> I am wondering if anyone searching for the Bridges name has found a possible spelling of BRIGGS to be a possibility? `````````````````````````` Yes, Patty. As a matter of fact, I sent in several postings that contained information reguarding the BRIGGS spelling, so may wish to check the list's archives. Leslie Bridges Kohler

I am wondering if anyone searching for the Bridges name has found a possible spelling of BRIGGS to be a possibility? I wonder if searching for this name may solve my mystery as I have searched high and low in states for my Bridges family and cannot find them anywhere at 1860. [email protected] patty

I think I'm being consumed by consumption (kiding, a little). [email protected] wrote: > I think consumption was TB, or a catch all for anything deadly. > > Gerre S -- ÐÏࡱá

I think consumption was TB, or a catch all for anything deadly. Gerre S

thanks to all the kind people on the list for the explanation of consumption. patty

The disease we know as tuberlosis was attaching people in centuries before Christ. The Greek had a word meaning (Phthisis) "to consume slowly or waste away--hence the familiar word "consumption" paul

Betty, thought you might like to know that my mother, who will be 93 November 17th, and whose mother was a BRIDGES, entered nurses' training in 1925 at Baptist Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. She worked until she was in her 70's. Her class was the first class to graduate from Baptist in LR, I believe. She and her sister were both RNs. Mildred

CONSUMPTION IS A VIRUAL INFECTION OF THE LUNGS. ALSO IF YOU RUN INTO FLAUX, IT IS THE SAME AS DISENTARY (MIS-SPELLED). THEY HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR DISEASES THEN INCLUDING TB.

Then if this is true ...it is not TB...because TB is not caused by a virus....It is a bacillus...When I was a young nurse many yrs ago.(I have been a nurse nearly 50 yrs...still working)..the old nurses who had worked in TB specialty hospitals would use the word consumption for TB at times...and I was apparently under the impression that was the word they used for TB. Guess I had better do some more research...betty At 02:05 PM 11/6/2000 -0500, you wrote: >CONSUMPTION IS A VIRUAL INFECTION OF THE LUNGS. ALSO IF YOU RUN INTO FLAUX, >IT IS THE SAME AS DISENTARY (MIS-SPELLED). THEY HAD DIFFERENT NAMES FOR >DISEASES THEN INCLUDING TB.

[email protected] wrote: > > thanks for your reply. Then if it is said that one had consumption, it > actually means they had T.B.??? > thanks, > patty > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 5:22 PM > Subject: Re: [BRIDGES-L] consumption?? > > > quote: a progressive wasting away of the body, especially when some has > > tuberculosis. > > > > I have also seen cancer refered to as consumption (?)

What is a VKS? I don't know that but i do know about consumption. Consumption was an old word for tuberculosis. People used to die from tuberculosis. They would be sent to a sanitarium. ...given fresh air....and whatever they had at the time...remember penicillin didn't come until I think 1941. I have the date somewhere...so prior to that there were no antibiotics. Betty At 05:03 PM 11/5/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Can some VKS tell me "what death by consumption" means?? >thanks

quote: a progressive wasting away of the body, especially when some has tuberculosis.

thanks for your reply. Then if it is said that one had consumption, it actually means they had T.B.??? thanks, patty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [BRIDGES-L] consumption?? > quote: a progressive wasting away of the body, especially when some has > tuberculosis. > >

Can some VKS tell me "what death by consumption" means?? thanks

Patty, I have Irish too and it seems that many of them left east coast and mid-west and headed for Texas during the 1850s and 1860s. One reason was the land another was the civil war. Try TX. Good Luck, Judy aka [email protected]

I am looking for a George Bridges who was born abt.1820 possibley in Ireland. George lived in AL, and TN that I know of, and had a son named Thomas Warren who was born 1842 in TN. I have not been able to find either of them in TN or Al that are a George or Thomas with the right birthplace .The only George Bridges that I can find in a TN census are Georges that were born in Ky. This doesnt go with the information on any census that I have for them. Thomas's death certificate says his father George was born in Ireland, and all of the census say that George was born in AL, and his son Thomas Warren was born in TN. Any information on either of these men would be greatly appreciated. [email protected] patty

Thanks for the quick feedback about Bridges and Pope Creek areas. Thanks for introducing your background, too. Margie Bridges

> << Anyone know anything about this Family Discovery Website? At $59.99 it > sounds good, but do they really have the database they are describing? > I may be wrong, but last month, others were talking about a new website that > charges, and then links you to sites that are free. That may be the one. > Julia You are correct, Julia. Several months ago the GenWeb Project coordinators for a number of counties were up in arms over the site - apparently it linked to a number of GenWeb pages, on which data was contained - in a frame - so that it looked like people were accessing the Family Discovery site as opposed to a free GenWeb site. One Family Discovery apparently does is organize and structure the various web sites that one would be interested in - and it is for this organizing effort that one pays the membership fee, not the data, which is not owned by Family Discovery. Jim Bridges St. Clair Co. IL GenWeb Project Coordinator and Bridges researcher e-mail: [email protected] http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimbridg/stclair.htm

Thanks Jim and Julia, for the quick response. You saved me from finding out that they are a new type of scam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bridges" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [BRIDGES-L] Fw: Greetings fellow Genealogist.... > > << Anyone know anything about this Family Discovery Website? At $59.99 it > > sounds good, but do they really have the database they are describing? > > > I may be wrong, but last month, others were talking about a new website > that > > charges, and then links you to sites that are free. That may be the one. > > Julia > > You are correct, Julia. Several months ago the GenWeb Project coordinators > for a number of counties were up in arms over the site - apparently it > linked to a number of GenWeb pages, on which data was contained - in a > frame - so that it looked like people were accessing the Family Discovery > site as opposed to a free GenWeb site. > > One Family Discovery apparently does is organize and structure the various > web sites that one would be interested in - and it is for this organizing > effort that one pays the membership fee, not the data, which is not owned by > Family Discovery. > > Jim Bridges > St. Clair Co. IL GenWeb Project Coordinator and Bridges researcher > e-mail: [email protected] > http://www.frontiernet.net/~jimbridg/stclair.htm >

In a message dated 11/04/2000 1:28:35 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Anyone know anything about this Family Discovery Website? At $59.99 it sounds good, but do they really have the database they are describing? Please respond if you have any personal knowledge about them. >> I may be wrong, but last month, others were talking about a new website that charges, and then links you to sites that are free. That may be the one. Julia