In a message dated 12/24/02 1:21:24 PM Central Standard Time, bethpeters@worldnet.att.net writes: << Hello Fran, I am new to this list and was wondering something. Do you live in Reno? My name is Beth Peters and I lived in Reno for 5 years until moving to Alaska last year. I can't believe that was an Ivester relative so close to me and I didn't even know it. It truly is a small world. We still have our house there and hope to return someday. My friends have told me of the horrible winds you had last week. Thanks, Beth Peters >> Beth - am so glad you posted. I have not had time to let everyone know that we had a new member. We traveled for Christmas and time online in the motel is limited. Welcome to the list and let the folks know which line you are working on. Take care - Emma

I am headed to So.Cal. in the A.M. My parents live there, in Garden Grove for 45 years in the same house. My dad is the son of Charlotte Ivester that's how I fit into all of this. I have been trying to find out more about his side of the family. It is a fun puzzle to figure whaere everyone came from. Merry Christmas to you aslo. Beth Peters ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Fahland" <jfahland@cox.net> To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [IVESTER] relative in Alaska > Elizabeth, > > Yes, I know where Eagle River is. I live in Southern California now. My aunt and uncle and 2 of their 3 kids still live there. My aunt and uncle live on Lake Lucille in Wasilla. My > 2 cousins live in Anchorage. > > Merry Christmas > > John > > Elizabeth Peters wrote: > > > We live in Eagle River. I am sure you know where that is since to get to > > Anchorage you have to drive by it. > > Where are you? It is snowing a little tonight. We didn't get real snow until > > Dec. 10th Very weird weather this year. > > Beth Peters > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Fahland" <jfahland@cox.net> > > To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:49 AM > > Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Home At Christmastime > > > > > Where in Alaska do you live? I lived in Anchorage and Wasilla for a year > > when I was younger. > > > > > > John Fahland > > > > > > > > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > > REMEMBER: This list is intended for friendly interaction among subscribers. "Flaming" someone on the list will tell others more about you than about the person you wish to "burn". > > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER: This list is intended for friendly interaction among subscribers. "Flaming" someone on the list will tell others more about you than about the person you wish to "burn". > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Elizabeth, Yes, I know where Eagle River is. I live in Southern California now. My aunt and uncle and 2 of their 3 kids still live there. My aunt and uncle live on Lake Lucille in Wasilla. My 2 cousins live in Anchorage. Merry Christmas John Elizabeth Peters wrote: > We live in Eagle River. I am sure you know where that is since to get to > Anchorage you have to drive by it. > Where are you? It is snowing a little tonight. We didn't get real snow until > Dec. 10th Very weird weather this year. > Beth Peters > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Fahland" <jfahland@cox.net> > To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Home At Christmastime > > > Where in Alaska do you live? I lived in Anchorage and Wasilla for a year > when I was younger. > > > > John Fahland > > > > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER: This list is intended for friendly interaction among subscribers. "Flaming" someone on the list will tell others more about you than about the person you wish to "burn". > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

We live in Eagle River. I am sure you know where that is since to get to Anchorage you have to drive by it. Where are you? It is snowing a little tonight. We didn't get real snow until Dec. 10th Very weird weather this year. Beth Peters ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Fahland" <jfahland@cox.net> To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Home At Christmastime > Where in Alaska do you live? I lived in Anchorage and Wasilla for a year when I was younger. > > John Fahland > >

It was indeed a beautiful message, Grier. We are expecting a bit of the white stuff here on Cape Cod, tomorrow. My 8 year old grandson summed it all up this evening when he suddenly said,"I just love Christmas-it is such a magical time!" Judy

Thanks, Reg. That was beautiful. Sounded just like Reno looks right now. We are definitely having a White Christmas. Fran

Where in Alaska do you live? I lived in Anchorage and Wasilla for a year when I was younger. John Fahland Elizabeth Peters wrote: > Hello Fran, > I am new to this list and was wondering something. Do you live in Reno? My > name is Beth Peters and I lived in Reno for 5 years until moving to Alaska > last year. I can't believe that was an Ivester relative so close to me and I > didn't even know it. It truly is a small world. We still have our house > there and hope to return someday. My friends have told me of the horrible > winds you had last week. > Thanks, > Beth Peters > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Dazyy5@aol.com> > To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 7:54 AM > Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Home At Christmastime > > > Thanks, Reg. That was beautiful. Sounded just like Reno looks right now. > > We are definitely having a White Christmas. > > > > Fran > > > > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > > HINT: Make your queries more effective by including dates and locations > as well as names. > > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > REMEMBER: This list is intended for friendly interaction among subscribers. "Flaming" someone on the list will tell others more about you than about the person you wish to "burn". > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

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I got this in an email from another family line. It was so nice that I decided that I would share with you. Hope you all have a Happy Holiday. And a Great New Year. Regina Weekley Home At Christmastime It isn't far to “home, sweet home”   When Christmas sights we see, For we can always travel there,   Though snowbound we might be. Though winds may blow the snowdrifts high          And bitter cold may reign, That “going home for Christmas” yen         Will in our hearts remain. It is not far to that clear spot   Where family ties still live; There's still a way to “home, sweet home”,     Where treasured joys are hid. For thoughts and hearts can travel there;     No distance can erase The going home at Christmas time,     Back to the old home place.                           Loise Pinkerton Fritz

Hello Fran, I am new to this list and was wondering something. Do you live in Reno? My name is Beth Peters and I lived in Reno for 5 years until moving to Alaska last year. I can't believe that was an Ivester relative so close to me and I didn't even know it. It truly is a small world. We still have our house there and hope to return someday. My friends have told me of the horrible winds you had last week. Thanks, Beth Peters ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dazyy5@aol.com> To: <IVESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [IVESTER] Home At Christmastime > Thanks, Reg. That was beautiful. Sounded just like Reno looks right now. > We are definitely having a White Christmas. > > Fran > > > ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== > HINT: Make your queries more effective by including dates and locations as well as names. > Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at > Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

In a message dated 12/19/2002 10:41:58 AM Central Standard Time, ncgen@mindspring.com writes: > In response to Emma's post about the census images being made > available through the Tex-Share co-op and Heritage Quest: Has anyone > compared these with the census images on Ancestry.com? I have an > Ancestry subscription, but find that searching the census records is > very frustrating. The indexes are often faulty, and the images are > slow to load and manipulate. I would happily spring for a better > alternative! > > > Hi Elizabeth, I subscribe to Ancestry and now have access to Heritage through the college. Have been working with Heritage now for about 5 weeks now. And there are some real interesting differences. 1. The software is different thus what you have to do to manipulate the images themselves differs. Since I was used to Ancestry it took just a bit of time to readjust to Heritage. But... once I made that adjustment I like it just as well or better. 2. I think the Heritage images load just a little bit faster than the Ancestry images do. All I have is a modum. Nothing fancy. 3. The Heritage images load from top to bottom while the Ancestry images load left to right. What this means is that if the person you are looking for is near the top of the page you can see that person's entire entry at the same time rather than having to wait for the right hand side of the page to finish loading. Hope that makes some sort of sense. 4. Just based on the searching I have done so far I think Heritage Quest has done a better job with their indexes in terms of accuracy. But... Ancestry provides a few more options for wildcard searching that Heritage does. At the same time I like the way Heritage presents the results of any search. It is easier to locate a specific person. It is also easier to enter say only a surname and then look at the first names to decide which ones you want to check. 5. Neither Heritage or Ancestry has all the census indexed. Ancestry has 1920 and working on 1930. Heritage has the 1910 and 1890 and 1870 census indexed. The both have 1790, and 1800 and a couple of others. Actually Ancestry says they have all the census up to and including 1850 indexed but as you know the indexes are not good at all and the index results are not all linked to the images so you still end up hunting. In Heritage, everything in their index is actually linked to the images. I have found myself actually using and benefiting from both. Right now because of the lack of indexes and the poor indexes I am working back and forth between the two systems and it has helped to have both. I don't know if I have confused the issue or helped..... <g> Take care - Emma

Hi Elizabeth, I also have Ancestry.Com; and it was extremely slow downloading the images with a modem. I changed to RoadRunner to eliminate this problem. I would have added DSL because it is less expensive, but it is not yet available here. This solution is expensive ($45/month), but it has saved me a lot of time and money over traveling to the library. The indexes are a problem , but browsing is easier with the change from the modem, however between Emma and me we are apt to have the E.D & page #'s and probably the image number of most Ivester descendants. Please feel free to ask. Edna Elizabeth Harris <ncgen@mindspring.com> wrote: In response to Emma's post about the census images being made available through the Tex-Share co-op and Heritage Quest: Has anyone compared these with the census images on Ancestry.com? I have an Ancestry subscription, but find that searching the census records is very frustrating. The indexes are often faulty, and the images are slow to load and manipulate. I would happily spring for a better alternative! -- Elizabeth Harris ncgen@mindspring.com NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/ ==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== REMEMBER: This list is intended for friendly interaction among subscribers. "Flaming" someone on the list will tell others more about you than about the person you wish to "burn". Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

In response to Emma's post about the census images being made available through the Tex-Share co-op and Heritage Quest: Has anyone compared these with the census images on Ancestry.com? I have an Ancestry subscription, but find that searching the census records is very frustrating. The indexes are often faulty, and the images are slow to load and manipulate. I would happily spring for a better alternative! -- Elizabeth Harris ncgen@mindspring.com NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/

In a message dated 12/16/2002 7:51:46 PM Central Standard Time, Dazyy5@aol.com writes: > Reggina, you put a curse on us when you mentioned the snow in Reno in one of > > your previous e-mails. I hope all is settled in your neck of the woods by > now, but we are under seige. We had horrible wind storms here on Thursday > - > 89 miles per hour at my house and on the nearby mountain top, they measured > > one gust at 134 mph. There are still 5,000 homes in our area without power > > and it is snowing like there's no end. We've had a mixture of rain and > snow > for the past two days - 2-l/2 inches of snow yesterday, more today, and in > between, we got one and a half inches of rain... so when the temps drop > below > freezing tonight, all of Reno will be one large skating rink. The good > part > is the news/weather guy just said we'll probably have more snow on > Christmas. > > > Fran > > > Fran, I heard about all your bad weather on the news and wondered about you. Hope you were not without electricity or heat. Of course.... here I am in Dallas with 70 degree weather.... <g> And.... now.... just an FYI for everyone. It appears that Heritage Quest is making some deals with state library systems and some historical associations. AND... as we all know, Heritage Quest also had the actual census images available on line. For example, the Heritage Quest census records are now available through what is called Tex-Share. Tex-Share is a co-op system that provides on-line databases with the cost shared by libraries all over the state. That means that if your public library is a part of Tex-Share you will have access to the scanned images of census records free through your library. You have to sign on through your local library site using your library card number or whatever numbering system your library has devised. The college where I work is part of Tex-Share. So... I go to the college library web page - access on-line databases - type in my employee id number and a password which is matched against the campus database and I can view the Heritage Quest census online from home. This is happening in quite a few states. I also understand that if you join the Kentucky Historical Society (I believe I am remembering that correctly) then your membership number will also allow you to access Heritage Quest through the society's web site. So.............. start checking with your local library and see if this is happening in your state as well. Or... check your area societies... Or.... join the Kentucky Historical Society... or..... anyway... this might be a great way for you to get to census records. Take care and have a great day - Emma

I am a older southern family member and I enjoyed the Southern Way Ruby

Dear Regina, I live in South Carolina and I am laughing up my sleeve. You are right - if we can't laugh with and at ourselves - who should we laugh with. Mary Ivester

Hi Everyone, Am getting home late tonight. Today is Shawn's birthday so we went out to dinner - lots of not so good things for your body but lots of good tasting things for your tongue...<g>. Have been scanning some of the e-mails and I think we need to change the topic and let this one go. I am sure that no offense was meant and am sorry that any feelings were hurt on either side. And... as it says at the bottom of all the messages, if you have any concerns about the list please contact me - my e-mail is on every message. Now.... have a question..... I am out after stories. Genealogy stories that I can use with the boy and girl scouts on their genealogy badges. I bet everyone of you have some nifty story about how you stumbled onto some bit of information that made a break through for you. Or.... a story about how you took some bits and pieces of information and put them together to make that break through. Or... a special story of how or why you became interested in genealogy. Or something funny that happened in your genealogy search. Or... any other idea you might have to take genealogy out of the names, dates, places realm and into the human family realm. Oh.... one more thing... the boy scouts just love military stuff. Thanks and take care - Emma

Boy, I wasn't offended. I love good jokes. People take things to serious. I'm a southerner and I hear them say all kinds of things about yankees,but they can't take a joke about themselves. God's probley up there looking down at us and saying. Look at them people angels don't they know they are all brothers and sisters.

Personally, I enjoy a good laugh every now and then. Even about my southern ancestry-in jest! My Yankee friends "up here" in New England also send them to me as they enjoy them too! We also tend to make Yankee fun, too! Times have changed-roll with belly laughs and have a good Christmas-You"ll! Judy

It seems that I have inadvertently hurt the feelings of some of the Older Southern Family members by sending out the Southern Way page. I would like to take this time to apologize to all that feel that I was making fun of the way they talk and live. I myself was born and raised in Georgia and think that if we can't laugh at ourselves, then who can we laugh at? But nonetheless, I sincerely apologize to those that I offended. Regina