To all concerned; I hope I can answer some of your questions and concerns. As Bob Scott said he did refuse to allow me to use any of his information for the new sites and for the reason he cited. He does not believe in the GenWeb concept. Long before I became a County Coordinator, I was a user of the GenWeb system, and my feeling about its value are obviously different than his. As to why the information on the old site has disappeared, believe me by no choice of my own. I deliberately linked to what was up for the old sites as long as it was there and I hope the Hoggatts will choose to put it back for us all to use. There are rules for Gen Web Coordinators, some of those rules include, fixing broken links, updating on a regular basis (if for some reason you cannot do your updates you only have to notify the State Coordinator and help will be given help to add the all things people send in). I feel the Hoggatts Jefferson & Switzerland County sites were excellent and I used them frequently. Yes, I would like to have seen updates but more important to me was the information they had there for all of us to use. The Hoggatts have chosen to block their sites, GenWeb or I had nothing to do with that choice. I needed two more sites like I need another hole in my head. I know for at least the nearly two years I have been Coordinator for Jennings County the State Coordinator had been asking for the Hoggatts to do the maintenance required. I e mailed Ruth and offered to help in any way I could. The response was nothing happened. A difficult decision was made by the State Coordinator to de link the sites from GenWeb because of this non compliance. I had some choices to make. I love Southern Indiana, my family roots are there, I intend to retire there. I live in Indianapolis because I have to work because I have to support my mother and myself. I was offered the sites and because I want them to be active and informative I took on the challenge. I am not an author, or a Genealogist. I love family history, Southern Indiana and trying to help others when I can. I make many research trips a year to the area and take photographs of old documents which I then transcribe and will add to sites as I have done in Jennings County. I pains me that this has happened, but I personally do not believe in copyrighting information as has been done on many sites. These people are just not my family, what each of us have found in doing research may be just the thing someone else needs to discover theirs. That is what interests me, I was adopted as an infant and did not discover it until I was in my 30's so finding ones Roots has many meanings for me. It is fun, challenging and something I will continue to do as long as I can. Nothing on a site I am connected with is copyrighted because neither the site or the information on it is "mine" it is ours, all of us who search and hope to find. Here is a quote I have on the main page of the Jennings Site and it pretty well explains how I feel. Contributing to the Jefferson & Switzerland County sites is your choice, of course I would love to have anything you are willing to share but the key word here is share, not keep and refuse to share if things do not go the way you think they should. Thank You and Please read the following; Sheila Kell County Coordinator Jennings, Jefferson & Switzerland Counties INGenWeb "The Chosen" We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before." by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943." **************Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)

Do you have anything on the Malin, Dalmazzo and/or Gabriel Johnson families? Enjoying your blogs. Tks. Julie -------------- Original message from bobwscott@aol.com: -------------- > > > > > I will. > I am busy finish a history of Jefferson County from the beginning, up to roughly > WWI > And trying to help with the strange things happening with the Bicentennial > history. > > Meanwhile, I have three ongoing history blogs > > http://jeffersoncountyindiana.blogspot.com/ > http://firsthandmadison.blogspot.com/ > http://switzerlandcounty.blogspot.com/ > > I need to write a new entry for Switzerland County, but have a new one in mind > as soon as I clear my schedule. We blew three weekends on college visits--so I'm > finally catching? my breath > > > Thanks > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CKeller714@aol.com > To: inswitze@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:28 am > Subject: Re: [INSWITZE] Jefferson and Switzerland County GenWeb sites > > > > > > > > > > > Bob, > I do not consider myself a frequent participant, however, I am impressed with > your candor and concern. > Will you include me on any updates, should you affiliate your data with > another organization? > Much of my time is devoted to John Paul Park Conservancy, and I don't > actively > work in genealogy. As a member and past regent of John Paul Chapter, NSDAR, > I am interested and concerned with the validity and accuracy of records. > > Regards, > > Jill > Jill H. Keller > Madison, IN > > > > ************** > A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211625659x1200715650/aol?redir=http:// > www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=82& > bcd=emailfooter) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

In 1999 I posted the following newpaper clipping from Vevay, Switzerland County, Indiana on Rootsweb. I found this article very interesting and have tried to identify all of the ladies mentioned. I recently received an email inquiry about this item and decided to post it again. I have additional information that is too lengthy to add here. Some of the data is speculation, some are not yet identified. I welcome any additional information. My notations to the original article are in square brackets. "About 25 young ladies formerly of Vevay [Switzerland County Indiana] were entertained at tea at the home of Mrs. Don Lee Stewart (nee Fay Knox) in Glendale, Calif, Monday April 6th. [estimated 1925] Mrs. Elizabeth Houze Knox was co-hostess and Mrs. Julia [LeClerc] Williams, who is a house guest of Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Knox, was the guest of honor. The tea table was very attractively decorated in yellow and orchid tulle sweet peas, yellow candles and orchid tulle. Mesdames, Eloine Patton Knox, Gertrude Houze Eaton and Lella Dufour Bledsoe assisted at the tea table and about the rooms. An amusing game originated by the hostess and featuring the names of the guest was enjoyed, Mrs. John P. Carter [Janelle Long] receiving the prize. A picture of eucalyptus trees with the names of those present was a momento to Mrs. Williams." "Those invited were. Mesdames, Eloine [Patton] Knox, Gertrude [Houze] Eaton, Lella [Dufour] Bledsoe, Bell Long, Lillie [Armstrong] Spray, Anna [Armstrong] Loring, Jennie Carter, Nona [Long] Walton, Bertha Bettens Debell, Martha [Long] Cole, Isabel Gilbert, Stella Bettens Storm, Edith Loring Bechtol, Lulu [Banta] Dalmazzo, May [Cox] LeClerc, Macaire [LeClerc] Anderson, Mrs. Graham Ormsby [was Elizabeth O'Neal], Fannie [Walton] Tait, Grace [Golay] Shaw, Citha Bear, Fannie Bakes." "Misses, Madge Patton, Lou Owens, Lillian Trafelet, Edith Golay, Marion Dalmazzo, Jean Tait, Phylis Summers and Elizabeth Shaw. Mrs. Williams who has been the incentive for many delightful affairs during her visit to Calif., will leave for Judson, Arizona on the 19th where she will spend a few days and will arrive in Vevay the later part of the month." [Source LDS Film #1311738. Misc.clippings from unidentified newspapers, no date.] Surnames mentioned: Anderson, Armstrong, Bakes, Banta, Bear, Bechtol, Bettens, Bledsoe, Carter, Cole, Cox, Dalmazzo, DeBell, Dufour, Eaton, Gilbert, Golay, Houze, Knox, Long, Loring, LeClerc, O'Neal, Ormsby, Owens, Patton, Shaw, Spray, Stewart, Storm, Summers, Tait, Trafelet, Walton, Williams.

  Hello Friends.   My name is Ruth Hoggatt.  I hosted the Jefferson and Switzerland County INGenWeb sites for over twelve years. I did this for the pure enjoyment of the subject, and for helping others who did not have access to the county records.   I am not going to go into any negative tales or woes about INGenWeb.  Nothing good would come from it.  Yes, I was upset upon learning what had happened, but in the end what comes to my mind is the thought of all the amazing friendships along the way.  Friends that I would never have met without being involved with this Project. Friends like Bob Scott for crying out loud. Take a bow, Bob!  Lee Rogers, who pulled me in to the Jefferson County Historical Society circle of friends.  I could name so many! Lori Burgess, Ellen Belcher : )  so many more.   Bottom line. I'm not done.  I still enjoy learning about our ancestors and the history around them. So, I guess I am here to say, the myindianahome.net site will be back online with the Jefferson and Switzerland County data. Think of it as MyIndianaHome.net Part II  : )    MyIndianaHome.net will be up and down for a short time while until we are able to reconstruct the site. You may sign up for a user account so that you can actively participate in the new community aspects of the site when it goes back online.     Ruth Hoggatt Email:  ruth@myindianahome.net http://www.myindianahome.net

In a message dated 10/29/2008 8:46:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time, bobwscott@aol.com writes: I've told her I will not contribute new information, nor will I offer my stuff that was posted on the old sites, to GenWeb. Bob, do you suppose that some of the counties don't have information because people don't want to contribute their research for everyone? This MAY be the reason. As far as Ancestry, I have had the full database since they first began. Ancestry now owns the GenWeb system. Ancestry is a very expensive site but really has the most to offer. The information has errors as do all genealogy websites. I do what I can to correct them when I find them. I hope others do too. I live in Texas, but I am doing quite a bit of research in Indiana counties, including Switzerland and Jefferson Counties. Due to my health, it is impossible to physically go there. I truly depend on other researchers for help, mostly through the Indiana GenWeb sites. Ma **************Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)

To anyone interested, I recently discovered that the 1935 film of The Hoosier Schoolmaster has apparently fallen into public domain, and can be viewed online or downloaded from the Archive.org website: http://www.archive.org/details/hoosier_schoolmaster Bill Davis

I will. I am busy finish a history of Jefferson County from the beginning, up to roughly WWI And trying to help with the strange things happening with the Bicentennial history. Meanwhile, I have three ongoing history blogs http://jeffersoncountyindiana.blogspot.com/ http://firsthandmadison.blogspot.com/ http://switzerlandcounty.blogspot.com/ I need to write a new entry for Switzerland County, but have a new one in mind as soon as I clear my schedule. We blew three weekends on college visits--so I'm finally catching? my breath Thanks -----Original Message----- From: CKeller714@aol.com To: inswitze@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:28 am Subject: Re: [INSWITZE] Jefferson and Switzerland County GenWeb sites Bob, I do not consider myself a frequent participant, however, I am impressed with your candor and concern. Will you include me on any updates, should you affiliate your data with another organization? Much of my time is devoted to John Paul Park Conservancy, and I don't actively work in genealogy. As a member and past regent of John Paul Chapter, NSDAR, I am interested and concerned with the validity and accuracy of records. Regards, Jill Jill H. Keller Madison, IN ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211625659x1200715650/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=82& bcd=emailfooter) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Bob, I do not consider myself a frequent participant, however, I am impressed with your candor and concern. Will you include me on any updates, should you affiliate your data with another organization? Much of my time is devoted to John Paul Park Conservancy, and I don't actively work in genealogy. As a member and past regent of John Paul Chapter, NSDAR, I am interested and concerned with the validity and accuracy of records. Regards, Jill Jill H. Keller Madison, IN ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211625659x1200715650/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=82& bcd=emailfooter)

Many of you may notice that a new coordinator has been apponted for both the Switzerland and Jefferson County GenWeb sites. I've told her I will not contribute new information, nor will I offer my stuff that was posted on the old sites, to GenWeb. This has nothing to do with the coordinator, who seems enthusiastic. It's just I don't believe in the GenWeb system and haven't believed in it for a long. I've been through changes like this before with other sites in which I have contributed a lot of material and some in which I have contributed nothing. An old site has a lot of info--then a new coordinator is named and the great content vanishes. I simply believe the volunteer system doesn't work. The issue is continuity and volunteer sites simply can't guarantee that once posted, info will remain available. The other thing is consistency. We labored long and hard to get information on these sites. But so many times when I visited GenWeb sites for counties I am interested in, there's simply little available. This is disheartening. I'm hoping maybe that between the growing amount of content available on the Jefferson County Historical Society and Madison Public Library sites that some of this information can be provided again. And as bad the quality control is sometimes, lousy policies and lack of good customer service, Ancestry.com is worth the money simply because it has the resources to provide a lot of content (No matter how stupid their new family tree system is. I started putting up all my families in Gedcoms and had about 20 up. After I found moving them to the new tree system lost all the notes and supporting information, I delete all but two of them.) Again, this has nothing to do with the people--the coordinators--but about what I see as a better chance to have information made available and remain available Bob

Hi, Larry- I was the one who requested info on William Brindley.  Thanks for checking for me. --- On Sat, 10/25/08, Larry Noble <lnoble30@comcast.net> wrote: From: Larry Noble <lnoble30@comcast.net> Subject: [INSWITZE] William Brindley To: inswitze@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 9:57 AM Hello Everyone, A couple months ago , I received a request for info on William Brindley of Switzerland County. I did not print out a hard copy and Went on vacation. Upon return my computer was completely dead. Main board and hard drive. I have the info but do not know what to do!! Larry Noble Lnoble30@comcast.net Naples, FL ROAGK Volunteer ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Everyone, A couple months ago , I received a request for info on William Brindley of Switzerland County. I did not print out a hard copy and Went on vacation. Upon return my computer was completely dead. Main board and hard drive. I have the info but do not know what to do!! Larry Noble Lnoble30@comcast.net Naples, FL ROAGK Volunteer

I have seen very few photos of the 3rd Indiana Cavalry. If you have pictures filed away somewhere I would like very much to see them. Do any of you know where the photos are that are mentioned in the following Vevay Reveille newspaper article? http://www.switzerland.k12.in.us/VevayNewspapers/1890/18900424/R024P353.TIF 1890Apr24 Vevay Reveille p.4,col.2 E. H. Martin, who was Captain of Co. C, 3rd Ind Cav, resides in Cincinnati, and is employed in a cigar factory in that city. Recently he met John G. Long (who was soldier in his company.) in Cincinnati, and said to him that he (Martin) was now old, feeble, and in poor health, and that he might not live much longer, that he had photographs taken during the war, of many of his comrades, and that their relatives would probably treasure them, and gave him the photographs of the following soldiers of 3rd Cavalry: Benjamin Bledsoe, Co. C, killed on Wilsons's Raid; Maj Charles Lemmons, Killed at Gettysburg; Eugene Myers, Sergeant Co. C, died in Kansas since the war; Henry B. Sparks, Co. C, now residing near Rising Sun; Lieut. Wm. W. Long, Co. C, now residing at Franklin, Ind.; Capt. B.F. Gilbert, Co. A, now residing at Carrsville, Ky.; Maj. William Patton, died in Vevay since the war. Also photographs of Maj. McClure, Lieut. Shanon and Capt. Thompson, which Mr. Long delivered to Maj. McClure. Capt. Thompson is dead, but his widow is residing in California, and Maj. McClure will send the photograph to her. Maj. Lemmon wore the same uniform at the battle of Gettysburg he wore when the photograph was taken, including hat. On the hat was small metal sabres, and the ball which killed him, entered between the sabres, striking him in the forehead. Eloine Patton Chesnut eloinepc@comcast.net

Where was Rutherford Post Office in Jefferson township, Switz. Co., IN as shown on 1860 census? I found the following in Bob Scott's list of post offices but no location and I don't find it on any of my Switz. Co. maps. "Rutherford: Sept. 20, 1852-Jan. 5, 1864. First postmaster Isaac Nash." Eloine eloinec@comcast.net

> From: inswitze-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: INSWITZE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 11> To: inswitze@rootsweb.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 01:10:01 -0600> > > > Today's Topics:> > 1. Re: Switzerland County look-ups (Jan Lester)> > > -----Larry, I would appreciate a look up of the Hedges families of Switzerland County IN.Some of them were Nathaniel Hedges Charles Hedges Matthew Hedges William Hedges etc.Also maybe a Mosier ( Moshier, Moser) family. I wonder also if there was an Ann Dufour who married Nathaniel Gates Hedges. Thanks,Joyce If you need more info let me know.> > > > At 05:32 PM 5/18/2008 -0400, you wrote:> >I have a copy of:> > History of Switzerland County, Indiana 1885> > From the Switzerland County Historical Society, Vevay, Indiana> >And will do look-ups on request> >> > Larry Noble lnoble30@comcast.net> > Naples, FL> >> >> >> > > > _________________________________________________________________ Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount

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Thanks for your kind offer, Larry. Are there any FISHERs, DEPPEs or SCHIRMERs mentioned? Jan Lester "Genealogy By Jan" http://www.genbyjan.com At 05:32 PM 5/18/2008 -0400, you wrote: >I have a copy of: > History of Switzerland County, Indiana 1885 > From the Switzerland County Historical Society, Vevay, Indiana >And will do look-ups on request > > Larry Noble lnoble30@comcast.net > Naples, FL > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >-- >Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >Checked by AVG. >Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.8/1362 - Release Date: 4/6/2008 >11:12 AM

Larry, would you be so kind as to check the book for the surname WINTIZER - many different spellings of the name - Windhaiser, Wintisher, Windhiser, Windhauser, Wintiser ... The family of Martin WINTIZER was in Switzerland Co. prior to 1850. He was a butcher in Vevay. Thanks so very much! Kay Davidson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Noble" <lnoble30@comcast.net> To: <inswitze@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:32 PM Subject: [INSWITZE] Switzerland County look-ups >I have a copy of: > History of Switzerland County, Indiana 1885 > From the Switzerland County Historical Society, Vevay, Indiana > And will do look-ups on request > > Larry Noble lnoble30@comcast.net > Naples, FL > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have a copy of: History of Switzerland County, Indiana 1885 From the Switzerland County Historical Society, Vevay, Indiana And will do look-ups on request Larry Noble lnoble30@comcast.net Naples, FL

I am looking for help on the Calhoon-Huntress line. Alexander Calhoon B:Pa about 1812. Wife Emmaline Huntress. They are in the 1850 census in Switzerland co. INdiana. Married 1839 in Hamilton Co. Ohio. In 1860 he shows up in Meigs co, Ohio with new wife, Hanna. I have also seen Emmaline as Amelia. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you! _________________________________________________________________ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause

I am researching the Richmond's of Cotton Twp and Allensville, I am trying to find one of the granddaughters of John and Miriam Richmond. Her name was Almeda Elfa Richmond and she married James J. Brown in 1870 or 71 in Ohio County. I know she lived until the late teens or early 1920's as she visited my great aunts in Cincinnati, Ohio. Any information on her would be helpful or any of the Richmond's of this area. Thanks Cindy