Hi...to all the list... Wanted to say this....apparently our ISP had inadvertantly put Rootsweb mailing lists on their spam service....so if we were bouncing or something, it was our ISP acting up and all. I emailed them and talked to them....and I received an email earlier saying they believed that they have solved the problem. I hope so....if anyone gets this email, please email me and tell me that someone on the list received it so I know you got this message. I would hate to have to reenlist all the lists that we are on because of our ISP. So please respond to this email so I know it is still working... Stephanie Grohol

Hi List... We are looking for Alachua County Veterans killed during the Civil War. The list will be etched into granite near the entrance to the new Alachua County Court House. If one of your ancestors from Alachua county was killed during the Civil War, please check this list... http://sunone.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=GS&Date=20021016&Category=DAYBREAK&ArtNo=210160007&Ref=AR If your ancestor from Alachua County that was killed during the Civil war is not on this list, please let me know. You will need proof that they were from Alachua County and that they died during the Civil War. Thanks, Jim Jim Powell Jr Ancient Records Coordinator & Webmaster Alachua County Clerk of the Court Http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/archive/default.cfm Online Volunteers Wanted... http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/Archive/CFDocs/VolunHelp.cfm

Hi List... I thought I would forward this, just in case anyone else is interested in attending. It is not to late to register. Jim Join the Florida State Genealogical Society (FSGS) as we host our Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference. This exciting learning experience will be held on the 15th and 16th of November 2002 at the Hilton in St. Petersburg, FL. You can register for the full conference or for one-day only. The best news is that you can ignore all deadline dates. We are accepting everyone's registration at the pre-registration rate and the hotel is also allowing us to register right up to the conference (as long as there is room available). However, do not call their 888 number; you must call them direct at 727-894-5000. Our featured speaker, Linda Woodward Geiger, CGRS, CGL, will present four (4) exciting lectures you will not want to miss. Mrs. Geiger is a well-known genealogical researcher, teacher, speaker and published author. She is the editor and publisher of WOODWARDs WeSearch and editor of OnBoard! She has participated in the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research for four years and the National Institute on Genealogical Research. In addition to the featured speaker, we will have Pam Cooper, Mary L. Jackson Fears, Amy Larner Giroux, CG, Lawrence R. Kirkwood, Boyd Murphree, Ann Mohr Osisek, Gladys Friedman Paulin, CGRS, and Jim Powell, Jr. All total, we will be providing the opportunity to participate in over 20 lectures about a variety of topics such as: Land records - Census records - Tax Lists - Immigration Internet - Church Records - Society Management Slave Research - Jewish Research - Florida Research and the National Archives in East Point, Georgia. We are also pleased to announce that Elizabeth Neily, historian and storyteller, will be the banquet speaker. The banquet will honor individuals who have documented their Florida pioneers through the Florida Pioneer Descendant Program. If you would like further information, contact A. Staley, P. O. Box 441364, Jacksonville, FL 32222 Email: astaley@fdn.com or you will find the schedule and registration form online at the FSGS Web site <http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs> Please be sure to submit your conference reservation and reserve your hotel room for a very exciting 2002 conference!

Hi.. I am seeking the marriage date for Clifford Hodges and Allie Hersey Hodges. Clifford was born Feb 22, 1904 in MAcclenny, FL and Allie was born April 11, 1911 in Highsprings, FL. Their first child was born Sept 1937 so I am assuming it was around there or before then. They were my grandparents and any help would be appreciated. Thanks to anyone who can help me, Stephanie Grohol

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gary Hale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/737 Message Board Post: I'm looking for my biological father & really don't have much information about him. I know his name is Gary Hale and he's around the age of 50. Originaly from Alabama not sure what town & is possibly living in Gainsville or the towns surrounding it. Anyone with information please respond the information will be greatly appreciated.

Hi List... I would like to renew my request for gedcom files that include early Alachua county residents. Several of you have already contributed a portion of your files. I think this could be a great way to tie our families together. Here is the begining of the file using the previous contributions. This may take a few moments to load... http://user.gru.net/jpowelljr/alachua.wbg/ Thanks, Jim Jim Powell Jr Ancient Records Coordinator & Webmaster Alachua County Clerk of the Court Http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/archive/default.cfm Online Volunteers Wanted... http://www.clerk-alachua-fl.org/Archive/CFDocs/VolunHelp.cfm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/736 Message Board Post: Hi I just wanted to tell youabout a new Florida group. We're new, but it's just a matter of time before we are the greatest Florida group ever. Please feel free to promote your own Florida related site at ours! Http://groups.msn.com/sunshinesoup The creators of our group, Sunshine Soup, live in the Tampa Bay area, but we welcome membership from anyone who lives in or who has ever lived in the Sunshine State. It's free to join and free to stay. This ain't your average Florida site....it's a meeting a minds in a world gone crazy and we'll be very happy to have you join us! So grab a smoke and a cold one and come hang out with us awhile. We think you will enjoy your visit! Message boards, photo albums, chat rooms.....more much more! Http://groups.msn.com/sunshinesoup Remember, we're in a "Sunshine State" of mind. Nuttybird2000@hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClellan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/472.2 Message Board Post: I am from the McClellan's of Jefferson County, Fl. My grandfather was James Lawrence McClellan, My family has -to this day- the old family plantation in Jefferson County. They still have cane grinding around Thanksgiving, I believe that we are related to the McClellan's of Alachua County. I would be interested in more info. The family book has been written and unfortunately I do not have a copy but my father does & I can access it at Thanksgiving when the family gets together again for cane grinding. If you would be interested in more info- please E-mail me. Thanks! Donna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClellan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/472.1 Message Board Post: I am from the McClellan's of Jefferson County, Fl. My grandfather was James Lawrence McClellan, My family has -to this day- the old family plantation in Jefferson County. They still have cane grinding around Thanksgiving, I believe that we are related to the McClellan's of Alachua County. I would be interested in more info. The family book has been written and unfortunately I do not have a copy but my father does & I can access it at Thanksgiving when the family gets together again for cane grinding. If you would be interested in more info- please E-mail me. Thanks! Donna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/682.3.1 Message Board Post: We were born in 1969 and 1970, so the years would not match. Since this posting we have found our father and mother. They are both still living. Thanks for your posting.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZ.2ADI/735 Message Board Post: Mary L. Piles married Paran Moody in Jacksonville,Fl in 1852. They had 4 girls. Mary L Piles Moody died in 1894 and in her obit it says she was from Nunansville, Fl. Does anyone know who her parents were? Thanks for your time. Harriet Raffo Jaxhattie5@aol.com(new address)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZ.2ADI/348.1 Message Board Post: According to my notes, Joshua Miller was from Effingham Co Ga, and married to Luisa Holliday. He died in Alachua Co Florida Aug 6, 1846. At the time of his death, his daughter Cynthia was married to Josiah Seckinger also from Effingham Co Ga (I believe Josiah and Cynthia married in Florida not Georgia as reported by others). Josiah then assumed guardianship for Joshua's other daughter Jain A. Miller. Jain later married Henry Hudgens (1857). His son Richard W Miller married Margaret R. Carter. You can find them in the 1850 and 1860 Census for Marion County Florida. I am a descendant of Josiah and Cynthia Seckinger.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/281.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If you will send me your mailing address I will copy what information we have, my e-mail address is clayarch@bellsouth.net My mailing address is: Clay County Archives P.O. Box 1366 Green Cove Springs, Fl. 32043

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOOKEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/281.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Claude, so happy this is a current thread. I have many Hookey's in my family tree. A second great grand uncle, George S. Hookey whose wife was Catherine Mary Seigfried settled in Augusta GA after 1853. She passed on in 1883. The majority of the family is from Philadelphia PA (my birthplace), and was a quite prominent family in the 1800's. St Katherine Drexel is also a decendent of this tree. There are many other K/Catherine's in this tree as well. I lived in Jacksonville for 13 years so I am familiar with the area, spent many weekends at Camp Blanding also.(Army Reservist) If you have any other data on Katherine I will plow thru my records and see what I can uncover. I am working with a document that was prepared by a researcher circa 1930 and it has alot of names.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/281.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Karen, The first Kingslay Plantation was in what is now the Town of Orange Park in Clay County. It was call Laurel Grove. The is the plantation owened by Katherine Hookey. We have been looking for more information on Katherine Hookey but without much luck. We received a little from the Ga. State Archives but only with the help of the Ga. Lt Gov,s office. All questions we have sent to the Augusta Library and historical society were unanswered. Can you help us. I can send you more information on the first Kingsley plantation if you wish Claude Bass Clay County Archives P.O. Box 1366 Green Cove Springs, Fl. 32043

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/281.1 Message Board Post: Reading this old message, my interest is in Katherine Hookey mentioned. But my question pertains to entry that Kingsley Plantation of Z. Kingsley. That plantation is in the Jacksonville area, not in Clay County. Does the property you have record of now have any other name in Clay County?

From an email I received today, I tried the URL and it worked for me E-mail message From: cyndihow@oz.net (Cyndi Howells) Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 11:11am (CDT-2) 1880 & 1881 Censuses Online from FamilySearch! Hello all - Our friends at the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have placed three valuable databases online today, all free to search: 1880 United States Census 1881 Canadian Census 1881 British Census http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp http://www.familysearch.org/ The official press release from the Church is below. What a wonderful gift for all of us during Family History Month! Have fun, Cyndi ---------------------------------------------- NEWS RELEASE Free Internet Access to Invaluable Indexes of American and Canadian Heritage 23 October 2002 Two Nations Celebrate in Dozens of Concurrent News Conferences SALT LAKE CITY -- In honor of Family History Month, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is making invaluable indexes of American and Canadian heritage available free to the public at the touch of a button. The 1880 United States Census and the 1881 Canadian Census, searchable databases of more than 55 million people, are now on the Internet, signifying another great leap forward in online family history research. The online availability of the two censuses was announced by President Gordon B. Hinckley in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing "O Canada" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dozens of other press conferences were held across Canada and the United States, from Edmonton to Toronto and from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., making this the largest family history announcement in the history of the Church. The chances of today's Canadians and Americans finding ancestors in the online databases are extraordinary. If a person's family lived in one of these two nations during the 1880s and was counted in the census, becoming connected to the past is quick and easy. Elder D. Todd Christofferson, executive director of the Family and Church History Department, said: "People used to search through rolls and rolls of microfilm with varying degrees of success. Now with just a few keystrokes, they can search through millions of records from anywhere at anytime." Genealogist David Rencher, who has spent years researching his family tree, knows what a valuable tool the indexes can be in finding ancestors who were once lost. "You can learn about their lives, who they were and what they did. It's like taking a trip in a time machine," Rencher said. "I used to think that I was looking for other people, someone from the past. Now I realize that through all of the searching for others, what I found was myself." The censuses paint a portrait of two nations, capturing Canada as a burgeoning nation in its infancy and America embarking on its second 100 years at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Robert Bothwell, professor of history at the University of Toronto said, "The 1880s are a period in which Canada consolidates itself as a transcontinental political entity and in which a group of scattered and disparate settlements are unified into a single, quite successful political constitutional system." The census makes legendary figures come alive for today's Canadians including the nation's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald; Ojibwa Chief Jacob Berens; painter Robert Harris; Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery; poet and entertainer Pauline Johnson; composer Antoine Gerin-Lajoie; soldier and educator Arthur William Currie; Victoria Cross recipient William Hall; suffragist Emily Howard Stow; and the creator of basketball, James Naismith.   From Wild West legends and influential artists to ambitious industrialists and ingenious inventors, many of the personalities listed in the 1880 United States census are representative of the expansion, innovation and development of the nation. Author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), entertainer William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, inventor Thomas Edison, Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, African-American leader Booker T. Washington, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, composer John Philip Sousa, Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, human rights advocate Frederick Douglass, and businessmen John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford and George Westinghouse are just a few of the notable names found in the census. Columbia University historian Richard Bushman said, "All those people piled together, working their way upward and outward, trying to find a toehold that's what history is and the history of one ancestor is a microcosm of the whole country." Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others volunteered to do the indexing for the1880 U.S. Census, which took 17 years, and the 1881 Canadian Census, which took four years. The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa were partners with the Church to help "clean" the data a process of standardizing names and localities, and organizing the data for easy retrieval. The data also is available on CD. For those with British roots, a searchable index of the 1881 British Census is also online, bringing the total number of census names available for family history enthusiasts to 85 million. ---------------------------------------------- Reprinted with permission: http://www.lds.org/media2/newsrelease/0,5637,203-1-13102,00.html

http://www.interment.net/data/us/ms/jackson/union/union.htm or http://www.interment.net/ and go to: MS Jackson County Union Cemetery Guy Pendarvis's parents were Joseph James Pendarvis, b 1866 FL and M E "Molly" Jones of Jackson Co MS; Grandparents were James Pendarvis, b ?, d 1867 & Nancy Williams, d Sept 1872; Great-grandfather Lewellen Williams, died Aug 1836 FL in FL Indian War, all last resided in Alachua Co, FL C Creel is g-grandson of Wesley Creel & G Nicholas of MS; grandson of Elijah, d 1899 AL, & Leviney "Vina" Dearman b Lauderdale Co, Ms, d 1929 mobile Co, AL Knippers is granddaughter of CD & Ellie Knippers of Jackson Co, MS; Granddaughter of Guy Pendavis and Anna Schultz Kendrick_@webtv.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZ.2ADI/682.3 Message Board Post: I was in contact with a person looking for two older sisters. She had contacted me because I had a sister one year younger, and she had been researching all the high schools in the area. I have sent her a copy of your message. It doesn't sound like a match, but who knows.Let me know if this sounds hopeful. Here is what she wrote me: Dear Mary, Hi my name is Deborah Schafer. Julie sent that email for because she has a classmates.com membership and I don't. I am in the process of trying to track down my 2 half sisters. They would have lived in Tampa in a trailer park with their mother who was a widow. The reason I am using classmates.com is because they were only a year apart in school. So I am going through all the yearbooks for the high schools in Tampa and getting the names of sisters in grades only a year apart. I know it sounds complicated. Your sister Lorraine and you were one I found on classmates.com and that is why you received the email. I was adopted in 1959. My 2 half sisters probably don't remember me or they may have been told I was dead. The info I have is that my birthmother's husband died of a blood clot the year before I was born. The girls were 8 and 9 years old at the time. If you are not the one I am looking for do you or your sister remember back to any girls whose mother may have been a widow and lived in a trailer park. Thanks so much for your time and listening to me. This has been a very long process for me. I have been looking for over 20 years. If you don't mind, could you give me a email back to let me know what you think. Thanks so much. Debbie Schafer

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/734 Message Board Post: Mineola Cowart,bn 1889 GA, died 1980, Alachua, co., Florida, buried Archer Cemetery. Can anyone help me locate grave site?