Jerry, I just read an old family letter, dated 1936, in which the writer mentions that my John Jones, b. 1797, d. 1884 in TN was "no doubt and early settler in Wilson County, TN". Do you have a reference on that? Marykay Burch ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:04 AM Subject: [Jones] Organizational Suggestions for postings/subject line > Hello All. It has been exciting to see the response to the suggestion of > a > brick wall theme. It has certainly flooded the site with flying bricks. > I > believe it would be helpful to try and "stack" a few of the bricks into a > few > useful piles, and improve communication of names, dates, locations, etc. > Having > read through over 150 emails the last several days, please allow me to > make > some suggestions which may help those on the list sort through their > postings. > First let me suggest that those who continue to have an interest in the > brick > wall theme and wish to continue their participation start each subject > line > with an abbreviation "BW". This would shorten the subject line and > immediately > identify those with an interest and allow those without an interest to > delete > the email. Secondly, I would suggest we form cluster groups around the > following themes: > > Cluster Group 1 = Colonial settlement 1607 - 1650 > > Cluster Group 2 = English Civil War/Expansion 1650 - 1740 > > Cluster Group 3 = Shenandoah Valley 1740 - 1770 > > Cluster Group 4 = Rev. War Period 1776 - 1793 > > Cluster Group 5 = Western Expansion/LA Territory 1800 - 1845 > > Cluster Group 6 = Civil War Period (US) 1860 - 1880 > > I would suggest the subject line could then be structured to look like > this: > > BW-C4- JOHN JONES, 1783 SC, TN, MS > > This would read BW = brick wall interest group > > C4 = cluster group (I am interested in > this > time period) > > Then identify the name of the primary JONES that is your > brick > wall. > > This would be followed by a date, then by a "sequence of > settlement", starting with birth state to migration, to settlement or > death state. > > This would then help each reader to screen the subject line > and decide if this would be of interest. > > There may certainly be better ways to organize the > discussion. Please post your ideas using the same subject line. Thanks, > Jerry. The > Jones Genealogist. > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at > [email protected] > For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this > site: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html > browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones > search the archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES > Unusual JONES given names, > http://members.aol.com/stjones/jones/oddnames.html >