ILPOPE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: For any of you with RAINEY/RANEY - HART connections and who helped me locate the James Hart book by Charles Gerton Hart. This book provided me much of the info on my Henry Hart & Nancy Raney Hart line of Bedford Co, TN George Washington Gossage and Nancy Hart Gossage of Pope County, IL and their daughter, my gr-great grandparents Frances M (Fanny) Gossage & Isaac McDonald Robertson.(Johnson County, Il) Nancy Rainey Hart was daughter of John Rainey (1750- 1841) was Rev War Soldier from South Carolina who moved on to Bedford Co., TN after 1800. There were many links between Hart lines and Rainey lines. I have just learned that the Rainey/Raney Conference will be held June 26-27 at the Holiday Inn in Franklin, TN 20 miles south of Nashville. (I-65 at State Highway 96 in Franklin). This is held in different places every two years. Featured will be Marynell Bryant, editor and publisher of RAINEY TIMES a Rainey Family genealogical research publication since 1981. Overview of major Rainey/Raney lines. Family Group sessions and exchange of information. Info on obtaining past volumes of Raney Times Genealogy on the Internet Also Dr George Schweitzer of Knoxville, TN nationally known entertaining lecturer who dresses in costume and will be speaking on America Land Grants and Researching In Burned-out Counties. He is expert in military genealogy, genealogical sources and techniques, and colonial genealogy. He is author of 17 genealogical books. It has taken me several weeks to find names, addresses and phone number for this conference so thought I would pass it along for those who might be interested For registration you can contact or make check for $35 to Rainey Family Association. Roy D Rainey SR 19300 Kanis Road Little Rock, AR 72211 Phone 501-821-2811 ___________________________________________________________ Judie Swann Boone Paternal Lines: Black, Burkhart, Mifflin, Oglesby, Owen, Seidel, Swann, Wright and Zimmermann Maternal Lines: Ferguson, Gossage, Hardwick, Hart, Hudson, Jernigan, Rainey, Reynolds, Robertson, Suthard.