Seeking info on parents of Loula Gray, b. 6/1857 in MS, d. 1/24/1914 in Timpson, Shelby Co., TX. She married John Henry McLeroy 11/1883 in Panola Co. He was b. 1/1855 in GA and d. 3/15/1931 in Timpson. Both are buried in the Timpson-Woodlawn Cem. They were parents of Maud (b. 1885), Annie (b. 1886), Charles (b. 1889), John B. (b. 1893), Carrie (b. 1894), Loula H. (b. 1896) and Robert L. (b. 1898). John Henry McLeroy was a Baptist circuit preacher. Before his marriage to Loula Gray, he had been married to Larissa Baker in 1877. I do not know if there were children from this union. He married for a third time to Esther Cummins just a few months before his death. According to one source, Loula's mother's given name may have been Elvira. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. Sincerely, John Hull

Have a grgr William Forist Sinclair b:1836d:1895 buried in Monticello,TX. Bevins cementerywife Nancy Ann Hicklin Sinclair b:1839d:1892 buried in Bevins cementery Monticello,TX. Have a grgrgr Barnett Hicklin b:1787d:1839 buried in Bevins cementery Monticello,TX.

Good Morning, Although I have been recovering from pneumonia (was in the hospital for over a month the first time and a week the second time) I have tried to read as many messages as possible. To identify my claim to East- Texas Roots my GrGrGrandparents Joel and Nancy (Lay) Fain, migrated to Anderson County TX in the early 1850's along with other relatives and neighbors from Georgia. Rev. Walker married a daughter of Joel and Nancy Fain. Here is where I fell by the wayside. I received a message from someone descended from the Walker line but because I was in the midst of recovery at the time I laid this message aside with every intention of replying. Somehow that message was deleted. If that person is still on the listing please contact me again. I am much better and can give your request the proper attention. As for Ya'wll we know what is being said. Have a good day and Keep Looking UP. Angus

Dear East-Texas-Rooters, This listowner talks only occasionally, but usually says a lot when she does. If you are going to participate in the list, you need to read my occasional guidelines and heed them! The first one is at the top here. There should be NO responses to this message on the list. Please send all responses to me privately at [email protected] If for some reason, you do not get a response from me, it doesn't indicate lack or interest or disagreement. I read every message you send and take it very much into consideration. This is your list. I been concerned for a while that things on ETR were not staying strictly on genealogy, in the sense of queries, family group sheets and pedigree charts. However,. I prefer to let things ride, if I can, and I did see several people who seemed to be very appreciative of the URLs and other information being provided by Alice and others. I've been off-line on and off this past week due to a death in the family. One of my closest friends who is also my cousin lost her baby very tragically. I think there is very little in the world that hurts as much as losing a child, and it made me realize that while the computer is wonderful, it is times like this that really define what "family" means. I had hoped that y'all (I have *never* seen it as 'yawl') or in Yankee land, all of you, could take care of yourselves for a while, while I was involved in off-line family concerns. I think that Kathy is right, though, that I need to articulate some guidelines. East Texas as defined by this list is not any strict list of counties. It is a state of mind. That is, if your ancestors lived anywhere in the eastern part of the state and/or considered themselves East Texans, this is your list. There is a list for the area near the Oklahoma border, although we cover it also. There is a list for the hill country around Austin and San Antonio; there is a list for West Texas, and there is now a Texas-Roots list for everything not covered anywhere else. So, basically, you're welcome here, but if your ancestors are from way down the valley or way over in the panhandle or way out west, you probably will be disappointed that you will make few if any connections. All Texas counties have or soon will have their own list, so don't forget to make use of that resource as well. EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS is for the discussion of all aspects of East Texas Genealogy and History. That does include more than queries, family group sheets, pedigrees and genealogy in the narrow, technical sense. Information about history, culture, including Cajun is interesting and helpful. Presumably we want to know something about how our ancestors lived as well as who, when and where. Maps and geography are always relevant to genealogists. Angus Robinson rightly pointed out that language is important, also. So all of these topics are appropriate to East-Texas-Roots. However, all of us, and I am not singling out or picking on anyone here -- need to use common sense and be sensitive to the needs and limitations of others. When you have something to say that seems to you to be something that would be relevant, interesting and useful to the whole group of East-Texas-Roots subscribers, or at least to most of them, then it should be sent to the list. An occasional personal note -- again, if it is relevant to many -- for instance, I noted more than one message describing in very personal terms the joys and frustrations of working with death certificates -- I think that is fine. But when general-purpose history, culture and human interest become "chit-chatting" and *especially* if you are chit-chatting with one or a few friends, then at that point, those messages should go private. Similarly, a general thankgiving to the whole list for the help received on some particular question or research puzzle is appropriate, especially if you give us a summary of what was given to you. But personal thank yous, and requests of information of a personal nature, and any complaints by individuals to individuals should -- MUST -- go to that individual. If the message should appropriately go private, it's your responsibility to make sure the individual email address is in the TO: field. For me, this means I have to take an extra couple of moments to copy and paste it. You may have to do something similar. Even though the vast majority of us may be persons of faith, this is not an appropriate place for expressions of faith or the lack of it. It is or could be appropriate to discuss churches, church records, ways that people worshipped and believed in former times as long as it is in an historical context and has some relevance to genealogy. There's a difference and people need to be clearly aware of it and make the distinction. Expression of your opinion about things like whether something is appropriate or not, or whether or not we should "move on" do not belong on the list. In my experience, the best way to handle it is as follows. Let's say there is a discussion you are following, and you agree it has some merit, but it has begun to run its course and get old and redundant. If you write and express your opinion to the list, 155 people -- maybe more -- will do the same, greatly aggravating the problem. If you write privately to the person(s) who are involved, they may just get insulted, and create more of a problem. However, if you will start a new topic on a subject that returns closer to strict genealogy, chances are those 155 people will also follow suit. If you feel you need to, you can let the listowner (me) know privately -- but generally, unless there is some unusual crisis, or I can't get on because of bad weather (a problem this past week for many of us who live in East Texas), I will be following all the threads, so I usually do know what is going on. Whenever you write a message, you need to make sure that you have a clear, simple, accurate subject heading. I believe there are a few email systems where this can be a bit tricky, especially for those in digest mode. However, for the vast majority of us, this is something that we can do easily and we need to take responsibility for doing it. There just isn't any good reason for the vague, meaningless headers that I think have made our recent conversations less helpful than they could have been. Use your common sense, folks. Take an extra moment to redo the header. If you are leaving a query, DO NOT call it "My Family". (I made that up! I am not pointing at anybody!) Call it John Smith 1830-1880 Angelina->Rusk Co or Smith Family in Angelina 1820-1900 if it's a lot more than just John (I made this up, too). But let us know in the header what you are going to talk about in the body of the message. This is YOUR responsibility. The list isn't moderated, the listowner has no control over any headers except her own. I agree with the the people who recognize that unless the members of the list are willing to use common sense, chit-chat in private, say please and thank you in private, criticize in private, write meaningful queries and meaningful subject headers, the serious researchers will get disgusted and unsubscribe. Folks, whether you are experienced, a beginner or somewhere in between, we ALL need those serious researchers who know where to find records and how to read them, ditto with maps and so on. If you want those serious researchers to stay around and help you find your ancestors, you need to decide to discipline yourself to stay on topic. That does NOT mean that we all have to go around with a long face and NEVER share a joke, or lighten up. It does mean that, in general, in any set of 100 messages on East-Texas-Roots, a very, very large majority should be on-topic and yeah, basically serious. When people sign on to East-Texas-Roots mailing list, they do so because they are interested in Genealogy, they have ancestors who lived in East-Texas and they are hoping to connect with people who can help them sort out their families, and help them learn about the history and culture of the place and time those ancestors lived. Some people have to connect long distance and pay by the minute. Much more often, people are dedicated genealogists who also have a life! Some may have spouses and children, one or more full-time or part time jobs, and/or be caring for an elderly or sick relative. They are interested in what there is available on East-Texas-Roots and they want to, and do contribute as well, but they get frustrated when topics go on and on and on and/or are peripheral to their research and/or become visiting and chatting. I have to admit I have real sympathy here. These are the people who are the core of the list, and it is their needs that need to be met. Some people respond to the frustrations these people express by saying 'Use the delete key'. That's good advice up to a point. But my experience is that it takes a LOT of time and energy to go through hundreds of messages, deleting most, but at the same time trying to sift out the handful that might contain something really important to your research. For that reason, I discourage sending genealogy poems and jokes (once in a while is okay, but I really mean once in a while -- NOT daily). ANY kind of chain letter, or cross-posting is forbidden and this is from Rootsweb, which hosts these lists. I see no problem with an occasional reference to legitimate places where serious researchers can go to find material they may be looking for. For instance, Carolyn Ericson is a professional genealogist who has made a lot of valuable primary material available to people researching in Nacogdoches and neighboring counties at reasonable prices. Exchanging information about where to find such material seems to me to be a help to anyone interested in genealogical research in East Texas. Also, sometimes Genealogical or Historical societies have valuable material for sale, and letting us know about them from time to time is legitimate. For instance, the Nacogdoches Genealogical Society is trying to find at least 200 people willing to buy the book on Nacogdoches County Families so that it can be reprinted. People on ETR are the very people who may be most interested. There are others, however, who are involved in scams and spams, and those are strictly forbidden and anyone engaging in that kind of activity will be permanently rejected from Rootsweb lists. On that topic, a *brief* discussion of situations like the problem of Halbert's is fine, but the discussion should rather quickly go private. Halbert's has been around for MORE than a generation. New genealogists don't know about it and need to, but *everyone else* does know and doesn't need to read an extended thread. I appreciate all those, including but not limited to Alice, who have sent URLs of helpful web sites. I do not want to discourage that at all, but it would be helpful to include a description of what one would find at the web site, why you found it helpful, etc., and put the address in a consistent form, i.e., http://www.helpful-url.com. (This is NOT a real URL). Make the subject header relevant. For instance, 'Helpful websites for maps and geography' -- tells us what to expect in the body of the message. Then, several URLs on the same subject could be sent together. Those interested can go immediately to that thread; those not interested can immediately skip it. I keep coming back to 'Use common sense' and 'Take an extra moment or two, that is all it takes, to proofread, put details of who, where and when into queries, make subject headers meaningful, make personal message private.' All 650+ of us are not going to agree every time on what is relevant. But I truly believe that 90% or more of the decisions that need to be made about whether to send a message to the list or privately, and what to include in the header and the query can be made using common sense and common sensitivity to the needs of others. If that really happened, the noise level on the list would be so low that even those who have the least time and the most expense wouldn't mind the occasional message that would come through that they, personally, might feel isn't appropriate or should have gone privately. SO -- take an extra moment to use common sense when you send any message to this or any other list, and I guarantee that if everyone does that, the list will become all that you hoped it would be when you subscribed -- and more! Finally -- to those of you who have tried to unsubscribe or were wanting to, I hope that you will change your mind and stay. And as always, thanks to all those who give SO much to this list! Sincerely, Pam Phillips Listowner East-Texas-Roots-L Email address: [email protected]

The more exact address of GLOBAL SURNAME SEARCH is: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi?search> (remember to remove "<" & ">" if you paste the address on your intenet page. Jackie Ashley PACE of Pasadena, TX

I believe queries to the EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L page are archived and searched through the global search engine whenever a person goes to: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html> You type in a surname, and then global search, and great things may happen. Therefore, we should all be careful that the "SUBJECT" line have a SURNAME and/or county and/or state and/or date. ie "ASHLEY - 1836 TX" The 1st line of your query should not be wasted into like "I am looking for..." or such other stuff. You can immediately go into your query, ie... "Wm P. & nephew John P. ASHLEY reported in 1836 TX from their Montgomery AL home when John's dad, James Martin ASHLEY died. Looking for proof either of them was here." When the archived query is read, only the 1st 5 or 6 words are seen, plus the subject line. If you want someone to open your query and read it, be sure they know it is worth their "surfing time." I have had responses to queries more than a year old. And my success on 2 years of internet greatly outpaces 25 year of research. If you want to be sure a query is archives, go to the query board on the surname GenConnect board. And if you are willing to share your great grandfather's will or obit or deed or pension record you have so carefully hunted up, put it on the GenConnect board. This is a wonderful place to put your data & be sure it can be found for some yet unknown "fourth cousin twice remove." I don't think the search engine will find "Ya'll" discussions, but it might. TTYL, Jackie Ashley Pace of Pasadena, TX http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/c/Jackie-A-PACE/index.html E/index.html

I belong to a list called [email protected] would love this discussion. It is a very insightful list.------Karen Kerr

Alright ya'll,you know he is right. Sorry for my post about decoding Cajun stuff.If all the serious genealogist leave the forum we will just have an East Texas chat room.That would be a good project for a different list altogether.We are supposed to be talking about the missing and the dead. I just had a chat with one of the guys that unsubed.His point--I think? Is that he is used to doing research in his spare time at a library.He does not have a lot of spare time and wants to make the best use of it.There is no frivolity and boisterous chit chat in the library.He is serious and down to business there.He joined the list hoping to find other serious researchers that could share knowlege,experience and resources and expedite finding his ancestors.The down side to this is that he will not have many people to share his good news with and facilitate his finding even more relatives because he has left the list. We need to reach a happy medium here and be self monitoring. It would probably be more efficient if we punctuated our quest and queries with a little fun rather than punctuating our fun with a little genealogy. I am guilty as charged.I have found cousins on these lists though and the thrill is just indescribable.A lot of our joking and interchanging can be done off list between individuals, thereby not irritating the more intense personalities.I guess what I am saying is more meat and less 'taters and flaky crusts when we share our ancestral reciepes.But now don't be intimidated about seasoning. Tasty meat is easier for me to digest. My dollar and two cents worth, in small change of course. Karen Kerr

Contrary to letting something alone these discussions can tell the origin if those who pronounced a word one way or another. I do NOT consider it a waste of time. Darn few of us know, for sure, what country our forebears came from. It is those pronunciations that might tell us a whole lot. As someone who has done considerable research for almost 30 years in an attempt to trace all my lines (1703 in this country) I am aware of many ways of pronouncing a word. As a example of a habit, did our ancestors add cream to their tea or drank it straight? Someone might flippantly say "so what" but the truth of the matter is the English do it one way while another ethnic group might do it another way. Back in the hollows of the Smoky mountains words tell a story. We can learn a lot if we just learn to listen sometimes. Angus "Scotty" Robinson -----Original Message----- From: pam serda <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 8:34 PM Subject: Re: You All and Yawl and Y'all >Isn't it time to let this one die, and move on? > >Pam > > >--- "Angus P. Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> The pronunciation of "you all" depends, so I was >> told >> by a professor of English language, on origin of the >> person or group. In other words, depending on where >> your ancestors came from >> vs, Wales, Ireland or England (perhaps even Germany) >> the salutation was >> rendered >> using their long forgotten dialect. This might be >> worth exploring further. The same applies to many of >> the other words such as yes'm. >> I doubt yawl or you-all ORIGINATED from the same >> source. >> Angus "Scotty" Robinson >> >> >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:05 AM >> Subject: You All and Yawl and Y'all >> >> >> >Well, I think that Steve, book or no book, is off >> base. You all is more >> like y'all, as in, "You >> >all come see us." I still think that it is, "Y'all >> come to see us." >> Anyway, whenever I have seen >> >it written in a book or an article, that is the way >> it is spelled. More >> like a contraction. >> > >> >Pat >> > >> >pam serda wrote: >> > >> >> FYI: According to my book, "How To Speak >> Southern", >> >> written by Steve Mitchell, (whick I keep right >> next to >> >> my Websters Dictionary), everyone has mispelled >> the >> >> word that means "you all". The correct spelling >> is >> >> 'YAWL'. >> >> >> >> Yawl have a good one!!! >> >> >> >> Pam >> >> >> > >> >> > >=== >Jas Hampton O 1822 AL>Daniel O 1855 AL>Mary Eboline O 1875 AL> and > >William F. Holmes 1836 TN>Robert W. Holmes 1867 TX>Clayton Holmes 1903 TX>Glenn Holmes 1931 TX >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >

Isn't it time to let this one die, and move on? Pam --- "Angus P. Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > The pronunciation of "you all" depends, so I was > told > by a professor of English language, on origin of the > person or group. In other words, depending on where > your ancestors came from > vs, Wales, Ireland or England (perhaps even Germany) > the salutation was > rendered > using their long forgotten dialect. This might be > worth exploring further. The same applies to many of > the other words such as yes'm. > I doubt yawl or you-all ORIGINATED from the same > source. > Angus "Scotty" Robinson > > > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:05 AM > Subject: You All and Yawl and Y'all > > > >Well, I think that Steve, book or no book, is off > base. You all is more > like y'all, as in, "You > >all come see us." I still think that it is, "Y'all > come to see us." > Anyway, whenever I have seen > >it written in a book or an article, that is the way > it is spelled. More > like a contraction. > > > >Pat > > > >pam serda wrote: > > > >> FYI: According to my book, "How To Speak > Southern", > >> written by Steve Mitchell, (whick I keep right > next to > >> my Websters Dictionary), everyone has mispelled > the > >> word that means "you all". The correct spelling > is > >> 'YAWL'. > >> > >> Yawl have a good one!!! > >> > >> Pam > >> > > > > === Jas Hampton O 1822 AL>Daniel O 1855 AL>Mary Eboline O 1875 AL> and William F. Holmes 1836 TN>Robert W. Holmes 1867 TX>Clayton Holmes 1903 TX>Glenn Holmes 1931 TX _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

The pronunciation of "you all" depends, so I was told by a professor of English language, on origin of the person or group. In other words, depending on where your ancestors came from vs, Wales, Ireland or England (perhaps even Germany) the salutation was rendered using their long forgotten dialect. This might be worth exploring further. The same applies to many of the other words such as yes'm. I doubt yawl or you-all ORIGINATED from the same source. Angus "Scotty" Robinson To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:05 AM Subject: You All and Yawl and Y'all >Well, I think that Steve, book or no book, is off base. You all is more like y'all, as in, "You >all come see us." I still think that it is, "Y'all come to see us." Anyway, whenever I have seen >it written in a book or an article, that is the way it is spelled. More like a contraction. > >Pat > >pam serda wrote: > >> FYI: According to my book, "How To Speak Southern", >> written by Steve Mitchell, (whick I keep right next to >> my Websters Dictionary), everyone has mispelled the >> word that means "you all". The correct spelling is >> 'YAWL'. >> >> Yawl have a good one!!! >> >> Pam >> >

In a message dated 6/26/99 9:30:07 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > How does she mean well?? We just don't understand. Huh?

Searching the following families who traveled through together TN AL MS TX: ALLEN & PHILLIPS TN AR TX : TAYLOR & HASLEY they all ended up in Nacogdoches, TX together Thanks Cheryl

This is a good idea and I did it for a while, but I took it off because I like to do a search for information in the body of the messages for filing, etc. purposes. If I have the research information in my footer, it brings up EVERY message that anyone replys to and ALL my "sent' messages. Just wanted to remind you that there is a down side to most good ideas. Betty pam serda wrote: > Hello All, > > Maybe, at this point, it would be nice if everyone on > this list would fix their signature line, so as to let > everyone else know the names, and areas you are > searching. > > If you put the county for each individual, the line > usually ends up being too long. That's why you only > see the state, where my ancestor was born, and the > year he/she was born. > > FYI: In my first line, that O. is for OVERSTREET. > It's a long name, and I had to shorten something. > > ALL of my ancestors, HOLMES & OVERSTREET, were either > Tyler, Hardin, Jasper, or Newton counties. > > Pam > > === > Jas Hampton O 1822 AL>Daniel O 1855 AL>Mary Eboline O 1875 AL> and > > William F. Holmes 1836 TN>Robert W. Holmes 1867 TX>Clayton Holmes 1903 TX>Glenn Holmes 1931 TX > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Although, I've enjoyed the repartee, a few things seem inappropriate for a genealogical website, and it is a shame that many long-standing researchers are getting tired of the constant delete, and are taking their expertise with them, so let's cut the chatter and get to the matters at hand. As you notice in the subject line, I continue to look for a portal to my past. I am deadlocked at approximately 1795, and would like to progress (regress) even further. Any help in that direction would be appreciated. I, too, have found some lost cousins through the internet, but seems we are stalemated at approximately the same dates. My Wheeler ancestors are well documented in an Angelina County history book, two of whom were lawyers. John Wheeler married Massey Borden (no connection to other Borden relatives). Their son, Benjamin was born in 1792 and married Mary Chandler. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1820 in Tennessee, and married George H. Borden. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth married Joseph William Clayton. My Clayton connection has been a stubborn one. Very little documentation other than a probated will. James G.W. Clayton continues to elude discovery. James G.W. Clayton apparently married Elizabeth ? in Tennessee and came to Texas in about 1835, and owned land in both Wise and Angelina Counties. He was reputed to be a cobbler from Virginia. One of his sons, Joseph William is my g-grandfather. One of Joseph's sons, William Calvin, born June 17, 1867 married Rosa Angeline Williams. She was the daughter of --- David H. Williams who married Frances Melvina ?. He was a circuit Church of Christ minister, and a peddler, selling sewing notions. An interesting complication to my ancestry-- Joseph William Clayton married Mary Elizabeth Borden David H. Williams married Frances Melvina Joseph Clayton died. Frances Melvina died. David H. Williams then married Mary Elizabeth Borden Clayton. Then complicating things a bit more--step-brother William Calvin Clayton married step-sister Rosa Angeline Williams. Jesse Goodman born 1794 and married Isabella ? born 1815. Their son, Thomas J. (1842) married Amanda (1830). Charley Goodman (1868) married Laura Anna Edna Daniels. (My grandparents). Laura Anna Edna Daniels is the daughter of Emmanuel or Mordred Daniels and Mary Ellen Hester. Emmanuel Daniels may also have been known as Manny. These families are documented forward through my direct line with William Calvin Clayton and his brother, Eli Borden Clayton. Please pardon the length. Again, any help would be appreciated.

I wish to share experiences concerning death, birth, etc. records. My mother's death certificate showed her as: Sallie Haywood Morris. Her real name was Sara Camilla Haywood. A "Native Texan" Birth Certificate, that I ordered, shows my mother as Sarah Camille Haywood. When my mother seeked employment, she could not locate a birth certificate, so she had to file a "delayed" birth certificate, and that's when she changed her name to Sallie Haywood Morris. My grandfather was killed at an early age and had been baptized as Henry Edmund Morris. His name had been changed after his baptism, to Guy Hooker Morris so he could pass on his father's name of Guy Hooker Morris, who had also died early in life. He had no birth certificate, but his baptism records listed his parents. My father was named Willie Caton Morris, but when his father died when he was only 3 months of age, his name was changed to Guy Hooker Morris. He never knew that his father had also gone through a name change. His mother filed an amended birth certificate. My father died, never knew his mother had a middle name, which I was fortunate enough to learn in the church marriage records, as being, Sarah Mantooth Burch. On the present-day burial information sheets, the name of the person providing information pertaining to the deceased, is usually listed. Point is: the information on these records, is only as good as the information given by the person who provides the information.

I've noticed lots of information about maps, and I'm sure that the initial question was about being able to print from a web site. However, just in case someone is interested in another source, my favorite maps are from "Map Guide to the U. S. Federal Censuses" by Dollarhide. I have photocopied all of the ones that pertain to my areas of research and time line and they are available in most genealogical library sections of the Library. They are so helpful to have them at hand. Nettie

Well I bet the one that wrote that book that yawl was in...must have been from NYC. ya'll knows what i'm talking about if your from the south. Later ya'll.

Folks; I'm seeing lots of really good genealogist enthusiasts UNSCRIBE from the genealogy channels. Not just this channel, but others that are being likewise compromised. If we allow this to continue, we're gonna lose our source of support and intellect. I'm new to the genealogy fold, but I've found a real interest in it, and really need the support of experienced researchers. I vote to curtail the chit-chat and confine our messages to realistic genealogy topics. norm

Dear Alice, Thank you for the a-mae-zn amount of information you find and send. The story of the Acadien's forced removal from Canada and their settlement in Louisiana is both intriguing and extremely informational. Clearly, it is genealogically related, since the migration of a whole culture to another part of the hemisphere is a significant part of our family (in the largest sense of the word) history. Thank you for reminding us that the Cajun culture is both rich and exotic and alive and close by. Reading information about other history, other cultures, is, in my humble opinion, one of the benefits and purposes of doing family history. Is it possible to research one's ancestors without getting a sense of the whole picture? I suppose to some of you, it may be, but as for me, I want to learn as much as possible about the people themselves, the time they lived in and what was going on in the world at the time. Otherwise isn't your research just a collection of names? Anyway, Thanks again for your contributions to this list. Laissez les bons temps roulez!! oh yeah. Cynthia Johnston Houston Alice Chauvin Bradshaw wrote: > http://www.mbrwh.com/map.html > > Cajun-Lynx~Un Chauvin est un Jingo ou, en englais, a violent > patriot".CONGRÈS MONDIAL ACADIEN-LOUISIANE1999 > http://www.cma-la99.com/en_home.html > AdoptionGenQuebec, http://www.members.home.net/bjq/, > http://www.expage.com/page/bayoumama http://www.expage.com/page/mojos, > MOJO Gonna Git'Ya! POO!!YAI!!