The genealogy data will most likely be of more interest to most of you so I will concentrate on getting those pages scanned first. Hopefully all of the scans will have the page numbers on them. That way we can put all of the pages in order to make a complete volume. I plan to download it all and place it in a hardback notebook binder for reference. Mike Outgoing mail is certified as being virus free...Using Norton's Anti-Virus and Norton's Internet Security Researching......SAWYER/HALSTEAD/GRIFFIN/WILKES/HOWELL/LIGHTSEY/ZEIGLER and ABRAMS/POWELL/BLEDSOE/HOLMES/HILL..... ----- Original Message ----- From: gholback_1999@yahoo.com To: GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: [GAIRWIN] Will be in Fitzgerald and Ocilla late this summer.. 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/Tc.2ADI/777 Message Board Post: Hi cousins, I promised my Dad back in August of 1998 the week before his death that I would take him home and I plan to keep my promise. It has taken me a long time to adjust to the loss and now I feel that I can honor his wishes and take "him" home. So his ashes will be scattered as he requested late this summer and while I am home I plan to go to the courthouses and the libraries to copy documents and also transcribe some records to place on the websites that I host. John bought me a great digital camera a couple of years ago and I plan to take lots of photos of both Ben Hill and Irwin County sites. Some years ago I did make movies of the cemeteries that I visited but have not had the time to figure out how to place those movies online but I will. These are from a day I spent with John and Polly Willcox going from cemetery to cemetery in Ben Hill, Dodge and Pulaski Counties. The videos turned out really good and show both close ups and panorama views of the cemeteries. Dave I will scan some copies of Mr. Clements book tonight and get them online. I will send you the url where the images are and will do the same for any of the rest of you who would like to be able to print out copies of those pages. Most likely I will began with the church records and the family histories as most of the military records are already online and the history of the county is also pretty much online. The genealogy data will most likely be of more interest to most of you so I will concentrate on getting those pages scanned first. Gloria ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

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/Tc.2ADI/778.1 Message Board Post: Yes, to both. They are old Irwin County families.

On Jun 14, 2004, at 12:22 PM, davwatso@aol.com wrote: > Solomon Watson Please, share some of the information about SOLOMAN WATSON. Am especially interested in his parents and siblings. Thank you very much, zee

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/Tc.2ADI/778 Message Board Post: Would like to know if there are any McClelland names in the Clements book . also the Branch names Thank you

Gloria, What a great thing to do for your dad (and yourself)! I hope to one day move my father from where he is buried in Seminole County, Florida to the Mt Olive Cemetery in Bradley Junction, Polk County, Florida where his Mother,Father,Grandparents, and Great Grandmother, plus great aunts, uncles and cousins are buried I am sure that others will benefit from the Clements book on-line, but don't hurry on my account. I read my copy in 2 days and am enjoying rereading it, especially the notes form the churches about who was excommunicated for what. I guess times really haven't changed that much except for people being more 'tolerant.' Looking forward to one day getting up to Irwin County. In His Name, Dave

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/Tc.2ADI/777 Message Board Post: Hi cousins, I promised my Dad back in August of 1998 the week before his death that I would take him home and I plan to keep my promise. It has taken me a long time to adjust to the loss and now I feel that I can honor his wishes and take "him" home. So his ashes will be scattered as he requested late this summer and while I am home I plan to go to the courthouses and the libraries to copy documents and also transcribe some records to place on the websites that I host. John bought me a great digital camera a couple of years ago and I plan to take lots of photos of both Ben Hill and Irwin County sites. Some years ago I did make movies of the cemeteries that I visited but have not had the time to figure out how to place those movies online but I will. These are from a day I spent with John and Polly Willcox going from cemetery to cemetery in Ben Hill, Dodge and Pulaski Counties. The videos turned out really good and show both close ups and panorama views of the cemeteries. Dave I will scan some copies of Mr. Clements book tonight and get them online. I will send you the url where the images are and will do the same for any of the rest of you who would like to be able to print out copies of those pages. Most likely I will began with the church records and the family histories as most of the military records are already online and the history of the county is also pretty much online. The genealogy data will most likely be of more interest to most of you so I will concentrate on getting those pages scanned first. Gloria

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/Tc.2ADI/773.5 Message Board Post: Dave, don't buy the book as I will be scanning it to the web. Seems like in checking the Clements family did not renew the copyrights and the only copyright is on the 50 page index that is in the reprint of the same book. Now that I have my personal webapages updated I will scan the pages and place them online including all of the photos of our ancestors. Though my copy of the book is pretty well worn the inside is still in good shape and won't be any problem to scan. Also I have a great program which will take my scan and put it into plain text format so I can also do that for any of you that would like to have a copy of the entire book. Since like many of you I descend from so many of the Irwin County Pioneers my grandparents had a library filled with old books that were written early in the history of Georgia South Central Counties. Also I do have some others which were published in recent years. Gloria

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/Tc.2ADI/773.4 Message Board Post: Goodness, I did not realize that I could transcribe from Mr. Clements book. That is great news since I have a copy of the original edition. So in that case I will definately transcribe that book too and place it on the Irwin County GeorgiaGenWeb Site which I have hosted for the past eight years. Out of respect for copyrights I did not transcribe the book but since it seems that is not a problem I will glady transcribe the book So please keep checking the pages for the updates as I will get started on the transcriptions soon. In fact some pdf scans of the book would be great. Guess that means that any of the other genealogy books that I have on hand published around 1932 or before will also be o.k. to transcribe to the webpages. Will make sure though that copyrights have not been renewed. Gloria

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Watson,Gibbs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Tc.2ADI/773.3.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the update. I just got my copy from Higginsbooks for $65.00. I was able to find several ancestors including Sampson Gibbs and Solomon Watson

Hi everyone, I have been offline busy with the updates and changes to the pages that I host for Ben Hill, Irwin and Pulaski Counties. As some of you know we have had a big change in the GAGenWeb. Instead of one there is actually two GAGenWeb Projects online. One is still affilated with the USGenWeb and the other is now affilated with AHGP. I chose to resign from the project which is affilated with USGenWeb and have linked the county pages to the new GAGenWeb Project as did about 50% plus of the coordinators. I do hope you will all visit the new site once we get everything operational. We are in need of new County Coordinators if you have an interest in hosting a county. We do not force anyone to place their data in an archives but the data remains at the county level and we believe in the county coordinators are the heart of the project. Many Irwin County pioneer families had strong ties to Pulaski County so I hope that any of you who descends from Pulaski County lines will join the new mail list. There is even a live chat feature which allows us to chat via microphones and a photo album for sharing our family photos and many other wonderful features. Just go to the link above and sign up. As soon as the new pages are all uploaded and ready for viewing I will send a message to this list. Your List Mom, Gloria http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gagenpulaski/ "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

Hi Gloria, Try the following url http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi If this doesn't work, please let me know & I will try again. Jan Walker Jackson Gloria Holback wrote: > Hi, If everyone who has a website pertaining to Irwin County ancestors sends me the urls for the sites I will add those to the Irwin Co., GAGenWeb Pages so others can easily find your websites or the area where your ancestors information is posted on the web. Gloria, mail list mom > > Lora <zyoung@select-hinges.com> wrote: > On May 14, 2004, at 7:12 AM, janjax wrote: > > > What I have on the descendants of James Walker is posted > > on RootWeb World Connect. > > There are many JAMES WALKERs listed on rootsweb. Please post the url > for yours. > Thank you, > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > "What good is knowledge if not shared?" > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Please send me the names of your American Revolutionary War ancestors who either/and/or served in GA, were born in GA, died in GA so that I can add them to the new Revolutionary War section of the GAGenWeb > Military Project. Be sure to visit the new pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagwmil/argeorgia/arindex.htm > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Hi Lora, If you will go to the following web site http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi you should be able to find my James Walker, born in Duplin Co, NC, 1760; died in 3rd District, Irwin Co, GA, 1852; son of Joseph Walker and Elizabeth Clark. If this doesn't work, let me know & I'll try again. Jan Walker Jackson Lora wrote: > On May 14, 2004, at 7:12 AM, janjax wrote: > > > What I have on the descendants of James Walker is posted > > on RootWeb World Connect. > > There are many JAMES WALKERs listed on rootsweb. Please post the url > for yours. > Thank you, > > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== > Thank you all Irwin County Volunteers and Contributors for your help throughout the years....1996-2004 Gloria Holback > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Wright Parker is shown in 1838-1840 Grand Jurors for Irwin County. Wright is a new name for me (or new to my old memory). Is there anyone on list with information regarding him and his family? I thought he might connect to Matthew, Gabriel or Caleb. Thanks for your help. Winnette --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.701 / Virus Database: 458 - Release Date: 06/07/2004

The only difference the visitor will notice is the logos will be different. The team is still the same, website address has not changed and the sites will continue to grow. We look forward to continuing the tradition of free genealogy and helping if we have the resources to do so and if not directing the person perhaps to someone that can help. Margie -----Original Message----- From: Gloria Holback [mailto:gholback_1999@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:19 PM To: GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GAIRWIN] Thanks to all of you who wrote to us Lise, thanks so much for the email. We will have the county pages back on line in a few days. Tried to get them all loaded tonight but the ftp site was too busy and too slow so I will wait. We have moved the Georgia Genweb project from USGenWeb Project. The people who are there at the old project are mostly USGenWeb Archives Project members. They do not do a lot of transcribing they instead will most likely have a lot of county pages linking to the USGenWeb Archives section for GA. The County Coordinators who moved/left the project do transcribing and we place data on our county websites. We do not donate the material to the Archives but keep it on the county sites. So please do visit our new site once I make the announcement that the main state pages in operational. What I see happening now is that we become an independant member of a federation of non profit genealogy projects. Many of us have the same addresses/URLs that we had before and some have moved their pages to other servers. Kind Regards, Gloria Eharsea@wmconnect.com wrote: Hello Gloria I take it the url will still be GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com I know I am slow in the messages but I really appreciate all the work you, John and Edd have done for the state of GEORGIA It really helps the ones that are not accessible to the records to know that someone else really cares about our Georgia. Thanks again Lise Seabolt,a displaced Georgian in Oklahoma ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 5/22/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 5/22/2004

Lise, thanks so much for the email. We will have the county pages back on line in a few days. Tried to get them all loaded tonight but the ftp site was too busy and too slow so I will wait. We have moved the Georgia Genweb project from USGenWeb Project. The people who are there at the old project are mostly USGenWeb Archives Project members. They do not do a lot of transcribing they instead will most likely have a lot of county pages linking to the USGenWeb Archives section for GA. The County Coordinators who moved/left the project do transcribing and we place data on our county websites. We do not donate the material to the Archives but keep it on the county sites. So please do visit our new site once I make the announcement that the main state pages in operational. What I see happening now is that we become an independant member of a federation of non profit genealogy projects. Many of us have the same addresses/URLs that we had before and some have moved their pages to other servers. Kind Regards, Gloria Eharsea@wmconnect.com wrote: Hello Gloria I take it the url will still be GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com I know I am slow in the messages but I really appreciate all the work you, John and Edd have done for the state of GEORGIA It really helps the ones that are not accessible to the records to know that someone else really cares about our Georgia. Thanks again Lise Seabolt,a displaced Georgian in Oklahoma ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

Hello Gloria I take it the url will still be GAIRWIN-L@rootsweb.com I know I am slow in the messages but I really appreciate all the work you, John and Edd have done for the state of GEORGIA It really helps the ones that are not accessible to the records to know that someone else really cares about our Georgia. Thanks again Lise Seabolt,a displaced Georgian in Oklahoma

> I am sorry to see your resignation but i agree with you I am interested in genealogy and with sharing. June has been soo helpful to me any questions I have asked she will get the answers for me if she can. I will be glad to contribute any info to the list. Shirley McMillan Durden also researching Luke too.============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Shirley, the Luke family is one bigggg family aren't they? Just like all of our other allied lines...I never realized how life long friends and neighbors in Fitzgerald and Irwin County I was related to until Phil published his book. I don't think there are any pioneer families not connected in one way or another. How on earth did any of our ancestors avoid marrying a cousin? <smile> June is a wonderful person and sure does her fair share of helping others. June joined us soon after we adopted the counties and has been volunteering now going on eight years as of this Autumn. The years have really flown by. Lots of our Cousins are still subbed to the list and have been with us since the first years before we had mail lists. Now those were some pretty busy times as we had to post all of the queries to the pages that we set up. Now anyone can just post a query to the mail list for send a private email to the volunteer. Our first pages was "Our Cousin's Corner", which is still online but needs some updating and editing which I plan to do soon. At one time we just linked from one anothers pages and did not have state projects. Kind Regards, Gloria shirley <dawned03@alltel.net> wrote: > I am sorry to see your resignation but i agree with you I am interested in genealogy and with sharing. June has been soo helpful to me any questions I have asked she will get the answers for me if she can. I will be glad to contribute any info to the list. Shirley McMillan Durden also researching Luke too.============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== A Gathering Place For Irwin County Family Members and Friends To Discuss Our Family Histories. A Place To Share Stories About The History Of Irwin County. If New To This List Please Introduce Yourself And Tell Us What Surnames That Your Researching. And A Big Welcome From Each Of US. ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

Lora, the url will be the same. The state page will be different. We are in the process of getting it all ready. And are all excited about the change. But an announcement will be made here as soon as the pages are all up. John and I have so many hard copies of actual court records for some counties in this area of Georgia and we want to scan them and get them all online. These are actual indexes of land records, guardianship, marriages, wills and when we get the new pages online and get all set up we will be scanning and placing these documents online. Then all you have to do is to find your ancestors name on the index page and write the County for a copy of the actual land records. These land records are amazing pieces of genealogy information as in many cases they name family members by name and their relationship to the land owner. When it is the first piece of land that person has in the county it will show the former county, state or home that person lived when the p! roperty was purchased. Also there are cases where a father in law gives land to a son in law and names that person as son in law. These land records alone are priceless. But if you don't know there is a land transaction the only way you can find it is to rent the microfilmed copies of the land indexes or go to the courthouse and go through the books. My idea of genealogy webpages is to place indexes and other types of helpful information that will save the researcher time and money. Edd Dorminey has placed the Irwin County indexes online for many records and we have Edd to thank for having access to so much Irwin county court records. But the ones that I will be placing online in some cases are for Pulaski County and Telfair, Dodge, Dooly Counties. As you might know some of our Irwin County ancestors were first in Pulaski before coming down to Irwin so in those cases it will be a big help. My dream is to have images online of some of these wills, deeds, marriages and we were in the process of doing that before the change over in leadership of the GAGenWeb Project. But now we move forward and we go with a cheerful attitude. Any of our subscribers are welcome to share your records with others by scanning the documents and allowing us to post it on the webpages. Just as soon as we get the pages back on line we will let everyone know. And again, thanks for the understanding during this transitional period. Gloria zee <zyoung@select-hinges.com> wrote: On Jun 2, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Gloria Holback wrote: > need county records Missed some messages. What is the new URL ? Thank you, lora ==== GAIRWIN Mailing List ==== We do need county records, photos of your ancestors, photos of historic county sites and people, court, marriage, military, church, land and propety to post on the county website. Your contributions are appreciated. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 "What good is knowledge if not shared?" --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger

On Jun 2, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Gloria Holback wrote: > need county records Missed some messages. What is the new URL ? Thank you, lora