Am beginning research on a LEE family. The family tradition is that the LEE I'm searching for was a cousin of General Robert E. LEE. Mr./LEE, b. Missouri Wife: Amanda/? , b. Missouri, died Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX Child: Tennie Ann LEE, b. 8 Aug 1885 in Missouri. Married J. William DAVIS on 28 Jan 1907 in Montague Co., TX Died 18 Dec 1972 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX. Tennie & J. Wm. had a dau.: Opal Mae DAVIS, b. 23 May 1906 in Cadwell, Dunklin, Missouri and died 1988 in Midland, Odessa, TX. Are there websites or family histories who would tell of the Robert E. LEE descendants or cousins? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Renee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
http://www.stratfordhall.org/rel.html this is the beginnings of our family history in Virginia. Good luck. John Philip Adams Texas -----Original Message----- From: Renee Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LEE] Robt. E. LEE Cousin?-MO-TX Am beginning research on a LEE family. The family tradition is that the LEE I'm searching for was a cousin of General Robert E. LEE. Mr./LEE, b. Missouri Wife: Amanda/? , b. Missouri, died Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX Child: Tennie Ann LEE, b. 8 Aug 1885 in Missouri. Married J. William DAVIS on 28 Jan 1907 in Montague Co., TX Died 18 Dec 1972 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX. Tennie & J. Wm. had a dau.: Opal Mae DAVIS, b. 23 May 1906 in Cadwell, Dunklin, Missouri and died 1988 in Midland, Odessa, TX. Are there websites or family histories who would tell of the Robert E. LEE descendants or cousins? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Renee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ==== LEE Mailing List ==== Please contact me at [email protected] with any comments, questions or problems you may have regarding your subscription. Thanks, Manager, LEE Mailing List List Info Page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/l/lee.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237
My suggestions would be to try to find relatives who could tell you more about the family, especially Tennie's siblings. Get birth cert., death cert., or obits wherever possible. Try to find them on the 1900 census in either MO or TX. You might even have to try AR or OK. Most libraries are now online and have the primary level of Ancestry.com that has the censuses for the various years where you might be able to easily find them in a search. Forget about legends about being related to Robert E. LEE or anyone else and just go with what you know. Any other connections will fall into place later, but I think every LEE family has that tradition, and most do have a Robert E. Lee in the family, it seems. Elaine Blackman --- Original Message ----- From: "John Philip Adams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 8:00 PM Subject: RE: [LEE] Robt. E. LEE Cousin?-MO-TX > http://www.stratfordhall.org/rel.html > > this is the beginnings of our family history in Virginia. Good luck. > John Philip Adams > Texas > > -----Original Message----- > From: Renee Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LEE] Robt. E. LEE Cousin?-MO-TX > > Am beginning research on a LEE family. The family > tradition is that the LEE I'm searching for was a > cousin of General Robert E. LEE. > Mr./LEE, b. Missouri > Wife: Amanda/? , b. Missouri, died Wichita Falls, > Wichita, TX > Child: Tennie Ann LEE, b. 8 Aug 1885 in Missouri. > Married J. William DAVIS on 28 Jan 1907 in Montague > Co., TX > Died 18 Dec 1972 in Wichita Falls, Wichita, TX. > Tennie & J. Wm. had a dau.: Opal Mae DAVIS, b. 23 May > 1906 in Cadwell, Dunklin, Missouri and died 1988 in > Midland, Odessa, TX. > Are there websites or family histories who would > tell of the Robert E. LEE descendants or cousins? > Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Renee > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > ==== LEE Mailing List ==== > Please contact me at [email protected] with any comments, > questions or problems you may have regarding your subscription. > Thanks, Manager, LEE Mailing List > List Info Page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/l/lee.html > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== LEE Mailing List ==== > FamilySearch w/online LDS records - http://www.familysearch.org/ > Ancestry with over 2 Billion names - http://www.ancestry.com/ > Rootsweb with multiple searches in one - http://www.rootsweb.com/ > WConnect - http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >
To you seasoned veterans of genealogy, I need to ask how one determines the quality of a source. The computer program I use gives choices to label the quality of the data entered, such as primary, secondary, questionable or unknown. Sources being census forms, birth/death certificates, marriage records, personal communication with relatives, old letters, family bibles etc. Is there a genealogical standard for classifying these types of categories? Errors appear everywhere it seems, unfortunately including from myself... Thanks. Darcy