This is not a repeat of last weeks message. Polk County History As Written and Prepared by Dr. Charles K. Henderson in 1897. 35 Chapters now online! A lot of information! Multi Part Series From the 1897 Cedartown Standard Newspaper and is believe to have been reprinted in the1950s Cedartown Standard. Chapter one originally appeared May 27, 1897. The Xerox copies sent to me by Ted Smith dtsmith@stc.net of who I am extremely grateful. I scanned and uploaded them to the Polk County Web Page. Please Check it out! http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapolk/ D. Scott Dingler Polk County Coordinator & Listowner Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

To Polk County Georgia and its surrounding counties. Early History of Polk County, Georgia A Multi Part Series From the 1875 and 1876 Cedartown Standard Newspaper Polk County was formed in 1851. This is an eye witness account. Sent to me by Polk Historian Gordon Sargant who I am extremely grateful. http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapolk/ D. Scott Dingler Polk County Coordinator GAPOLK-L Listowner Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

Hi! I'm looking for researchers of Dr. Homer V.M. MILLER who was living in Cass/Bartow Co in 1844. In that year he was appointed as one of the executors of Lindsay OGLESBY's estate, and was left in charge of 7 of Lindsay's slaves. Lindsay had willed these slaves to his nephew (Lindsay MORGAN of Chambers Co, AL), to be kept in Cass Co under the care of Homer V.M. MILLER until the nephew reached legal age. I'm looking for any records of these slaves (Louisa, William, John, Jim, Barnett & Adeline), especially any info on if/when they were transferred to Lindsay MORGAN in Chambers Co, AL. Thanks for any help! Jeanne Arguelles ejarguelles@msn.com

Hi everyone! I am new to this list and I am looking for information on the Champion, Pitts and Knight families of Cartersville, Bartow Co. I am looking for someone else and would very much appreciate any help. Lillian Knight md. Jesse Pitts, need date of marriage. Also, Lillian had a brother, Walter Knight and her grandmother was Jane Knight. Need Lillian's parents, she was born July 4, 1882, Cartersville. would, if possible also need Jane's husband and whatever anybody knows. thank you so much for any help you may give. Beth- MBond94365@aol.com

Trying to find family (parents, siblings, just anything) of: Solomon WADE b 1830 NC/GA?, d. 1865 Camp Chase Prison Ohio m: Pollie (Mary Anne) SNOW b. 1830? GA? d. 1911-12? Solomon and Pollie had: James Calvin WADE b 1858 Floyd Co, GA, d. 1927 Etowah Co AL Solomon's other children were: Martha WADE b 1851 Whitfield Co? GA, Amanda b 1855, Whitfield Co? GA Steven b 1853, Whitfield Co? GA and Jefferson b 1861 Whitfield Co? GA Also looking for: William Henry BARNES b 1847 GA? d. 1909 Floyd Co GA m: Lucrecia Evaline BOGGS and his brother: Andrew J. BARNES b 1843 Gwinnett Co GA, m: Mary Adeline POTTS These two brothers went to the C.War together and returned to Cherokee Co GA They also had brother Francis BARNES b 1855 Any help would be so appreciated! Judith in Oklahoma earl_and_judith@bigfoot.com http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/eanderso/judeearl.htm Judith seeks: W-A-D-E, S-N-O-W, B-A-R-N-E-S, B-O-G-G-S Earl seeks: I-C-K-E-S, Y-O-R-K, H-U-G-H-E-S, M-C-C-L-U-N-G, M-A-N-G-U-M

I have completely redone the GAGenWeb Polk County Web Page. Check it out! http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapolk/ D. Scott Dingler County Coodinator

Hello, I have Calahan ancestors who lived in Cartersville from before 1850 to after 1910. Does anyone connect with Franklin T. Calahan b. Dec 1828 or John W. Calahan b. May 1833? They are sons of William W. Calahan and Mary ? I am trying to find her last name. Would love to hear from anyone connected. Raquel Sonnenberg

I am posting this to warn others about problems with ; Census Microfilm Expeditors 476 E. South Temple , Suite 4 Salt Lake City , UT 84111 website ; www.censusmicrofilm.com e-mail ; gme@nwinfo.net and ; sj@censusmicrofilm.com I was lured to order several microfilm copies from this company with "guarantees" of "speedy delivery" and "low price" . My order was placed in October of 1998 and as of this posting I have not received the order or a refund after numerous contacts with Steven Jensen at this firm . In his occasional replies he repeatedly gave false information to me as to the status of the order and cashed the check when mentioned stopping payment on it .I have copies of all documents and correspondences for those interested . Complaints have been filed with the Better Business Bureau and the United States Postal Inspectors , they have informed me that even they can't order this company to give a refund , but may seek criminal charges . I guess small claims court is next . If you are seeking genealogy resources......consider my experiences with this "Firm". Thank you , Kenneth Sartin researching ; Sartin , Sartain , Sarton , Sarten , Sardin etc. etc.

>After a very long delay, the RootsWeb Threaded Mailing List Archives >(TMLA) have returned! > >Check out: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives D. Scott Dingler Listowner

Looking for anyone doing research on Colston/Bell families. Billie

Does anyone have any informnation which they might be willing to share on any HUDSON families in the Cass Co. area circa 1820-1850? Many thanks!

If anyone's interested there's a 10 generation wall chart available at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/8852/familytreerings.html J. Alan Williams jawill@eastky.net

I have received several copies of the HAPPY99 VIRUS (or WORM) from email that was sent to ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST over the last few days. Please read the follwing message. D. Scott Dingler Listowner I borrowed this explanation from my colleague who has the SCROOTS list. He is a computer guru. Please read carefully. DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES TO THE LIST ABOUT THIS PLEASE!!! NOTE: This warning is the exception to the rule. Do not follow this as and example and start sending virus warnings to the forum. This type of message is OFF TOPIC in the forum, unless posted by the Forum Manager. I've recently received several emails from various people containing an attached file named HAPPY99.EXE. Some of these were from Forum members. Some were addressed to the Forum, but they were blocked by our automatic screening program. The HAPPY99.EXE program is a WORM. See below for more information about what that means. If you receive a message with that file attached don't execute it - delete it immediately. _______________________ VirusName: Happy99.Worm Aliases: Trojan.Happy99, I-Worm.Happy Description: This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has reportedly been received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup posting. The file is usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article attachment. When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The program copies itself as SKA.EXE and extracts a DLL that it carries as SKA.DLL into WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. It also modifies WSOCK32.DLL in WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and copies the original WSOCK32.DLL into WSOCK32.SKA. WSOCK32.DLL handles internet-connectivity in Windows 95 and 98. The modification to WSOCK32.DLL allows the worm routine to be triggered when a connect or send activity is detected. When such online activity occurs, the modified code loads the worm's SKA.DLL. This SKA.DLL creates a new email or a new article with UUENCODED HAPPY99.EXE inserted into the email or article. It then sends this email or posts this article. If WSOCK32.DLL is in use when the worm tries to modify it (i.e. a user is online), the worm adds a registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce=SKA.EXE The registry entry loads the worm the next time Windows start. Removing the worm manually: 1. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE 2. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL 3. replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA 4. delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE Safe Computing: This worm and other trojan-horse type programs demonstrate the need to practice safe computing. One should not execute any executable-file attachment (i.e. EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an email or a newsgroup article from an unknown or a untrusted source. Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this worm by downloading the virus definitions updates released on Jan 28, 1999 or later either through LiveUpdate or from the following webpage: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta - January 28, 1999 ___________________ For more information regarding viruses see the following sites. http://www.mcafee.com/ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html http://www.earthlink.net/daily/tuesday/macroviruses http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Unsolicited, unexplained attachments are unacceptable! "... you CAN get a virus by reading an attachment in an email message, such as an MS Word or Excel document, which is infected by a macro virus. You can also get a virus by running an executable program (such as *.exe , *.com or *.bat) someone e-mails you as an attachment." -- SOURCE: http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

I have received several copies of the HAPPY99 VIRUS (or WORM) from email that was sent to ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST over the last few days. Please read the follwing message. D. Scott Dingler Listowner I borrowed this explanation from my colleague who has the SCROOTS list. He is a computer guru. Please read carefully. DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES TO THE LIST ABOUT THIS PLEASE!!! NOTE: This warning is the exception to the rule. Do not follow this as and example and start sending virus warnings to the forum. This type of message is OFF TOPIC in the forum, unless posted by the Forum Manager. I've recently received several emails from various people containing an attached file named HAPPY99.EXE. Some of these were from Forum members. Some were addressed to the Forum, but they were blocked by our automatic screening program. The HAPPY99.EXE program is a WORM. See below for more information about what that means. If you receive a message with that file attached don't execute it - delete it immediately. _______________________ VirusName: Happy99.Worm Aliases: Trojan.Happy99, I-Worm.Happy Description: This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has reportedly been received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup posting. The file is usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article attachment. When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The program copies itself as SKA.EXE and extracts a DLL that it carries as SKA.DLL into WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. It also modifies WSOCK32.DLL in WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and copies the original WSOCK32.DLL into WSOCK32.SKA. WSOCK32.DLL handles internet-connectivity in Windows 95 and 98. The modification to WSOCK32.DLL allows the worm routine to be triggered when a connect or send activity is detected. When such online activity occurs, the modified code loads the worm's SKA.DLL. This SKA.DLL creates a new email or a new article with UUENCODED HAPPY99.EXE inserted into the email or article. It then sends this email or posts this article. If WSOCK32.DLL is in use when the worm tries to modify it (i.e. a user is online), the worm adds a registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce=SKA.EXE The registry entry loads the worm the next time Windows start. Removing the worm manually: 1. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE 2. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL 3. replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA 4. delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE Safe Computing: This worm and other trojan-horse type programs demonstrate the need to practice safe computing. One should not execute any executable-file attachment (i.e. EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an email or a newsgroup article from an unknown or a untrusted source. Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this worm by downloading the virus definitions updates released on Jan 28, 1999 or later either through LiveUpdate or from the following webpage: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta - January 28, 1999 ___________________ For more information regarding viruses see the following sites. http://www.mcafee.com/ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html http://www.earthlink.net/daily/tuesday/macroviruses http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Unsolicited, unexplained attachments are unacceptable! "... you CAN get a virus by reading an attachment in an email message, such as an MS Word or Excel document, which is infected by a macro virus. You can also get a virus by running an executable program (such as *.exe , *.com or *.bat) someone e-mails you as an attachment." -- SOURCE: http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

I have received several copies of the HAPPY99 VIRUS (or WORM) from email that was sent to ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST over the last few days. Please read the follwing message. D. Scott Dingler Listowner I borrowed this explanation from my colleague who has the SCROOTS list. He is a computer guru. Please read carefully. DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES TO THE LIST ABOUT THIS PLEASE!!! NOTE: This warning is the exception to the rule. Do not follow this as and example and start sending virus warnings to the forum. This type of message is OFF TOPIC in the forum, unless posted by the Forum Manager. I've recently received several emails from various people containing an attached file named HAPPY99.EXE. Some of these were from Forum members. Some were addressed to the Forum, but they were blocked by our automatic screening program. The HAPPY99.EXE program is a WORM. See below for more information about what that means. If you receive a message with that file attached don't execute it - delete it immediately. _______________________ VirusName: Happy99.Worm Aliases: Trojan.Happy99, I-Worm.Happy Description: This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has reportedly been received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup posting. The file is usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article attachment. When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The program copies itself as SKA.EXE and extracts a DLL that it carries as SKA.DLL into WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. It also modifies WSOCK32.DLL in WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and copies the original WSOCK32.DLL into WSOCK32.SKA. WSOCK32.DLL handles internet-connectivity in Windows 95 and 98. The modification to WSOCK32.DLL allows the worm routine to be triggered when a connect or send activity is detected. When such online activity occurs, the modified code loads the worm's SKA.DLL. This SKA.DLL creates a new email or a new article with UUENCODED HAPPY99.EXE inserted into the email or article. It then sends this email or posts this article. If WSOCK32.DLL is in use when the worm tries to modify it (i.e. a user is online), the worm adds a registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce=SKA.EXE The registry entry loads the worm the next time Windows start. Removing the worm manually: 1. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE 2. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL 3. replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA 4. delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE Safe Computing: This worm and other trojan-horse type programs demonstrate the need to practice safe computing. One should not execute any executable-file attachment (i.e. EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an email or a newsgroup article from an unknown or a untrusted source. Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this worm by downloading the virus definitions updates released on Jan 28, 1999 or later either through LiveUpdate or from the following webpage: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta - January 28, 1999 ___________________ For more information regarding viruses see the following sites. http://www.mcafee.com/ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html http://www.earthlink.net/daily/tuesday/macroviruses http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Unsolicited, unexplained attachments are unacceptable! "... you CAN get a virus by reading an attachment in an email message, such as an MS Word or Excel document, which is infected by a macro virus. You can also get a virus by running an executable program (such as *.exe , *.com or *.bat) someone e-mails you as an attachment." -- SOURCE: http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

Does anyone have the 1870 census for Bartow County? A Lucinda Newton Adairsville P O Box is in the 1860 census. I need to know if she is still living there in 1870 and who is in her household. Would appreciate any help. Trying to tie her to my lineage. Thank you Mary Shireman

============================= Attention All Rooters with SlaveData: ============================= We would certainly encourage and support all researchers to share any and all slave data you encounter in your genealogical pursuits. We, African Ancestored Researchers (aka: Afrigeneas), have a project of some 10 year duration to gather, compile and make available slave data to the African Ancestored researcher. Records kept by the slaveowner are frequently the only clue to our ancestors, particularly during the period 1619-1870. Records Sought include: Advertisements Apprenticeship Bible Records Bills of Sale Birth Records Census Schedules Church Records Cohabitation Court Recorda DayBooks/Logs Death Records Diaries-Journals Inventories Legislative Acts Letters Litigation Manumissions Marriage Records Military Records Misc Records Pension Records Plantation Records Run-A-Ways SlaveOwners Slave Sales Tax Records Wills _____________________ Such information provided is available to all researchers at our FTP site and at the Afrigeneas HomePage. It is also available in the AOL Genealogy Forum Libraries. What format would we want the data? Well in the final analysis, whatever is best for you, the Sharer. A preferred format follows: Slaveowners Name: Name of Slave: Parent(s) of Slave: BirthPlace of Slave: Age of Slave: Sex of Slave: Color of Slave: Other PhysicalDescription: Other Information: Source Document: State: County: Year of Source Document: How to Access Source Document: ================================ This information may be submitted on line To: slavedata@aol.com or By USPostal Service To: Anniston-Calhoun Public Library Alabama Room-SlaveData Collection Post Office Box 308 Anniston, AL 36202 Browse The Collection As It Builds <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/"> http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/</A> Thanx for your attention and for your help! Valencia King Nelson National Coordinator Browse AfriGeneas Archived Messages On-Line <A HREF="http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ "> http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ </A>

============================= Attention All Rooters with SlaveData: ============================= We would certainly encourage and support all researchers to share any and all slave data you encounter in your genealogical pursuits. We, African Ancestored Researchers (aka: Afrigeneas), have a project of some 10 year duration to gather, compile and make available slave data to the African Ancestored researcher. Records kept by the slaveowner are frequently the only clue to our ancestors, particularly during the period 1619-1870. Records Sought include: Advertisements Apprenticeship Bible Records Bills of Sale Birth Records Census Schedules Church Records Cohabitation Court Recorda DayBooks/Logs Death Records Diaries-Journals Inventories Legislative Acts Letters Litigation Manumissions Marriage Records Military Records Misc Records Pension Records Plantation Records Run-A-Ways SlaveOwners Slave Sales Tax Records Wills _____________________ Such information provided is available to all researchers at our FTP site and at the Afrigeneas HomePage. It is also available in the AOL Genealogy Forum Libraries. What format would we want the data? Well in the final analysis, whatever is best for you, the Sharer. A preferred format follows: Slaveowners Name: Name of Slave: Parent(s) of Slave: BirthPlace of Slave: Age of Slave: Sex of Slave: Color of Slave: Other PhysicalDescription: Other Information: Source Document: State: County: Year of Source Document: How to Access Source Document: ================================ This information may be submitted on line To: slavedata@aol.com or By USPostal Service To: Anniston-Calhoun Public Library Alabama Room-SlaveData Collection Post Office Box 308 Anniston, AL 36202 Browse The Collection As It Builds <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/"> http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/</A> Thanx for your attention and for your help! Valencia King Nelson National Coordinator Browse AfriGeneas Archived Messages On-Line <A HREF="http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ "> http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ </A>

I just found out that one of my Washington, County, TN folks died in Cassville, GA, May 7, 1848. My information is that his son died the same day. He was a Presbyterian minister. I have no idea whether they had actually relocated to Bartow Co or if they were traveling through. James McLin's wife remarried a man in Washington Co, TN, so she either was not on the journey, or returned home after he died. I have his birth date as October 12, 1794, and marriage as May 21, 1821. His son, James McCord McLin, would have been a young man. Does anyone have easy access to death records for that time period? Pat Sabin

Hello, again, I am looking for any information about the family of Mark P. MAXWELL (no info on him at all) m. Lucy B. ATWOOD b. November 1839, Laurens Co., SC; d. March 11, 1913, Cartersville, Bartow Co., GA. Thanks, Glenda Lewis in TN Dncl@aol.com