----- Original Message ----- From: Virginia Eash <veash@onlinemac.com> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Covey book > You Can go to the LDS Family History Center and it > is on a film are a fisch. > ----- Original Message --- > To: <COVEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:19 PM > Subject: RE: Covey book > > > > Norma [mailto:dnh@sedona.net] wrote: > > > Just saw your posting to the Covey-L and I'm wondering..... > > > "What are the Covey books?" > > > Can I get them thru interlibrary loan? > > > > Though you wrote this off list, I'm replying to the list since others may > > wonder the same thing. > > > > Ancestors and Descendants of Walter Covey Dutchess County, New York > > (1850-1834) > > 2 volumes > > copyright 1871 by Mary Lancaster Quist > > Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-91104, no ISBN number shows on > > books > > > > They were "published by The Covey Family Genealogical Organization", > printed > > by Publishers Press, Salt Lake City. > > > > After I aquired the books in a book store in Indiana, I contacted Mary > Quist > > who lived close by in Santa Ana CA. She expressed suprise that I was able > to > > find them since there weren't many printed and she thought they were all > > accounted for (mine were new, not used and I paid $40 for the set - way > > under what she had charged). I got the impressed she thought there was > > something very suspicious about my having them, and she was not at all > > forthcoming on further data. A few years later I tried to call her again. > > Long story short, she had died in the meantime, and I tried to track her > > sons through the LDS (she was Morman) and got no response. I used a proper > > LDS form to find out about them, and I was ultimately told that if they > had > > info they would respond, but if no response, it meant no info. So, the > > family is a dead end. I gathered that the family organization was just a > > name for business purposes, much like I use Root Chasers for my own family > > organization, immediate family are the only members. > > > > As for getting a copy through IL loan - well, you'd have to search to find > a > > library with a copy and then see if they will IL loan. > > > > > My line is: > > > Laura COVEY, m. abt 1832 NY to Nelson FULLER > > > b.1 Nov 1811 NY; d. 13 Aug 1842 MI; > > > (Nelson is my proven connection to the Mayflower Pilgrim, > > > Edward Fuller) > > > Benjamin COVEY m. Elizabeth > > > James COVEY, Jr. m. Mary LANPHERE > > > James COVEY m. Sarah LANPHERE > > > Hope COVEY m. Mary > > > James COVEY m. Mary MUMFORD > > > > > > Hope you can find the info on the book. I would really like to > > > look at them. > > > > page 93 Benjamin is person Vb > > Benjamin Covey, of Mt Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass., b. to Mary > Lanphere > > and James Covey; m. Rhoda, b. 1753 of Galatin, Columbia Co., N.Y. who d. > 12 > > Jun 1805 (ae 52) at Gallatin, Comubia Co., N.Y. and bur. at same place. > > (estate adm 17 Sept. 1838). He m. (2) ___. > > pg 94 > > Children > > <snip> > > 6f. Laura of Gallatin or Ancran, Columbia Co., Mass., m. Nelson Fuller; in > > Greenoak in 1838. > > <snip> > > > > And before everyone asks for a lookup, I want to say that I'm sorry, I > just > > can't do it (lack of time). Periodically, when I see a post by someone > > looking for their Covey connection *and I have the time to do it*, I will > > grab the books and see if there is anything that will help. So far, I've > > never found anything that would help anyone. > > > > -- > > Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) > > "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" > > kathryn@bassett.net > > http://bassett.net > > >