I guess I don't understand! Why sign up to be on a list if you don't want the information that is made available. If you don't like the information, then unsubscribe or don't read it. That is a pretty narrow attitude to think that only things of interest to "you" are the only things important, and that it couldn't possibly be of any interest for anyone else. If you have a "better" idea then start your own list! Most of the messages I read on the board do not pertain to me, so I delete them. It is not a big deal. What is a "big deal" is when you finally find something that does apply. Deloris: Keep up the good work! Not everyone has the same access as others and anything that help someone else is worthwhile. Cheers!

Oh, Thank You, Ken, I am so glad you found someone on these postings. I hope many others do, too, but even if they don't, I know I have found them to be delightful reading. Some of these things I never even knew about. Deloris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Branches & Lil' Twigs" <epaurora@visuallink.com> To: <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [GREEN] Famous Americans postings > Deloris, > > God bless you for caring and sharing. There are many who benefit from the > lists, many who share, many who do not contribute anything, and others who > complain about everything. I get more spam in a half hour than you have > sent with your GREEN(e) mailings. While your posting may help a few or > several, or hundreds of people they are appreciated. Spam does not help > anyone, besides, there is a small key designated as "delete", this little > key does a wondrous thing...it deletes. > > Note: your postings have consisted of several of my wife's ancestors. > Thank you. > > Ken

Deloris, Some people contribute nothing to our genealogy lists, but are quick to rant, rave and complain about those good Samaritans who spend their time and effort researching for the benefit of others. You are doing just exactly what our genealogy lists are meant for Deloris, and the true genealogists are extremely grateful for your effort. If the complainers prefer to unsubscribe, rather than moving their lazy finger to hit the delete key, I'm sure they won't be missed. Like the 80 year old lady who wrote, I'm only 73, but still can't get out to research like I once could and appreciate everything that is posted to the lists! Keep up the good work and many thanks to you Deloris. Del Black Tehachapi, CA. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran Boston" <franirae@casco.net> To: <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [GREEN] Famous Americans postings > Deloris, > > Thanks from another member of the list. I don't have time to read them all > right now, but have saved them to my "Green" folder to look over when I > have > more time. > > Thanks again, > > Fran Boston > > > ==== GREEN Mailing List ==== > Thanks for sharing information and queries with your fellow family > researchers > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

Thank you Doris' I have been failing to see the light. Thank you for turning it on. I have been searching for several years looking for a mysterious James William GREEN, and his family. At one time I suspected RI as being from where his family orignated, but I just kept searching in VA. He names a son Alonzo, and throughout the directly connected generations, the name Alonzo and William have been used as a name up until the early 1900's. I find this name Alonzo GREEN first in RI. It seems to just suddenly appear after the Revolutionary War in VA. Your postings have turned on the light. I always have time for GREEN messages and when I do not, I also subscribe to the digest. Thank you again Doris. Sincerely, Douglas Anderson

I also want to thank your for all the information. You never know what small bit of info will knock down that brick wall many of us run into! Dawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Branches & Lil' Twigs" <epaurora@visuallink.com> To: <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [GREEN] Famous Americans postings > Deloris, > > God bless you for caring and sharing. There are many who benefit from the > lists, many who share, many who do not contribute anything, and others who > complain about everything. I get more spam in a half hour than you have > sent with your GREEN(e) mailings. While your posting may help a few or > several, or hundreds of people they are appreciated. Spam does not help > anyone, besides, there is a small key designated as "delete", this little > key does a wondrous thing...it deletes. > > Note: your postings have consisted of several of my wife's ancestors. > Thank you. > > Ken > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laura Greene" <Lgg@interaccess.com> > To: <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:58 PM > Subject: RE: [GREEN] Famous Americans postings > > >> Deloris, thank you so very much for posting all this biographical >> information. >> >> For those who prefer not to get so many messages, it is a simple matter >> to >> subscribe to the list in digest mode, (or just transfer the many emails >> without opening them into a folder in your email software, which only >> takes >> a second.) Deloris' many emails sure beat the zillions of SPAM messages >> I >> clogging up my mailbox! >> >> Thanks again for your efforts, Deloris. >> Laura Greene >> Carlsbad, CA >> >> >> >> >> ==== GREEN Mailing List ==== >> Thanks for sharing information and queries with your fellow family >> researchers >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== GREEN Mailing List ==== > Thanks for sharing information and queries with your fellow family > researchers > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >

Deloris, Many thanks for all your efforts. I too, have posted many things in the past. Pre-Colonial census records and notes I made from genealogy books. Caring and sharing is the whole idea to help others locate their ancestors. I for one appreciate those listings as it eliminated several Green families that I was considering looking into. When you get to be my age (80) and can no longer go to libraries, those postings are a terrific help. So, thank you again and don't let anything stop you from helping others. Charlotte

I agree. I came home from a short vacation and found all this email, and I don't have time to read them all. I will also unsubscribe if this keep up Susie Green B.

Deloris, God bless you for caring and sharing. There are many who benefit from the lists, many who share, many who do not contribute anything, and others who complain about everything. I get more spam in a half hour than you have sent with your GREEN(e) mailings. While your posting may help a few or several, or hundreds of people they are appreciated. Spam does not help anyone, besides, there is a small key designated as "delete", this little key does a wondrous thing...it deletes. Note: your postings have consisted of several of my wife's ancestors. Thank you. Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura Greene" <Lgg@interaccess.com> To: <GREEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:58 PM Subject: RE: [GREEN] Famous Americans postings > Deloris, thank you so very much for posting all this biographical > information. > > For those who prefer not to get so many messages, it is a simple matter to > subscribe to the list in digest mode, (or just transfer the many emails > without opening them into a folder in your email software, which only > takes > a second.) Deloris' many emails sure beat the zillions of SPAM messages I > clogging up my mailbox! > > Thanks again for your efforts, Deloris. > Laura Greene > Carlsbad, CA > > > > > ==== GREEN Mailing List ==== > Thanks for sharing information and queries with your fellow family > researchers > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Deloris, Thanks from another member of the list. I don't have time to read them all right now, but have saved them to my "Green" folder to look over when I have more time. Thanks again, Fran Boston

Have been searching for over a year, my grgrandparents: Marion Eli Green b.1863 TX d.OK married Sarah Malisa Minnick b.1870 MO. Census 1900 IT and 1910 Okmulgee Co. OK list his father b. MS mother b.GA Children: Lulu F. b. ~1890 OT/OK md(1) a Blevins children: Fred O Blevins b.~1907 John Blevins b.~1909 md.(2)Ben Canaday~1882 AR Bessie M b.~1885 IT/OK md. unknown Lowery Frankie L (daughter) b.~1894 IT/OK Robert Cordwell b.1897 IT?OK Charles E b.~1900 IT/OK Myrtle F b.~1905 IT/OK Pearl F. b.1907 OK Robert Cordwell Green, delayed birth certificate in 1945 signed by his mother, lists birthdate as 1/18/1897 Tishomingo, OK, d.2/1981 Kern, CA is my grandfather md. 10/28/1916 Pottawatomie Co. OK to Myrtle White b.1901 TX d.10/1968 Kern, CA children:Ruby Mona b.1918 OK Mattie Ethel b.1921 OK Carl Anderson b.1924 OK d.1997 OK Helen R. b.1928 OK R.C. (son) b.1930 OK Marion is a total brick wall. Grandfather Green said he was Indian, but census says white. His wife, Sarah, is also a brick wall. Everyone who might have information on them now deceased, as far as I know. Any data, info, or connections greatly appreciated. Sherry Green Snethen mailto:snethen@sstelco.com

I realize you are just trying to be helpful to those on the list but I DONT apreciate my mailbox being toally flooded with info I dont need!! Why cant you give a link or something so thise that WANT all this can go get it themselves? PLEASE no more flooding ok? I'll unsub from the list if this keeps up! I thought you said you were going to put this on the message board so as not to flood everyones mailboxes? Changed your mind? Billie C.

Deloris, thank you so very much for posting all this biographical information. For those who prefer not to get so many messages, it is a simple matter to subscribe to the list in digest mode, (or just transfer the many emails without opening them into a folder in your email software, which only takes a second.) Deloris' many emails sure beat the zillions of SPAM messages I clogging up my mailbox! Thanks again for your efforts, Deloris. Laura Greene Carlsbad, CA

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William Stedman GREENE, William Stedman, representative, was born in Tremont, Tazewell county, Ill., April 28, 1841; son of Chester Washington and Abby Stone (Stedman) Greene; grandson of William Fones and Abby (Sheldon) Greene and of Judge Bial and Mary Prescott (Miles) Steelman, great-grandson of Job, great, great-grandson of Job, great, great, great-grandson of James, great, great, great, great-grandson of James, and great, great, great, great, great-grandson of John Greene, who came from Southampton, England, with his wife and family, arrived at Boston, Mass., June 3, 1635, and from religious persecution was forced to leave the colony, settling in Warwick, R.I. William removed with his parents to Fall River, Mass., in 1844, and was educated in the public schools of that city. He was a clerk in an insurance office, 1858-65, and began business as auctioneer, real estate and insurance agent in 1866. He was married in 1866 to Mary E. White of Fall River. He was a member of the common council, 1876-79, and president of that body, 1877-79. He was mayor of Fall River in 1880; and was re elected in 1881, but resigned the same year having been appointed postmaster by President Garfield. He was again mayor in 1886; was defeated for that office in 1887 and 1888, and was general superintendent of prisons for the state of Massachusetts, 1888, when he was removed by the Democratic governor. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Fall River in 1894, but was elected in 1895, 1896, and 1897, and declined re-nomination in 1898. In his inaugural address as mayor in January, 1895, he recommended the erection of a public library building, and as chairman of the committee on public instruction and of the hoard of trustees of the public library he was largely instrumental in carrying through the project. He laid the cornerstone in September, 1896, and the building was completed in 1898. He was appointed postmaster of Fall River in 1898, but resigned the office upon being elected a Republican representative in the 55th congress, May 31, 1898, to fill the unexpired term of John Simpkins, and he was re-elected to the 56th, 57th, and 58th congresses, 1898-1905.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William Stedman page 406 GREENE, William Laury, representative, was born in Pike county, Ind., Oct. 13, 1849; son of Washington and Lelia (Mosley) Greene, and grandson of George W. Greene. He removed with his parents, who were farmers, to Dubois county, Ind., and there worked on the farm and attended school. He was graduated at Ireland academy, Ind., taught school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar at Bloomington, Ind., in 1876 and practised there till 1883, when he removed with his family to Kearney, Neb. He joined the Populist party in 1890 and was a candidate for U.S. senator in 1892 and lost the election by two votes. He was judge of the 12th judicial district of Nebraska, 1895-97, and a representative in the 55th congress, 1897-99. He was re-elected to the 56th congress, and was succeeded by William Neville. He died suddenly at Omaha, Neb., March 11, 1899. [p.406]

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William Laury GREENE, William Houston, chemist, was born in Columbia. Pa., Dec. 30, 1853, son of Stephen and Martha (Mifflin) Greene. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia and was graduated from Jefferson medical college in 1873. He was demonstrator of chemistry at Jefferson medical college, 1873-76; studied chemistry with Professor Adolphe Wurtz in Paris, 1876-78; and was demonstrator of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania, 1878-79. He was then elected to the chair of chemistry in the Central high school of Philadelphia. He was a member of various scientific societies in Europe and the United States and contributed largely to scientific papers. He published: Medical Chemistry (1880); Lessons in Chemistry (1884); Elements of Modern Chemistry by Wurtz (translated 1879); First Steps in Scientific Knowledge by Paul Bert (edited 1886).

GREENE, William Batchelder, author, was born at Haverhill, Mass., April 4, 1819; son of Nathaniel Greene. He entered the U.S. military academy in 1835, but left to take an active part in the Florida war. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 7th infantry in July, 1839, and resigned from the service in November, 1841. Later he was interested in the Brook Farm community, studied theology, and was graduated in 1845 from the Harvard divinity school. He was pastor of a Unitarian church in Brook field, Mass., for several years and then went to Europe At the beginning of the civil war he returned to the United States and was commissioned colonel of the 14th Massachusetts infantry. In 1862 he was appointed to the command of the artillery brigade of General Whipple's division, and on October 11 of the same year he resigned his command and returned to Boston and subsequently went to England. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of Massachusetts in 1853 and was interested in various reform movements. He was a student of mathematics, of Hebrew literature and of Egyptian antiquities. He contributed to periodicals, published a number of discourses in pamphlet form and is also the author of: Remarks on the Science of History followed by an a priori Autobiography (1849); Theory of the Calculus (1870); and Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments (1875). He died at Weston-super Mare, Eng., May 30. 1878.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William Batchelder GREENE, William, lawyer, was born in Warwick, R.I., Jan. 1, 1797; son of Ray and Mary (Flagg) Greene. He was graduated from Brown in 1817 and subsequently from a law school in Litchfield, Conn., after which he rode on horseback to Columbus, Ohio, and there became private secretary to Governor Brown. Later he removed to Cincinnati where he practised his profession and at one time was president of the school board. In 1862 he returned to Warwick. He was lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, 1836-67; and a delegate to the Republican national convention, Chicago. Ill., in 1868. He was married, April 30, 1821, to Abby, daughter of Erastus Lyman of Northampton, Mass. She died July 18, 1862, and he was married for the second time, Nov. 20. 1867, to Mrs. Caroline Mathewson. He died at Warwick. R.I., March 24, 1883.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William GREENE, William, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Warwick, R.I., Aug. 16, 1731; son of William and Catharine (Greene) Greene. He was admitted a freeman of the colony in May, 1753, and was deputy from Warwick in 1773, 1774, 1776 and 1777. In August, 1776, he became first associate justice in the superior court of the colony. On Dec. 10, 1776, he was appointed to the council of war. In February, 1778, he became chief-justice of the superior court and in May was chosen governor of Rhode Island, serving till 1786. The correspondence of Governor Greene was published in part in Vol. V. of the "Collections of the R.I. Historical Society," in Vols. VII., VIII. and IX. of "Rhode Island Colonial Records," and in "Rhode Island in the Continental Congress," edited by Reuben A. Guild. His wife was Catharine, daughter of Simon and Deborah (Greene) Ray of Block Island. He died in Warwick, R.I., Nov. 29, 1809.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William page 405 GREENE, William, governor of Rhode Island, was born in Warwick, R.I., March 16, 1695; son of Samuel and Mary (Gotton) Greene, and a descendant of John Greene, son of Peter Greene, of [p.405] Aukley Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. In 1718 he was made a freeman, and was deputy from Warwick in 1727, 1732, 1736, 1738 and 1740. In 1728 he was appointed with John Mumford surveyor of the state line between Connecticut and Rhode Island and in 1736 received a similar appointment with two others. He was deputy-governor of Rhode Island in 1740-42, and 1743, and governor in 1743, 1744, 1746, 1748-54 and in 1757, eleven years. He was married to Catharine, daughter of Benjamin Greene. He died in Providence, R.I., Feb. 22, 1758

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, William GREENE, Theodore Phinney, naval officer, was born in Montreal, Canada, Nov. 1, 1809. He was given a warrant as midshipman from Vermont in 1826 and was assigned to the Mediterranean squadron. He was promoted passed midshipman in 1832 and on board the Vincennes circumnavigated the globe, 1834-36. He was commissioned lieutenant in December, 1837, and during the war with Mexico he was attached to the Congress, meanwhile commanding the land forces at Mazatan for several months. He was made commander in September, 1855; was lighthouse inspector, 1858-60; on duty at Mare Island, Cal., 1860-62; was promoted captain, July, 1862; was ordered to the East Gulf squadron in 1863 as commander of the San Jacinto and became commander of the squadron in 1864 during the absence of Rear-Admiral Bailey in the United States. He was transferred to the West Gulf squadron as commander of the Richmond in 1865 and directed the landing of troops for the attack on Mobile, Ala., protecting them by his gunboats. He was ordnance officer at the Portsmouth navy yard, 1866; commanded the Powhatan of the Pacific squadron, 1867, and the Pensacola navy yard, 1868-70. He was made commodore, July, 1867, and after leaving the Pensacola navy yard he was on various shore service till placed on the retired list with the rank of rear-admiral in March, 1872. He died at Jaffrey, N.H., Aug. 30, 1887.