At 01:22 PM 9/30/2006, you wrote: <snip> >Not so. If you see a name like John L. Dowdy and never saw that name >written out on any legal papers how would you know what the L. meant? I >am serious here. If anyone on this list has proof that the L. in John L. >Dowdy is I surely hope you would share with the rest of us. Otherwise it >will always just be John L. Dowdy for me. >Much appreciation for any help here. > >Emma Emma, You didn't mention any dates for your John L. Dowdy. Was it before WW I? If not, we could look for a draft card for him. I have a subscription to Ancestry.com and could take a look if you like. Hazel Scanned for viruses by Blue Coat http://www.WinProxy.com/

Thanks , Delilah, got it. Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delilah" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Lost information Sept. 2006 > If it was sent to the Georgia list and not to you personally, then it > should > be on the rootsweb Georgia list archives > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Emma Sanders" <[email protected]> > To: "Georgia M. List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:52 PM > Subject: [GEORGIA] Lost information Sept. 2006 > > > | My apologies to the list and the good people who responded to my request > for information on William Jack Knight > | 1874- 1920 and his marriage to Louisa Lancaster. My computer swallowed > the > information. > | Someone sent me information on him and his marriage to Louisa . She > either left him or died after 1903. Lots of confusion in the records. > | > | His obituary in 1920 said he was married again. Who was his second wife. > I would like the kind souls who sent information before on this family to > please help me out here. It was just what I was looking for. > | Thanks again. > | Emma > | > | ------------------------------- > | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.10/459 - Release Date: 9/29/2006 > >

If it was sent to the Georgia list and not to you personally, then it should be on the rootsweb Georgia list archives ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emma Sanders" <[email protected]> To: "Georgia M. List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] Lost information Sept. 2006 | My apologies to the list and the good people who responded to my request for information on William Jack Knight | 1874- 1920 and his marriage to Louisa Lancaster. My computer swallowed the information. | Someone sent me information on him and his marriage to Louisa . She either left him or died after 1903. Lots of confusion in the records. | | His obituary in 1920 said he was married again. Who was his second wife. I would like the kind souls who sent information before on this family to please help me out here. It was just what I was looking for. | Thanks again. | Emma | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have watched this name business for several days now. I guess we all have something to add and I do too. I have been researching my Dowdy family line for 15 years. I have joined patriotic organizations on that line. However, one of the real puzzles for me is the middle initial of my great, great grand father. You would think that I would accept the name every other researcher has given him, right? Not so. If you see a name like John L. Dowdy and never saw that name written out on any legal papers how would you know what the L. meant? I am serious here. If anyone on this list has proof that the L. in John L. Dowdy is I surely hope you would share with the rest of us. Otherwise it will always just be John L. Dowdy for me. Much appreciation for any help here. Emma

Hazel said, "I hope we don't wear this subject out and get someone objecting to it. With each person's post it brings to mind other names. It is also, very helpful to get ideas of why our ancestors used such names." Hazel and others, You are so right. You never know when a name you post is a hit for another researcher. I belong to the many other list and posted some names on one of them. A lady responded with a question and we had a connection. She is disabled and cannot get out to do research. It was exciting to me to be able to give her documented information on her line and help her connect with other researchers working on the same surname. That is what this is all about. Not only looking for our own family information, but helping others as well. Anne Brown FL

Some time back, someone was starting a site for post cards from Panama City, Fl - will this person contact me delilah

Anne- Just want to had my two cents to the subject!! Bread cast on the water, RETURNS!! I am on two Ala. lists aswell as the Georgia one- there was a search for a surname- no luck in Ala.- went to Stewart Co., Ga. History and found lots of info- the person searching lives in Australia!! Even put some old college friends togther!! In helping others, there is no end to the great results!! Harold Stephens in Calif. with Ga. roots --- Anne Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hazel said, "I hope we don't wear this subject out > and get someone objecting > to it. With each person's post it brings to mind > other names. It is also, > very helpful to get ideas of why our ancestors used > such names." > > Hazel and others, > You are so right. You never know when a name you > post is a hit for another > researcher. I belong to the many other list and > posted some names on one of > them. A lady responded with a question and we had a > connection. She is > disabled and cannot get out to do research. It was > exciting to me to be > able to give her documented information on her line > and help her connect > with other researchers working on the same surname. > That is what this is all > about. Not only looking for our own family > information, but helping others > as well. > Anne Brown > FL > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

Thanks to you both , that was what I lost and was looking for . I will hold on to it this time. You are both appreciated very much. Emma

Hi... I am trying to find William "IRA" Whiddon (born Feb 1889) in the 1920 Census.....I am not certain which county, but I did find him in Bacon Co, GA in the 1930 Bacon Co, GA Census..... I am having no luck finding him in 1920.... He was married twice...once to Fannie Eldridge ...whom he divorced, but he had three children by her: Lucile, Jessie (born abt 1915) and Louise.... With his second wife, Emma or Emily Hersey, he had the following children listed in the 1930 census....Jewel (son), Louverne, E. J. , Milton, J. C. and John L. Jewel was 12 and Louverne was 10 in the 1930 census....so they might be around in the 1920 census.... I would appreciate any help in trying to locate this family....and thank you for any help that anyone can provide..... Stephanie Grohol

My father in law had no name just the initials B R my guncle on moms side was Connie the hope for a girl?? Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hazel LeBlanc" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] strange names, two middle names > I hope we don't wear this subject out and get someone objecting to it. With > each person's post it brings to mind other names. It is also, very helpful > to get ideas of why our ancestors used such names. > > For those who get tired of the subject, please just use the DELETE KEY. > > My maternal grandparents had 5 girls before they had their only son, which > was their last child. Two of the girls were given 1 male name, Ernestine > Earl and Willie Elizabeth "Betty". > > Over 20 years ago, I worked with a lady who went by the initials B. D. She > would never tell anyone what her given name was. She would only say she > didn't like her name. She was killed by an 18 wheeler as she cross the > highway in AL when she left the beach alone. Her obituary gave her full > name, both male. I think her first name was Beryl, but I don't recall her > middle name. > > Some of my male ancestors were the named: Friend, Major, General, and Doctor. > > One of my friends was given the name Rosalea, but she was called B. C. She > was the youngest of a large Italian family. Her siblings gave her that > nickname when she was small, because she was always singing the C B tablet > advertisement song. > > While working on one family line I across a male with the surname of > Andrew, who married a lady with the surname of Screws, they married and had > a girl and named her Tabitha Screws Andrew. This is no joke. I know that > poor child had a bad time with that name. > > Hazel > > > Scanned for viruses by Blue Coat > http://www.WinProxy.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 >

Is this it, Emma? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Murray" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Luiza or Lizzie Lancaster Knight > 1900 Telfair County, Georgia - Milan District 1344 - June 15, 1900 - ED > 87/Sheet 12B > 53 - Knight, Jack, head; Oct 1872, age 27; married/5 years; GA GA GA; > farmer; owns free farm #45 > Lizzie, wife; Mar 1877, age 23; married/5 years; 3 children/3 > living; GA GA GA > Nelly, dau; Nov 1895, age 4; born GA > James, son; Oct 1897, age 2; born GA > Ollie or Allie, son; Oct 1899; born GA > > It appears that Lizzie died sometime between 1903 and 1910. > 1910 Telfair County, Georgia - Jacksonville Militia District 338 - ED > 158/Sheet 17A > Supplement > 1 - Hulett, Joseph D., head; M W 18 Md/1 6?/12; GA GA GA; farmer/own farm; > owns free farm # 1 > Nellie, wife; F W 16 Md/1 6?12; GA GA GA > Knight, William J., father-in-law; M W 36 Md 2/3 years; GA GA GA; farmer > James W., brother-in-law; M W 12 or 13 S; GA GA GA > Ola L. or D., sister-in-law; F W 11 S; GA GA GA > Estelle, sister-in-law; F W 9 S; GA GA GA > Mamie, sister-in-law; F W 7 S; GA GA GA > > The above fits the statement that he had one son and four daughters, even > though Ola was shown as a son on the 1900 census in error. Also, he stated > on the 1910 census that he had been married twice, the second time for three > years; yet no wife is shown living in the household. Check Telfair County > marriages to see if there's a second marriage for William Jackson Knight > there. > > In 1920 Jack was enumerated with a wife named Della, formerly the wife of > William Bishop. Della and William Bishop and their children were enumerated > on the same census sheet as Jack Knight and his family in the 1920 census, > indicating that they were near neighbors. Della was probably the wife of > Jack Knight mentioned in his obituary in 1921. > > 1920 Telfair County, Georgia - Cobbville MD 1284 - January 9, 1920 - ED > 111/Sheet 3B > 49 - Knight, Jackson, head; owns/free; M W 45 Md; GA GA GA; farmer/general > farm > Della, wife; F W 43 Md; GA GA GA; housekeeper/own income > Bishop, Elisha, stepson; M W 18 S; GA NC GA; farm labor/home farm > Bishop, David, stepson; M W 16 S; GA NC GA; farm labor/home farm > > W. M. Bishop married Della Myers - January 14, 1893 - Telfair County, > Georgia > > I hope this helps, > Linda in Marietta > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Emma Sanders" <[email protected]> > To: "Linda Murray" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 7:10 AM > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Luiza or Lizzie Lancaster Knight > > > > Thanks Linda , I believe that is correct but I don't know if his first > wife > > died or if they were divorced. Or who his second wife was. Thanks, > > Emma > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Linda Murray" <[email protected]> > > To: <georg[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:28 PM > > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] Luiza or Lizzie Lancaster Knight > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Emma Sanders" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]>; "Telfair County Georgia" > > > <[email protected]>; "Georgia M. List" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:30 PM > > > Subject: [GEORGIA] Luiza or Lizzie Lancaster Knight > > > > > > > > >> An obituary January 6,1921 states that Jack Knight of Telfair County > was > > > twice married and that he had no children by his second wife but had > four > > > daughters and one son by his first wife. > > >> > > >> Was his first wife Luiza Lancaster whom he married in 1894? If so did > she > > > die or were they divorced? Who was his second wife and when did they > > > marry? > > >> > > >> Who were the parent's of Jack Knight? > > >> appreciate any help here. > > >> Emma > > >> > > >> ------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes > > > in the subject and the body of the message > > >> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.6/453 - Release Date: > 9/20/2006 > > > > > > > > > > >

Names, middle names or initals can be very frustrating. In my research of my family, in the late 1700,s every brother named a son Joseph M. after someone. So what Joseph belong to whom has certainly been a mystery. Also what is puzzling is a relative with one given name and two initials added before the last. Census are another headache. I was born in 1927 and as the doctor who came to deliver me was more than tippsy, he never entered my birth. And therefore I could never get a birth certificate. Now guess what!. I applied for my social security and after many months gathering documents to prove I was born and was a citizen. the puzzle was solved. In the 1930 census I was listed as Hettie Jean born in Ala. In the 1940 census I was listed as Pattie Jean born in GA. None of these are my real name. My name is actually Patricia Jeanette. Wow I was asked how could my mother have a child born on the same day, at the same time in two different states. My answer? Well, a bridge separted Ala and GA so I guess she was in the middle of the bridge. The social security accepted this. I have left papers for my descendants to know who I am and where I was born. Now I wonder what my ancestors are saying when I become uptight and irritable when I am trying to find which one I belong to, what the initials mean, Who was their parents. So far I am looking for my 4th great grandmother and according to many, I have about fifteen to chose from. Think I will just take the richest, the most beautiful, the one with the best lineage and call it a day. Pat in FL

I hope we don't wear this subject out and get someone objecting to it. With each person's post it brings to mind other names. It is also, very helpful to get ideas of why our ancestors used such names. For those who get tired of the subject, please just use the DELETE KEY. My maternal grandparents had 5 girls before they had their only son, which was their last child. Two of the girls were given 1 male name, Ernestine Earl and Willie Elizabeth "Betty". Over 20 years ago, I worked with a lady who went by the initials B. D. She would never tell anyone what her given name was. She would only say she didn't like her name. She was killed by an 18 wheeler as she cross the highway in AL when she left the beach alone. Her obituary gave her full name, both male. I think her first name was Beryl, but I don't recall her middle name. Some of my male ancestors were the named: Friend, Major, General, and Doctor. One of my friends was given the name Rosalea, but she was called B. C. She was the youngest of a large Italian family. Her siblings gave her that nickname when she was small, because she was always singing the C B tablet advertisement song. While working on one family line I across a male with the surname of Andrew, who married a lady with the surname of Screws, they married and had a girl and named her Tabitha Screws Andrew. This is no joke. I know that poor child had a bad time with that name. Hazel Scanned for viruses by Blue Coat http://www.WinProxy.com/

Sorry, I am a Columbus girl (Doolittle) and my Husband is from Oklahoma. As far as we know I am the only Georgian in the Page family . But one Georgian is enough :) !

Would someone check for obituaries for: Isham Walker, died1876,Brooks Co. GA, and his son John Walter Walker, died 1899? The last was living in Brooks Co. in 1895, not sure if he died there, but would be in that area. Would appreciate any help very much. Catherine

Jim- where do you hail from? Have Payne family in Ala. Harold stephens --- Jimmy Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a relative on my mother's side name George > Washington Boneparts > Smith. > > Warm Regards, > Jimmy Payne > ************************************************** > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pat davis" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:29 AM > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] strange names, two middle > names > > > > My father was born in Harrelson County, Ga. in > 1885. His full name was > > Thomas Grover Barto Blackman Heath.. quite a > mouthful. He was known as > > T.B. or Thomas Barto. Blackman was a maiden name > in the family and also > > his grandfathers name. I suspect Barto is also, > but haven't connected it > > yet. > > > > [email protected] wrote: The answer > could be as simple as naming > > the child after the doctor who delivered him, or a > community church > > leader, or a much admired friend. > > > > A female ancestor in my family had an odd middle > name and I could not > > understand why until I did more research. She was > born a couple of months > > after her father was robbed and murdered in 1877. > Her mother named her > > after the sheriff who tracked down and arrested > the men who murdered her > > father. Thus Elizabeth "Bussey" Ballard. > > > > > > > >> Subject: [GEORGIA] strange names, two middle > names > >> > >> In my research I keep coming across three > initials for the first and > >> middle name, such as: > >> H.A.M. Garrison, I know what the initials stand > for after several years > >> of looking: > >> > >> Harwell Alonzo Moore Garrison: but he went by the > name of Harvey, I have > >> several of these on the Garrison, Storey & > Carmichael lines, I just don't > >> understand the two middle names or initials. And > then using something > >> totally different than the real name. > >> > >> I'm aware of the first and middle name, and > knowing when you were called > >> by both names you were in deep trouble, but I > just don't understand the > >> two middle name. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. > Check it out. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - > Release Date: 9/27/2006 > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >

Bless you child. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathleen Burnett Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [GEORGIA] From List Mom, Please read Dear List members, If you are unhappy with a posting or postings on the list, it is best that you don't post your unhappiness to the list. Doing this only continues on the problem. I am here, I have been watching the conversation behind the scenes. I have found in my years of watching over lists that when a strange topic such as the one we have had the last several days is allowed to wind down quietly it stops quicker than if we begin sending messages to the list complaining about it. When the complaints or postings of unhappiness are sent to the list, we not only begin to get postings in response to the complaint, postings of pros and cons regarding the subject matter and the continuation of posting regarding the subject due to the fact we have members responding to the first postings they see in their box and do not even read your complaint until they have already posted. Know I am here and if you have a real concern, contact me personally [email protected] or [email protected] and I have always said you can contact me at work if you need me, [email protected] I appreciate each of you and know our Georgia list is the success it is because of you. Kathleen Burnett List Mom ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lets flush the lavatory business! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] 1913 meaning of "lavatory"? > > ENOUGH ALREADY ! > > Get your mind out of the > lavatory/toilet/slopjar/watercloset/whatever and let's > get on with genealogy. > > > --- Delilah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > WHO CARES? They may of been in the lavatory when > > they thought about who there gggparents were! > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My apologies to the list and the good people who responded to my request for information on William Jack Knight 1874- 1920 and his marriage to Louisa Lancaster. My computer swallowed the information. Someone sent me information on him and his marriage to Louisa . She either left him or died after 1903. Lots of confusion in the records. His obituary in 1920 said he was married again. Who was his second wife. I would like the kind souls who sent information before on this family to please help me out here. It was just what I was looking for. Thanks again. Emma

my grandmother was the last child my ggrandmother had only 3 daughters she named my grandmother Mary mattie lattie may and called her May. She was named after her aunts Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "brenda" <[email protected]> To: "Georgia Roots" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 8:14 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] strange names, two middle names > In my research I keep coming across three initials for the first and middle name, such as: > H.A.M. Garrison, I know what the initials stand for after several years of looking: > > Harwell Alonzo Moore Garrison: but he went by the name of Harvey, I have several of these on the Garrison, Storey & Carmichael lines, I just don't understand the two middle names or initials. And then using something totally different than the real name. > > I'm aware of the first and middle name, and knowing when you were called by both names you were in deep trouble, but I just don't understand the two middle name. > > Tks > > Brenda > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 9/27/2006 > >