Tonya, I do appreciate your efforts for this list. Currently, I do not have any information to contribute but I do have a question. Where may I find early wills that have been filed with the county/state for Twiggs County? Thank you Cyndi Hulett ----- Original Message ----- From: Tonya Crosby To: GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 4/22/02 2:55:18 PM Subject: Fw: [GATWIGGS] Marriages All right folks! Out of 65 people on the Twiggs Mailing List, only three responded to my request for marriages. (And let me take this time to say THANK YOU to those three, I really do appreciate your support!) What about the other 62 people? I can not do this alone!!!!!! The Twiggs County list is such a friendly one. If you've never written an e-mail to a mailing list or shared anything, this is a wonderful list to work with. Everyone is willing to help you ...and there is no "wrong" way to write an e-mail. Even if you don't type very well, we don't mind typos at all. The main thing is to at least attempt to share what you have. I know that you all are checking the Twiggs site for updates, I have seen the counter go up by 400 visitors in just a few weeks. Why won't you share? I don't mean to offend anyone, and if I have then I am sorry, but this can not be a one person operation. I have put hours and hours into trying to get information online. What is probably at your fingertips I have spent time at the library getting (and then had to pay for it!) I have about 400 marriages in this database so far. I would like to get much more before putting it online. For those of you that do not know me, I do live in Twiggs County. I also work full time as an EMT. I normally work 72 hours per week. I have three children; ages 17, 15 and 9. I also volunteer as a Rescue Member and Fire Department Member for Twiggs County. As you can see I stay pretty busy too so that is no excuse for not taking five minutes to send me your information. Now......START SHARING!!!!!! Tonya Crosby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Keener" kenkeener@pdq.net To: GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:51 PM Subject: Re: [GATWIGGS] Marriages Thanks, Tonya; this is sure to be a big help. Archibald Ham married Olly Ann Kelly I have no idea when but I THINK it was around 1835. Janiece ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tonya Crosby" thcrosby@bellsouth.net To: GATWIGGS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: [GATWIGGS] Marriages Dear list subscribers; I am starting a new database and will work on getting this online as soon as possible, but it can only be successful with your help. Since the courthouse burned in 1901, there are no marriage records for Twiggs County before that time. I am working on re-creating these marriages. I have started looking through old newspapers and books to get this database started. Gaila has sent me some marriages off of Ancestry.com and that is what has given me the idea to do this. I know that in some cases we will not be able to know the exact date the marriage took place. (But the month or just the year will be better than nothing!!!) Aren't you tired of being stuck with just a first name of a wife and no maiden name? What I need for each of you to do is to get out your family bibles and your family files and sent me a listing of who married who in Twiggs County before 1901. I will include a source to let everyone know where the information came from, but if you do not want your name mentioned, then I will just say "Personal Family File". Looking forward to hearing from each of you. Tonya www.geocities.com/thcrosby ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== Pat Evans Twiggs County List Manager http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/8044 surnames: evans, james, batchelor, bullington, haddock, davis, conine... ============================== 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 ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== Support Rootsweb! http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/ ============================== 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 ==== GATWIGGS Mailing List ==== Post your Wills for Twiggs County http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ga/TwiggsWill ============================== 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 --- axO9K7Nf2Ow= 3J8xdwbguAc= --- cjhulett@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.