There are a lot of my relatives hanging in the church. The clerk told me I could come in and take photos of them but I don't know how they will do, taking pictures of pictures. Jonah May wrote: > > Jim Tackitt wrote;; > > Baptist > >churches also have numerous photos of deceased members hanging on the > >walls. In at least one church I'm familiar with, there is a photo of one > >old member/Elder born as early as 1823/24 - but most are of more recent > >date. > > > >Jim W. Tackitt, 1830 Johnson Dr., Concord, CA 94520; <jtackitt@jps.net> > > > > Jim, > You are right about the set of books being very informative about the > people of this area. > I know of one of the Primitive Baptist Church's that has a picture of > John Varney born about 1814-17 and William Jefferson (Preacher Jeff) > May born 1836, this is at McAndrews in Pike County, and several of the > Old Regular Baptist Church's has very old pictures. Glad you thought of > the pictures, maybe that will help someone find their ancestor. > Jonah > > BTW - I have much information on John Varney and William Jefferson May > if anyone connects to them. > > ==== KYPIKE Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > ...........................PIKE MAILING LIST........................... > Our PikeList is sponsored by the RootsWeb Data Genealogical Cooperative > "ROOTSWEB" is funded entirely by you the genealogical community. To be > informed how you can support these and other internet genealogy through > RootsWeb why not go ahead and visit their site right now and learn how. > .......http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html.......... > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Gloria Rose Old Regular Baptist Church Minutes Obituaries: http://www.angelfire.com/ky/Obituaries Pike County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/pike/toc.html Diggin' in - KY, VA & NC "ROSE"/"FLEMING"/"WARD"/"RATLIFF"/"BENTLEY"/"BOLLING " "FLETCHER"/"COLE"/"BARTLEY"/"SWINEY"/"CASTLE"