Hi all, Just a note to let you know that because of the following system upgrades, there may be some lag time on the Discussion lists and down time on the websites in the next few days. If you need to get in touch with me, please feel to e-mail me. Thanks! Yvonne alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Note from the ROOTSWEB owner "Dr. Brian Leverich": As you probably know, load on RootsWeb has been skyrocketing. The lists.rootsweb.com server now handles about 50% of the load of the biggest listserver on Earth (plum.lsoft.com), and the www.rootsweb.com server now handles about 20-40% of the load of www.microsoft.com (and they use 15 servers (-8 ). One problem we're having is that the Linux operating system just doesn't seem to be able to handle this load gracefully. We've been having multiple system crashes each day, and it's basically preventing us from doing other things we want to do (like get search engines up and Web interfaces to your message archives). Anyway, the solution seems to be shifting to a different version of Unix -- FreeBSD -- which is generally regarded as much more stable under load than Linux. FreeBSD is used by a number of very large sites, including Yahoo and ftp.cdrom.com (the world's busiest FTP site). We'll be converting lists.rootsweb.com and www.rootsweb.com to FreeBSD over the next few days. You can expect some down time and probably some annoying glitches as we make the transition. Please bear with us -- I think we'll have the moves completed in the next few days, and I'm guessing that we'll be fully back to normal (including achieving our old 98%+ uptime performance) within two weeks. Sorry about the growing pains, B. -- -- Good luck in your quest, Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK, ROCKBRIDGE CO., VA and MASON CO., KY Discussion Lists
Want to get a little "joy" right now? You're invited to visit "THE OUTHOUSE". http://members.aol.com/RootsLady/lady/outhouse.htm It's reading material includes all kinds of Genealogical Humor. Courtesy of the List Lady, Barbara Yancey Dore (aka) RootsLady@msn.com Homepage: http://members.aol.com/RootsLady/index.htm -- Good luck in your quest, Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK, ROCKBRIDGE CO., VA and MASON CO., KY Discussion Lists
An online genealogy forum has been setup specifically for the Brisbin family. It can be found at the following address: http://www.genforum.com/brisbin It has been setup for you to post your family information. This is a one-time message, we're sorry for any inconvenience. Thanks GenForum Staff
Were your ancestors in the war? Take a peek at the table, if your male ancestor was born within the time frames, chances are he could have served (and left records) in the military during the specified war. Check out: THE WAR GENERATIONS http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockbr/wars.htm Soldiers at the Battle of Point Pleasant http://www.rootsweb.com/~varockbr/pntplsnt.htm -- Good luck in your quest, Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK, ROCKBRIDGE CO., VA and MASON CO., KY Discussion Lists
The NEW Kansas Roots Mailing List I know this is a rather skimpy intro-file but if you have subscribed to this list I'm almost sure you're a mailing list user already. Since this is a brand new mailing list a few of the goals are in order: 1) To assist persons who have family ties or relations either living or deceased who resided or currently reside in the state of Kansas. 2) To promote Kansas's Genealogy Commun- inty thru the helping and sharing of info- rmation regarding Genealogy. Posts to the List should be made to: kansasroots@usroots.com To subscribe to this list: To: majordomo@usroots.com Subject:>nothing needed< body: subscribe kansasroots Good luck in your quest, Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK, ROCKBRIDGE CO., VA and MASON CO., KY Discussion Lists
Wow Connie, Great story! Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK and ROCKBRIDGE County,VA Discussion Lists
Hi everyone, I am researching the family of Joanna BELLEW who m. Reuben Hatton September 20, 1782. History of Boone County Missouri 1882 p. 1031-1032 "He[ Reuben Hatton] was born and raised to the age of nineteen years in Amelia county, Virginia, receiving an excellent common schooled education. At the breaking out of the revolutionary war, he entered the American Army, being at the time of age. He was at the battles of Guilford Court House and Eutaw Springs, also in the disastrous engagement with Lord Rawden. The close of the war found him in South Carolina. Being charmed with the country and climate, he resolved to remain in the south. Having learned the hatter's trade with his father before the war, he applied for a station, and was employed by a Frenchman named BELEAU, a descendant of a Hugenot family, of South Carolina, whose wife was the fame faith and nativity. This proved an important epoch in the life of Reuben Hatton. He made love to his employer's daughter and was accepted. In the course of time they were married, and the well-matched couple lived happily together as man and wife for over half a century..." Reuben and Joanna moved to Foxtown, Madison, Kentucky in the late 1700's. After 1812 they moved to Boone County Missouri. According to Revolutionary War, Application for Pension papers (S17466) for Reuben Hatton there is this information on his wife. "The soldier married September 20, 1782, Joanna, her maiden name not stated. I have very little on Joanna BELEAU. Her name is sometimes spelled BELLEW. Any information on the BELLEW family of South Carolina would be appreciated. Connie Berry connie@pstbbs.com ---------- > From: Yvonne James-Henderson <hen1@idt.net> > To: ZIMMERMAN-L@rootsweb.com; HITT-L@rootsweb.com; HORN-L@rootsweb.com; MORROW-L@rootsweb.com; SWEET-L@rootsweb.com; LUCKY-L@rootsweb.com; BALLEAU-L@rootsweb.com; COOKSEY-L@rootsweb.com; LAWSON-L@rootsweb.com; BRISBIN-L@rootsweb.com; KENTON-L@rootsweb.com > Cc: BOOKOUT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: THE FAMILY SURNAME DISCUSSION LISTS > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 6:39 PM > > THE FAMILY SURNAME DISCUSSION LISTS > > This is the place for you to: > > 1. Place queries > 2. List your homepage and genealogical webpages > 3. List yourself as a researcher of the descendants of your oldest > ancestry. > 4. SHARE ANYTHING THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE OF GENEALOGICAL VALUE WITH THE > MEMBERS OF THE LIST > 5. Just say "Hi"! > > > Good luck in your quest! > Yvonne > ****** > > Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA > My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm > alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net > > Ask me about these Family Discussion Lists Anyplace...Anytime: > BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET > ZIMMERMAN > > Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK and ROCKBRIDGE > County,VA Discussion Lists >
THE FAMILY SURNAME DISCUSSION LISTS This is the place for you to: 1. Place queries 2. List your homepage and genealogical webpages 3. List yourself as a researcher of the descendants of your oldest ancestry. 4. SHARE ANYTHING THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE OF GENEALOGICAL VALUE WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE LIST 5. Just say "Hi"! Good luck in your quest! Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Ask me about these Family Discussion Lists Anyplace...Anytime: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK and ROCKBRIDGE County,VA Discussion Lists
Robert Cobb wrote: > > Testing prior to posting. Hi Bob Got your mail. Lyn Dunham
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Hi All! This is the news story concerning formation of a new internet genealogical socierty for the purpose of making thousands of .raw data and record available, FREE, on the internet. Thank you By JOAN ROSE Public Information Officer By JOAN ROSE Public Information Officer As one-stop shopping at the Mall has simplified buying habits, founders of a new national genealogical organization are hoping to do likewise with integrated research sites on the internet for American root tracers. Traditionally, American genealogists have had to rely on a paper trail in often distant libraries, musty courthouse basements and weed grown cemeteries to lead to their elusive ancestors. Only recently, in the last five years, have they turned to the Internet to find information that others have written into cyberspace for them. Internet resources have been multiplying rapidly in the past two years, but available information is often sketchy, always scattered and frequently without the documentation so dear to the earnest researchers heart. The United States Internet Genealogical Society in May was incorporated as a non-profit corporation under the laws of California with four major goals and lots of little ones. USIGS, as it will be known on the Net, not only will seek out, index and point to all kinds of research data for free public access online, but it will seek out funding grants and contributions to help defray the costs of puting it there. "The Internet will be the Genealogical Research Library of the 21st Century," believes James Streeter, USIGS president and a descendant of the Mayflower, who has been working on his family history for 35 years to include 6500 individuals in 50 generations. "USIGS brings a new concept to the genealogy community," he explained, inasmuch as "it is dedicated to provide FREE online access to records of interest to the entire genealogy community." To this end, USIGS will encourage volunteers, both individuals and groups, to transcribe their records to websites, it will correlate all such information now online and that which is to come, and it will raise funds to pay for costs incurred in such mammoth projects as eventually putting online U.S. Census records, a long-time dream of many internetters. USIGS is not unlike an international organization, IIGS, which came into being at the same time about two months ago, and with some overlapping founders. The two will not compete, but will complement each other and work together in some fields for the benefit of genealogists. USIGS, however, will concern itself with American records, primarily of the United States, while IIGS will be open for world-wide research. Unlike IIGS, USIGS has a tightly structured executive branch, including a 12-member board of directors, a staff of officers who will oversee all projects and fund-raising activities and appointed committees with definitely-delineated duties and missions. Besides Streeter, of Buena Park, Calif., newly-elected officers include: Tom Ward of Columbus, Kans., vice president; Linda Lewis of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., secretary; and Jerry E. Dill of Emmett, Idaho, treasurer. Board members are Don E. Dale of Kansas, David M. Leininger of Mahomet,Ill., and Billie McNamara of Knoxville, Tenn. , who are now holding one yearterms; Donald L. Spidell of Safford, Ariz., Ken Hollingsworth of Redlands, Calif., John Rigdon of South Carolina, and Larry V. Stephens of Bloomington, Ind. ,now holding two year terms; and Nancy Trice of Hopkins County, KY, Pat Smith of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, and John G. West of Evansville, Ind., who are now holding three year terms. Vacancies are now being filled by appointment as worthy Web Genealogists volunteer for membership. USIGS has set up a web site at: http://www.dsenter.com/usigs/ and is providing ongoing membership information to those who subscribe to its members list. Committees already formed and chairmen are listed. ?volunteers are needed to assist in all of them and in the various projects that are in process of getting started. At this time membership is free, and all interested are encouraged to sign on at the USIGS home page. Members will be asked to volunteer time, talents, expertise and ideas as needed and to spread the word to their local organizations and other online sites to assist USIGS in getting up and running. One of its main functions is to solicit grants from corporate sponsorship and other sources and through tax-deductible contributions. Streeter has indicated that "announcement of a major source of funding may be expected soon." Any funds received will be distributed to individuals or organizations for specific projects. No priority list has been set up to receive first funds available, but one major project identified by organizers has been the Census Project, beginning perhaps with that of 1850, to put the entire census data, state by state and county by county, on line. Streeter emphasized that all records funded by USIGS will be available on line free to anyone with internet access. USIGS was not set up to make money, he stressed, but to find money to further transcription and preservation of genealogical data at internet sites. USIGS does not plan to duplicate work already in progress by other online groups, such as the USGenWeb project, he noted, but to coordinate that work to make such data readily accessible. Streeter and other officers and directors are associated with one or more of these other organizations in top management and/or working positions. Work will depend largely on local volunteers who will be able to access various physical locations, transcribe or scan records and create a site online to store and maintain it. As envisioned, this is a program that will take many years to bring to fruition, and probably never will be completed. But as more and more research sources are transferred to the internet, more and more family tree tracers will be able to pursue their hobby at home. Take care, Yvonne, Listowner USIGS, Publicity Committee ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK and ROCKBRIDGE County,VA Discussion Lists
Do you ever find Brisby instead of Brisbin? If so I would like to hear from you. Wanda
It's travel season - and if you are travelling back to the old homestead for a reunion, wedding, or just plain old vacation, here is a great idea!! If you take your camcorder along to capture all those wonderful family moments - visit a cemetery (or two) and videotape all the headstones. When you get home, you can fire up your VCR and transcribe the information for our List Archives!! -- Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for these Family Discussion Lists: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Listowner for: The PRINCE WILLIAM, OLD FREDERICK and ROCKBRIDGE County,VA Discussion Lists
******************WELCOME to the BRISBIN Discussion List*************** My name is Yvonne James-Henderson, I'm the "owner" of this list. That means I'm responsible for keeping it running as smoothly as possible and setting some rules for its operation. If you are reading this now..you are subscribed! You are currently subscribed in "mail mode", which means that you will receive every posting made to BRISBIN as a separate e-mail. The directions on how to change to digest mode are given below. This is a discussion area for anyone who has an interest in genealogy related to the BRISBIN Family. Discussion here should be in relation to your BRISBIN and any other possible spelling of your ancestors' and related families and localities. We all owe a big "Thank You" to RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ for adopting our Discussion List and to Larry Stephens, for everything he has done for on-line genealogy. ******************YOUR RESPONSIBLITIES ****************** That's right, you have some responsibilities, too. A mail list isn't like a movie, where you just buy a ticket, get entertained (sometimes) then walk away. This is a cooperative effort. 1. Keep this message. PRINT AND SAVE IT! Trust me, I learned the hard way! I recommend printing it and putting the paper where you can find it. Files on a hard disk get lost (as if paper doesn't, but...) 2. Read this message. Yes, it's a little long, but you don't have to memorize it (that's why you're saving it). It's hard to make it short and tell you what you need to know. 3. Don't be afraid of all this. Using a computer is a little harder than just knowing where the power switch is, but anyone can do this with a little effort and by following instructions. 4. Follow instructions - to the letter. If you leave something out of a command or put something extra in, it probably won't work. 5. If you decide to leave the list, make sure your name is removed (more on this below). The server that sends you this list handles thousands of messages a day. If your address becomes "bad" (for instance, you quit AOL but we think you're still there) then we start getting bounced messages. We get thousands a day now. Please don't make it worse. 6. Remember these addresses: a. IF YOU NEED HELP, CONTACT ME. My address is: daisy@usroots.com 7. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to BRISBIN-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe and no additional text. 8. How to subscribe. Whatever you just did worked, or you'd not be getting this message. But for future reference (for instance, if your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you want to resubscribe), just send the command "subscribe" to BRISBIN-L-request@rootsweb.com. 9. How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message). There are two steps. First, send the command "unsubscribe" to BRISBIN-L-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode. Second, send the command "subscribe" to BRISBIN-D-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving digests. 10. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode. All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them to start again, simply subscribe again. 11.POSTING: If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing list receives it, just send it to BRISBIN-L@rootsweb.com. It will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode. You don't need to send it explicitly to both. For your verification, a transcript of the original subscription request is included below. ********************************************************** Visit the BRISBIN Website at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/brisbin.htm Good luck in your quest! Yvonne ****** Yvonne James-Henderson, Burke, VA My Home page: Daisy's Roots: http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/1daisy.htm alternate addresses: daisy@usroots.com or hen1@idt.net Listowner for: BALLEAU BRISBIN COOKSEY HITT HORN KENTON LAWSON LUCKY MORROW SWEET ZIMMERMAN Family Discussion Lists The Prince William and Rockbridge Co., VA Discussion Lists