Louisiana does not have counties----they are called parishes.

You're right. I knew that. It was a slip of the tongue. So sorry. Gesslr@aol.com wrote: > Louisiana does not have counties----they are called parishes. > > ==== EDMONDSON Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribing from MAIL mode: mailto:EDMONDSON-L-request@rootsweb.com > (or to unsub from the digest): mailto:EDMONDSON-D-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: unsubscribe Message: unsubscribe > Don't put tag lines or other words in the message. It confuses things. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/search > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

I got your message. The last I heard of Orvan, he was still busy trying to get out the Sept, 2000 issue of the EFAB. He does a remarkable job. He is only the third editor that we have had in >30 years. He is very cordial with all. He has published in the EFAB many of the desc in his Pollard Edmondson line. They took a craze path to NC, Knox Co., Tenn., and I don't know where to Indiana. (Don't write that route down; it's from my fuzzy memory.) I wish you had been on board since his first issue. More than one issue is on his line as he didn't have anything else to publish. The old collection from "Bill" Edmundson, Pasadena, Calif, somehow, just hasn't been turned over to Orvan yet; so he has done a marvelous job, what with all the begging for assistance that he has had to do. I think that Orvan is rather new to genealogical research; but he attacks it like an engineer; so he's made no blunders that I can think of, not that haven't been a spark or two over published articles. I hope everybody likes everybody at this point. Margaret the rootsweb list owner is loads of data, but I don't know what about. My sad story is that I haven't turned up a new generation since ~1968. My granddad Edmondson, 1872-1948, Texas, didn't know the first names of his father's parents back in St. Louis, Mo., when his dad died in Waco, Texas in 1911. City directories and Census indexes helped me connect the family that I had suspected were mine for several years. When I found a studio picture of my ggranddad in East Texas, it brought tears to my eyes. THEN I found two more in the Comanche Co., Texas, group--MINE. They sort of knew that I was struggling with this guy for years, but no one ever breathed that my own uncle had a picture and so did my dad's first cousin, from same county. Soooooo, at 65 I may never find my guys in Ohio, but I will die trying. Only one other cousin cares. My kid doesn't care. I don't think she likes our surname. In fifteen years I'll give printouts to or disks to some company like ancestry.com and then dump the other folders in the dumpster. Chan >============================== >Check out RootsWeb's new threaded archives! >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/