Hi, I was at the Wilkinson County, Mississippi courthouse on tuesday and would like to thank the families that filed all the information. GOD BLESS YOU! Now for my questions: One of my family members was getting a divorce. Amy Cupit divorcing Thomas H. Rawlins and in this divorce that went on for about 5 years. It said on each entry of the Court docket Amy Cupit " With her NEXT Friend". Does anyone know what this means? On another Record Martin Rawlins turned over all his belongings to his brother Thomas H. Rawlins Dr . Does this DR mean Doctor because I don't believe he was a Doctor?? I have seen it twice behind his name.
The current Legacies and Legends was mailed today at Winnfield, LA. Gregg
Donnel Shaw, please contact me via private email concerning Hammons. Gregg Davies
Wow! Thanks so much for that encouraging note! I hope you won't mind if I share your message with our list. I've told them how great John is but it's always nice to get a second opinion!! John is without a doubt one of the best speakers I've ever heard. If you class Mary Nell Bryant with him, then we'll definitely have to keep her in mind for a future seminar. Thanks again, Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: <JaniceCB@aol.com> To: <pbeaubou@iamerica.net> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [LAWINN-L] Source of information > Just a note to say that any seminar with John Sellers will be a tremendous > success as he is tops. We had him so often as a program speaker for the East > Texas Genealogical Society that he felt so at home, he became one of our > members. If folks know how great he is, they won't want to miss this great > opportunity in Winn Parish to hone their skills in family research. He is a > dynamic speaker. I rate him at 100%! > > Also, another dynamic speaker from Sulphur Springs is Mary Nell Bryant, a > past president of the Texas Genealogical Society and another fabulous program > speaker!! She keeps everyone's attention. She is a journalism teacher in > one of the Sulphur Springs high schools and a wonderful genealogical > researcher. She has six or seven subjects she can speak on and I am sure > she could put together a seminar for you if you ever need another speaker. > > When I was program chairman for ETGS, I had John Sellers twice a year and > Mary Nell twice a year. No one ever got tired of these two fine genealogists! > > Janice Cox Brown, Past President and a past program chairman of ETGS. >
Does anyone know the maiden name for Nancy, wife of William Dale Conn? She is buried in New Hope Cemetery with dates of 1871-1946. Children of William and Nancy were Charley R., Erie Austin,Essie Hand and Carrie Allen. Sue Badeaux
Since I have had several people write and ask me how to use cluster pages, and search engines. I thought I would send this along to the list. To show you what can be done with a tiny bit of knowing how to use the tools that are available to us, I took the name Hatten, which I have been working on for an article and ran three searchers. Search #1: looked at the main obit index for any Hatten obits listed: 21 entries Search #2: Used the search engine on the archive main index page to search for Hattens listed in any Winn Parish entry in the archives: 217 entries Search #3: Used the "Primary" search engine on the "Cluster Pages" that can be found at http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/LA/Winn and found 332 entries for Hatten, including some just across the line in Jackson Parish and in Catahoula Parish. !!! 332 connecting links compared to 21 is a fair number. I did the same for the name WOMACk and found 934 in Louisiana compared to 27 in the obit index and 374 in the Winn Parish search engine. All this took me about 5 minutes (of course, longer if I looked at and down loaded what I needed.) And a lot of them found me as submitter to articles, marriages, land records, etc. in Winn Parish and elsewhere. The "Cluster Pages" for any surname, etc. can be found by going to http://resources.rootsweb.com/ That page will give you several links. Surnames, US counties (same as parishes), US state, and etc. You choose what you want to work with and work your way down into the level you need. Make sure you check the entire page and not just what is showing when it pops up as sometimes it appears you have not changed pages. Good luck and have fun. Annette Annette Carpenter Womack Professional Genealogist Specializing in North Louisiana probate research Member of the Louisiana Chapter of Association of Professional Researchers http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~acwomack/gservices.htm
My married name is Neal and my husbands folks came from TN to AK to TX. My lines are Jordan, Haddox, Weems and Bass. As far as the Neal's go right off hand I don't remember any of them settling in LA. Christine
Jo, Did you mean that my "personal" Terral page could be linked????? I requested this of the Union Parish site - and was told they could not do that! I was going to request one of Winn AND Grant AND LaSalle - when the project is completed - a Virtual Cemetery of Terrals - with lineage and notes - and wanted it linked to cemetery transcriptions (the ones with a ton of Terrals in them - so cousins could find each other) After the brush off I got in Union Parish - I have almost given up on the project! I have 50G server space at angelfire and 300G space availble on our server that we own - so am not limited to size - like I would be elsewhere. I was just trying to do the most complete Terral project to-date! (Some of these groups of Terrals did not even know they connected!!!) Let me know if it's OK - and I'll get back to finishing up the project! Beverly Casper, WY ===== Researching the following lines: BIALI/BIALE, BORDELON, BREWER, BRUNELLE, CARBO, DAVENPORT, DEVORE, DICKERSON, EDMONDSON, ETHERIDGE, LABORDE, LANDRY, LEEBURG, MASCARO, NORMAND/LENORMAND, PONS, ROBERTS, ROTJER, SHOEMAKE, TALTAVULL, TERRAL/TERRELL, WHATLEY ,WHITTINGTON, LOWE, HYATT. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Paula I have a gedpage which states Mary E Gilcrease, daughter of Nathan, born1861/1863 at Louisiana. Spouce: James D. Campbell. Hope this will help you.
In a message dated 8/2/2001 7:21:12 PM Central Daylight Time, gedavies@iamerica.net writes: > If anyone can assist this young lady, please do. I figure her Hearn is > of the Jackson Parish-Hood's Mill-Chatham area). > > Gregg > > If the person comes through with the information, there should be an article on the Hearns in the October issue. Annette Annette Carpenter Womack Professional Genealogist Specializing in North Louisiana probate research Member of the Louisiana Chapter of Association of Professional Researchers http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~acwomack/gservices.htm
If anyone can assist this young lady, please do. I figure her Hearn is of the Jackson Parish-Hood's Mill-Chatham area). Gregg -------- Original Message -------- Subject: J.L. Hearn Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:36:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Landreth Cassie <lil_golfer_gurl@yahoo.com> To: gedavies@iamerica.net Hi! My name is Cassie Landreth. I am currently doing research on my family tree. I found a J.L. Hearn in the Jackson and Winn Parish records. If this is the man that I am looking for, he is my g-g-g-g-grandfather. I have had trouble finding him as well as information about him. Could you tell me if this man's name is Jessie Lee Hearn? Do you have a census or other records around 1880 or so that say who he lived with and what he did at that time? I would really appreciate you help. Thanks for your time. Cassie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
In a message dated 8/1/01 8:31:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ACWomack@aol.com writes: > LAWINN-L@rootsweb.com Maybe we all need a lesson in how to find the obits. I am in Texas and don't have the privilege of being able to go to the courthouse whenever I want. I have to drive 800 miles and sense I work I can only do this once in a great while. For which I have been able to a couple of times. But I all ways get home and there was something I missed. So the obits are of great help. Even though you shouldn't take them as gospel. For newspapers make mistakes too. I love the information I gleam from the web site. It just seams lately there hasn't been much in put. I use to get updates ever week or so here lately they have been few and far between. Hope our information sources haven't dried up. Christine Neal
I was just curious to know what the bickering was about concerning direct posting. What would be the problem with that? At least there are those trying to contribute. The ones bickering were probably those who dont make the time to contribute but want the info. Curious!
In a message dated 8/1/2001 6:12:41 PM Central Daylight Time, Gdawgman1@aol.com writes: > Dear Subscribers: > > Some of you may be new to the list, but this all came up a few years back > when posting obits directly drew some sharp exchanges. The 'fur flew' for a > few weeks and when it was over nobody knew what happened, or who, if > anyone, > won. Lot's of feelings were hurt. This can of worms has sharp edges. Tread > softly. The Winn folk get along great, but some people hold strong opinions > as to the appropriateness of direct posting of archived material, both pro > and con. While I enjoyed Gregg's posts, I did not enjoy the bickering that > ensued because of them. > > Gary Foster > And all of this from someone that doesn't even "belong" to the local organization <smile> And I'll be glad to explain the setup of a mailing list in detail anytime you care to stop by my house. It is a very complicated system and one bad subscriber -- I am NOT talking about Gregg -- can ruin the list for all the others. LAWinn is one of the smaller list I administer. When you have a list with over 300 or so subscribers, there has to be rules everyone plays by.... it would be similar to having a meeting at the WPGHA with 300 or so members in attendance. Everyone has their own opinion.... and everyone wants to be heard, so nothing gets done. I don't think Dale was wanting the obits put on the mailing list as much as he was wanting Gregg to start doing them again. Many people don't know how many "irons" Gregg has in the fire at the present time. All of the WPGHA officers have many jobs and/or responsibilities. Not only does Gregg hold a full time job, he is also teaches classes at NSU. Along the same theme of wanting the obits for the details. How many of you have been using the "cluster pages" to find information in obits and other articles on your families that are not in the main obit that can be found by going to the index page??? Also how many of you know how to find obits that Gregg had just posted without waiting for them to be indexed? {Yes, there is a formula to rootsweb!} Maybe what we need is a few lessons on how to make the most of the internet for research <smile> Annette listowner
Since this subject seems to have everyone's attention, I would be remiss if I let this opportunity go by without saying something .............. come to our workshop September 15th and you can thank Gregg in person!!!!!!!! :) How's that for making the most of subject??!! <g> Seriously, we'd love to have all of you come! Special note to all our local members -- we won't have another meeting before the workshop so you'll need to mail your registration in soon, if you haven't already. For others who may not know about the workshop, here are some of the details: John A. Sellers of Sulphur Springs, TX will be our guest speaker Saturday, Sept 15th, in the A. Leonard Allen Building in Winnfield directly across from the courthouse. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Topics for the day are as follows: 1- TO BE, TO WED, TO PASS, a study of vital statistics in the courthouse 2-WHAT'S HIDDEN IN COURTHOUSE RECORDS, details on how to get the most from various courthouse record groups 3- WOMEN--THAT GENDER YOU CAN'T DO WITHOUT IN YOUR RESEARCH, tips & strategies for those hard-to-research female lines Mr. Sellers was a featured speaker at both the 1994 National Genealogical Society and 1997 Federation of Genealogical Societies' national conferences and has conducted numerous workshops and seminars in Texas and Oklahoma. He has a degree in advertising and public relations from Texas Tech University and received his teaching certificate in history from Texas A & M. He has served on the faculty staff of the Institute of Genealogical Studies in Dallas, Texas and has conducted extensive courthouse research in Louisiana and Texas. Workshop fees are as follows and should be mailed to WPGHA Seminar, 2656 Hwy 1232, Winnfield, LA 71483 ....... Registration before August 30th: Single with lunch - $21.00, without lunch - $15.00 Couple with lunch - $37.00, without lunch - $25.00 Registration after August 30th: Lunch not available. Single - $20.00 Couple - $25.00 Thanks and hope to see you there! Peggy
Thanks Greg. I have found so much in the obits that has helped in my research. There aren't many as faithful as you have been If there has been any bickering I've ignored it with a oh well thier loss. Thanks a million for your dedication. Cherry Davis
Dear Subscribers: Some of you may be new to the list, but this all came up a few years back when posting obits directly drew some sharp exchanges. The 'fur flew' for a few weeks and when it was over nobody knew what happened, or who, if anyone, won. Lot's of feelings were hurt. This can of worms has sharp edges. Tread softly. The Winn folk get along great, but some people hold strong opinions as to the appropriateness of direct posting of archived material, both pro and con. While I enjoyed Gregg's posts, I did not enjoy the bickering that ensued because of them. Gary Foster
Bro. Dale, I have not forsakey y'all. Just been busy and working on too many things right now. I am having to prepare about four lesson plans at present and today, I completed my first interview on the World War II Oral History Project. I just hope all interviews are as good as the one I did today of Mr. Jim Russell, Jr. Mr. Russell was an intelligence officer in the Pentagon during the war and of course one of those icons of Winn Parish over the past 50+ years. If all the interviews go as easy as his, we'll do fine. I'll get back on the obits ASAP. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Gregg Edmlsmith@aol.com wrote: > > Hi there, > If there are anyone out there that miss GREG'S Obits that he posts on > our webb site as much as I do would you please e-mail him a note and tell him > how much you miss his postings. I dont know about anyone else but myself uses > them to gleen much family info.I also appriciate all contributers to the site > and wish more of us would supply this avenue more information. Greg I sure > miss your postings. I appreciate you " Joe" and you "Peggy" For your time you > all spend seeing that they are sent to the right places. > With love, > E. Dale Smith > > ==== LAWINN Mailing List ==== > Please keep chat mail private. These list are being archived.
Let me say "Amen" to that. You are a great group in Winn Parish and we all appreciate you! Dee Brister
Hi there, If there are anyone out there that miss GREG'S Obits that he posts on our webb site as much as I do would you please e-mail him a note and tell him how much you miss his postings. I dont know about anyone else but myself uses them to gleen much family info.I also appriciate all contributers to the site and wish more of us would supply this avenue more information. Greg I sure miss your postings. I appreciate you " Joe" and you "Peggy" For your time you all spend seeing that they are sent to the right places. With love, E. Dale Smith