Thanks -----Original Message----- From: MRS PATRICIA A RAY <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 7:02 PM Subject: Things >-- [ From: Patricia Ray * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] -- > >Lori, > And there's another name we run across over & over - MAGEE. There's >no doubt your John Wilson CREWS ran in the same circles as all the >others! > That's another family we need lots more info on since there were >several links between all these groups. There was a Samuel MAGEE b. >after 1706 m. Elizabeth ELLIOTT and had 5 children. The oldest was >Sarah MAGEE b. c1730. She's too old to be your Sarah, but it shows a >possible line. We have 2 other Sarah MAGEEs but they had other husbands >and I didn't see dates for them. I could check further if your Sarah >was m. more than once. Does the name Pleasant STANLEY or Thomas >LIPSCOMB sound familiar? Those were the husbands of the other Sarahs. > The BROWNING family is also linked to CREWS at least twice, in the >southern branch which descends from John CREWS & Nancy COLLINS. A. W. >BROWNING m. Arsula CREWS (b. 1854 d. FL) and Effie BROWNING m. Arthur >CREWS (b. 1886 d. FL). This line came thru SC & GA. I have no idea if >there is a connection, but you might want to keeps those names handy >just in case. >.............................................. >Frank, > The people you are seeking should be easy to get info on as they are >in this century.Or did you mean to type "1842" instead of "1942"? > Is James L. CREWS still alove - you gave no d/d. If not why not try >to get his death cert? You have to write to the county where he died >and give you relationship, of course. Where was that? The certificate >will give you his parents and where he was born. That will give you >much more to go on. > And I have a question and I don't mean to be impertinant, but why do >you attach a copy of your note to the original? It seems to me that's >just more clicks that you don't have to do. And it takes up more space. > Just wondering. >.............................................. >Hazel, > I'm starting to read back through the notes that were posted while I >was offline and I ran across one from you back on 4 Nov giving your >final conclusions on your Thomas CREWS's. You asked me if I have any >record of Gideon CREWS b. 1730 Hanover Co, Va having any wife other then >Jamima WHICKER. The answer if "No". No record of any other wives. > Now a question for you. I have their son, Wm. Littleberry CREWS with >wife and desc's, but I have no desc's listed for any of his siblings. >Do you have any? >............................................... >Joanne B. (Gus) checked for a Rusfus CREWS in her db and didn't find him >. Do we know if that's supposed to be "Rufus"? >............................................... >Here's instructions on how to access the archive files for the notes you >missed - all dozen of them? send a message as follows: > >To: [email protected] >Subject: archive >- - - - - >search Crews latest/* > >They prefer we don't use this search engine if we have over 3000 >messages posted, but that's not a problem for us, yet. The * is a wild >card that tells it to search ALL the messages for CREWS. This is where >it gets confusing and I don't know if I can make is easy. You will get >back a list and the instructions tell you to ignore certain things, but >essentially you have to write back & request the notes you want. The >syntax for ordering the notes is very confusing and I really hope you >won't shoot me if I just ask you to go read them yourselves. > >Go to rootsweb.com and click on <Mail Lists> >Click on <Infomation for Listowner> >Click on <Guidelines for Managing, etc> >Go down to Q and A and find one that asks >Q. Are our messages archived? >Click on <Search features Available, etc.> > >The file is about 2 pages long and it will teach you to get the old >messages. >Have fun! > > Pat > > > > >