At 10:58 AM 3/21/1999 -0500, you wrote: >The original message was received at Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:58:18 -0500 (EST) >from user-38lci6f.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.72.207] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><BATY> > (expanded from: <BATY>) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >... while talking to mx10.mindspring.com.: >>>> RCPT To:<[email protected]> ><<< 550 [email protected] unknown >550 <BATY>... User unknown >Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp1.mindspring.com >Received-From-MTA: DNS; user-38lci6f.dialup.mindspring.com >Arrival-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:58:18 -0500 (EST) > >Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected] >X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected] >Action: failed >Status: 5.1.1 >Remote-MTA: DNS; mx10.mindspring.com >Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 [email protected] unknown >Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:58:20 -0500 (EST) >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Received: from default (user-38lci6f.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.72.207]) > by smtp1.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09560; > Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:58:18 -0500 (EST) >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >X-Sender: [email protected] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:58:18 -0500 >To: [email protected] >From: "Lowry Z. Day" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [GAMORGAN-L] Surname BATY >Cc: BATY >In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >I have discovered in my attempts to trace my origins in Georgia, the >Counties of Henry, Clayton, Morgan, Pike, Jasper, Muscogee, Randolph and >Quitman. There's probably more, all involving the surnames Baty, Lowry, >Moore and Askew. Discouraged? Me? > >Thankfully, I have located some of the Census records, and I have a >marriage record involving Baty/Askew, with a date. > >I have also registered with the Beatty Project 2000, and taken advantage of >the existence of Random Acts of Geneological Kindness in addition to >several roots-L mailing lists and online ethnic societies. > >For someone unable to travel or spend prodigious hours in libraries and >archives, I'm not doing all that badly. Ain't computers wonderful? > >Thanks for your sardonic encouragement! Lowry > >At 01:47 PM 3/20/1999 EST, you wrote: >>I do not know of your surname, but I am just going to pass on some valuable >>information. The marriage index books for Morgan County are incomplete, and >>sometimes downright wrong. If you ever get a marriage date you might want to >>send it to the archivist and have him look it up in the actual marriage >books. >>Of all my Butts line only one or two were listed in the index, and one of >them >>wasn't even correctly listed. So don't be discouraged....also, I have >noticed >>that often the license in recorded in the Grooms county. So the marriage >>could be performed in Greene County, but the paperwork would be in Morgan >>County. Something else to make your day!!!! >> > >