Your quite welcome. I was born in Durango... Small world. I am currently trying to locate information on the family that raised my mothers in the San Juan Basin area. His name was Shirley Wills/Wells and her name was Anna Wills/Wells. My mother and grandmother cleaned the dude ranch and cooked for them, later in years my mother took guests on trail rides in the mountains and later became rodeo Queen for a couple counties for trick riding, roping calves & barrel racing. :>) Best Wishes, Addie List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:23 AM Subject: [COLAPLAT] thank you... and another source > Addy, > Thanks for reminding us how to research. Sometimes after awhile we > forget to do certain things in our haste to "add" family members to our > genealogy. > Another good resource is FamilySearch.org. Though some disagree on > this > site for its accuracy, this is where I found my first family, after I had > looked through all the stuff my family had left me. Some years ago, > before the > LDS site was ever available, I went to my local Family Center in Midland, > Tx. There I found folks who had a computer (!!) and discs of > information. I > found on one of the databases a woman living in Utah, who would be my > Mother's > cousin, who had been doing genealogy for YEARS! She listed my > grandmother > (though the surname was incorrect) and grandfather. We have been > corresponding for 12 years now. I still have the original printout and > all her letters > and of course photos of our family. > Since then, I have visited several LDS Family Search locations. You > can > find local centers on the webiste. They have always been helpful. I was > able to obtain copies of books on microfilm or film rolls. You can even > do a > surname lookup on the website and find those book titles, then order them > through the local center. Also, they have published on the internet the > 1880 > census, and it is free. > I am researching the following families, all around Durango, Marvel, > and > Ouray: McKelvey (Durango and Marvel, Victor and Saguache), Roberts > (Durango), Faris (Durango), Gonner (Durango), Kittner or Keltow (Durango > and Ouray), > and Schweitzer (Ouray). My great-grandfather was Frank Gonner, a man > from > Luxembourg who ended up in Durango and became a rather well-known > photographer > between 1889 and 1912. I have hundred of pages of these families I would > love > to share or add to! > Thanks for letting me put in my two cents. > Kathy Gibson > Southgate, MI > > > ==== COLAPLAT Mailing List ==== > List Admin: Addie [email protected] . > NO Virus warnings, flaming, cursing, selling or private 'chit-chat' on > this list, okay! For a copy of list guidelines & etiquettes please visit > http://www.geocities.com/addie_morrissey/CoLaPlat.html . > >