Information found on websites are always clues. Sometimes useful. Sometimes frustrating. I once found a very interesting story about a family that moved to KY. Supposedly 2 brothers moving to KY separated in bad weather and never found each other. When the cows (or horses) got loose, the father went to look for them. He didn't return for months. Supposedly the cows walked all the way back to VA. BUT years later another researcher (who hadn't heard the story apparently) found records that both brothers settled in Eastern KY a number of years before my family moved to s central KY. Those cows had a phenomenal memory to follow their scent all the way back to VA after all that time!!! My cousin knew the kind old lady who wrote the book. A widow with no children we were all her cousins! I really appreciate the time she took to publish precious family stories. Maybe a little inaccurate but wonderful clues that helped me find the real details. Sharing is wonderful. I also researched the Sandusky family for years. I wrote and ordered a new book on the family. In the book she told the story of how she drove a lady back and forth to church for years. Later when the lady went into the nursing home, her daughters who took over the estate wanted nothing to do with moms old scrapbooks tossing them into a rummage sale. The genealogist found one of them and discovered that the older lady was a Sandusky descendant. She visited the old lady who told her she had books and books with notes of corrections in the colums. By the time the researcher contacted the family all the files and books had been discarded or burned. More irony. As I read the story, I realized that this lady was a descendant of a collateral line in my family. "Cousins" from colonial VA. I lived 5 miles from the family mansion in IL and 30 miles from both ladies in the book. Separately we probably had 50+ years of research amongst. Too bad we didn't share what we had ! each found. The published details may be borrowed, that may be murky from faded memories, but the more we share the more we learn. I once argued friendly with a person who posted our family history on the net. He didn't understand that my ex husband might not want his name posted in my family history. I finally convinced him that I had a distant cousin in law enforcement in his state who might not like his mother and grandmothers pedigree posted on the internet He finally agreed angrily to take out names of the living on my side He only had a collateral connection to our family through a mutual ancestor but posted someone elses research as his own. Not everything published on the net is true but I still find gems without leaving the comfort or our home. BUT we still have to spend time in those dusty old shelves to document details of what we find! Don't put off taling to those aunts and cousins before its too late. My kids don't appreciate my genealogy. I think someday, I hope, some distant grandchild will please me for my habit. My child of my heart. I think my grandparents grandparents would be happy to know that we still seek them out and long to find those pioneer graves long forgotten to stand in memory and whisper. "I found you at last!" And by the way, has ANYONE had any luck in finding Martha Lockhart Dodson's grandparents? Did Thomas Lockhart just appear one day in colonial VA? Donna Osborn <[email protected]> wrote: I have found many wrong things posted up what people put on my family names, even children that are to old for there parents. I have gone and done research my self and found in books more. And I payed a researcher when I could not find enough imformation in my counties where my ancestors were and it payed off and was worth it. I have found out that Liburay's and the intermet does not have everything on them. People need to get more imformation about there people. Donna ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== Rules for a Happy List: Only send information related to genealogy - Dodsons specifically. If someone should post an inappropriate message, it is the list manager's job to correct them. Thanks! --------------------------------- Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items.

This is such good advice I had to write and say "thank you" for posting it. I long to find old stories of my family line but for some reason I can't seem to find any of them. I have tried to speak to family members and they just claim they don't remember anything at all. But the stories is what makes it so interesting. If anyone can point me in some new direction as to where to locate these old stories please let me know. I use to sit and ask my grandfathers to tell me stories about when they were kids but I always got the same story everytime. But I still enjoyed hearing it and watching their expressions while telling it. Now everyone has long passed and distant relatives are calling me wanting to know if I knew any of the old stories, which I can only tell the 2 or 3 that I know. My children doesn't appreciate my love of this hobby either but hopefully I have an upcoming grandson who will take it up when I am long gone. He does ask me questions and wants to help with my scrapbooking and genealogy when he is here and he is only 9yrs old now so hopefully he won't lose the love for it when he gets older. Thanks for listening to me and all advice will be greatly appreciated. My ancestors are Corp johnathon James Dodson Jr. and Mary Ashcraft, Abisha Dodson Sr and Mary Walker, Robert Dodson and Mary (nee Sugg) Dodson Bloch/Block. If anyone can add to this line please contact me. [email protected] Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Reynolds" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [DODSON] Documenting or copying > Information found on websites are always clues. Sometimes useful. > Sometimes frustrating. I once found a very interesting story about a > family that moved to KY. Supposedly 2 brothers moving to KY separated in > bad weather and never found each other. When the cows (or horses) got > loose, the father went to look for them. He didn't return for months. > Supposedly the cows walked all the way back to VA. BUT years later > another researcher (who hadn't heard the story apparently) found records > that both brothers settled in Eastern KY a number of years before my > family moved to s central KY. Those cows had a phenomenal memory to > follow their scent all the way back to VA after all that time!!! > My cousin knew the kind old lady who wrote the book. A widow with no > children we were all her cousins! I really appreciate the time she took to > publish precious family stories. Maybe a little inaccurate but wonderful > clues that helped me find the real details. Sharing is wonderful. > I also researched the Sandusky family for years. I wrote and ordered a > new book on the family. In the book she told the story of how she drove a > lady back and forth to church for years. Later when the lady went into the > nursing home, her daughters who took over the estate wanted nothing to do > with moms old scrapbooks tossing them into a rummage sale. The > genealogist found one of them and discovered that the older lady was a > Sandusky descendant. She visited the old lady who told her she had books > and books with notes of corrections in the colums. By the time the > researcher contacted the family all the files and books had been discarded > or burned. More irony. As I read the story, I realized that this lady > was a descendant of a collateral line in my family. "Cousins" from > colonial VA. I lived 5 miles from the family mansion in IL and 30 miles > from both ladies in the book. Separately we probably had 50+ years of > research amongst. Too bad we didn't share what we had ! > each > found. The published details may be borrowed, that may be murky from > faded memories, but the more we share the more we learn. > I once argued friendly with a person who posted our family history on the > net. He didn't understand that my ex husband might not want his name > posted in my family history. I finally convinced him that I had a distant > cousin in law enforcement in his state who might not like his mother and > grandmothers pedigree posted on the internet He finally agreed angrily to > take out names of the living on my side He only had a collateral > connection to our family through a mutual ancestor but posted someone > elses research as his own. > Not everything published on the net is true but I still find gems without > leaving the comfort or our home. BUT we still have to spend time in those > dusty old shelves to document details of what we find! > Don't put off taling to those aunts and cousins before its too late. My > kids don't appreciate my genealogy. I think someday, I hope, some distant > grandchild will please me for my habit. My child of my heart. I think my > grandparents grandparents would be happy to know that we still seek them > out and long to find those pioneer graves long forgotten to stand in > memory and whisper. "I found you at last!" > And by the way, has ANYONE had any luck in finding Martha Lockhart > Dodson's grandparents? Did Thomas Lockhart just appear one day in colonial > VA? > > Donna Osborn <[email protected]> wrote: > I have found many wrong things posted up what people put on my family > names, even children that are to old for there parents. > > I have gone and done research my self and found in books more. And I payed > a researcher when I could not find enough imformation in my counties where > my ancestors were and it payed off and was worth it. I have found out that > Liburay's and the intermet does not have everything on them. People need > to get more imformation about there people. > > Donna > > > ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== > Rules for a Happy List: Only send information related to genealogy - > Dodsons specifically. If someone should post an > inappropriate message, it is the list manager's job to correct them. > Thanks! > > > > --------------------------------- > Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. > > > ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== > Have you tried Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project? > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi > > >

In 2003 I received a call from a cousin. She said that her sister had some information for me that has been mislaid. (One of the things I had done early on in my research was to contact my aunts and uncles and ask for information (birthdates, birthplaces, marriages, etc.) about their respective familes and also if they knew any information about the family of their parents. Some responded and some did not and I got some information by telephone from them. Well, it seems in 1969 that my aunt had filled in the blanks on a questionaire I had sent her and asked that her daughter mail it to me and that had never happened and she came across the sheet that had been completed by her mother (who was now deceased). Her answers confirmed what had been found in the meantime through other means. The biggest being that we had finally located descendants of our grandfather's younger brother and had confirmed the relationship by DNA. When I had asked her questions she had told me that the brother's last known address was Orange, Texas and by knowing that much I was finally able to locate them. In her information for me it listed some information on his descandants which would have made our search so much easier. It was wonderful to get it even after 34 years! The biggest loss I think was that some of the first generation descendants were still living at the time she completed the questionaire, now we are dealing with second generation descendants. I guess my tip would be to practice persistence when the information is not forthcoming. As has been previously stated, some of the "clues" we find on the internet are not completely accurate but they are a clue or starting point to give you some idea of where to research. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Arnold" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [DODSON] Documenting or copying

Bonnie, My mother gets interested but doesn't pay attention until I can't wait to tell he a new story I found and she says Oh, that I knew that already. Then why didn't you tell me earlier! Keep digging. If you keep finding stories your relatives may want to tell you the details they remember. Its the little things that trigger the memories. don't get discouraged. Jo Ann Bonnie Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: This is such good advice I had to write and say "thank you" for posting it. I long to find old stories of my family line but for some reason I can't seem to find any of them. I have tried to speak to family members and they just claim they don't remember anything at all. But the stories is what makes it so interesting. If anyone can point me in some new direction as to where to locate these old stories please let me know. I use to sit and ask my grandfathers to tell me stories about when they were kids but I always got the same story everytime. But I still enjoyed hearing it and watching their expressions while telling it. Now everyone has long passed and distant relatives are calling me wanting to know if I knew any of the old stories, which I can only tell the 2 or 3 that I know. My children doesn't appreciate my love of this hobby either but hopefully I have an upcoming grandson who will take it up when I am long gone. He does ask me questions and wants to help with my scrapbooking and genealogy when he is here and he is only 9yrs old now so hopefully he won't lose the love for it when he gets older. Thanks for listening to me and all advice will be greatly appreciated. My ancestors are Corp johnathon James Dodson Jr. and Mary Ashcraft, Abisha Dodson Sr and Mary Walker, Robert Dodson and Mary (nee Sugg) Dodson Bloch/Block. If anyone can add to this line please contact me. [email protected] Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Reynolds" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [DODSON] Documenting or copying > Information found on websites are always clues. Sometimes useful. > Sometimes frustrating. I once found a very interesting story about a > family that moved to KY. Supposedly 2 brothers moving to KY separated in > bad weather and never found each other. When the cows (or horses) got > loose, the father went to look for them. He didn't return for months. > Supposedly the cows walked all the way back to VA. BUT years later > another researcher (who hadn't heard the story apparently) found records > that both brothers settled in Eastern KY a number of years before my > family moved to s central KY. Those cows had a phenomenal memory to > follow their scent all the way back to VA after all that time!!! > My cousin knew the kind old lady who wrote the book. A widow with no > children we were all her cousins! I really appreciate the time she took to > publish precious family stories. Maybe a little inaccurate but wonderful > clues that helped me find the real details. Sharing is wonderful. > I also researched the Sandusky family for years. I wrote and ordered a > new book on the family. In the book she told the story of how she drove a > lady back and forth to church for years. Later when the lady went into the > nursing home, her daughters who took over the estate wanted nothing to do > with moms old scrapbooks tossing them into a rummage sale. The > genealogist found one of them and discovered that the older lady was a > Sandusky descendant. She visited the old lady who told her she had books > and books with notes of corrections in the colums. By the time the > researcher contacted the family all the files and books had been discarded > or burned. More irony. As I read the story, I realized that this lady > was a descendant of a collateral line in my family. "Cousins" from > colonial VA. I lived 5 miles from the family mansion in IL and 30 miles > from both ladies in the book. Separately we probably had 50+ years of > research amongst. Too bad we didn't share what we had ! > each > found. The published details may be borrowed, that may be murky from > faded memories, but the more we share the more we learn. > I once argued friendly with a person who posted our family history on the > net. He didn't understand that my ex husband might not want his name > posted in my family history. I finally convinced him that I had a distant > cousin in law enforcement in his state who might not like his mother and > grandmothers pedigree posted on the internet He finally agreed angrily to > take out names of the living on my side He only had a collateral > connection to our family through a mutual ancestor but posted someone > elses research as his own. > Not everything published on the net is true but I still find gems without > leaving the comfort or our home. BUT we still have to spend time in those > dusty old shelves to document details of what we find! > Don't put off taling to those aunts and cousins before its too late. My > kids don't appreciate my genealogy. I think someday, I hope, some distant > grandchild will please me for my habit. My child of my heart. I think my > grandparents grandparents would be happy to know that we still seek them > out and long to find those pioneer graves long forgotten to stand in > memory and whisper. "I found you at last!" > And by the way, has ANYONE had any luck in finding Martha Lockhart > Dodson's grandparents? Did Thomas Lockhart just appear one day in colonial > VA? > > Donna Osborn wrote: > I have found many wrong things posted up what people put on my family > names, even children that are to old for there parents. > > I have gone and done research my self and found in books more. And I payed > a researcher when I could not find enough imformation in my counties where > my ancestors were and it payed off and was worth it. I have found out that > Liburay's and the intermet does not have everything on them. People need > to get more imformation about there people. > > Donna > > > ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== > Rules for a Happy List: Only send information related to genealogy - > Dodsons specifically. If someone should post an > inappropriate message, it is the list manager's job to correct them. > Thanks! > > > > --------------------------------- > Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. > > > ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== > Have you tried Rootsweb's WorldConnect Project? > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi > > > ==== DODSON Mailing List ==== Have wills, deeds, bios or cemetery records? Add them to the Rootsweb Message Board for DODSON: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=Surnames.Dodson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com