I appreciate your offer to look up names in your index cards. I am interested in information on the Howard Leyda/Ida Fath family that you may have. Howard died in 1936; both are buried at Harrison Cemetery near Wapello, Louisa Co., IA. I have their ancestry but I am especially interested in whether there were any children and any information on when Howard Leyda moved to Louisa County. Thank you for your efforts in helping all of us research our families. Joan Oeck -----Original Message----- From: Keith/Connie Street <ckcasey@netins.net> To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: surname lookups >Dear List, > > I apologize for the posting of the earlier e-mail messages with my >earlier reply to Bettijane and all of you. I thought I had deleted them, but >it turned out that I hadn't. > > The subject of this message is to hopefully get us back on track. I >am cutting back a great deal on what I do any more, as I continue to recover >from my brain stem stroke and bypass operation of last September. So please >bear with me in the following offer; I'll eventually get something done, but >it might not be immediately. > > A major effort by me over the years has been to connect people who >are searching the same surnames. To help accomplish that objective I have >created a card file hopefully including the surnames our members are >researching as well as all those who have researched at our Heritage Center. >Also indexed are the written queries we have received and the responses to >those queries. I have most recently added the surnames on the ahnentafels >many of you submitted, for the first 5 or 6 generations. I am not current on >the entries, and have the file cards at home while I try to bring the index >up to date. > > This index is for a given surname only; first names are not used. >Addresses of earlier researchers may be 10 years old. References for >particular surnames direct you to a specific file somewhere in which the >surname is listed. > > My offer is to look up a given surname for you and give you what >names and addresses I have for people who have that surname in their >ancestry or field of interest. For most surnames, there are not many people >listed. For common names such as Brown, Smith, etc. there are a lot of >names mentioned. In general, I will not be able to look at each folder >listed and see what information is in the file, but will be able to, as >above stated, provide you with a name and usually an address for the person >interested in that surname. I will do this until I return the index file to >its permanent place in the Heritage Center Library. > > Contact me by e-mail and I will respond by e-mail. > > From Keith >Keith Street >ckcasey@netins.net >325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 >319-523-8164 > > > > >==== IALOUISA Mailing List ==== >Don't forget to check out the web sites for southeastern Iowa families. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialouisa >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialcgs >http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahenry >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings >