This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------94C888EB0B3324B29A515FE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------94C888EB0B3324B29A515FE4 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by franklin.lisco.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09975 for <njennings@lisco.net>; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:16:27 -0600 (CST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02143; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:13:31 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:13:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812261816.KAA13665@bl-5.rootsweb.com> Old-To: Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> Old-cc: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Income needed In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 26 Dec 1998 09:29:37 CST. <199812261529.JAA20005@netdoor.com> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:16:48 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"J80ytD.A.Sh.KdSh2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/800 X-Loop: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com -- Your message was: (from "Carol C-H") > At 06:47 PM 12/25/98 -0800, Brian Leverich wrote: > > >Our primary goal is to build a great online public genealogical > >library. We plan to build clusters of resources around surnames and > >localities, including mailing lists, Websites, GenConnect Boards, > >link registries, search engines, primary data, and more. > > Brian - Georges post rang a bell for me. I have difficulty presenting > vague goals when asking for support, and could be much more effective with > specific ones. Is there any way that these goals you list in the paragraph > above could be attacked one at a time, with a specified amount to be > raised, with the option of designating contributions toward that goal? If > I recall correctly, that will be kind of a built-in feature of becoming a > non-profit, anyhow, and it would certainly make fund-raising much easier. > That, together with a membership drive on the lists (and hopefully > foundation money) for maintenance should make the goals more easily > attained, IMHO - ------------------ We probably can't do much better than fuzzy goals. Here's why. As much as RootsWeb depends on member contributions to buy the hardware and bandwidth, we also depend on volunteer system administrators to create the software and volunteers of many kinds to create the content. Volunteer availability, because it depends on the individual actions of a relatively small number of people, is essentially unpredictable. If you asked me a year ago to describe specifically where RootsWeb would be right now, one of the things I would have told you was that we'd definitely have HTMLized threaded mailing list archives. That didn't happen. Why? Marc Nozell, the admin responsible for the project, has had sick kids, sick wife, and a whole raft of other problems. It's not at all his fault, but he hasn't had time to worry the problem. On the other hand, a year ago I would have had no clue that we'd have the start of a vibrant UK Birth/Marriage/Death project going on. There was no way to predict Ben and Camilla were going to get excited and move out on that project. What I can tell you is that we'll grow in proportion to support, because at any given time we can *always* find some sysadmin and some group of volunteers ready to use the next server we bring online. RootsWeb has a three year track record of *always* finding a sysadmin and a group of volunteers ready for the next project. It's a serious problem that RootsWeb can't say to our members "donate $10,000 and we'll give you threaded HTMLized mailing list archives" but, while we're dependent on volunteer sysadmins and content providers, how we grow is pretty much going to be governed by which group of volunteers happens to be ready to use the next server we bring online ... 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 --------------94C888EB0B3324B29A515FE4--

Henry County List Subscribers - In response to my post a few days ago about Rootsweb's financial "crisis" and Rootsweb's value to us there have been many inquiries about how to "connect" with Rootsweb. Rather than trying to continue to reply personally and individually to these inquiries here's the site to obtain this Rootsweb "subscription/contribution" information: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html For AOL subscribers here's a clickable direct link: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html"> Rootsweb Subscription</A> For us "into genealogy" the ancestor who, what, when and where is the core and bottom line of our task. Judging from the tone of responses to my post it appears many Rootsweb list subscribers have no idea of the Rootsweb who, what, when and where. It might be helpful and appropriate if our list owner/ moderat/facilitator could provide us a Rootsweb "resume/vita" (supplied by Rootsweb) with this information. Only with this information can we fully appreciate Rootsweb's immeasurable value to us "list subscribers." Thanks for your time and my best to all. John Tallman Lookout Mountain, TN Rootsweb Donor

Palladium Software (manufacturer of Ultimate Family Tree, and a major sponsor of Rootsweb), was recently bought out by the Banner Blue-Broderbund-TLC-Mattel Conglomerate (products including Family Tree Maker, Family Origins, the World Family Tree CD's, etc.). As a result, Palladium has missed it's December 1st sponsorship payment to RootsWeb, causing no small degree of financial difficulties at RootsWeb, including Karen and Brian having to take out a $25,000 personal loan last week to cover interim expenses. Although they have been assured by representatives of both Palladium and the Broderbund Genealogical Monopoly (now controlling more than 90% of the genealogical software market) that the sponsorship will continue, no date has been given for when the now three-weeks overdue payment will be made. As a result, on behalf of all of us on the RootsWeb List who are already RootsWeb Members, Sponsors and Donors, I ask that you, our fellow On-Line Researchers, PLEASE JOIN US by Signing on as a RootsWeb Sponsor Now (https://www.rootsweb.com/mf.html). Surely the $24 you spend (only $2 a month) to become a RootsWeb Sponsor is a far better way to spend your money than a one-time $50-60 commercial CD. Consider just one example, the RootsWeb-hosted GenWeb Archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/, with its thousands of web sites offering millions of bytes more in the way of records than any commercial genealogical enterprise in existence. If it were not for the generosity, support and kindness of our Extended Family at the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative - the Louisa and Henry County, Iowa websites and lists would not even exist. And ours is only one of almost 5,000 Genealogical Lists made available under the auspices of RootsWeb. In October alone, RootsWeb's servers processed almost 120 million emails, and it is estimated that over a quarter-million genealogists are beneficiaries of RootsWeb's largesse. Despite that, the percentage of RootsWeb Users who contribute financially is under 5% -- far less than what is needed to ensure that the Data Cooperative can remain independent of corporate sponsors -- Free from them and Free for us. Even had this not happened (the missing payment), it is inherently dangerous for us to permit any commercial genealogical enterprise (particularly a monopoly) to provide a significant portion of RootsWeb's income. We, the On-Line Genealogical Community, must stand behind RootsWeb to ensure that it, too, does not become either swallowed whole or destroyed by the Broderbund Barons (arguably their goal when they failed to make a legal, contractual payment). Together we can make it happen, just by Supporting RootsWeb - our own On-Line Universal Genealogy Society. And in the meantime, in addition to your personal Support of RootsWeb, a reminder that another way you can help is by purchasing a far better Holiday Gift for friends and family than commercial genealogical software: a New RootsWeb Gift Membership.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------496B3224230478E9A4FB2FCA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------496B3224230478E9A4FB2FCA Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by franklin.lisco.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA05383 for <njennings@lisco.net>; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 05:57:37 -0600 (CST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA02157; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 03:55:00 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 03:55:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812211157.DAA14959@bl-5.rootsweb.com> Old-To: cheska@ix.netcom.com Old-cc: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Fund Drives In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 21 Dec 1998 03:43:06 PST. <367E341D.D4C@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 03:57:12 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"YRrrPB.A.eh.Tcjf2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/686 X-Loop: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com -- Your message was: (from "Cheska Wheatley") > Another idea... > > Could we devote a website for the Rootsweb Mall? > > Invite booksellers and other genealogy venders who have > websites scattered around the Internet to "rent" a link to > the Mall for an outrageous monthly fee. Maybe convince > them to kick back a percentage of sales that are generated > from these links? ------------------ That's a great idea and, in fact, we're already actively working on a Mall. Having said that, I'd like to point out to everyone that a 1% (just 1% !!!! ) change in the percentage of RootsWeb's users who are members makes about a $50,000 difference in our annual budget. There is *nothing* that we are aware of that will generate revenue like an increase in our membership rate. And 94-98% of our users still aren't members, so there's a lot of room for success in this area. And the really good thing about increasing memberships is that it increases folks' participation in RootsWeb. Everything here is about participation and sharing, and getting more people committed to sharing is definitely a Good Thing. 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 --------------496B3224230478E9A4FB2FCA--

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AF4FE709CB905EA92B364A17 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI: Rootsweb is once again in a bit of a financial crunch so I am forwarding the notes from Brian Leverich to the lists I own since it can help belie any rumors that are floating around or misinterpretation of the true situation. These were originally posted on the TEAM-MEMBERSHIP list. --------------AF4FE709CB905EA92B364A17 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by franklin.lisco.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA25403 for <njennings@lisco.net>; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 22:59:51 -0600 (CST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA19785; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812210458.UAA13346@bl-5.rootsweb.com> Old-To: plaidkin <plaidkin@earthlink.net> Old-cc: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Fundage In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 20 Dec 1998 22:25:21 CST. <199812210425.UAA29748@hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 20:58:53 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"aoYx_C.A.60E.NUdf2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/675 X-Loop: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com -- Your message was: (from "plaidkin") > Well, I put my money where my mouth was last week and sent in info > to upgrade my sponsorship amount... Thanks! > I sent a memo out to my list to the effect that when folks get a > chance after they've settled down their Holiday finances, they think > back to all they have benefited from at Rootsweb, and consider > subscribing to show support in light of Palladium's recent > withdrawal of support. Thanks even more, though do be careful with information concerning Palladium's sponsorship. They did miss their 1 December sponsorship payment, but they and their new owners do say they'd like to continue the relationship. RootsWeb isn't sure right now how it will all turn out. > I had some thoughts...since I spent this last year in college > taking public relations courses, aka how to schmooze, spin, and > solicit funds 101 and 102, I wondered if anyone out there who's a > listowner or subscriber is also PRelations person, or does > marketing/advertising...they might be a good source to get ideas > about how to promote Rootsweb and collect fundage. RootsWeb could *really* use a publicist. While we don't want to get real hyped about membership (we'd rather just tell people what we're doing and ask for their support), we would love to have someone who could identify genealogical writers, get press releases out to them, write articles themselves for the genealogical rags, and help us get an identity established. One of the bizarre things about operating RootsWeb is that while everyone knows who we host -- CyndisList, the USGenWeb Archives, the biggest chunk of USGenWeb and WorldGenWeb, ... -- surprizingly few people actually know that RootsWeb is the host providing the server space. Even fewer people realize we are about the only experiment in "National Public Radio" user-supported information on the Internet. It's kind of crazy, but I don't know how to tell people the basic fact: you can spend $49 and get one CD-ROM, or you can spend $24 and get the equivalent of dozens of CD-ROMs. And, when you support RootsWeb, you're voting in favor of low-cost community funded resources on the Internet. It's almost a religious thing: do you want to spend $59 at Ancestry and support a company that's locking data up from the public (and might charge more when they have more data), or do you want to spend $24 at RootsWeb and support permanently open data for everyone? *sigh* I just don't know how to get that message out. If anyone wants to volunteer, their efforts would be incredibly appreciated. > And a side question: What exactly is the number of folks who use > Rootsweb and post to the mailing lists? There are approximately 180,000 list subscribers, 85,000 RSL submitters, and a handful of other people that we know about from other parts of RootsWeb. Removing all duplicates, there are about 240,000 users that we know about. Including anonymous Web surfers, we guess that our total user base is about a million people. > Susan Gibson > List-Mngr for McGuigan-L 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 --------------AF4FE709CB905EA92B364A17--

I am seeking information re Alexander Stewart, b 1806 - Athens, Ohio. Married Louisa C. Mallet, b ? - New York, on Sept. 6, 1841 in Lee County, IA. Family appears on 1850 census for Henry County. Children of the marriage: Harriet M., b. 1832 Alexander B., b 1834 Clay , 1839 Harlan Meade, b August 1843 (listed on the census as "Holland") Rufus, b. 1845 Fletcher, b. 1849 Lee, b. 1851 Rachel, b. 1853 Annabelle, b. 1856 Ida, 1858 According to the census, Alexander was a merchant. Harlan Meade served in the Civil War - 6th Iowa Infantry, Co. F. He was my GGGrandfather. After his discharge, Harlan moved to Wisconsin. Any information on any of these individuals is greatly appreciated. Regards - Verne Verne R. Horton mailto:hortonad@alpine.net Researching the Stewart and Horton Families

My home email address is being changed because of the local server provider. It will be mccm@molalla.net not mccm@pdx.oneworld.com They promise to send me my email for anther month under the old address so hope I get this to everyone. My work number continues at mccm@chemek.cc.or.us Happy Hoidays ---Marveen

subject: POSTING Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:35:14 -0000 From: "D. Underwood" <ddwood@artelco.com> To: <njennings@lisco.net> I have been trying to post at your Henry County site and keep getting error messages. Would you please post the following info for me; www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6746/1..Darby SMITHART..b.1755 ....+ Martha POLLY .......2 John SMITHART .........+ Millicent RUBY ...........3 Martha SMITHART ...........3 William SMITHART ...........3 James SMITHART b.05/10/1845-d.11/14/1925 ..............+ Mary Ann KEASLING .......3 Martha SMITHART .........+Rev. John RUNYAN b.1829 ..........4 Elizabeth RUNYAN ..........4 John RUNYAN ..........4 Charles RUNYAN ..........4 Bill RUNYAN ..........4 Russell RUNYAN ..........4 Mary Elizabeth (Lib) RUNYAN .............+ Albert Charles CARTER ................5 Martha CARTER ..................+ Kenneth TAYLOR ................5 Charlie CARTER ..................+ Jennie STULL ................5 Frank CARTER ................5 Van CARTER ................5 Earl Russell (Buck) CARTER b.1890 ...................+ Goldie LOCK ......................6 Robert Dean CARTER b.04/22/1914 ........................+Dorothy Marie ORMAN b.05/10/1922 ......4 Mathias CARTER 1830-1932 (Albert's brother) ....................ddwood@artelco.com

As a voluntary financial contributor to RootsWeb (and that's all other than a grateful recipient of it's fine services) I'm posting the following to discussion lists to which I subscribe. It's an excerpt of the weekly "news letter" sent to contributors and is being posted by me with neither request nor authorization of RootsWeb. I do sincerely hope each of you who reads this post will genuinely ask yourself about the value of RootsWeb to you and act accordingly with voluntary financial support. John Tallman Lookout Mountain, Tennessee _____________________________________________________________________ NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB ROOTSWEB IN OCTOBER -- 61 million hits and 117 million e-mails! Need we say it? RootsWeb has continued to grow. While we are more than pleased by our growth, it is forcing us to upgrade our servers and increase our bandwidth, which in turn severely strains our limited financial resources. If you would like to help RootsWeb grow, please consider becoming a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor. Information about how to do that follows the statistics. Here are the detailed statistics on our October 1998 operations: o 3,264 independently-authored Web sites hosted by RootsWeb. o 61,205,731 total Web hits, of which - 16,107,975 were HTML pages; - 9,252,813 were cgi-bin database searches and such; and - 35,844,943 were graphics (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.). o 1,223,214 file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. o 4,686 independently-operated mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb. o 117,570,146 pieces of e-mail shipped to our mailing lists. RootsWeb is supported primarily by users like you -- your contributions keep us alive. If you would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor (the cost is very modest) please visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to- subscribe.html>. Support from the Internet genealogical community is crucial to RootsWeb's operation. Contributions that we can employ to upgrade our servers are essential for us to be able to continue bringing more genealogical Web sites and mailing lists online. . . . thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb. Clearly folks are continuing to exchange a great deal of information. * * * ROOTSWEB DOES NOT SELL ITS MAILING LISTS. RootsWeb received the following letter last week: "My company, PARADIGM List Management, has developed an expertise in the marketing of information (registered customer databases, online subscribers, names with postal addresses, and e-mails) that is sourced from the Web. We market this information through traditional marketing channels for direct mail & targeted e-mail purposes. We currently represent many high profile sites in this capacity generating a significant source of incremental revenue for the sites. Who can I contact at Rootsweb to discuss our services?" ### Dr. Brian Leverich responded: "I'm one of the owners of RootsWeb, and it is true that we have extremely clean mailing lists for hundreds of thousands of Internet genealogists. "It will be a cold day in Hell before we sell that information to anyone, though. We take the privacy rights of our users *extremely* seriously. Cheers, B."

Am looking for infomration about George C. MASON b Nov 1873 and his brother Roy H. MASON b Feb 1878. They are on the 1900 census with their mother Sarah Anderson MASON and then they just vanish. May have had sisters named Della and Lucinda. Any help appreciated. Fran

This article in the Rootsweb Review may explain why we have had a problem with a few undesirable messages getting through to the lists lately. Norma Jennings Listowner ROOTSWEB REVIEW: Genealogical Data Cooperative News Vol. 1, No. 20, 28 October 1998; Circulation: 224,200+ Copyright (c) 1998 RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG * * * * * CONTENTS: News and Notes from RootsWeb; Connecting through RootsWeb; Mailing Lists; Letters to the Editors; Web Sites; GenConnect; Ultimate Family Tree and Your Family Reunion; Humor (Computer Terms); Reprint Policy; Unsubscribe Instructions * * * * * NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB SPAM ATTACK. On 10/26/98, Dr. Brian Leverich wrote: Tim Pierce and a Spammer and I Attack the Web Server. Just a bit ago I checked out the main Web server and found it operating at load factor 26, which is way high for peak hours and extremely weird for this time of the evening. Turns out that Tim Pierce and a spammer and I were cooperating to attack the server. Here's what happened. The spammer flashflooded our 4,000 mailing lists with massively cross-posted garbage. Because it was massively cross-posted and because Tim's filters prevented it from going out to the lists, the posts all made it onto the listservers without the load climbing on the listservers enough to slow the flow. Because Tim CCs all the "Spam Detective" catches to himself on the Web server (that's where he reads his mail), the listservers cheerfully tried to force 4,000 pieces of spam onto the Web server simultaneously with 4,000 SMTP connections. Ordinarily this wouldn't be a problem, because the sendmail on the Web server would have started choking off incoming as the load factor skyrocketed. But I had the load choke-off set *very* high because, before I upgraded the server in June, I'd had to do that so rootsweb-help would keep working. So the Web server just sat there and got pounded. I've rationalized the sendmail settings now so the Spam Detective can no longer dangerously mailbomb the Web server. RootsWeb continues to improve our facilities for surviving spam attacks and preventing spam from reaching our mailing lists. On Monday of this week, RootsWeb brought a new mailhub server online. The new mailhub server, which is one of RootsWeb's fastest and most expensive servers to date, has the speed and capacity to support the more sophisticated spam filters that we will be implementing in the future. * * * SPAM ATTACK UPDATE: On 10/28/98, a RootsWeb listmember wrote to Tim Pierce, RootsWeb's senior system administrator: "I got over 27 (blocked spam from your list) messages today, WOW! I hope someone crams a high voltage lead up this guy's computer. Good job for the Spam Detective!" Tim responded, in part: This morning, we received more than 5,000 spams (and counting) from these turkeys in a little more than an hour and a half [by mid-afternoon, the count had risen to 9,000]. I think that sets some new kind of record for us. The load on our systems is skyrocketing just trying to keep the junk off the lists, and our network pipes are clogged with the extra traffic.

Looking for any descendants of Daniel and Thomas Saint, Quakers, whose family members migrated from Perquimans Co., NC to Wayne, Henry & Washington Co, IN in the early 19th century. In the late 19th century some Saints moved into IL and IA. My ancestor, Isham Saint, believed to be son of Thomas moved to Perry Co, TN Any info or contact would be appreciated. Thanks, Glenda in Memphis

I'm just testing since I recently was dropped from several lists and I haven't heard from this one for a while. (Please don't respond) Thanks Christina

I am looking for information about the John ABLES family he and his family were living in Henry Co., Iowa in 1850(fed census) i. John Ables b.1780 in Holland d. ? m. Alazna b.c 1790 in Pa. d. ? Children 1. Jane C. b. c 1828 Ohio d. aft. 1900 Thayer co., Ne. m. Jesse Jay (My gg Grand parents) 2.Eonona b. c1831 in Ohio 3.Aly Ann b. c1832 in Ohio 4. Thomas b. c1834 in Ohio John was listed as a farmer in the 1850 fed census in Henry Co., Iowa Any information would be helpful. Thanks, James D. Hitt -- <><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<>< Grace Peace James (Dan) Hitt Wonderful Wyoming the Cowboy State I John 4:10 Please See My Family Home Page at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/i/t/James-D-Hitt/index.html <><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><<><

Hi Fellow Rooters, I am looking for any information on the following famuly. I have a Shaner family fron Shaner, Pa who had a son George that fits the age bracket of the George below. Henry County, Iowa 1850 Federal Census 12 69 69 Shaner George 43 M Tailor 300 Pennsylvania 13 69 69 Shaner Juliann 38 F Pennsylvania 14 69 69 Shaner Samuel 17 M Farmer Pennsylvania 15 69 69 Shaner Eliza 16 F Pennsylvania 16 69 69 Shaner Mary Jane 14 F Pennsylvania 17 69 69 Shaner George 12 M Pennsylvania 18 69 69 Shaner Isaac 10 M Pennsylvania 19 69 69 Shaner William 7 M Iowa Thank You, Wayne kruper

Hi all, I have come into possession of a very old photo album which was in my grandmother's house. Unfortunately, not more than two of the over 50 photos have any identification on them other than the name of the photographer and the city (and some not even that) --no names, no dates. *ARGH* :-( I have been able to identify a couple of these thanks to my Mom's input, but most of them are clearly relatives from the 1800's and early 1900's with absolutely NO CLUE as to who they are. The studios in which these photos were taken are as follows: Topeka, Kansas: J. (T?) H. Leouard, Photographer Burr Oak, Kansas: M.P. Creese, Photographer Mankato, Kansas: Reese Crayon and Ink Portraits Woodbine, Iowa: Mrs. D. D. Lyon Council Bluffs, Iowa: Excelsior Studio, Barke Mt. Pleasant, Iowa: McAdam Bros., Mammoth Photographic Studio Fairfield, Iowa: Al Hilbert's East Side Gallery "Over Freemans & Townleys Jewelry Store." Galesburg, Illinois: Barker (also Barker & Bulkley, 27 Main Street and also 2 & 4 Main Street) Galesburg, Illinois: C. A. Winsor, Portrait Photographer, 12 & 14 Main Street Galesburg, Illinois: T. Harrison, Photographer, 27 Main Street Kewanee, Illinois: Andrew Johnson, Photographer Ottawa, Illinois: W. E. Bowman, Photographer Chicago, Illinois: E. L. Brand & Co., Photographers, 596 Wabash Ave. "Established in 1857." Terre Haute, Indiana: C. Eppert Terre Haute, Indiana: Adams The book itself is marked "Smith's Studio of Photography, 206 N. Clark Street, Chicago" -- It shows an award from the Paris Exposition of 1878. I realize I have very little hope of every discovering who the people in the photos are (I know they are my relatives, but which ones???). Still, I'm hoping SOMEONE out there might have some information on these old photo studios, and might know whether by some miracle any of them are still around. Thanks to all, Sheila in TN email to sheilamcf@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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I am new on this list. Let me introduce myself. I was born and raised in Henry County, IA. I attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa, IA and now live in Knoxville, IA. My roots are deep in Quaker ancestors. Some came as early as 1837 (MENDENHALL) and as late as 1875 (HALLOWELL) to the Salem area. My mother's line is all Quaker and my father's line goes back to many. My web site has all of my Quaker ancestors who came to Henry County. Some names that are still in the area are TRUEBLOOD, HALLOWELL, COLLINS, and MAXWELL. -- Jean (Hallowell) Leeper jeanlee@harenet.net Visit my web site at: http://www.harenet.net/~jeanlee