You need to send this to her personal address. If she has unsubbed, she won't receive a message sent to the list. -----Original Message----- From: Patricia J. Pardun <pardun@citrus.infi.net> To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Why I am unsubbing from this list >To: Susie Martin-Rott; > Somehow, I missed all of this the controversy preceeding this message. >However, I do want to submit to you the information I have on my >gr.grandfather, who served in the Civil War from Iowa. > Name: James Alexander Adams > Rank: Private > Unit: Company I, 8th. Regiment of the Iowa Cavalry > Birthdate: 19 May 1840 > Birthplace: Mahoning Twp. Armstrong County, Pennsylvania > Death date: 20 December 1920 > Death place: Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa > Cemetery: Rowley Cemetery, Buchanan County, Iowa > Cem. Location: 1/4 mi. W of the town of Rowley, Iowa >Note: At the time of his enlistment at Davenport, Scott Co. IA, he was >living in Clayton County, newly married with an infant daughter. After the >war, he moved his wife and daughter to a farm in Liberty township, Buchanan >County, Iowa where they lived the rest of their lives. >Pat P. FL >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Susie Martin-Rott" <rootboun@tampabay.rr.com> >To: <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 5:13 PM >Subject: Why I am unsubbing from this list > > >> I have done a LOT for Louisa Co genealogy, even though my website is >> primarily for Muscatine Co IA. >> I have done countless lookups for people (I am sure the man with the >> JAMES surname recalls this) on this list and Norma's Louisa Co website >> links to >> a substantial number of cemeteries in adjacent Muscatine Co which I have >> researched, transcribed and placed on line free for YOUR use. >> >> Apparently someone has complained to the list owner because I asked for >> help with my Civil War project, wanting to know what I was doing with >> Louisa Co soldiers (as if you guys OWNED these men) >> >> I am unsubbing and apologize in advance to Norma for this post but I am >> ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY. Excuse me for changing email addresses and >> having a couple messages show up as "Not a Subscriber" when in fact I >> am. >> My dad lived in Fredonia, my great grandparents in Letts, my great great >> grandparents in Letts...I still have lots of Louisa Co relatives and an >> interest in the area. I have as much right to post questions on this >> list as anyone else and I resent the living heck out of the fact that >> someone on here thinks they own the rights to information about civil >> war soldiers from the area AND that they were too chicken to just email >> me and ask for the scope of my project. >> >> I clearly posted what my project was about on 30 Mar 2000 and if the >> person >> who complained to Norma (instead of being big enough to write to me >> directly) >> had checked the list archive the original message is right there. For >> that person >> or anyone else who suddenly had a problem with me, here is the original >> message, exactly as posted on 30 Mar: >> >> > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:01:58 -0500 >> > From: Susie Martin-Rott >> > To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com >> > Message-ID: <38E3A4A6.6E5E38DE@netzero.net> >> > Subject: Re: Civil War Burial Sites >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> > >> > I've been working on a project for about 2 years now of recording the >> > burial sites of Civil War soldiers from Iowa and could use some help >> > with Louisa County guys. >> > >> > This database includes soldiers who died and are buried in IA regardless >> > >> > of what state or side they served, as well as men from Iowa who served >> > in >> > or are buried in other states (example-there were a bunch of West >> > Liberty guys >> > who joined the MO Cavalry and are buried in MO-they were FROM Iowa >> > though) >> > >> > I have picked through the Roll of Honor and hundreds of cemetery books >> > and >> > transcriptions looking for these guys (Iowa alone had over 75,000 men >> > serve) and have actually located only about 5 thousand so far (including >> > those >> > who served other states and are buried in IA, like my ggg grandfather >> > Daniel Grimm who served in OH and is buried at Parr). Part of the >> > problem is that many of them did not get "government" stones and there >> > is nothing on their marker to indicate >> > their service. >> > >> > One of the purposes of the project is that those who have no stones or >> > stones which are illegible are entitled to receive a new marker from the >> > Veterans >> > Administration..but we have to know where they are BURIED first!! >> > >> > If you have such a soldier in your family tree, serving from or buried >> > in IA and would like to have them included in the database, the info >> > needed is: >> > NAME >> > RANK >> > UNIT >> > BIRTHDATE and PLACE >> > DEATH DATE and PLACE >> > CEMETERY and LOCATION >> > misc: if you know pension number, wife's name, discharge info etc >> > >> > If you don't know everything, you can submit what you DO know and I'll >> > eventually research the person and try to fill in the blanks. >> > >> > I will tell you up front that I do earn a nominal sum (less than $300 >> > for 3,000 men) >> > in doing this by allowing ancestry.com to have the electronic rights to >> > my database. This helps me pay for copies from the roll of honor, >> > pension and other books and documents. >> > >> > Since each group of 3,000 takes hundreds of hours to research, comparing >> > >> > names to rosters, etc, I am NOT getting rich off this thing. I however >> > retain >> > any hard copy publishing rights, therefore I can GIVE the darn list away >> > to anyone I want, including the group who is working on the replacement >> > markers, libraries, etc. >> > >> > I have a guy right now making me NUTS who is buried in Louisa Co. >> > MAPES (no first name given) NY 44 Inf G Fredonia Fredonia, Louisa, IA >> > >> > G.A.R. Does anyone know what Mr. Mape's 1st name was???? >> > >> > >> >> With that, I will be unsubbing from the list so anyone who needs help >> from me is just >> outta luck or will have to email me directly or visit my website at >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamusca2/index.html >> >> I want this complainer to know that I came VERY VERY close to asking the >> Louisa Co site to remove all the cemetery links that go from that site >> to mine because of >> your attitude, but I have not done so because there are a lot of good >> people on this list who don't deserve to be deprived of their ancestral >> information simply because you have a personal problem. >> >> I would also like to thank those of you who voluntarily sent me your CW >> soldier information for inclusion in the project. >> >> Norma, I again apologise for sending this to the list, but the >> complainer was too >> chicken to mail me so this is the only way I can get a message to them. >> >> >> >> ==== IALOUISA Mailing List ==== >> Mailing Lists: >> mailto:IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com >> > > >==== IALOUISA Mailing List ==== >SUPPORT ROOTSWEB! 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