Hello Would this be a good book to buy for information? Thanks Sue -----Original Message----- From: evans-richard-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:evans-richard-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Evans-Richard List Administrator Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:42 AM To: Evans-Richard Mailing List Subject: [EVANS-RICHARD] FYI great price on classic book Hard to believe but Ancestor Stuff has *hardcover, 677 pages **PENNSYLVANIA /THE TENMILE COUNTRY AND ITS PIONEER FAMILIES /by Howard L. Leckey ** Retail Price $39.99 (compare at $75.00) * * SALE PRICE $27.99 Save $12.00 (30%) Item Number 115-016 * *news5@ancestorstuff.com http://www.ancestorstuff.com/_search.php?page=1&q=tenmile <http://www.ancestorstuff.com/_search.php?page=1&q=tenmile> * ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to EVANS-RICHARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2661 - Release Date: 02/08/10 07:35:00

Here's how it's described on their website: TENMILE COUNTRY AND ITS PIONEER FAMILIES ISBN#1558563431. Reprint. This book is loaded with genealogical info on early families in present day Greene, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland and nearby counties of present day Southwestern Pennsylvania, plus many from Northern Virginia, present day West Virginia and some from Western Maryland and Eastern Ohio who settled these areas in the mid to late 1700s. Much of the history includes family migrations from Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, etc. plus French and Indian and American Revolutionary War participants. It is a great publication for any one researching this part of our early growing country when it was claimed by both Pennsylvania and Virginia. After 1750 the Tenmile Country became a desired place of settlement or stopover point for the huge migration of Scotch-Irish, to a lesser extent, British, colonists who extended American settlement beyond the Alleghenies. Migration to the Monongahela took place over three main routes: along the National Pike via Winchester, Virginia; through the Shenandoah Valley to the head of the Cheat River and from there to the Monongahela; and along the Lincoln Highway to Ligonier, Pennsylvania and thence along Jacob’s Creek to the Monongahela. From the time of the French and Indian War to the end of the 18th century, the tributaries of the Tenmile Creek would be inundated by pioneers—many of them German or Scotch Irish, some of them the spillovers from the great migration into Kentucky, and still other travelers and immigrants who passed through Baltimore enroute to one of the great migration trails. This book was originally published as a series of newspaper articles by Mr. Leckey before being consolidated as a book in 1950 and then reprinted with with an every-name index under the auspices of the Greene County Historical Society in 1977. The work commences with a historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile Country, and it concludes with a new surname index by Closson Press to replace the very inaccurate every-name index. There are well over 500 family histories of varying lengths, which delineate the lineages of the many families who migrated into this area. The genealogies, which are arranged according to place of settlement, are periodically embellished with rosters of one sort or another, maps, facsimiles, and illustrations. The genealogical sketches cover or touch on more than 2,000 main families who settled in the Upper Monongahela during the final third of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth century. This is definitely a great starting point for genealogical research in southwestern Pennsylvania. Back by popular demand. (1950, 1993), reprint, 6" X 9", Hardbound, 677 pages, ISBN#1558563431 Sue Rife wrote: > Hello > Would this be a good book to buy for information? Thanks > Sue > > >

It is a good book. I can express that from personal experience since I have a copy ($40 + tax) purchased from Greene County Historical Society, located in Waynesburg, Greene County Pennsylvania and also visited there at which time I purchased a copy of "History of Greene County 1888," by Bates, not as elaborate in the families I was chasing but still good and offers one a cross reference to material. However, I have found that so many of these publications tend to mimic/repeat each other, rather than spending the time and effort to research and develop their own information and thereby, proliferate any misinformation published by the other publisher. One has to be just as doubting and critical of these as any other source. I have been to Greene County and spent some time there, taking photos and doing research which brought much published data into question. "Lucas Genealogies," by Annabelle Kemp, is another publication I own but is devoted to the Lucas lineage while touching on collateral lines. However, much of the the early material in Kemp's publication is derived from Howard Leckey's publication, "The Tenmile County & It's Pioneer Families." -------------------------------------------------- From: "Evans-Richard List Administrator" <listadministratorevans@earthlink.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:55 AM To: <evans-richard@rootsweb.com> Subject: [EVANS-RICHARD] TENMILE COUNTRY AND ITS PIONEER FAMILIES > Here's how it's described on their website: > > TENMILE COUNTRY AND ITS PIONEER FAMILIES > > ISBN#1558563431. Reprint. > > This book is loaded with genealogical info on early families in present > day Greene, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland and nearby counties of > present day Southwestern Pennsylvania, plus many from Northern Virginia, > present day West Virginia and some from Western Maryland and Eastern > Ohio who settled these areas in the mid to late 1700s. Much of the > history includes family migrations from Eastern Pennsylvania, New > Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, etc. plus French and Indian and American > Revolutionary War participants. It is a great publication for any one > researching this part of our early growing country when it was claimed > by both Pennsylvania and Virginia. After 1750 the Tenmile Country became > a desired place of settlement or stopover point for the huge migration > of Scotch-Irish, to a lesser extent, British, colonists who extended > American settlement beyond the Alleghenies. Migration to the Monongahela > took place over three main routes: along the National Pike via > Winchester, Virginia; through the Shenandoah Valley to the head of the > Cheat River and from there to the Monongahela; and along the Lincoln > Highway to Ligonier, Pennsylvania and thence along Jacob’s Creek to the > Monongahela. From the time of the French and Indian War to the end of > the 18th century, the tributaries of the Tenmile Creek would be > inundated by pioneers—many of them German or Scotch Irish, some of them > the spillovers from the great migration into Kentucky, and still other > travelers and immigrants who passed through Baltimore enroute to one of > the great migration trails. This book was originally published as a > series of newspaper articles by Mr. Leckey before being consolidated as > a book in 1950 and then reprinted with with an every-name index under > the auspices of the Greene County Historical Society in 1977. The work > commences with a historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile > Country, and it concludes with a new surname index by Closson Press to > replace the very inaccurate every-name index. There are well over 500 > family histories of varying lengths, which delineate the lineages of the > many families who migrated into this area. The genealogies, which are > arranged according to place of settlement, are periodically embellished > with rosters of one sort or another, maps, facsimiles, and > illustrations. The genealogical sketches cover or touch on more than > 2,000 main families who settled in the Upper Monongahela during the > final third of the eighteenth or first quarter of the nineteenth > century. This is definitely a great starting point for genealogical > research in southwestern Pennsylvania. Back by popular demand. (1950, > 1993), reprint, 6" X 9", Hardbound, 677 pages, ISBN#1558563431 > > Sue Rife wrote: >> Hello >> Would this be a good book to buy for information? Thanks >> Sue >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > EVANS-RICHARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >