My name is Marla Odom, and I am new to the Louisa County list. I am trying to find information on family members who lived in Louisa County at one time. My great-great grandfather was named George Haight, and his wife was Eva Rogers. Their son, Robert Earl Haight married my great-grandmother, Hessie Ellen Tarter. In the 1880 Louisa County, Iowa, Elliot Township Census, George F. Haight, age 30, was living with wife Eva Haight, age 23, son Walter R., age 5, daughter Fannie, age 2, and son "Bob" (presumably Robert Earl), who was an infant. They were also living with Alise Rogers, age 18, who was Eva Haight's sister. I do not have any information past George and Eva, and do not know if they originated in Louisa County. I have found Haights in the Burlington area phonebook, but have not received any responses to my letters. Family rumor is that the Haights were from Iowa, and had lived there a while. I also have a picture of George Haight and Eva Rogers with their family. The picture is etched with the name Walter Haight, who was presumably the photographer, and may have been a close relative of George. Please contact me if you have any information or run across these names in your research. I am at a dead end in my research, and live too far away to dig through records. Thanks for your time. Marla Odom Tucson, Arizona

I finally have my homepages ready for the viewing public with updates on going and never complete. For those doing Henry, Louisa or Washington County research, you may find information on the following families on my homepages: Beck, Bender, Broyles, Fee, Freeland, Fulton, Green (e), Humphreys, Jarrard, Jennings, Ross, Smith, Snider, Wattenbarger (or Wattenberger) and many other brief surname references within these documents. More information is still being sought on the Fee, Fleming, Hannah, and Welch surnames that are connected with the above families for which we have very little information on yet. Just this past week, we also have added the 1850 Henry County, Iowa census records to the Henry County site. This great asset was made possible by the transcription efforts of Mary Thompson. Mary has done an excellent job of transcibing the census records in a very attractive format. The census record was made possible by S-K Publications who is loaning copies of selected photocopied census records to the IAGENWEB Iowa Census Transcription Project to use in typing up the HTML versions for the Internet. Here is where you can find all this wonderful new data for southeastern Iowa: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahenry http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialouisa Norma Jennings

MCCONAUGHYs and MCCLUREs from Louisa Co. married into my SPEER lines, found in Washington Co. Iowa and Guernsey Co. Ohio. Does anyone have info on the SPEER, MCCLURE or MCCONAUGHY families in Louisa or Washinton counties? Email to <Guffie@aol.com> as well as a post to the list would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much! Julia Speer Christiansen

I'm interested in information on the country school called Amity in Louisa Co. My mother went to this school as a child and tells me that her father for a time was the superintendent. Thank You, Gary Honts jh12687@cedarnet.org

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I am new to newsgroups. I am looking for info on an ALICE NICHOLS, b. 8 Sept 1845 in Louisia County, Ia. Possibly Morning Sun. I believe her father was Joseph NICHOLS and need that info as well and who he was married to and children other than Alice. I believe he married a Fulton girl. Also an ONA ELLIS. I believe she was born in Morning Sun also as a sister was. She married a SMITH and has a son, James Ellison SMITH who was a movie star in the 1930's, 40's. And ELMER PARKER JARVIS, b. 10 Mar 1862 in Morning Sun, Ia. Married Della Ellis Thank you kindly for any info anyone can give me. Bonnie Haugen Alabama

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1.thanks go to our 'spam detectives'for their help. 2.a question on the pages 236 of Louisa co Biog.1912 by Springer contributed by Norma Jennings.Is anyone connected to Jacob BEIK-bn 1832,married 2nd to Alverda HANDLEY bn. Illinois,daughter of Eli Handley.Does someone have further info on the Handley family side.thanks carol Carol A Berry cedartree2@juno.com _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi, all -- After some trial and error, the spam filters we have in place now seem to be working pretty well against the current cretins and hooligans. As evidence, I indicate Brian's letter, which was blocked from the IALOUISA list merely because it quoted the original porno spam. :-) These jackasses have wasted so much of our time and resources that we may look into pursuing some legal action against them. Every hour that I put into blocking and controlling spam is an hour that we can't spend improving our services for you... <sigh> More of the hidden costs of unsolicited bulk e-mail. Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:04:42AM -0700, abuse@rootsweb.com wrote: > Hi -- > > This is an automated notice from the RootsWeb list server. > Someone recently sent this message to your list. It looks > suspiciously like spam, so it was NOT distributed to your list. > > However, we're sending you a copy just in case the spam detector > made a mistake. If this was actually a legitimate message that > shouldn't have been blocked, please forward this message to > abuse@rootsweb.com and tell us, so we can try to make the Spam > Detective a little smarter. > > Thanks -- > The RootsWeb Spam Detective > > [rejected spam included below] > -------------------------------------------------- > > >From leverich@bl-5.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 1 10:04:40 1998 > Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) > by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27602 > for <IALOUISA-L@fp-1.rootsweb.com>; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (bw-5.rootsweb.com [208.1.40.117]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28832; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:36 -0700 > Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bl-5.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA04052; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:31 -0700 > Message-Id: <199807011704.KAA04052@bl-5.rootsweb.com> > To: gentzler@gte.net > cc: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com, Debra Stover <djstover@erols.com>, > "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> > Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: IALOUISA-D Digest V98 #38 > In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:48:07 PDT. > <3599BF86.BA77EC2D@gte.net> > Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:04:30 -0700 > From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> > > > > We're doing all we can, but these bozos are actively trying to > penetrate our spam filters. Makes it very difficult to keep them > out. > > I would *strongly* recommend you "close" your lists so only > subscribers can post. That would keep this crud out of your > subscribers' mailboxes. -B > > > -- Your message was: (from "Ed Gentzler") > > Debra, > > > > Let me assure you, this garbage is NOT typical or even usual. Iv'e been > > subscribing to a number of roots lists and digests for over a year now > > and this is the first time I've ever seen anything of this sort! Hardly > > ever even see any ordinary advertizing or spam duye to the filters that > > are used on this. > > > > I'm forwarding this to the RootsWeb guru who will definitely do > > something about it. > > > > Ed

As much as I hate to do it, it looks like we may have to close our lists temporarily to non-subscribers due to the ingenuity of these persistent spammers who don't give up trying to break through the filters. I am going to wait a day or two to make a decision on officially closing the list, but if any non-member wants to post to the list, they can do so by subscribing and then unsubscribing at a later date if they don't want to remain on the list. The advertisers won't go to that much trouble as they want to spam a large number of sites at once. If the word spam is new to you, I ask your patience in dealing with this. This is the first time we have been spammed on these lists, but the same spammer is bombarding us with multiple copies of the message. Rootsweb is filtering most of them out, but if one does make it through, delete it and be rest assure that steps are being taken to stop it. If they can break us down and get even one of you to reply to them, they will have a new e-mail address to use as their own to send out the next batch. Complain only to me or to abuse@rootsweb.com if you get any further unsavory messages. DO NOT REPLY TO THE SENDER. Norma Jennings Listowner IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com IAHENRY-L@rootsweb.com >From leverich@bl-5.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 1 10:04:40 1998 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27602 for <IALOUISA-L@fp-1.rootsweb.com>; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (bw-5.rootsweb.com [208.1.40.117]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA28832; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:36 -0700 Received: from bl-5.rootsweb.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bl-5.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA04052; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:31 -0700 Message-Id: <199807011704.KAA04052@bl-5.rootsweb.com> To: gentzler@gte.net cc: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com, Debra Stover <djstover@erols.com>, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: IALOUISA-D Digest V98 #38 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:48:07 PDT. <3599BF86.BA77EC2D@gte.net> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 10:04:30 -0700 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> We're doing all we can, but these bozos are actively trying to penetrate our spam filters. Makes it very difficult to keep them out. I would *strongly* recommend you "close" your lists so only subscribers can post. That would keep this crud out of your subscribers' mailboxes. -B -- Your message was: (from "Ed Gentzler") > Debra, > > Let me assure you, this garbage is NOT typical or even usual. Iv'e been > subscribing to a number of roots lists and digests for over a year now > and this is the first time I've ever seen anything of this sort! Hardly > ever even see any ordinary advertizing or spam duye to the filters that > are used on this. > > I'm forwarding this to the RootsWeb guru who will definitely do > something about it. > > Ed > > IALOUISA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Subject: > > > > IALOUISA-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 38 > > snipped to avoid repeating the obnoxious post.

Ed Gentzler sent this message to our list, but because he included a copy of the original spam message, the abuse@rootsweb.com bounced the message and sent it to me. At least we know the filter is working some of the time.:>) Norma Jennings, Listowner ------------------ Debra, Let me assure you, this garbage is NOT typical or even usual. Iv'e been subscribing to a number of roots lists and digests for over a year now and this is the first time I've ever seen anything of this sort! Hardly ever even see any ordinary advertizing or spam duye to the filters that are used on this. I'm forwarding this to the RootsWeb guru who will definitely do something about it. Ed Hi -- This is an automated notice from the RootsWeb list server. Someone recently sent this message to your list. It looks suspiciously like spam, so it was NOT distributed to your list. However, we're sending you a copy just in case the spam detector made a mistake. If this was actually a legitimate message that shouldn't have been blocked, please forward this message to abuse@rootsweb.com and tell us, so we can try to make the Spam Detective a little smarter. Thanks -- The RootsWeb Spam Detective

I hope someone is reporting to the webwatch people about this!!! >Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:54:24 +0900 From: buy71@imageright.com (Web Creations) To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <19980629793TAA44026@post.ken.or.jp> Subject: I know you want to cum inside Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Carol A Berry cedartree2@juno.com searching ROBERDEE-HANDLEY-WILLEY PAXSON-FLEAGLE-HAIFLEY-SHELLABARGER _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I am Looking for Absolom MAXWELL [m] Josephine BRITT Fredonia, Lousia Co .Ia. {S} Benjamin Buell MAXWELL {B} 1862......Josephines parents..Robert Britt @ Rebecca Dobsom/Williams..?? lThankyou Larilee

Southeastern Iowa had had a major power outage over the past 26 hours. Apparently, a spammer message came through according to some of the messages I received this evening. My apologies to our list members as those advertising messages did not originate with our site. Rootsweb's abuse service bounced a number of messages, but apparently one went through to some of you. Please do not respond to the party sending them as they will then use your e-mail address to spam the next group of their targets. Instead, send a copy of the message to abuse@rootsweb.com who will take action and contact their ISP to have them banned from continuing this practice. Again, my apologies. It didn't come from Louisa County as we have been without power until a few minutes ago. Norma Jennings, Listowner

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I have moved all my personal family manuscripts off of the Louisa County site onto a new homepage. If you have been using any of that material, it can now be found at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings Norma Jennings

I am working on a new "room" on the web site of the Mobile (Alabama) Genealogical Society. It's called THE NEWS STAND and is a listing of (and links to) genealogy columns which appear in newspapers around the world. I looked around the web and could not find any *one* online place where you could find information on all these columns. It seemed to me that it was time that this "void" was filled. I started out with the intention of listing only those columns which were geographically close to Mobile, but I received listings from far-and-away and, after some contemplation, decided that since MGS members have ancestry *everywhere*, it would serve our membership to include listings from areas far removed from the Gulf Coast. If that information also benefits other Internet surfing genealogists -- all the better. This message is a request for assistance from the online genealogical community. I need you to tell me about the genealogy columns that appear in your local newspaper(s) so that I can create a comprehensive listing for them in THE NEWS STAND. What we like to include in each listing is... 1. the name of the column 2. the image of the columnist 3. the name of the columnist 4. the frequency of the column -- in what paper(s) does it appear and when? 5. the circulation (by counties/parishes) of the paper(s) 6. the postal address to which queries and announcements can be sent 7. the e-mail address to which queries and announcements can be sent 8. the address of any web site that is associated with the column (especially if the column is being archived there) Now, BEFORE you e-mail me your responses, PLEASE visit THE NEWS STAND first. The column you want to tell me about might already be there. Some of the listings are incomplete. I would appreciate help in "filling in the blanks" as well as information about columns which are not currently listed. The Cyber Lobby for the MGS web site can be found at... http://www.siteone.com/clubs/mgs Scroll down to, and click on, THE NEWS STAND. Please do not bookmark THE NEWS STAND. Please always enter our site via the Cyber Lobby as that's where our hidden counter is. More importantly, though, as THE NEWS STAND get larger, I will have to break it up into smaller pieces and this will cause the web address(es) to change. So, please just bookmark the Lobby. One last thing. PLEASE *DO NOT* send your replies to the list from which you may have received this message. Be careful using your "Reply To" button and send your replies directly to me ONLY. -- Regards, Kevin Sellew in Mobile, Alabama E-Mailto:ksellew@zebra.net *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* President of the Mobile (Alabama) Genealogical Society -- a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization and WebMaster for the Mobile Genealogical Society Web Site *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Helping a grandson who is desperately looking for the burial site for Bertha ROYLE PIERCE. She was born, probably in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA on 14 Feb 1879. I have all 12 of her siblings, parents and grandparents but she disappeared. Husband was Reuben William PIERCE, son Archibald PIERCE that I know of. Are any ROYLES still in IA anywhere? My husband's mother was a ROYLE so I need info on Bertha's family also. Thank you. Ann Cherry

I am trying to verify that Parsons Cemetery is in Louisa County. Information was passed on to me that my husband's grandmother, Anna Maude AMENT was buried at Oakville, Louisa County, Iowa in Parsons Cemetery between 1904 and 1906. She died in childbirth at 23 year of age. She was married to Arthur Hills abt 1898 in Illinois at age 17. She was born in Kentucky but the state did not have a record of birth. I tried for a marriage license in Illinois and again no luck ....so I thought maybe Parsons Cemetery would have a clue to her family. I would appreciate any help. Delores Hills deehills@volcan.net