AOL addresses are bouncing. This is a consequence of RootsWeb changing its IP address on Tuesday. The new address must propagate through all the mail delivery systems used by various Internet Service Providers, so there will have been a gap in delivery under any circumstances. RootsWeb is sometimes considered a spammer because of the large number of e-mails it delivers, and its IP address gets "blacklisted." The staff works with various ISPs to "whitelist" RootsWeb, but it hasn't succeeded in getting everyone on board with the new IP address. This includes AOL as well as a number of other ISPs. To try and keep people on the lists, I have the number of allowable bounces as high as I can. The MyDoom virus is adding to the complications by clogging mail servers, too. Anyone can contact me on [email protected], if they need assistance. Regards, Gaila

If you get any unexpected files with a .zip, .scr, .exe, .bat, .pif extension - delete them and their attachments for opening the attachments lets the virus loose. To read more on this - http://www.f-prot.com/news/vir_alert/mydoom_a.html http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17501264 The file is 30K in size. Compressed it is 23K, regular size a bit larger than 30K. regards, Gaila

Hi all you Busby kin, I have been reading all the info on the board for a long time, but only lurked behind the scene because my Busbys do not seem to be connected with yours. Gotta be somewhere though. The Busbys were on my mother's side and she did not know much info about them, but I can remember visiting a few Busby kin when I was young. My mother studied music at Washington University in St. Louis and taught piano lessons and music theory for many years. She also played a huge pipe organ at church for a long time. I remember when I really was young going with her to practice the organ on Saturdays and sitting close under the bench so I could watch her feet on the pedals. My son also plays in a band in Memphis, Tn., but all by ear. He plays mostly guitars, but is learning different instruments as he can. He did not do anything with his music talent until he graduated high school in 1990. I am so proud he is now even though it is not my kind of music----some kind of rock. My mother's mother was Frances Josephine Buckelew. She was the daughter of Margaret C. Busby and Abner J. Buckelew. This Margaret is my brick wall. In 1860 she is listed in the household of a Jacob Busby and Sarah Green Busby, a couple too young to be her parents. There are several other teenaged siblings also and then 2 small children of Jacob and Sarah. Margaret marries in 1870 and moves to the Birmingham area in Alabama from Pike Co near Montgomery. Her sister, Melissa Elizabeth, marries a Morgan and goes to Oklahoma. Two brothers, Harvey and William H., go to the civil war. In 1850 we have an M.C. and M. E. and other different names(from 1860) in the home of Richard A. Busby in Madison County, near Huntsville. Richard A. and Elizabeth McKay Busby marry in 1836. No more mention of either after 1850. Now this Jacob of the 1860 census I thought might be an older brother at first, but he was born in 1828 quite a few years before Richard and Elizabeth married. The end of the story!!!!!! Now if you are as confused as I am I like you. I have the war records of Harvey that say he was killed in the war, but heard through the internet that he lived with Wm. H. and his wife for awhile. Jacob died in Kentucky during the war. By the way, I did find a few other descendents of the Busby-Buckelew marriage several years ago and have lost contact. None of them had any info. One of the men, Gerald Godfrey, was an organist and choir director in Birmingham. If anyone has any info on these Busbys, I think you can tell I would love to get my hands on it. More later, Meredith

Anyone related to these folks in my family line. I would like to know the generation of their children. E mail directly if you can provide some genealogy, thanks Truman Lee Busby Birth: 30 MAY 1914, Harrison County, MS Reference: 12817 Family 1: Myrtle Delphine Lizana Marriage: 7 DEC 1934, Harrison County, MS 1.Everett Lee Busby 2.Dixie Faye Busby 3.Archie Earl Busby 4.Arthur Ray Busby 5.June Larue Busby Sincerely, Ernie Smith 2586 otranto road Charleston,SC 29406 Cover Page Address http://members.aol.com/pooh4u386/HOMEPAGE.html Main HomePage Address http://members.aol.com/pooh4u386/HOMEPAGE "Four Centuries on the Pascagoula" by Cyril Cain New Reprint Edition 2 volume set, (info at my site on Coverpage)

Edwina, Also in Washington Parish, on the 1820 census, was a "Widow Busbee." I think Washington Par. split off from St. Tammany shortly before 1820. Any idea who Widow Busbee is? Is she maybe William's widow? Tracy "Edwina B. Owen" wrote: > Dave, > The only one I have anything on is John b. 1814 in VA or W.VA listed on St. > Tammany Parish LA 1840 and 1850 Census. He is my great grandfather. He was > John Hamilton Busbey. I am trying to prove that his parents were Esther > Shinn (A Quaker dismissed from the Church) and Samuel Busbey. Samuel died > about 1816 in Va or WVA and Esther remarried twice. I can't figure out how > or when John migrated to LA or how or where he met and married Mary Anna > Miller, who was born in Switzerland in 1824. John moved to Caddo Parish, > after the 1850 Census where he died in 1854. > > I, also, feel that there may be a connection THE WILL OF JOHN > BUSBY,Hampshire Co., VA Will Book 5, 1809-1815, p. 178 - 180 > Transcribed by Patsy Skeels 10/11/00, with the following children: > Elizabeth, Matthew, Samuel, John, Benjamin and Hamilton? See > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/bio13.htm > > I have wondered about the William Busby in Washingon Parish, since my John > had a son, William born in Caddo Parish. > Hope I can make a connection to prove John's Ancestry. Edwina > > Searching: MILLER/BUSBY/DEAL/COLE/SHIVERS/PILKINTON > > Dave wrote > > all below are taken from census > > Hi, my busbys are from bladen co. nc. 1790 census ezekiel busby > 1800 ezekiel busby over 45 wife over 45 4 sons 1 daughter > william busby under 45 wife under 45 4 sons 1 daughter > > 1810 bladen co. nc. wm. busby & E. busby > > 1820 " " " Ezekiel Busby jr. > 1820 meklenburg co. nc. Wm. busby m. mary morrow > 1830 northhampton co. nc. wm. busby > > 1830 washington parish la. wm. busby > 1840 st. tam. parish la. john busby > 1860 jackson parish la. ezekeil busby age 42 b. Tn. ira age 11 b. Al > sarah busby " 40 b. Al. > george > age 8 b. la. > andrew busby " 14 b. Al. > elizabeth age ? la. > > Please, do you have any thing on these folks?? my wife was a busby. > dave guillory e-mail [email protected] > > ==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: > Send an email to [email protected] with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the subject and/or body of the email. > Listowner: Gaila Merrington [email protected]

Hi I had a look online but couldn't see a Busby name for the Cathedral Choir, only the lead singers Payne and Younce Gaila http://www.cathedralquartet.com/gp-page1.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:45 AM Subject: (no subject) > Wayne, > Who was the Busby man who at one time sang tenor with a gospel group called > "The Cathedral's"? I believe he was from Florida? > > Marilyn > >

Will do. Wayne

Gaila, He probably is not singing with them anymore. That was a long time ago and I believe that its really been longer than I would love to admit. I am sure these singers come and go. Marilyn

Thanks Wayne. I really thought that you might have known who that was. By the way when you get the CD finished of all of the Busby Boys, I think that you need to give a lot of us a chance to order one. I would love to buy one. Marilyn

Marilyn, I am not familiar with that group or any Busby who may have sang with them. Wayne

My father, Houston Busby, his father, Johnnie Nelson Busby and must of my grandfather's brothers played the fiddle. Houston plays (evan at age 82) the fiddle, he is a master of the guitar, and plays some mandolin. He was asked by Kenney Baker, Bill Monroe's fiddle player, and Joe Stuart, who at one time played for Flatt and Scruggs, to move to Nashville and work full time with them on the Bluegrass Circuit. I have no musical talent, but I do "buck dance" which for those of you who do not know is the "homegrown" version of clogging in Mississippi. On my mother's side of the family, Mozingos, she had two brothers that played the guitar. Her youngest was in the military and always had a country band. Now other than dancing.......I can't play or even carry a tune. Wanda L Busby --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004

My great-aunt, Inda Belle BUSBY Wills, (MI> TX-Houston, Kerrville) played piano by ear. As a kid, she would play any tune I asked her to play. If she didn't know the song, I would hum it for her. She had 2 sisters who couldn't dance or carry a tune! As far as I know, she was the only musically talented person in my BUSBY line. Bill Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:16 PM Subject: [Busbee Busby] Busbys and music My mother and grandmother both played piano by ear. Neither could read music. My mother sang beautiful alto in duets at church. Jean Coan ==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== Busbee Busby and Variations Database http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/ Listadmin: Gaila Merrington [email protected]

My mother and grandmother both played piano by ear. Neither could read music. My mother sang beautiful alto in duets at church. Jean Coan

My sister, Linda has written lyrics, nothing published, for years. I think it is a form of creativity for her. And Sandra probably won't brag, but her Granddaughter, has a wonderful voice and could end up being an opera singer. If I sing, people have been known to ask me what I did with the money my Mother gave me for music lessons. I would love to be able to carry a tune, but I don't sing flat....more like I sing sharp. I think Sherwood goes back to William of South Carolina...possible brother or cousin of Benjamin Senior? Gaila ----- > Hi, > Mom says that her great aunt Zorada could sing so well, had an unknown > range, very high. (She was named for her grandmother, Marilda Zorada > Twitchell Busby). My grandfather Michael, Zorada's bro, had a good singing > voice. Their sib, William, too. I don't know that they played > instruments, too long ago. But my family plays a variety, piano, violin, > accordion, wind instruments. Some of my Busby descendant cousins are also > musical. > I enjoy the exchanges so much. I wish I could make the connection to > Sher'od (Sherwood) Busby from SC just after the Revolutionary War. That > name has been handed down, so I am sure there is a connection. > > Linda

Well Sandra - it sure has skipped us, but we can dance! Gaila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne and Sandra" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: [Busbee Busby] Busby`s and Music > I got to thinking which is scary but anyway how many others of y`all have people in your families that make > music, my granddaddy played the quitar I know that some of his brothers families were very good singers some were in gospel quartets, didn`t get to me though{:> evidently Allen had children with alot of music talent. What about some of the other of Reece`s children. Joyce what about your family was mr Silas or mr Emmett musical or your Dad? Just seemed like it was a strong Busby gene. > Sandra > > > ==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== > This is an open forum so please keep postings to the Busbee/Busby and related families. > Listowner: Gaila Merrington [email protected] > >

With a pair of tin ears, I am not musically inclined, but my father was said to have a great voice. And so did one of my sisters, and four female cousins in the Busby line. One of my daughters used to sing at weddings and other gatherings in her younger days. Not only that, she interpreted songs in sign language. No wonder I married a music teacher. Howard

About the musical Busbys: My maternal grandmother, Beulah Busby Thrasher (born in Columbia, SC, died in Bienville Parish, LA), played piano and organ. My mother who played piano, organ, mandolin and guitar also wrote music and poetry and was a gifted artist. ALL of this skipped me but several of my children and grandchildren are musically and artistically gifted. I love the ways the "genes" continue. Bettye Prince Gilbert ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: [Busbee Busby] Music > I have found this in a lot of the Busby's. They played guitars and sing. My > granddaddy Busby had a beautiful tenor voice. He could almost sound like others > singing with him. When I met some of the Busbee's from my Seaborn's 2nd > family I found that they all played and could sing. It skipped me. > > Marilyn > > > ==== BUSBY Mailing List ==== > Busbee Busby and Variations Database Primary Record Transcriptions > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~busby/prtindex.htm > Listadmin: Gaila Merrington [email protected] >

Hi Wanda, My brother Buzz was on the Hayride at the same time, I think? Also, I believe they were inducted into the Louisiana Bluegrass Hall of Fame at the same time in March of '03. They were not aware that they were cousins. My brother Charles and sister-in-law would know if they were there at the same time. Thanks for letting us know about the connection. Wayne

Do any of you know who the Busby man was, who at one time sang tenor with a gospel group called "The Cathedral's"? I believe he was from Florida? No, I had read that he was from Florida and I don't remember the time frame. Marilyn

Thanks Wayne I`m going to order Buzz`s CD but please let me know when the one with you and him come out. Thanks Sandra > Hi Sandra, The CD I told you about is a compilation of Buzz's old 45s that > were remastered and placed on CD. The albums we made were in the early to mid > 1980s and are all out of print. When they are re-released on CDs, I will let > you know. I forgot to tell you that Buzz was inducted into the Louisiana > Hayride Bluegrass Hall of fame in March of 2003 and I was asked to be there to > accept the award for the family. It was very interesting in that Eddie Stubbs, > "The Voice of the Friday night Grand Ole Opry," presented me with the award. > Eddie Stubbs was one of my former students and the student council president > where I was the principal in Gaithersburg, MD. Eddie and I have remained good > friends ever since. As a matter of fact three of the Johnson Mountain Boys > bluegrass group, one of which was Eddie, were my students at Gaithersburg and they > credit me with getting started. > > I suppose you know that Buzz was considered one of the five best bluegrass > mandolin players in the world during the last half century. > His achievements are included in a booklet included in the new CD. > > Keep on picking, you"ll eventually get the hang of it. After awhile the tips > of you fingers will develop a protective callous and they want hurt anymore > if you practice at least 15 or 20 minutes every day. > > Cousin Wayne >