To all folks monitoring the Jay County forum, I would like to invite you to view my Thanksgiving Greeting to you at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/special Richard Denney

Hello. I have been informed by someone (I will not publicly embarrass them) of "where to go" concerning the site I sent. I apologize for bothering the list with this (because I know the list is for genealogy & history). I thought & still think it is a free searchable site since I checked it out again this morning. I realize there are ads on the page but that is not what I mentioned in my post. However, I would like to apologize for upsetting anyone. The person sent the email (flaming me) directly to me so they did not feel so strongly "to go public" with their dirty language. I apologize again for upsetting anyone. Jacqueline in Ohio

--WebTV-Mail-29788-4430 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Hello all, I came across this searchable database that is new to me (but only free this month). I thought someone might be interested to see if any of their surnames showed up here. If you don't want to search the Titanic Passenger list then just hit your delete or discard. Address is at bottom. Jackie --WebTV-Mail-29788-4430 X-URL-Title: SierraHome Family Tree - Database Research Center Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/records/ --WebTV-Mail-29788-4430--

One of our hard working volunteers has finished scanning all of the cemetary listings for Jay County! We must now proof read them and then they can be posted. Two other volunteers ..David Taylor and Linda Kless..have been sent some of the records to proof read. If anyone else would like to volunteer to do some proof reading, please let me know! Amy

I would like to invite all Jay County cousins to check out my special HALLOWEEN web page, make sure the kids are around as it is a fun thing. It is rather heavy in content and slow loading but worth the wait. Check it out at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/Halloween Richard Denney

Hi List: I am doing a one name study on the name COVEY. If anyone has run across any of these folks I would certainly appreciate hearing from you. Thanks in advance for your efforts. Bill Covey Creator of Ol' Tubby Joe Stottlemeyer Author of: Watson Is Where It Wuz http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/3265/Welcome.html

Looking for info on John WIlson (1884-1919), son of William Wilson and Emma Shoffer and/or John's wife Dora M. Keller (1887-1955)- dau. of William Keller & Lucinda Hasser. I have some info on John & Dora's five children, but nothing on their parents/siblings other than parents names. Any additional info would be appreciated. Jim Jim.McF63@juno.com ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Would like to hear from anyone with ANY Hofferbert connections, especially any George Hofferbert who may have been in Montgomery Co., OH around 1894. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Father William Austin Born in Indiana 1927 or 1928. I can get no info from Vital Records because I do not have Birth date Parents names or anything else. This was all that was on my Birth Certificate. Here is all the info I have. My name is Rev. Dennis Keith Austin I am 44 years old my fathers name is William Austin he would be around his early 70's he has a daughter name Twila she would be around 51 to 53 and a son around my age. He had Curly Auburn hair he lived in and around Monterey Park, California. He worked at a gas station. This info is 44 years old. My mothers name is Barbara Ballenger. He was not married at the time he and my mother had a relationship and when she got pregnant he left. I have no other family brothers and sisters except on the Austin side. My mother saw him again a year after I was born and he was married and had a little baby with him. If you could be of some help it would be a Blessing. Please contact me one way or the other. Thank you and have a Blessed weekend. In His Grace, Rev. Dennis Austin 7577 Margate Court #104 Manassas, Virginia 20109 1-800-650-3238 Toll Free cevm@erols.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

This is embarrassing!!!! Through several previous messages I have tried to convey to you on the Denney and Jay County Rootsweb Forums my correct url to view Samuel Denny's GEDCOMS. I had thought it was all settled as I heard nothing more on problems until yesterday. It turns out that even my last posting was incorrect for the "FAMILIES" page where the GEDCOMS are located, I had misspelled families as "FAMLIES" and that of course would not work. The correct url is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/denney/Families.html My mind evidently wanders some so please bear with me <G> Richard Denney

JoanBohlin, Denney Forum and Jay County Forum on Rootsweb. Sorry about all the confusion, the proper url to get direct to my families page is http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/denney/famlies.html , the problem was that I gave you a capital "F" in families and it should be lower case. You know how these ole computers and web sites are <G> Richard -----Original Message----- From: JoanBohlin@aol.com <JoanBohlin@aol.com> To: RDENNEY@prodigy.net <RDENNEY@prodigy.net> Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 1:12 PM Subject: Re: GEDCOMS >The page still comes up saying that your site >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/denney/Famlies.html >doesn't exist.

In this below message I posted yesterday, one of the urls below is incorrect, for the one if you want to by-pass my home page and go directly to my families page, it would be http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/denney/Famlies.html Richard Denney

Hello to Jay County Indiana researchers. I myself descend from Jay County folks, matter of fact from one of the very first settlers of Jay County, William Felton Denney who settled there in 1831. I have large data bases of descendants of William's , and naturally all those associated with him through marriages. These data bases would include thousands of people from the Jay County, IN & Mercer County, Ohio. I have uploaded my data to my web site in GEDCOM format if anyone is interested in looking at them. My home page is http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/7853/denney , once there you can go to index at bottom of page and select my "FAMILIES" page which contains the GEDCOMS. The GEDCOM that would contain people of interest to Jay County would be "AZARIAH" but feel free to look them all over. If you want to by-pass my home page and go direct to GEDCOM page, use http://www.geocities.com/Heatland/Lake/7853/families Enjoy the browsing and feel free to comment on them. Richard Denney in West Lafayette, IN

Hello everyone! We have a new volunteer on the site with biograhphical and history books, as well as his own very large gedcom file garnered from his own Jay County research. You can reach him through the site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~injay ...go to the lookup page and there he is! Welcome, John and thanks so much! There are a few more photos up in the scrap book! Its getting very popular and I really must re-vamp it...one of these days! Thanks also to those of you who offered to proof read the cemetary transcriptions when they are ready. Our tireless volunter Eloine Chesnut is working away at scanning the typed records generously sent to us by the Jay County Genealogy Society... there are over 10,000 names and she is still not done, having saved the BIGGEST cemetaries for last! I have put a few pictures up from my recent trip to Jay County, just little views of the landscape, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~injay/trip.htm . I don't know if I told you all, but while I was there I went through the very early criminal records of Jay County. I must tell you, while I did not find any of MY ancestors (phew!) the records were quite fascinating! If there are any KNAPP descendants out there, you come from some colourful folks! I wonder how many people over look criminal records as a source? If I get back, I'd love to go through them in more detail! Amy

Amy I second that. I found the Society to be very helpful. I am a member of a few county societies and find Jay County to be an excellent resource. I am excited about the co-operative efforts and just received my newletter from the Society and know that the listings of resource they are publishing will be helpful to all members not located in the area. I also encourage all list members to consider membership in the Society. David Taylor Amy Campbell wrote: > Hello everyone! I have returned from my first ever trip to Jay Co. Had a > wonderful time! The Jay Co. Genealogy Society Folks were a great help. They > have a lot of resources in their office and know alot about the county and > its familes. I also spent alot of time at the courthouse. Unfortunately, > the Salt Lake City folks were there filming wills etc. so I could not > access the orignal documents. I must tell you that the Jay County Genealogy > Society is trying to get "custody" of some of these original documents. I > thought this was an important project of theirs: You know how frustrating > it sometimes is to find death records in Jay Co? Thats because many of the > records were destroyed in a flood. I made a personal donation to the > society to help defray the costs in obtaining and housing these records > properly. While I was there we talked about the web site and the work of > the society and the importance of working co-operatvely. I have already > told you that the web site will at sometime in the near future have a data > base of cemetary inscriptions from Jay County Cemetaries, donated by the > Jay County Genealogy Society and currently being scanned and typed by a > tireless volunteer! These inscriptions were a huge help to me, especially > since I had been unable to obtain death records for a few of my folks. I am > sure they will be of interest to you too! I have been a little slow to > update the site of late, its been very busy here for me, but we also have > another new look-up volunteer and some more additions to the scrap book, > and I hope to post a few photos from my trip this weekend. If anyone out > there has time to proof-read some of the cemetary transcriptions before > they are placed on the site, please let me know. Also, having been there > myself and seeing what they have and what they want to do, I would > encourage you to join the Jay Co. Genealogy Society if you have not already > done so. Hope you all had as nice a summer as me! >

Amy, I would be willing to proof the inscriptions. I was also up there recently and have alot of family that I haven't been able to track as yet. Michele Stanley mstanley@leading.net INJAY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > INJAY-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 44 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Jay Co. Gen Society, web site etc [Amy Campbell <paulec@cactuscom.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from INJAY-D, send a message to > > INJAY-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Jay Co. Gen Society, web site etc > Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:59:56 -0400 > From: Amy Campbell <paulec@cactuscom.com> > To: INJAY-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello everyone! I have returned from my first ever trip to Jay Co. Had a > wonderful time! The Jay Co. Genealogy Society Folks were a great help. They > have a lot of resources in their office and know alot about the county and > its familes. I also spent alot of time at the courthouse. Unfortunately, > the Salt Lake City folks were there filming wills etc. so I could not > access the orignal documents. I must tell you that the Jay County Genealogy > Society is trying to get "custody" of some of these original documents. I > thought this was an important project of theirs: You know how frustrating > it sometimes is to find death records in Jay Co? Thats because many of the > records were destroyed in a flood. I made a personal donation to the > society to help defray the costs in obtaining and housing these records > properly. While I was there we talked about the web site and the work of > the society and the importance of working co-operatvely. I have already > told you that the web site will at sometime in the near future have a data > base of cemetary inscriptions from Jay County Cemetaries, donated by the > Jay County Genealogy Society and currently being scanned and typed by a > tireless volunteer! These inscriptions were a huge help to me, especially > since I had been unable to obtain death records for a few of my folks. I am > sure they will be of interest to you too! I have been a little slow to > update the site of late, its been very busy here for me, but we also have > another new look-up volunteer and some more additions to the scrap book, > and I hope to post a few photos from my trip this weekend. If anyone out > there has time to proof-read some of the cemetary transcriptions before > they are placed on the site, please let me know. Also, having been there > myself and seeing what they have and what they want to do, I would > encourage you to join the Jay Co. Genealogy Society if you have not already > done so. Hope you all had as nice a summer as me! > >

Hello everyone! I have returned from my first ever trip to Jay Co. Had a wonderful time! The Jay Co. Genealogy Society Folks were a great help. They have a lot of resources in their office and know alot about the county and its familes. I also spent alot of time at the courthouse. Unfortunately, the Salt Lake City folks were there filming wills etc. so I could not access the orignal documents. I must tell you that the Jay County Genealogy Society is trying to get "custody" of some of these original documents. I thought this was an important project of theirs: You know how frustrating it sometimes is to find death records in Jay Co? Thats because many of the records were destroyed in a flood. I made a personal donation to the society to help defray the costs in obtaining and housing these records properly. While I was there we talked about the web site and the work of the society and the importance of working co-operatvely. I have already told you that the web site will at sometime in the near future have a data base of cemetary inscriptions from Jay County Cemetaries, donated by the Jay County Genealogy Society and currently being scanned and typed by a tireless volunteer! These inscriptions were a huge help to me, especially since I had been unable to obtain death records for a few of my folks. I am sure they will be of interest to you too! I have been a little slow to update the site of late, its been very busy here for me, but we also have another new look-up volunteer and some more additions to the scrap book, and I hope to post a few photos from my trip this weekend. If anyone out there has time to proof-read some of the cemetary transcriptions before they are placed on the site, please let me know. Also, having been there myself and seeing what they have and what they want to do, I would encourage you to join the Jay Co. Genealogy Society if you have not already done so. Hope you all had as nice a summer as me!

I have a bit of a brickwall. My gggrandfater Leander Finch was #1 married to Martha Shoemaker B about 1834. Martha and Leander married 12 June 1853 Blackford County. They had 2 children Theodore B 11 Sept. 1854 Elizabeth B 19 Dec 1856. Jay Co. Martha D about 1857. I believe the family may have lived in the Dunkirk area. I would like to find some sort of documentation for Martha's death and burial. Thank you for any help you can give. Lor

Jan What are your grandparents names I have access to the Jay County Marriage Indexes and will look them up and see if the are listed. Also the Jay County Genealogy Society is a wonderful resource and is made up of a great group of people. Rick S. is currently the office manager there and I have found them to be helpful. I encourage the list to join the society and use its resources. I am a member and I live in Michigan. I believe membership is only $10.00 for the year. Their email is jaycogen@jayco.net David

Hi. I would like to thank everyone for their help. I look forward to going to Keystone. I appreciate all the info & will probably email a few of you who offered directions. Thanks again, Jacqueline