I have a few obits for people in the area - they are Police Officer M'Clelland - Police inspector,Norman M'Clelland died 1943 - in Clearwater - Luther E.Cottrell -died 1943 - Dec. in Clearwater- Mrs.Ann Ward Sayer died Dec.1943 in Clearwater- Avella C.Propst died -Dec. 1943 in Leesburg- Mrs.Lillian M.Archer -died dec.1943- funeral notices for Dec- 1943 Frank G.Spencer --- Emma R.Worthington ----- Dennis Martin O'Hearn ---- Mrs.Alma Penn Norwood --- Mr.John Wilburn Meeks ---- Peggy

Hate to keep being a pain would like his obit he died 12/16/1945. in tampa any help appreciated . Steve.

Verna in Illinois, Are you researching John Wesley GRIFFIN, born 1886 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky? His wife, Linnie CARSON, was the daughter of my great grandfather, Stephen Green CARSON. Jerry Radke Harrisburg, Pa GFRadke@aol.com

Dear List Members I am hoping someone on this list can help me locate a Merton Griffith in Tampa or nearby. He is about 65 years of age and I am not even sure if he is still alive, but hoping he is okay. I have recently discovered his name while searching for my family roots on a John Wesley Griffith. Thank you Verna in Illinois -- GOD BLESS AMERICA Alone we can do little, together we can accomplish much. ....Helen Keller http://www.rootsweb.com/~iawayne/index.htm

Listmembers, I received about ten replies [including two or three from U of FL librarians] to my request for help in locating photographs of both downtown Tampa and Ybor City as they were in 1950. U of FL librarians also offerred assistance. I wish to thank each and every person who responded to my request. Within the week I will respond privately to each individual who took the time to write and offer assistance. Thank you all. Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net

Listers found out that my uncle died 12-16-1945. and some kind soul said they would look up the obit this past weekend but havent heard anything. any help appreciated. Steve.

6/1/02 The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society , 605 North Collins Street, Plant City FL 33566 (813) 754-7031 will sponsor the following genealogy classes: Tuesday, June 4th at 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.(note 6 p.m. starting time) "Hunting for Those Elusive Hard-shell Baptists ...Looking for your Primitive Baptist Ancestors" Guest Lecturer, Alvie Davidson Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. "What's A... Discusses genealogical terms that may be misunderstood by or unfamiliar to people" Guest Lecturer, Roberta Jordan Fee per class $5.00 pre-registration preferred. email to: qcenter@tampabay.rr.com Classes and events posted to our website http://www/rootsweb.com/~flqgbac Shelby Bender Volunteer Director

Hi Fred, I have not seen any answers to your post. Here is a link to the USF Special Collections site. Choose the View the Collections at the bottom, then type in your choices. I saw about 29 for Ybor in just one collection. Good luck. Forgive the duplicate reply if you have already had answers. http://www.lib.usf.edu/spccoll/ Sydney Cardner (the Sydney is female) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred, Sr." <fpowellsr@starpower.net> To: <FLHILLSB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:45 AM Subject: [FLHILLSB] Hillsborough Co. sources > Listmembers, where may I find on-line photos of both downtown Tampa and Ybor > City, 1949 and 1950? > > Thanks for any information. > > Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Listmembers, where may I find on-line photos of both downtown Tampa and Ybor City, 1949 and 1950? Thanks for any information. Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net

The following is taken from RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Free Weekly E-zine Vol. 5, No. 22, 29 May 2002, Circulation: 959,580+ (c) 1998-2002 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Deborah Byrd 2c. KLEZ VIRUS FOOLS AND ENTICES. Genealogists are not the only ones being fooled by this relentless worm, which spoofs (forges) the "From" address. Even the U.S. State Department's e-mail identity was forged by it recently as Klez sent itself to law enforcement and media outlets across the country. Your editor and the RootsWeb HelpDesk have received hundreds of messages lately from researchers fearful that RootsWeb is sending out these worm- infested attachments. Relax. The virus is not coming from RootsWeb or via any RootsWeb mailing list (which do not allow attachments anyway). It is being sent to you privately by the infected computer (often without the owner's knowledge), with a forged "From" e-mail address and with all sorts of subjects lines, which Klez also steals. There are several ways Klez can obtain your e-mail address: --It may be in the sender's address book. --The infected computer may find an unread message from you in someone's inbox. --It may appear on a webpage that is cached on the infected computer. --It may appear in an old e-mail message that is stored on the infected computer. Depending on where Klez finds your e-mail address, it may use the subject line or copy part of a post in an attempt to appear to be a legitimate message. There is nothing your editor, the HelpDesk or anyone at RootsWeb can do to stop this. This mail does not originate with, or pass through, the RootsWeb mail servers. Your best defense is to not open any attachments you receive via e- mail, regardless of who the "From" person appears to be (use the real e-mail address of your friend or family member to inquire if they have sent you something with an attachment); keep your AntiVirus (AV) software up-to-date and use it, and set your AV program to scan all incoming e-mail or if the option is available, not to download infected mail from the server. Read more about Klez and the problems it is causing in an article by Michelle Delio in Wired News, currently available at: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52765,00.html Reliable information about computer viruses can be found at: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html http://dispatch.mcafee.com/virus_tips.asp?cid=1593 For a free online virus scan: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ For free antivirus protection: http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm

Listers the response to my Uncle Byron Wallace has been amazing thanks everyone 1 of you is looking it up at the library this weekend for me. thank you very much. Steve.

Steve, I forgot to tell you that at the library site, you need to choose TRAILS as your option on the left. Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sschifani@aol.com> To: <FLHILLSB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: [FLHILLSB] Byron Wallace > Listers am looking for an obit for this my uncle he died in Tampa 1945 sorry > dont know the date . any help appreciated ps i live in New York . State. > Steve. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

There is an obit for him in the Tampa Tribune. http://www.thpl.org/hcplc/catalog/ The information you would need is all on this initial page. I would look under the library locations tab for the address or phone. I would offer to do it for you, but I live quite a ways from Tampa in spite of my email address. Charges are minimal, I believe. Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sschifani@aol.com> To: <FLHILLSB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: [FLHILLSB] Byron Wallace > Listers am looking for an obit for this my uncle he died in Tampa 1945 sorry > dont know the date . any help appreciated ps i live in New York . State. > Steve. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Steve, You might try seeing if you can get a date of death ... the Tampa Tribune, the newspaper that would have carried the obit if there was one, is a very large newspaper. And nowadays, you want even find all the obituaries for people. If a family doesn't specifically request a obit be placed, or if a funeral home doesn't specifically so this as a service, an obit won't be found in the Trib any more. Also, because the paper is so large, you will need at least a month to look in for the microfilm in order to have any luck locating your obit. They don't look for you ... USF and the main branch of the Hillsborough County library have the newspaper on microfilm I believe. But, you have to request films by date. Kathy Kathy in FL mamkmm2@prodigy.net My Web Site: http://www.easyfunschool.com Free Education Newsletter: http://www.easyfunschool.com/msubscribe.html Ancient Rome Unit Study: http://www.easyfunschool.com/page1055.html One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." -Forest Witcraft ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sschifani@aol.com> To: <FLHILLSB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: [FLHILLSB] Byron Wallace > Listers am looking for an obit for this my uncle he died in Tampa 1945 sorry > dont know the date . any help appreciated ps i live in New York . State. > Steve. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.365 / Virus Database: 202 - Release Date: 5/24/02

Listers am looking for an obit for this my uncle he died in Tampa 1945 sorry dont know the date . any help appreciated ps i live in New York . State. Steve.

Now that Summer is officially underway. I have a reminder and a request. As you are out ancestor digging this summer, if you find anything of your family and/or the counties that they lived in please consider sharing the information on the Genweb county Archives page. So nice to be able to share and spread the wealth. Also if you are going to be gone for an extended period, for me that is more than 2 days, please consider the size of your e-mail inbox. Most servers provide fairly small inboxes, so they can fill up rather quickly. As mail gets rejected, many mailing list robots will automatically drop your name from the mailing list because of the number of rejected messages. This is a common maintenance practice to help remove dead e-mail addresses. The robots are automatic and human hands don't touch them. On this mailing list, if a messages rejects 4 times in a row, the robot drops the address from the list. So remember when you get back, you may need to resubscribe to some of your mailing list. On rootsweb go to the mailing list page, select the mailing list and follow the instructions. Hope every one has a wonderful summer. Out here in the lava rock desert of Idaho, the distant mountains still have snow in some places and some of our high county roads are still snowed in as usual. However the desert is blooming and the alphalfa looks like it has about 4 weeks to the first cutting. Deborah Byrd

ROSE, ALTON SR., 71, of Tampa, died Tuesday (Oct. 3, 1989) at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was born in Cross City and came here 50 years ago. He was a construction laborer. Survivors include four sons, Horace, Branford, and Alton Jr., Steve and Larry, all of Tampa; a daughter, Judy Ann Westfall, Tampa; a brother, William L., Tampa; four sisters, Ethel Lyles and Lucille Lyles, both of Cross City, Elizabeth Hutto and Ruth Warner, both of Tampa; and eight grandchildren. F.T. Blount Funeral Home, Nebraska Chapel, Tampa. FLHILLSB-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > FLHILLSB-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 54 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [FLHILLSB] Obit look-up [dyj@webtv.net (dyj)] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from FLHILLSB-D, send a message to > > FLHILLSB-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > FLHILLSB-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [FLHILLSB] Obit look-up > Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:20:54 -0400 (EDT) > From: dyj@webtv.net (dyj) > To: FLHILLSB-L@rootsweb.com > > Would someone be kind enough to look up an obit for me? > > Alton Rose > b. Oct. 6, 1917 > d. Oct. 3, 1989 > > Thanks for your help. Yvonne

Would someone be kind enough to look up an obit for me? Alton Rose b. Oct. 6, 1917 d. Oct. 3, 1989 Thanks for your help. Yvonne

If I remember correctly, several people on the list have been searching for their birth families. One of the mailing lists I am on contained this URL on the basics of searching for birth families. http://adoption.about.com/library/weekly/aa062199.htm Deborah Byrd

<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyorange/obits_fl_hillsborough_01.htm">Obits Index - Hillsborough County, FL</A> try this link