This isn't what you are looking for. I am a "Joy" in Marin GenSoc. Just want to eliminate myself from your search. Checked the membership list and there is another Joy but she isn't listed as looking for information on Dawson. Sorry I can't be more positive. Joy Best [email protected] wrote: >Hello > >I attended a couple of day long workshops your society had several years ago >in Novato. I met a member of your group by the name of Joy (and I can't >remember her last name), who was researching a Dawson family in Oregon. I am also >searching a Dawson family in Oregon. At the time, Joy and I compared notes >and thought it was a coincidence, but not the same family. Now that I have >found some more info about the family, I am thinking maybe it is the same family. >I found one line (female) going back to 1300 in Wales...but is it my Dawson >family, hers or ours? > >My Dawson family was husband John, wife Rachel - they married in Missouri and >came to Jackson County, Oregon about 1850. They had 7 children. The other >Dawson family was also John and Rachel, married in Missouri, came to Jackson >County, Oregon about 1847 and had 7 children. Four of the seven children in >each family share the same names...Levi, Julia Ann, Eveline, and Thomas. So, >where there really two Dawson families? > >Since some of my paper work and notes got lost when I moved, I don't have >Joy's address or phone number, but I was hoping she was a member of this list. >If not, could someone kindly pass this along to her? She can contact me off >list at [email protected] or by phone 707-568-5265. > >Thanks in advance! >Rossana > > >==== MarinGenSoc Mailing List ==== >Read and download a copy of the Society's Bylaws here: >http://www.maringensoc.org/bylaws.pdf > >