Try this site for an index of obits from around the world. They add 1500-2000 names daily. http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ Nancy Pfaff At 01:17 AM 8/23/98 -0700, you wrote: >I am looking for someone who will do some Obituary lookups in philadelphia, Pa >in exchange for lookups in Norfolk, VA. > >Please e-mail me if you are interested. Thanks > >Please visit my homepage - a couple of good Phila memory pages linked there >http://members.aol.com/jdool90830/jano.htm >

> THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX > - Submitted by Rosie Fife > ------------------------------- >Many many years ago when I was twenty three, >I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. > >This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red. >My father fell in love with her, And soon the two were wed. > >This made my dad my son-in-law And changed my very life. >My daughter was my mother, For she was my father's wife. > >To complicate the matters worse, Although it brought me joy. I > soon became the father Of a bouncing baby boy. > >My little baby then became A brother-in-law to dad. >And so became my uncle, Though it made me very sad. > >For if he was my uncle, Then that also made him brother >To the widow's grown-up daughter Who, of course, was my step-mother. > >Father's wife then had a son, Who kept them on the run. >And he became my grandson, For he was my daughter's son. > >My wife is now my mother's mother And it makes me blue. > Because, although she is my wife, She's my grandma too. > > >If my wife is my grandmother, Then I am her grandchild. >And every time I think of it, It simply drives me wild. > >For now I have become The strangest case you ever saw. >As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!! > >Calvin > >

I am looking for someone who will do some Obituary lookups in philadelphia, Pa in exchange for lookups in Norfolk, VA. Please e-mail me if you are interested. Thanks Please visit my homepage - a couple of good Phila memory pages linked there http://members.aol.com/jdool90830/jano.htm

Did your ancestors move to Virginia?? Or are you from the Norfolk area and moved away?? If you have the death date of an ancestor who died in the Norfolk, VA area, I can lookup the obituary. (Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Chesapeake, Princess Anne Co., Va Beach and Portsmouth) Newspapers from 1870's to current. No papers for earlier dates. No charge. I DO need the death date! month, day and year. and of course, the name of the person ;O) Please e-mail me, and check my homepage for details. Janice Dool, Norfolk, VA http://members.aol.com/JDool90830/jano.htm

My grandfather arrived in New York from Germany 25 Mar 1872 on ship Rhein. The passenger list only shows Germany and not the town or village he was from. Does anyone know if there are papers kept by the New York authorities that the passengers completed upon arrival and if so, how to go about searching them?. Thanks

I am looking for information from the 1800 and 1810 census of Philadelphia Co, PA. and also the 1810 census of Monroe Co., GA. I live in the Tidewater area of Virginia and can look up information for you regarding this area out of the Va. Beach Central Library. Thanks, Jannie

Would appreciate a look up from some kind individual of the following in 1810, Berks CO, household counts, please EBEHAMER, George-Douglass Twp-pg 147 EBEHEIMER, William-Herford Twp-pg 159 EBEHEMER, Jacob- Amity Twp pg 134 Will exchange look ups from my sources listed on my web page http://members.aol.com/evilsizer3/ Thank you for your time. Sandi EVILSIZER Koscak

For a list of over 1,000 names starting with Mitchell, Summerfield, Vault, Alexander Morris, Rosecrans, Sanders, Saunders, Skiles, Reasonover, Daniel, Wade, Raike, Arthur, Gurule`, Melton, Green, Raper, McDaniel, & Old Hop, (Cherokee Oku) After viewing the pages of info, E-Mail for more Info, hope this page helps you. Please sign the guest book . Web Address: http://members.tripod.com/~mitch1423/mitchell_index.html

I am looking for someone to look up a name in the New York State Death indexes after 1920. I have available a lot of Ohio material and all the FL death, marriage, divorce fiche. l can drive to the Georgia indexes. Also can drive to complete English BDM indexes. Can also arrange to trad something else. I have some friends here and there who would do something for me. June Byrne junebyr@aol.com

Does any great person out there have the Family Archive CD 170 for Family Tree Maker. If so , I would like to ask for a look up for Elizabeth KELLY b 1836 in Ireland, imigrated to PA and married Francis BURNS then moved to Buchanan Co., Iowa. Thank you so much. Jeri

Could someone please look up on CD 310 -PA Census 1755-1790 For surname UBELSCHAUSSER. Variants include EILHEIMER, EMILHISER, EVILSIZER, IBLESHAUSER, Thank you Sandi Evilsizer Koscak Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as "Progress" ********************************************************************* There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children---- One is roots; the other, wings. ********************************************************************* MANY BOOKS WITH INDEXES FOR LOOK-UPS!!! http://members.aol.com/Evilsizer3/ http://familytreemaker.com/users/k/o/s/Sandi-J-Koscak/ Researching: AVERY, BARNES, BYRN,BOARD, EVILSIZER,FOUTS, HUFF/HOUGH,LIPPINCOTT,MARTIN,NUCKOLLS,ROUNTREE, SANDERS, SCHUYLER, VAN SCHAICK, STALLIONS/STALLINGS, VAN SCHLICHTENHORST, WISE

Wondering if anyone does any look-ups and pictures in this cemetery. Have two uncles and one aunt burried there. Please contact me directly at B1316@aol.com Thanks, Bev Oakley, Sheboygan, Wi

> Here are some epitaphs from real tombstones: > On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: > > Here lies > Ezekial Aikle > Age 102 > The Good > Die Young. > > In a London, England cemetery: > > Ann Mann > Here lies Ann Mann, > Who lived an old maid > But died an old Mann. > Dec. 8, 1767 > > In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace > > The children of Israel wanted bread > And the Lord sent them manna, > Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, > And the Devil sent him Anna. > > Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: > > Here lies > Johnny Yeast > Pardon me > For not rising. > > Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: > > Here lies the body > of Jonathan Blake > Stepped on the gas > Instead of the brake. > > In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: > > Here lays Butch, > We planted him raw. > He was quick on the trigger, > But slow on the draw. > > A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: > > Sacred to the memory of > my husband John Barnes > who died January 3, 1803 > His comely young widow, aged 23, has > many qualifications of a good wife, and > yearns to be comforted. > > A lawyer's epitaph in England: > > Sir John Strange > Here lies an honest lawyer, > And that is Strange. > > Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: > > I was somebody. > Who is no business > Of yours. > > Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the > cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, > Arizona: > > Here lies Lester Moore > Four slugs from a .44 > No Les No More. > > In a Georgia cemetery: > > "I told you I was sick!" > > John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: > > Reader if cash thou art > In want of any > Dig 4 feet deep > And thou wilt find a Penny. > > On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia: > > She always said her feet were killing her > but nobody believed her. > > In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: > > On the 22nd of June > - Jonathan Fiddle - > Went out of tune. > > Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph that > sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie: > > Here lies the body of our Anna > Done to death by a banana > It wasn't the fruit that laid her low > But the skin of the thing > that made her go. > > More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: > > Gone away > Owin' more > Than he could pay. > > Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: > > In Memory of Beza Wood > Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837 > Aged 45 yrs. > Here lies one Wood > Enclosed in wood > One Wood > Within another. > The outer wood > Is very good: > We cannot praise > The other. > > On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts: > > Under the sod and under the trees > Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. > He is not here, there's only the pod: > Pease shelled out and went to God. > > The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a > consumer tip: > > Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870 > by the explosion of a lamp filled with > "R.E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid" > > Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: > Born 1903--Died 1942 > Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. > It was. > > In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: > > Here lies an Atheist > All dressed up > And no place to go.

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I found the following in the KY death index at http://ukcc.uky.edu:80/~vitalrec/ MILDRED H SHUFFLIN Date: 670302 (Mar. 2, 1967) Age: 072 Place: JEFFN Residence: JEFFERSON Volume: 012 Cert: 05868 Deathvol: 67 If someone could look an obit for me, I can reciprocate in Illinois. TIA, Becky

Hello Everyone, I just received e-mail yesterday saying that DAR has added more volumes to Ancestry.com Whenever Ancestry adds new databases they are usually free for 10 days! I haven't checked it out yet, but plan to. The address is www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3174.htm I thought ya'll might be interested in the DAR addition. (DAR is Daughters of the American Revolution) just in case someone did not know that. Bye for now, Tamara Steele-Altizer Need Info. On: ALTIZER, BEAVERS, BELCHER, BILLIPS, BOWLING, BROOKS, CLAY, DANIELS, DAVIDSON, DAY, DESKINS, FRANCISCO, FRENCH, GATES, JENT, JEWELL, MARRS, MILLER, NELSON, PAYNE, REEVES, SADLER, SHRADER, STINSON, WHITE. ADKINS, APPERSON, ASHLEY, BOWMAN, BRITTIAN, BURBERY, CANTRELL/CANTRIL, CATERNE, COOK, CRABTREE, DAMERON/DAMRON, DAVIS, DENNY, DRAWDY, FERRELL, FOX/FUCHS, FRANKLIN, HAINES, HALE, HARRIS, HAYNES, HEATH, HORN, INGERSOLL, JONES, KEEN, LESTER, MARLOW, MARLOW, MAYNARD, MCINERY, MCMEANS, MOULTON, MOYCE, NASH, NEAL, OWL, PAGE, PEASLEE, PFEIFFERIN(PIPER), PINSON, PRATER, PRATT, RATCLIFF/RATCLIFFE, SHORT, SMITH, SPANGLER/SPENGLER, SPENCE, STEELE, STILTNER, UNK. Check out: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9071/index.html

I weould be interested in sharing information with those who have family or ancestors from the towns and villiages that comprise"The Emsland"-upper northwest beneath Osterfriesland. http://www.geocities.com/heartland/4018/ Thanks,hope to hear from U! Al

I guys , I am wondering if anyone on this list lives in California , Santa Rosa , Sacramento or Apple Valley , And can check a phone book for me ?? , I need a street address , For anybody named ' Schopflin ' .... The websearch I did came up without the street addresses for 3 people , one each in these towns ... Thanks a bunch , Phil... ps , my local library has their phone books put away while a major remodel in underway .... _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Trying to unsubscribe. My computer needs to go to computer hospital. :( Hope to see you all soon. :) Thanks Barbara in San Bernardino

Yesterday I sent a wrong address for people looking for Mitchell, Summerfield, Mulkey, Alexander, Morris, Rosecrans, Saunders, Sanders, Melton, and 1,000 other names, The page is completed with all the names. I still have one section under construction. Hope you can find a name you are looking for. I have complete files on almost all of these people. E-mail me if you see a name that you are interested in. the right address is http://www.ionet.net/~mitch1423/mitchell.htm Larry Mitchell