I saw this item for sale at eBay and thought that you might be interested. Title of item: 1822 MA Holy Bible w/Genealogy Info Seller: auction@boston1.com Starts: 06/30/98 15:44:52 PDT Ends: 07/07/98 15:44:52 PDT Price: Currently $10.50 To bid the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=19509990 Item Description: 1822 MA Holy Bible w/Genealogy Info In fair/good condition, with some foxing, The Holy Bible and Old and New Testament Translated out of the Original Tongues, Printed by W. Greenbough, with 14 family entries in the middle of this book, including Robert Baker born December 19, 1767 (oldest). Entries have name and either birth or death date (or both). Family entries are on inserted blank piece of paper sewn in the middle of this book. A really nice piece, I do not know anything about this family and no location is given in the book. I assume they were from MA. SHIPPING IS $3 - PAYMENT IN 14 DAYS PLEASE ALL INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS IN US CURRENCY ONLY WE HAVE OTHER GREAT HISTORICAL ITEMS FOR SALE THIS WEEK! What other items are available?     Visit eBay, the world's largest Personal Trading Community at http://www.ebay.com

I've seen programs where some ethnic groups have mass weddings where thousands get married at once... I propose we have a group adoption.....and we'll all adopt one another and then we'll all have tons and tons of ancestors to keep us busy the rest of our lives....no more of this crazy drive to find some crumb of info..we'll be inundated with more than we'll ever be able to absorb!! What da' ya say to that? Barbara....uprooting family trees in Sacramento.

As soon as I stop giggling, I am going to print That one OUT! That is wonderful!!! I love Dragons! I know this has naught to do with Genealogy, but the list is slow, so It doesn't hurt! how about People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. -- Anonymous Marcia

The following URL will find the county for any town or city in the U.S. http://www.inlink.com/~nomi/vitalrec/va.html After you get to the web page scroll down to the Unrelated links and select pick "Find a county for any city in U.S. This better than a map, especially around the large cities in the eastern states. Richard KCooli4087@aol.com wrote: > > I seems to me there sould be a web site with just maps with the counties on > it. Maybe some one can come up with one. > > How about it, fellow genealogist??? Can someone root out something? > > Ken Coolidge > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Are you having trouble unsubscribing to the list? You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists we own from our web page at: > http://www.genrecords.com

I loved it.....I just have to point out my favorite Tag line I had seen..I wish I could remember whose it was , but it is SO True it said, and I quote Genealogy, where we confuse the dead, and irritate the living! LOVED IT! -----Original Message----- From: theshadow <theshadow@hot1.net> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 2:52 PM Subject: Last Living Descendant? >Hi Folks, > I can't help but think of the words that Cinque of "Amistad" supposedly >gave to explain why he called upon his ancestors for help. > > "At this moment, I am the sole reason for their having existed at all." > > I think that says it for each of us. > Happy July 4th to all of you. LCranston > > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Family Workings: http://www.familyworkings.com > >A site to help researchers break through those brickwalls. Lots of links, >subcatagorized, ancestor queries, tips, and cemetary research. Looking for >research donations of: Cemetaries, obits, volunteer researchers, and >anything else that may be of interest to other researchers. Submit links, >ancestor queries and tips. Check it out > > > > > > > > > >

One of the list messages I received had a website for a 4th of July page with fireworks, etc. Did someone from this list send it? If so, could you send it to me again? Thanks. Sandee Hughes (shug@pacbell.net)

Anna ( and anyone else who is interested), The following is from the is from the GRS newsletter. Hope it helps. 1. How to Figure Birthdates >From "Compendium of Historical Sources" by Ronald Bremer Often tombstones have a notation such as: "Died 15 June 1872, Aged 77 years, 10 months, 3 days." How do you determine the correct birthdate? First of all, make the sequence read days, months, years: thus 15-6-1872 minus 3-10-77. Since the 10th month cannot be subtracted from the sixth, borrow 12 months from the year of death, making the year 1871 and the month 18. (If you borrow from the month to make days, borrow 30 days, even though the month might have 31.) The equation now looks like: 15-18-1871 minus 3-10-77. Begin the calculations on the right hand side. Therefore, 77 years from 1871 means that the person was born in 1794. Subtracting 10 months from 18 gives you eight months, or August. So the correct date of birth was 12 August 1794.

Does anyone know how to go about getting a birth record from England? I need to get a record dated 1890 from Coventry, England. Barbara

While my web page deals with Germany, it has a Table of Links that includes Town Locators. You can find anyplace on earth from there, and bookmark it from that point on. <http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911>http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911 :) Don -----Original Message----- From: KCooli4087@aol.com <KCooli4087@aol.com> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, 02 July, 1998 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Iowa >I seems to me there sould be a web site with just maps with the counties on >it.  Maybe some one can come up with one. > >How about it, fellow genealogist???  Can someone root out something? > >Ken Coolidge > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Are you having trouble unsubscribing to the list? You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists we own from our web page at: ><http://www.genrecords.com/>http://www.genrecords.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ship's Passenger Lists is at <http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911>http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911 in the Table of Links. -----Original Message----- From: Lynn4604@aol.com <Lynn4604@aol.com> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, 02 July, 1998 8:34 PM Subject: Re: LAST LIVING DESCENDENT >Hi, >  Sometimes it seems like you are never going to get a lead on one of your >brick walls.I have been stuck on one person and it is starting to feel like >forever.I have checked census ship lists,land records and it seems like they >just appear out of nowhere.It seems like I spend more time doing look ups for >others then on my own research.I believe it pays off in the end.Just tonight I >was surfing the web bored and came across the Ellis Island Wall of Honor >page.Just for the heck of it I typed in my brick wall surname and it came >up.Along with place of orgin.Just one,but enough to give me some idea where to >look next.So you never know where you are going to find information.It could >come from some other person that has been helped in the past,a over looked >record and like me by just killing time.So don't give up.it's a great feeling >when you get a lead on a deadend.Gives you new hope to go on and find more. >    Lynn >here is the Ellis Island web page url.<http://www.wallofhonor.com/main.asp>http://www.wallofhonor.com/main.asp > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >If you need to unsubscribe to GenTips email the command: >unsubscribe >To: >GenTips-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com >DON'T send it to GenTips-L that won't work! > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

<http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm>http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm     for 1895 U.S. Atlas Bev

I know my great great grandmother is buried in a family cemetary outside of Slidell LA. My grandmother said all family members can be buried free. I don't think that includes paying someone to dig the grave. I not sure when the first person was buried there. I will ask for more details. I have not been in this cemetary since I was a child. Lynne

Hi, I have been reading all these posts of encouragment.  I have posted my Dr. Long all over the net and got no response.  It is discouraging-so here goes again. Dr. GOERGE WASHINGTON LONG b. 19 Oct 1825 NC, d. 14 June 1900 Rabun Co GA; m. 22 Sept 1850 Adeline York in Rabun Co.  Bought land there in 1843.  The deed said he was from HAYWOOD Co NC. His siblings: Neoma (NaomI) b. 1820  NC William M  b. 1835  NC?? Michael  ?????? Jack  ????? possibly 2 others Who were his parents? Thank you for ANY help or suggestions, Melinda

All this talk of copyright made me look for that little symbol in Word and AmiPro.  Didn't find it in either.  Where could it be found if we wanted to use it? Vera Bunkoff

Please, please don't despair Hang in there, Or look elsewhere. And know that we all care...... I just did a weekend posting blitz of about 30 surnames and/or sites, sat back and watched the fireworks.  What a sight, from Scotland to twenty miles up the road, unknown cousins, clues, solutions, and rewards for thirty + years preparation came pouring in.  Three cheers for rootsweb. Bev in hot FL ---------- > From: Rusty Gordonby way of Genealogy Records Service <info@genrecords.com> <uraeus@ionet.net> > To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: LAST LIVING DESCENDENT > Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 10:42 AM > > I have come to the conclusion that I am the last of my line, THE LAST LIVING > DESCENDENT!!! > I have tried to be helpful to everyone that ask for my assistance but I > really have found no information available for me, with one or two > exceptions. Is it common for there not to be any help at all? I can sit in > the local genealogy department and get that----unless my family lived here > from the conception of mankind. I am frustrated and feel like not being any > help at all but I know that is wrong, so I am to the conclusion that the > only thing left for me to do is not post and see what comes up. > > Rusty > > > > > > > > >

Everyone has a differert way of doing things. I havve a web site bookmarked. It takes me less time. Gayle <http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo>http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

either that or figure out a good site on net Connie Davis wrote: > > To the individual who wrote requesting the names of counties in Iowa, I > was by no means "criticizing" you when I suggested you purchase an > atlas.  I have one and use it all the time.  Perhaps I should have also > added that bit of information.  If you did indeed feel I was > criticizing, I apologize. However, I do sincerely suggest anyone doing > their genealogy to purchase an atlas that indicates counties.  It has > been one of my greatest assets and definitely a time saver. > > Connie > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Are you having trouble unsubscribing to the list? You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the lists we own from our web page at: > <http://www.genrecords.com/>http://www.genrecords.com

I too know the feeling. For over 30 years I have been researching most of my lines of my pedigree, finding little evidence that anyone else is researching the same line on most branches. Then in an effort to contact other descendents of my paternal immigrant ancestor, I posted my files online. Subsequent to that an individual with a remote relationship from an entirely different line, downloaded my entire file to his files, and resubmitted everything as his own, not just one time, but two times. So, my files are listed once and his resubmission of them twice. When I wrote to him to inquire regarding it, he had already blocked any email from me to him. When I wrote the list managers, they said we should settle it between ourselves. Poor on their part in my estimation. I have instructed them to withdraw my files. I will submit my research in the various counties where it may do real descendents some good. On the other side of the coin, there is a gentleman who has been looking up records for one of my husband's families, and has been sending them right along with no thought for himself. Help far above and beyond "the call of duty". I would have taken a long time to know the ins and outs that he does, and his kindness will be repaid. I find after all that I can do some research for him. And beyond that I have a new friend. So, there are truly both types of persons out there. Frankly, if it helps me to further the original research on my line, I guess I would rather take my chances. After all the fellow who lifted my entire files, has only what I submitted. He has none of the subsequent original research, nor does he have the documentation that I have in abundant supply. He has a distinct lack of integrity, and I truly believe that "time wounds all heels". Charlene Calvert Pinkowski charpink@gte.net York, PA, USA

Or if you have internet access use all the maps available online. :) Don Watson dwat6911@nstar.net <http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911>http://web.nstar.net/~dwat6911 The AWESOME Table of Links and FASTRAK. -----Original Message----- From: Connie Davis <davis4@psln.com> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, 02 July, 1998 3:17 PM Subject: Re: IOWA >I would suggest to all who are seriously doing their genealogy to invest >in a good atlas, one that defines counties. > >Connie

Hi-I'm looking for information of ancestors with the Surnames as listed. Other known for Greathouse is Groethausen, Groethaus, Grothaus.  Other for Rau is Rauh, Raub, and Rowe.  Both names are german, although I cannot find anything on the ships list. I have traced Greathouse back to Isaiah R. Greathouse DOB 1.2.1816 DOD 3.17.1877 m: Martha one known descendant Thomas N. DOB 1851 DOD 1919 born in Warren Ohio.  Other than that I have hit a dead end.  Family history says they came from Germany to PA to OH to IN which is where all are buried.  Isaiah is my husbands gr. gr. grandfather.  Rau is my gr. gr. grandmother Gertrude Carroll Agnew Rau DOB 2.23.1883 DOD 08.74 , mother was Agnes Carroll Agnew.  I have found a James Agnew on a ships list but cannot connect the two. Anyone with information will be greatly appreciated.  Gail Greathouse _____________________________________________________________________ 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/>http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]