unsubscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: txcalvert <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: [CALVERT-L] New Cousin > Hi all. I am so excited. I received email from a granddaughter of one of my > great aunts. This is the first contact that I've with anyone from this line. > I know you all know how exciting this is. I am sending her 2 messages and > will tell her abt the Calvert list. Vicki K. Calvert Spencer > > #1 > Will I assume we are related since William Culbertson Calvert is my > great-grandfather. His daughter Zilphia (Zelpha) is my grandmother. My > father, Franklin Roosevelt Mitchell, is the child of Zilphia and James L. > Mitchell that was not listed among her children. James Mitchell along with > two other brothers who were the children of James L. Mitchell from a > previous marriage. I am in the process of obtaining more information about > these children and the Mitchell side of the family. > > Presently, I am attending Morgan State University in Baltimore where I am > beginning research for my thesis. My thesis is going to be about our family > that follows the bloodline of Governor Leonard Calvert of Maryland. It's > funny because I only recently learned about the history of our family. I > was never told anything about our family and was I ever surprised about the > historically significant family from which I come. > > One particular reason I am e-mailing you is because I need to know where you > obtained your information. In writing my thesis I have to document all of > my information so I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me. > > Hoping to hear from you soon. If possible send your phone number and I'll > give you a call. > Elizabeth Mitchell Rhodes > > > #2 > I am so glad to hear from you. I would appreciate any information you might > have all the way back to Governor Leonard Calvert. My thesis is going to > touch on Leonard and the Calverts in Virginia but then I am going to focus > on the Calverts in Kentucky. > > If you know of any sources that you can share, please, e-mail them to me. I > need all of the help I can get so I can complete my thesis and graduate in > May. > > I thought maybe you would to know something about my side of the family. > Grandma Zilphia Etolia Mitchell married James L. Mitchell who was from > Indiana. It is very possible that Grandpa Mitchell was the son of James L. > Mitchell who was an officer in the Union Army. If so, then James L. > Mitchell was born in Shelby Co., KY moved to Indianapolis where he practiced > law, served as a Senator and the mayor of Indianapolis. > This information has not been totally proved so it will have to wait until > later. Right now it have to focus on the Calverts so I can finish my > thesis. > > I have lots of other information about Grandma that I will get to later > after I have organized it. I am dying to talk to you became after my > thesis, I'll eventually be working on my dissertation. In that I will cover > the rest of the family to present-day. So I will need a lot of help from > anyone that is willing. > > E-mail me and let me know when you will be at the phone number you gave me > then I will call. > > I am so glad to get to know members of my family. I was either never told > about my family or since my accident I forgot anything that I had been told. > Seventeen years ago I was severely injured when I was 34 and here I am today > at 51 studying for a doctorate. > It is difficult but I am determined to work again. When I was studying for > my BA at the University of Louisville I realized that I was too old for many > occupations but there was one area where I could work until I dropped dead > in the halls and that was in academia. So I decided that when I am finished > I am going to go back and teach at U of L. > > Hope to hear from you soon. > Cousin Elizabeth Lynn Mitchell > > > > __________________________________________ > NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/p/e/Vicki-K-Spencer/GENE1-0001.html > > http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/vspencer/keith.htm > > http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/vspencer/byers.htm > > > > ==== CALVERT Mailing List ==== > Please do not send spam warnings, chain letters, attachements and/or html or rich text formatted email to the list. If in questions, please address the listowner at [email protected] > >