Hello all, We now have 51 members on this list so, maybe it's time to send your queries. Remember, the list is always changing so, you might want to send the same query once a month or so. I am always looking for web pages with Howe [ or Wells] Genealogy to link from the surname home page. Be sure to check there for links. And, if you can, please join RootsWeb, they have spent a lot of money taking these lists over and supporting them when Maiser was shut down. Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com Wells Surname List Home Page http://www.zekes.com/~dwells/list.html Howe Surname List Home Page http://www.zekes.com/~dwells/howe.html

Seeking info on several Howes and Sears families in the Yarmouth area: Thomas Howes, son Joseph Howes, his son Samuel m. Elizabeth ? of Yarmouth Their dau. Mercy Howes b. 1680 m. 1702 Josiah Sears. Their son Samuel Sears 1706 Yarmouth m. Hannah Howes, d/o Nathaniel Howes + Esther Rider Their son Nathaniel Sears m. Phoebe Lincoln. Their son Rufus Sears m. 1803 Maria Howes b. 1775 Yarmouth. This is all I know about any of these Howes wives and their parents. Does anyone have any of these Yarmouth Howes families? Thanks, Sue ==== HOWE Mailing List ====

Seeking parents of Polly (Mary) Howe who married William Calahan 25 Nov 1811 in Jasper GA. She was born about 1790 in VA.

Anyone researching a HOWE family from the WITTON-LE-WEAR area of County Durham in England . Will

Got this off the listowners list. Not trying to hustle anyone into joining but, this is the best informational message I have seen on the subject. Dave > > > Hi all - > > I'm sorta hoping this post will tie off the discussion on RootsWeb > Memberships / Sponsorships, but you can of course carry on if > there's more interesting to say. > > ### > > The first thing I'd like to do is make sure that everyone > understands that the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative isn't > Broderbund and *all* of RootsWeb's facilities are available for > free. Most of what we do is completely free, and even nominally > Member- or Sponsor-only facilities like mailing lists are available > freely to folks who can't help support the site at this time. > > That's part of what the "Cooperative" in our name means. > > ### > > The second thing is that while we *greatly* appreciate the > listowners who do actively support RootsWeb, nobody is under any > obligation to do so. *NO* obligation at all. About the only thing > we ask of listowners is that they understand that we're user- > supported and that there's no other sponsoring agency, and that they > can verify that for their users if their users ask what RootsWeb is. > > ### > > Several folks asked about RootsWeb's finances. I'll give > information on our expenses and income below, but the first thing > I'd like to address is what we'd do if we ever turned a "profit" > beyond what it costs to buy hardware and bandwidth. > > We'd use the profits to buy datasets and bring them online. > > The Social Security Death Index is a famous government dataset that > we could buy for a few thousand dollars, but there's a lot more > datasets out there. Many jurisdiction have vitals, property > records, court records, voter records, and all sorts of other > material on electronic media and available to the public at cost. > Some cemeteries now have their records computerized. RootsWeb would > like to make those datasets freely accessible over the Web. > > We'd also use the profits to support record transcription projects. > > We'd like to buy a microfilm scanner, start scanning microfilms as > fast as we can, and uploading the images to The Net. We'd also like > to hack some simple data entry tools, so a community-minded > genealogist could download the tool and a set of images and data- > entry the records in their own home completely at their own > convenience and then upload the transcriptions for everyone on The > Net to use. Done right and with community participation, I think > we could bring the equivalent of Salt Lake's holdings online within > a reasonable number of years. > > ### > > Now about RootsWeb's finances to date. Last year's major hardware > expenses are pretty easy to understand: > > Main servers (4 @ $7,000 each) $28,000 > > Various and sundry smaller servers $ 8,000 > > Network routers, hubs, and cabling $ 3,000 > > Uninterruptible power supplies, batteries, ... $ 3,000 > > We also have substantial bits-and-pieces costs above these. > > We also have substantial bandwidth costs. T1 pipes in California > cost about $2,000 to $2,600 per month, though at this point RootsWeb > gets a substantial discount because of some special circumstances. > Our bandwidth costs will be rising toward market levels in the next > year. > > Finally, we also have all the usual small organization costs: > government fees, bookkeeping, supplies, you name it. And as an > additional pain, we have substantial tax liabilities because we are > a hardware-intensive operation and we have to depreciate our > hardware costs across 5 years. > > Anyway, the bottom line is that our expenses for last year were > above $60,000. > > RootsWeb now has around 1,600 Members/Sponsors, and our total income > has been somewhat less than $40,000 (our median donation is around > $20, and we have a few large donors who have helped pull the total > upwards). > > The $20,000+ difference between expenses and income has come out of > Karen and Brian's pockets. > > [ Not included, as either expense or income, is a server Apple Corp. > is providing to help support the eWorld mailing lists. Also not > included as an expense is the large chunk of consulting income that > I've foregone to have time to support RootsWeb. ] > > ### > > Hope that information helps everyone understand how RootsWeb > operates, what are goals are, and that listowners are welcome (but > not required!) to help us pursue those goals. Cheers, B. > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >

I thought the listmembers might like to see this. Dave > > > > I am wondering who or what institution supports ROOTSWEB? > > Are they attached to a university? It obviously is a huge venture > > that someone is underwriting currently. I assume any donation we > > would make would be on top of the commitment of the main sponsoring > > org. > > Thanks for any clarification. I probably missed these facts > > in previous communiques. > RootsWeb has *no* "main sponsoring org". No university, no > government agency, no gensoc, no business, nobody but *you*. > > We are *entirely* supported by voluntary contributions. > > Our hardware and bandwidth budget for the last year was in the > neighborhood of $60,000, of which about two-thirds were individual > contributions and the rest came out of Karen and Brian's pockets. > Apple Computer also donated a server to RootsWeb, which augments the > other 4 main servers we've bought. > > Karen and I have also donated our time as system administrators, as > did the other RootsWeb folks. > > Next year's costs will be well over $100,000 and possibly as high as > $200,000, depending on whether we have the resources to start buying > datasets and uploading them for everyone to freely use. > > RootsWeb wouldn't have happened without the support of the Internet > genealogical community, and we need continued support if we're going > to keep expanding the services that are available to the community. > > Thanks to everyone who is helping us make this happen! -B > > > [ BTW, please feel free to redistribute this to your lists. It > worries me that folks don't realize that their contributions are > are the *only* thing that keeps RootsWeb alive. ] > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com >

HOWE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > HOWE-D Digest Volume 97 : Issue 17 > #3 Vermont/New York HOWEs ["S. Howe" <showe@erols.com>] > Rutland County, Vermont and in Washington County, New York. If any of you are researching these lines, please contact me. I have much information on the families, including probate records I retrieved this past May from the Fair Haven Probate Court. Albert was said to be the son of Jacob How married to a woman from New York. > The second HOWE line is that of Oliver Cromwell Comstock HOWE, son of > Ebenezer Kingsbury HOWE. This line is from Tryingham, Mass. Oliver was born in Rushford, Allegheny Co. NY. and married Harriet Porter in 1847. Anyone out there researching Oliver or his line? > Susan Howe > showe@erols.com Hi Susan, I am researching the Howe line also, My grandmother was Mary Louise Howe and lived in NYC. Born there 11 Mar 1880, she was related to some officer in the military by the name of Howe either an adimeral, General or LT. this could be the Civil War or the Revolutionary War. Also she was related to a Stickney of the Stickney Mustard Co. that went broke in 1929. Any help accepted. Jack hjm#idt.net

Hi Cousins! This list has been too quiet for too long. In my never ending search for my ancestor, Albert Cyrus HOWE, I am researching the several HOWE/HOW families that lived in Rutland County, Vermont and in Washington County, New York. If any of you are researching these lines, please contact me. I have much information on the families, including probate records I retrieved this past May from the Fair Haven Probate Court. I will be retuning to Rutland, in September, to get all of their Howe probate records. I have two HOWE families that intermarried in Minnesota in the 1860's. My line is Albert Cyrus HOWE b. 1821 VT/NY. He married Julia Ann Barker of Rutland Co. VT. I have the Barker line, and will be more than glad to share it with you. Albert was said to be the son of Jacob How married to a woman from New York. Jacob is in the 1820 and 1830 census for Poultney, Rutland Co. VT. He is gone after that [at least from the census]. Albert and Julia moved from Poultney VT to Walworth Co. Wisconsin about 1857. Lived there about 10 years and then moved to Freeborn Co. Minnesota. After Julia's death from TB, Albert married widow Eliza LaMoy Hendricks, of Poultney. They moved from Minnesota through ND, MT, and finally to Wyoming, where he died in 1906. The second HOWE line is that of Oliver Cromwell Comstock HOWE, son of Ebenezer Kingsbury HOWE. This line is from Tryingham, Mass. Two of Oliver's children marry two of Albert's children, in Minnesota. Oliver was born in Rushford, Allegheny Co. NY. and married Harriet Porter in 1847. Anyone out there researching Oliver or his line? Look forward to hearing from you. Susan Howe showe@erols.com ############################################################################ > > > Susan Howe, showe@erols.com - Researching the following surnames:< < < HOWE, BARKER, RUDD, LEETE, FRISBIE - CT/VT/NY/WI/MN WROE, BARR, MANTZ, CLARKE, SNAVELY, BURKHART -VA/MD/DC REDNER, WILSON, GREEN, KIDD - NJ/NY/OH/MN PECK, STIMPSON, GATES, BECKWITH, MOORE - CT/NY/OH/MN CONARD, HORD, POTTS - PA/VA/OH/MN ****************************************************************************

Dear Fellow Rooters: I will be removing my name from this list for about a month until I get caught up with my business. I must also get my genealogy work in order. To those whom I've made promises, they should be forthcoming very soon. Please feel free to write me via my e-mail address. Thanks, Dana Di Rito Nanakuli, HI dana(HI)

Subj: MSN changes =all= their addresses! I don't know if it's taken total effect yet, but user@msn.com is now user@classic.msn.com. If you have trouble posting, unsubbing or receiving mail PLEASE e-mail me at: dwells@zekes.com Dave Wells Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com

I am interested in any information I might obtain on James M. HOWE b. 1835, IL. His father was born in Maryland and his mother in TN. He married in IL. an Indian girl, this is what I've been told. He had two daughters that I know of. The daughters are Martha Ellen HOWE b. 11-08-1861 in IL., and Margaret HOWE b. in IL. I have them on a 1860 Hill co., TX. census but no mother was listed. It is speculated that their mother died and that James M. HOWE moved to Texas to be with his sister Elizabeth so she could help raise the girls. I'm not sure about this last part. Thanks for any help. Jonine

Jim, Could you look for the following and tell me if they are descendants of John Howe if so who is Jedediahs Father & Mother? I am also interested in info to confirm any of this info that was in an old typed book that I found in an old trunk in the Barn of my parents years ago. Thankyou, Lori Descendants of Jedediah HOWE - 21 Aug 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - FIRST GENERATION 1. Jedediah HOWE was born on 3 Apr 1701 in Marlborough, M., Massachusets. He died on 22 Sep 1761 in New Braintree, Massachusets. Abigail WARREN (daughter of Joshua WARREN) was born on 20 Dec 1705 in Watertown, M., Massachusets. She died before 1761. She died in Westboro, M., Ma.. Jedediah HOWE and Abigail WARREN had the following children: 2 i. Elizabeth HOWE was born on 27 Aug 1729 in westboro, Ma. She died on 27 Aug 1729 in westboro, Ma. Elizabeth Howe Daughter of Jedediah and Abigail Died Westboro Same day as birth. 3 ii. Solomon HOWE was born on 27 Jul 1730 in Westboro, Mass. He died on 3 Sep 1730. 4 iii. Jedediah (Jr.) HOWE was born on 27 Jul 1730. He died on 16 Sep 1730 in Westboro, Ma.. Jedediah(twin of solomon). +5 iv. Jedediah (Jr.2) Howe ). 6 v. Caleb HOWE was born on 21 Jan 1736. 7 vi. Abigail HOWE was born on 20 Nov 1737. +8 vii. Elijah HOWE. 9 viii. Silas HOWE was born on 6 Oct 1742. +10 ix. Dorothy HOWE. 11 x. Jonah HOWE was born on 13 Feb 1747. He died before 1784. 12 xi. Patience HOWE was born on 30 Apr 1749. She died on 30 Apr 1749 in Died same day as birth. +13 xii. Solomon HOWE. +14 xiii. Martin HOWE. ( I am a descendant through Martin's line)

Hi... I have acquired the book "Howe Genealogies" by Daniel Wait Howe, published by New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1929. It is volume 1 of 2 and specifically covers descendants of John HOWE of Sudbury and Marlborough, Mass. I am willing to do look-ups on an as-I-can-do-them basis. Please respond to me privately with as much as you know about your HOWE relative, and I'll check it out. The book covers the period 1620-1929. I am interested in purchasing volume 2, if anybody knows where I might find it. --Jim j@usa.net

How to get archives of lists Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com > > The Rootsweb mailing lists are generally set up with > two directories that you are interested in. The individual > messages are in a directory called "latest" that you can > access by writing to XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com, while > the digests are in a directory called "volume97" that > you can access by writing to XYZ-D-request@rootsweb.com. > > In either case, the messages have filenames that are > simply decimal numbers, "1" through however many > messages have been archived. There might be a few > other administrative files that have names that don't > follow that pattern. > > To access the message archives for the XYZ-L mailing > list, send a message to XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com that > has the word > > archive > > and nothing else in the subject. > > To get a list of the messages, with the subject lines, > put > > search subject: latest/* > > in the body of the message. > After a while, you'll get back a message from rootsweb > that looks something like this: > > begin________cut here--------- > latest/1:15:Subject: XYZ-L is on line! > latest/10:15:Subject: Gwendolyn XYZ d. 1820 KY > latest/11:12:Subject: help with XYZ family > latest/12:12:Subject: Re: Gwendolyn XYZ d. 1820 KY > latest/13:15:Subject: Thomas XYZ m. Charlene ZZZ VA 1740 > latest/14:12:Subject: toner > latest/15:13:Subject: XYZ family in Kentucky > latest/16:15:Subject: Re: toner > latest/17:12:Subject: query > latest/18:13:How to unsubscribe from this list?????? > latest/19:15: Subject: Re: toner > latest/2:14:Subject:Re: XYZ-L is on line! > latest/20:13:Subject:Re: query > etc. > ----------------------- > > Now, let's assume you want to read the messages > about Gwendolyn. The file names are > latest/10 and latest/12, which is the part of each > line up to the first colon. The next number, between > the first two colons, is just the line number within > the message were the subject line appeared, and > the remainder of the line is the actual subject line. > > To get these two messages, send another message to > XYZ-L-request@rootsweb.com, with > > archive > > in the subject, and > > send latest/10 latest/12 > > in the body. > > After a while, you'll receive copies of the two > messages. They will come just as they were > originally sent. If your mailreader sorts incoming > mail by the "sent date", you'll have to look back > among the old messages in your inbox to find > them. > > If you just want to get all of the archived > messages, you can write to XYZ-D-request > instead of XYZ-L-request, with "archive" in the > subject, and put the following in the body of > your request: > > maxfiles 100 > send volume97/* > > If you don't put the "maxfiles 100" and there > happen to be more than sixteen messages in > the archive (which is likely), you'll just get an > error message. If there are more than 100 > messages, you'll still get an error message and > will probably want to request the archives > piecemeal rather than all at once. > > If you want to copy this material to your list, > changing "XYZ" to the appropriate surname, > go ahead. > > Glenn R-P > > --------- End forwarded message ---------- >

For the information of our AOL members, I got this from listowners list. Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com > > Within Just the Past Week Alone, AOL'S Mail Processor has: > > (1) Converted a 495 byte Email from combs-l@rootsweb.com to a File Attachment > > (2) Converted a 645 byte Email from combs-l@rootsweb.com to a File > Attachment, BUT the Only Reason that the File Attachment was only 645 bytes > was that AOL CORRUPTED the Email and DELETED part of it, including the > Address and the Header. > > (3) Converted a 27kb Email from combs-d@rootsweb.com to a File Attachment and > DELETED Half of the 16 messages in it > > (4) Delivered a 23kb Email from combs-d@rootsweb.com SIX DAYS LATE! > > There are Many More Examples of AOL Problems with Email since their latest > Upgrade which is Definitely a Downgrade... the above are only a Very Few > Examples. However, as a result: > > (a) I am copying this email to AOL'S <postmaster@aol.com> and henceforth plan > to forward to them Each and Every Email and/or File Attachment that is > Corrupt and/or Delayed. > > (b) I am posting a message to AOL'S Email Message Board of Each and Every > Email and/or File Attachment that is Corrupt and/or Delayed. > > (c) I am requesting that each of you who are AOL (almost half our list) > please do the same > > (d) I am posting to the RootsWeb List Owner's List and asking the over 1,000 > other RootsWeb Listowners to please also post a version of the above to Each > of their Own Lists.

I am searching for information on the ancestory of James M. Howe. This is what I have, which isn't very much. James M. Howe b. 1835 in IL. m. (?) an Indian girl b. in IL. His father came from MD. and his mother came from TN. I have him and two of his daughters in Hillsboro, Hill Co., TX. in the 1880 census. His daughter, Martha Ellen Howe, b. 11-08-1861 in IL. m. John Wesley Barker b. 1-13-1855 in LA. His other daughter's name was Margaret "Maggie" Howe. Martha Ellen and James Wesley "JW" married 11-02-1881 in Hillsboro, Hill co., TX. She died 3-7-1911 in Jack Co., Bryson, TX. Thier daughter, Minnie Ada (Barker) Plaster, my grandmother, was b. 7-14-1891 in Jack Co., TX. Their children are George W., John N., Winnie E., Minnie Ada, Thomas W., James E., Joseph W. all born in TX., and most buried in Jack Co., Tx. Any information on this line would be greatly appreciated. My Aunt and I can't find any information as to The ancestory of Martha Ellen Howe except her fathers name, James M. Howe. Thanks in advance for any help. Johnine

Some unconfirmed references have the mother of Dorothy Butler, b 23 Jan 1650 in Sandwich MA.as a Howe. She was the daughter of Thomas Butler. I am trying to find/confirm a link to the Howe(s) of early Massachusetts. Any leads would be appreciated. Judy Russell

For those of you with email only access to the net, I've had a couple queries lately. Try this, I've heard about it but, never did much with it. Dave Wells dwells@zekes.com WB7ONJ Listowner: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Listowner: HOWE-L@rootsweb.com 1.Accessing the Internet by Email by Bob Rankin (how to do just about everything on the Internet by email). Email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu (US, Canada, South America) with the following as the only text: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email

Russ: At 10:53 AM 7/11/97 -0700, you wrote: > >Looking for information on the following Howe line: > Joseph Howe...wife Phebe? maiden name from Vermont middle to late 1700s > Son...William E. Howe...wife Hannah M. ( Hill ) Howe > married in the mid 1800s and lived in Lowell, Mass. > Children.....George E...b1854 > Ida M....b1855 > Nellie L....b1858 > Angie B....b1864....my direct line...her son born out of wedlock Benjamine..dob 3-14-95 > Angie married a Stephen Dalhberg when Ben was 10yrs old and moved to New London, Conn. > Any help would be great... > Thanks All, > Russ Howe I have Howe's starting with John Howe Esq of Warwichshire who had John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, MA. John Howe died. 5/28/1687 in Marlborough. I have notes that these Howes of Warwichshire descended from John Howe of Hodenhill Co., Warwick, Eng and Sir Charles Howe of Langchester. All under the reign of Charles 1st. There were other Howes who came to MA, but I don't have their names, unfortunately. dana(HI) Also remembered: there's a Joseph Howe, 1804 - 1874. You can find him at http:\\www.twrsoft.com/hist01.htm dana(HI)

Hello all, I'am new to the Howe Digest list, here is my HOWE names unknown father Howe born Ky. & unknown mother Howe born Ky. son Samuel Edward Howe aka Edward S. Howe born abt. 1820 in Ky. sp. Eveline "Eveyln" (Osborne) b. abt. 1840 in Ky. d. ? 4-10-1927 married May 16, 1864 in Greenup Kentucky. Children: 1) John C. Howe b. abt. 1861 in Ohio or Ky.? *2) George Oliver Howe b. 2-12-1865 believe Greenup Ky. d. 4-27-1930 Muncie, Delaware Co.Indiana mar. July 8, 1888 in Muncie, Delaware Co.Indiana sp. Lavina Smith b. Mar.17, 1871 Greenup Ky. d.Apr.14,1929 in Richmond State Hospital in Richmond Indiana (Wayne Co.) brought back to Muncie Delaware Co.Indiana and buried next to George in Beechgrove Cem. in Muncie. They were the parents of 7 children the 6th child being my great grandmother Bernice H. (Howe) Taylor b. Oct.1904 and died at age 92 yrs old (was last living) she died in Nov. of 1996. 3) William H. Howe b. abt. 1868 4) Charles E. "Charlie" Howe b. abt. 1871 sp. Clara (unknown) 2 kids Willie & Fannie 5) Theresa Howe b. abt. 1874 6) Elizabeth "Lizzy" Howe b. abt. 1876 sp.1 William "Will" Thornburg they had 2 kids sp. 2. unknown Kendall. 7) Amos Howe b. abt. 1878 This family shows up in the 1870 & 1880 Greenup Kentucky Census. Looking for who Edward Howe's parents were and his siblings also the parents of his wife Evelyn Osborne or anything more on the children of Edward & Eveyln, was unable to really get info from Great grandma Bernice before she died last year her mind was starting to not be accurate and she just didn't remember... She was the last living of George's children, and there is nobody else left to ask that knows. I was unable to nail down from Great grandma if any of her dad's siblings were for sure in Muncie, Delaware Co.Indiana where George ended up, I think they may have been but it's also possible some of them stayed in Greenup Ky and Lizzie possible was in Portsmouth Ohio ???? Great grandma said he dad had family in Portsmouth which isn't that far from Greenup Ky. just over the river... Any help greatly appreciated... Thanks, Donata (Johnson) Boyle dbgoman@iquest.net