Searching for Thomas Leedham born approx. 1821 in England. First wife Ann or Catharine born in England. Two Children William born approx.1849. Mary Elizabeth born Mar. 5, 1852 in Nelson Township Ontario, Canada. Ann or Catharine died before 1854 when Thomas re-married Charlotte (Ferris) Jeffers. I need Thomas first wife's maiden name.

Good Morning, The following message was sent to me via another list. The author is my dear friend and has given me permission to repost her original message. List Administrator > [MOOREGON] We are One > Date: > Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:11:53 -0500 > From: > "Lanita M" <ozarkn@southwind.net> > To: > MOOREGON-L@rootsweb.com > > > > You know we're always talking about documentation and our family history and > how we wish that our ancestors could have written all the important history > events down on a personal note.. > > We are experiencing this week historical events. Even though we are raw with > nerves, anxiety, anger, and sorrow, let's put feelings and our actions into > words. Let's document our feelings, and actions during this time by writing > it down in a diary, a letter to our family, whatever you feel... Yesterday > has been compared to Pearl Harbor, and I imagine as the days follow, we will > be overwhelmed by the loss when the death tallies come in. We can document > this historical moment on a personal level. If you attended a prayer > service, if you gave blood, if you were nervous about a loved one, if you > stayed glued to the tv, if you dug out your flag to fly, if you bought a > flag,......where were you when you heard about the first plane... What were > your thoughts during the day.....Whatever you felt, did, or wanted to do, > write it down, for your family's history... > > It's tough waiting and watching, praying and crying, and maybe genealogy is > the last thing on your mind. We can show our family's future generations, > however, our strength, as we show them that we as a nation and their > ancestors, came together and did not let the hatred of this world against > America weaken us. In fact, this attack only made us stronger! Let's show > our future family members what America was built on during this time...not > buildings... but a strong spirit and resolve, to right the wrong, to comfort > the sorrowfilled, to help the hurting, to rebuild the damaged, as we turned > to our faith and prayed for the leaders and for ourselves. We will get > through this, and while we are going through this tough journey, it will be > clearer than ever to our friends and enemies, that WE Americans are ONE! > > God bless America! > > Write it down! > Lanita > > ______________________________

Good Morning Listers, Received from another list, Minnesota Death Index, searchable database now online. Currently, death certificates for 1908 - 1946: http://people.mnhs.org/dci/ Your Old ListMom

Good Evening Leedhams, Found in the D.A.R. Lineage database @Ancestry.com: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 42 page 120 Mrs. Marie Estelle Balcom Fairbanks. DAR ID Number: 41314 Born in Williams, California. Descendant of Lieut. William Balcom, of Massachusetts. Daughter of Bayles Greenwood Balcom and Elizabeth Leedham, his wife. Granddaughter of William Todd Balcom and Eliza Doty Thomas, his wife. [p.120] Gr.-granddaughter of William Balcom, Jr., (b. 1765), and Nancy Capron, his wife. Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of William Balcom and Chickering Shepherd, his wife. William Balcom, (1734-1801), was a minute man at the Lexington Alarm and lieutenant 1776 under Capt. Stephen Richardson. He was born and died in Attleboro, where his tombstone gives his record. Also Nos. 21332, 38068. Enjoy! Your Old ListMom

Good Morning Listers, I received this information about a new website, from another list: Established in 2000, The Olden Times scans makes scanned images of individual articles from original issues of 18th, 19th and early 20th century newspapers from around the United States. "Old newspapers are treasure troves of clues," explained Barbara Allen, the founder of The Olden Times. "The problem is that not many of them are indexed, at least not for the names of those of our ancestors who weren't rich & famous!" The new index, launched on the Genealogy Today web site this month, is an index of the 2,000+ clippings from The Olden Times web site searchable by surname, state, year and type of article. "The index will include old news articles, birth, death and marriage announcements, legal notices, and advertisements," added Barbara. "Advertisements, an often overlooked resource, may help pinpoint exactly what kind of store your great-grandparents had. And, the news of a local fire may explain why your great-grand uncle picked up and moved to California." "While many old newspapers may be safely preserved in microfilmed collections, you might have trouble finding any mention of an ancestor unless you already know of an event that might have been reported and the newspaper in which the item would have appeared. Now with the index at Genealogy Today, you can research all of your surnames in a matter of minutes." To access the index, visit http://www.genealogytoday.com/times/olden/index.html Your Old ListMom

Good Afternoon Listers, >From your Old ListMom, who loves you more than the red, white & blue, a wish to each of you for a safe and joyful celebration this Independence Day. If you decide to roam the 'net for The Fourth, I hope you will enjoy the list of websites below. This holiday some of us will eat & drink too much; some will spend the evening endangering their communities with pyrotechnics; some will parade the main streets of town dressed in funny costumes and pelt small children with candy. However, you choose to spend the 4th, please take time to remember those who authored the original doctrine for this nation's freedom, the Declaration of Independence. Such a simple concept, yet so complete that after more than two centuries, it remains the basis for every personal freedom we enjoy today. Your Old ListMom What the Presidents Did on the Fourth of July: http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/FourthPres.htm Betsy Ross Website: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/ Fourth of July Celebrations Database: http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm Thomas Jefferson's account of the circumstances leading to the Declaration of Independence: http://www.leftjustified.com/leftjust/lib/sc/ht/decl/home.html Biographies of our Founding Fathers: http://www.colonialhall.com/index.asp Declaring Independence: Drafting the documents, from the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html A User's Guide to the Declaration of Independence: http://www.founding.com/ >From the History Channel: The Declaration of Independence: http://www.historychannel.com/cgi-bin/frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//www.historychannel.com/exhibits/declaration/main.html Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation: http://chnm.gmu.edu/declaration/ Virtualology: The Declaration of Independence, contains scans of original documents & handwriting samples of the committee of five: http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org/ Happy 4th of July: Celebrate America's Birthday, a look at the symbols associated with Independence Day: http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/7002/july4.html Happy Independence Day, quotes & excerpts from original documents: http://www.dzn.com/~lhindi/Declaration-of-Independence-Day.html Internet Info for Real People: 4th of July: http://www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo110.htm Telling Our Story: A Fourth of July Celebration: http://members.aol.com/~julystory/ Independence Day on the Net: http://www.holidays.net/independence/ Independence Day Celebration: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7623/july.html Independence Day at Sweet Petite's: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9329/july4.html The HolidaySpot.com Independence Day: http://www.theholidayspot.com/july4/ Marvelicious: Happy 4th of July: http://www.marvelicious.com/independence.html Heather's Happy HoliDaze: 4th of July: http://www.heathersholidaze.com/july-4th/

Dear Listers, For those of you who are trying to contribute SS-5 information at RootsWeb, the following page should help. http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/postem/ Your Old ListMom

Dear Listers, The U.S. government, ever our benefactor, has decided to increase the cost of SS-5 (social security application)copy requests from $7 to $27, effective 1 July 2001. You can read about the increase at: http://genealogy.about.com/library/tips/bissrates.htm If you have SS-5 copies for your ancestors buried in your research, please get them out and transcribe the information for others via RootsWeb, following the instructions below. We will all be in your debt. 1. Go to: http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi 2. Enter the name of the person who is on the form you have into the search engine. 4. When the right entry comes up, go over to the far right and click on "Add Post-Em" link. 5. The "Fill in the blank" form will come up and you can type in the information just like it's printed on the form you have in your hands! 6. Include all the information in the order that it is entered on the form, so that others have the advantage of all that information. NOTE: You don't have to type in the SS Number for the person as the Rootsweb program includes it. You can also find out how to protest the increase (or anything else you don't like about what they're doing) via your elected officials at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/congress.html A former Missouri State Rep on another mailing list suggests the following: 1.) DO NOT send e-mail (he never answered his as a State Rep) 2.) DO call your local officals' offices. 3.) DO follow up with by snail mail until you feel that someone is listening. I find it sad yet amusing that while the governement is more than tripling the price of these copies, it has taken them this long to figure out how vast the family research community has become. Devotedly, Your Old ListMom

Good Evening Listers, >From your Old ListMom, who loves you more than a battery-operated tie, something for all you Dads. And, in case no one else tells, you HAPPY FATHER'S DAY GUYS -- WE LOVE YOU!! A father and a dad are not the same: One can be a dad and not a father, Or one can be a father and not bother To earn through love the more endearing name. Some find fatherhood a bit too tame, Leaving all the details to the mother, Or dumping the sweet burden on another Man with just a passing twinge of shame. You have been our dad so many years That you've become the landscape that is home, The mountain that we look to from afar. No matter where we go we're not alone, For you remain within to still our fears And be the word that tells us who we are. ~ Author Unknown Your Old ListMom

The following website is from St. Louis Public Library and contains information about Missouri Civl War Union Military Organizations. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/mocivilwar.htm Your Old ListMom

PLEASE READ AND KEEP! It seems that some of you have received messages from another list member with attachments infected with the "BadTrans" worm virus. The message may appear to be a "reply" from the list. A wiser fellow list administrator has given permission to reprint his advice here: Because the BadTrans worm sends its evil payloads ONLY to FROM addresses that are unread in the infected person's e-mail program. List messages include the original sender's "from" address. The worm uses the original subject, quotes a snippet of the original message, and uses different names for its attachment file. All of this adds up to looking very, very much like a message *from* the list, or at least from a trusted fellow listmember. Here's the breakdown: 1. Such messages cannot come directly from RootsWeb 2. NEVER open an attachment even from a trusted correspondent, unless it is expected, until its contents are separately confirmed 3. PLEASE, PLEASE make sure your antivirus software is not only updated (latest virus definitions), but upgraded (program has been augmented to handle new "types" of malicious code). 4. When I receive these infected messages, I will post that e-mail address to the list as a warning. The sender will be contacted by me privately to alert them of the problem, as they are usually unaware. Do NOT bombard that person with messages - you will only add to their grief and yours. When their e-mail addy has been verified as free of the "worm", I will be happy to immediately resub them to this list. Comments, questions, advice? E-mail me privately - PLEASE do NOT post to the list. Nancy Lewis Millsap List Administrator

Dear Listers, Just in case no one tells you "Happy Mother's Day", I thought this message from Your Old ListMom and another Mother, might help: You and God... People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you; Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating others could destroy overnight; Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway. ~ Mother Teresa "To the world you might just be one person, but to one person you might just be the world." ~ (Author Unknown) Happy Mother's Day, from Your Old ListMom Nancy Lewis Millsap

Good Evening Listers, >From your Old ListMom, who loves you more than my PDA, a good website: "Strictly By Name" http://www.copies1918.net/index.htm This company provides copies of original documents as well as a very nice transcription of the same for a very small copy fee. They currently have records in KY, MO, NC, SC, TN; as well as an online index of the counties, documents listed and surname index. I have used this service myself and was very pleased with the results. Good Luck! Devotedly, Nancy Lewis Millsap Your Old ListMom

Dear Listers, I received word of this site today: http://www.familydiscovery.com Evidently, this is a "pay" site and the links are to free USGENWEB sites. Much of the information input by selfless volunteers has been "grabbed" and linked to this site, requiring a fee. At no time will RootsWeb/USGENWEB ever charge for its information. Unfortunately there are many lazy, thoughtless people who aspire to make money from others efforts. Please check out any "pay" site before joining. If they don't allow a free grace period before joining - go no further. Chances are the information contained there is copyrighted - by someone else. Your Old ListMom

Confirm got through Regards Kevin Murphy Auckland New Zealand murphyk@ihug.co.nz http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~murphygenealogy/ http://rootsweb.com/~irlwex

Dear Listers, With all of the problems at RootsWeb these last few days, many of the mailing lists are experiencing troubles with messages not going through as they should. Because of this, we need to do the following: >From now until midnight 7 Mar 2001 - each of you that does receive this message, please post a reply to the mailing list. I will check-off each response and those not received will be contacted privately to try to clear up any problems. You don't have to put anything in the body of the message if you don't want to, just put "reply/response" or something of that nature in the subject. Thanks to all, Your Old ListMom

Dear Listers, For all of you out there who have encountered problems since the RootsWeb transition - it might help to subscribe to "RootsWeb Review", which has all of the latest updates, sites, problems, etc. concerning RootsWeb.com and its associates. To subscribe: Send an e-mail to: rootsweb-review-subscribe@rootsweb.com in the subject line type only the word "subscribe" without quotes. Don't type anything in the body of the message. The Review also contains links to update and status sites where you can find out which areas of RootsWeb are still under maintenance. You can find this page at: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/ If you are still having troubles, please send me a private e-mail and we'll try to find a solution. Your Old ListMom

Dear Listers, Some of you may be experiencing problems since last weekend's scheduled 'down time' at RootsWeb. If anyone is having trouble in connection with the mailing list, please send me a personal e-mail and I will at least try to find a way to help. Please be patient, the staff is working very hard to smooth out this latest transition. I remain, as always, Your Old ListMom

Planned Downtime for Rootsweb: Starting at 8 a.m. PST Friday, February 23, RootsWeb will begin a planned temporary downtime for maintenance of its servers and hosting process. It will limit this downtime as much as possible, and will return with increased performance and reliability for future growth. In the meantime, please take time to visit RootsWeb.com's sister sites -- Ancestry.com and FamilyHistory.com -- where you will find additional tools such as message boards, communities, and databases to help you in the search for your ancestors. Thank you for your patience. --The RootsWeb Staff

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