japhath (daughters) Ruth (COOK) Elizabeth (BUTT) Polly (HAWKER) Sally Will of William PREWETT, written 30 May 1826 and probated 21 June 1830, mentions children: Wife - Jane (sons by second wife, Jane) Joseph Allen Bowling Perkins Major Smith (daughters) Anney Susannah Mary ANn (sons by first wife) John William Jr. He stated "I give and bequeath my interest in the estate of my father, John PREWITT" Will of Zechariah PRUET, 16 Jan 1840, names wife Roda, heirs were: Sally BROWN Polly RICHARDSON Jeney LOVE Leahanna HALL Catherine SMITH Thomas PREWETT William PREWETT Served in the Revolutionary War according to records of Huguenot Society and Veterans Administration. I will post more of this later, along with the author, title and publisher of the book. Ronda Will Records Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Here are the names, ages and birthplaces for the Bransons in Jefferson Twp. I didn't record sex, which is a problem when the names were unreadable. I can always recheck when I go back to the library if these are important to anybody. 1850 IN Census - Parke Co, Jefferson Twp Enumerated 5 Aug 1850 Jeremiah Branson 29 KY Mahala 22 TN Jonathan 7 IN Rebecca 2 IN Wallis 4/12 IN Lemuel Branson 40 TN Elizabeth 36 TN George 14 IN Lucy Jane 13 IN Erastus 10 IN Seabron 5 IN John A. 3 IN Robert 1/12 IN Jane Moore 68 VA William Branson 64 VA Rachel 45 KY M-- 20 IN Lucinda 18 IN Mahala 16 IN Robert 15 IN Oliver 13 IN John F. Branson 29 TN Margaret 25 OH James 7 IN David 4 IN Moriah 2 IN Sarah 6/12 IN Jacob Branson 57 VA Rebecca 53 TN Nancy 19 IN A-- 15 IN Martha 13 IN J-- 8 IN Jonathan Branson 24 TN Rebecca 5 IN Tabitha 2 IN John Branson 21 TN Wincey 17 IN Nancy 9/12 IN Matthew Branson 23 KY Mary 28 OH Marion 1 IN (male) Michael Branson 33 TN Rachel 32 IN David 13 IN Jane 11 IN Elizabeth 11 IN Mary 5 IN Richard 3 IN Lavina 8 IN Sarah 1 NC (not likely, but that's the way I wrote it down) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

1840 Census - Parke Co IN Branson, Michael Males 0-5 (1), 20-30 (1) Females 0-5 (2), 15-20 (2), 20-30 (1), 40-50 (1) Branson, Jeremiah Males 5-10 (1), 10-15 (1), 40-50 (1) Females 0-5 (2), 15-20 (2), 20-30 (2), 30-40 (1) Branson, Joab Males 0-5 (1), 10-15 (2), 15-20 (2), 20-30 (1), 40-50 (1) Females 5-10 (2), 40-50 (1) Branson, Lemuel Males 15-20 (1), 20-30 (1) Females 5-10 (1), 20-30 (1) Branson, Lemuel Males 0-5 (1), 5-10 (1), 30-40 (1) Females 0-5 (1), 20-30 (1) Branson, George Males 10-15 (2), 15-20 (1), 40-50 (1) Females 5-10 (2), 15-20 (1) Branson, Jane She was in the index, but the page was completely faded. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

GRAINGER CO. Branson, Lemuel Males 5-10 (1), 10-15 (1), 15-20 (2), 20-30 (1), 50-60 (1) Females 5-10 (1), 10-15 (1), 40-50 (1) Branson, Nathaniel Males 5-10 (1), 10-15 (2), 15-20 (1), 40-50 (1) Females 0-5 (1), 10-15 (2), 40-50 (1) Branson, Solomon Males 20-30 (1) Females 15-20 (1) Branson, Susannah Males 5-10 (1), 10-15 (1), 15-20 (1) Females 10-15 (1), 50-60 (1) BLESDOE CO. Branson, Andrew Males 20-30 (1) Females 15-20 (1) MARION CO. Branson, John Males 20-30 (1) Females 15-20 (1) JEFFERSON CO. Branson, Levi Males 50-60 (1) Females 10-15 (1), 50-60 (1) CLAIBORNE CO. Branson, Sarah Males 0-5 (1) Females 10-15 (1), 15-20 (1), 40-50 (1) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hello: Seeking Branson link....Ewell Branson Reynolds 1882-1959 VA I know he was named Branson for an ancestor's surname... his parents are Asa Reynolds and Susan "Polly" Bradner VA Anyone have Ewell Branson Reynolds in their Branson line? Thanks Deb

I finally cleared off my desk and found my Branson census records. I have all the Bransons in Parke Co IN in 1830, 1840 & 1850, and Eastern Tennessee (Grainger, Marion, Blesdoe, Jefferson and Claiborne Co) in 1830. I also have miscellaneous Pruett records from Virginia (will, land, marriages, etc.) that I copied for someone--I've already forgotten who. If I get a chance I'll post this information, but in the meantime if anyone is interested, email me. Ronda Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Well, thank you! This was from Mary Lou Jester Branson, Fort Worth, TX mlb

Saturday, Aug 15, 1998 (This was sent to me and I have no idea what paper it was from - possibly the one in Tecumseh, OK): Former Tecumseh resident Violet Lela Brock, 88, died Wednesday in a Ft. Smith, Ark., hospital. She was born Aug 11, 1910, in Tecumseh to Samuel and Florence Belle Branson. She married Thomas Jefferson Brock. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Church of God. She had lived in Spiro for the past six years. The was preceded in Death by her husband in 1993. She is survived by her daughter, Geneva Moore, Spiro; four sisters, Vera Claxton, Ardmore, Almeta Foust, Denver, Colo., Thelma Tarbox, Norman, and Betty Melot, both of Tecumseh and Margaret Moore, Maumelle, Ark.; two grandsons and granddaughters-in-law, Rick and Margaret Moore, Maumelle, Ark., and James and Christy Brock, Shawnee; three granddaughters and a grandson-in-law, Vicki and Walt Nolen, Spiro; Marsha Morris, Duncan; and Chanda Redding, Tecumseh; many great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Roesch-Walker Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Joe Faircloth officiating, assisted by the Rev. Kresten Norholm. Burial will be in Tecumseh Cemetery. ephers

The BRANSON Most Wanted web page has been updated. There are now 22 names. Please visit at http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html and see if your elusive BRANSON (or variant spelling) is there! You will also find links to the GenConnect BRANSON Query Boards. Good luck! Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson

Charles Branson (1874-1925) was married to my great-grandmother Jeanetta WILSON HILLIX(1873-1933). Both were buried in Fredonia Cemetery, Wilson County KS Her daughter was Lenora HILLIX White. I am interested in finding the children and Heir of Charles and Jeanetta ( half-siblings to my grandmother, Lenora) Sandy Heinrich

As of today, we have 94 listmembers total: 81 on regular mail 13 on digest We lost 1 member this month. ~POST YOUR BRANSON LINE~ Yvonne Bowers, List Owner (Looking for Liner) BRANSON-L Family List BRANSON family file: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson/WC_TOC.htm Most Wanted: http://www.sonic.net/yvonne/branson.html GenConnect: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Branson