Please tell Winnie hello and thanks for ALL of her help. She has been a true friend and family Thanks Joe Matlock >>> "Jana Black" <[email protected]> 04/30/01 11:30AM >>> Hi Shawn, Thanks for sharing this! It is exactly the kind of result we were hoping for! What I want to say is directed to us all on the list... If you think about it, "family" is a "finite" thing. Whomever was born to whom is a certain, defined set of people. Yet family, based on various quirks (moving, lack of literacy, infights, even simple laziness :) often can lose its "sense of self" in just a generation or two. I know my own children get confused easily about "how they are related to whom" and if the facts don't get recorded, it will be lost info sooner than later. Isn't it marvelous that if we all keep on working on our family together, we will eventually all be pretty "familiar" with "who goes where"! I am reaching a point where I can recognize "family clusters" pretty easily. One of these days, I would like to make up a migration map of Matlocks that shows which groups went where... if anyone wants to pitch in on this, let me know??? Jana MATLOCK-L mgr. PS I am going to OREGON middle of next month, technically for the NGS conference in Portland, but in my mind, I am going mostly to meet Winnie face to face and give her a big hug from us all! Let me know if you have any special messages for her...... :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MATLOCK-L] Thanks Hello Family, Below is a letter from a new found member to our family. I have received many such letters from folks and it just makes my day when I see that we have helped another person. I pray it continues for many years to come. My, how our family does keep growing. I love it. I will be sending him an invite to join us on the mailing list. My heartiest thanks and gratituide to all of you. Thanks, Shawn Shawn, I must express my gratitude in putting together this website for all of us Matlocks. My Aunt has been doing some genealogy work on our family for a couple of years. I recently got the bug and she gave me what she had. I then chanced upon your website and not only confirmed what she had but found a whole lot more. We are descended from those Matlocks in San Saba, Texas. Andrew Jackson Matlock (b 5 Apr 1880) was my great grandfather. Preceded by Jason Lafeyette Matlock (1843), and John Milton Matlock (b 1816). This part of our history we are sure of. I believe what I have gathered from you website is that John Milton Matlock was the son of James Jason B. Matlock Jr. and Elizabeth Hicks. And that James Jason B. Matlock Jr. was the son of James Jason Sr. and Fannie Rayburn. Before this I think there was some conflicting information. At one point I saw James Jason Sr. as the son of Moore Matlock and Jane Powell. And Moore Matlock the son of William (ca. 1702)? I don't know if this was ever proven though. thanks again, James A. Matlock Jr. ==== MATLOCK Mailing List ==== To find out who has homepages on the Gerards, visit this link http://www.surnameweb.org/ ~ if you have a website, be sure to post an ad letting us all know it on this site; TIP; use multiple spellings! ==== MATLOCK Mailing List ==== GREAT search engines! http://www.theultimates.com/ (6 engines in one!) http://www.metacrawler.com/ (10 engines in one!) http://www.bc1.com/users/sgl/ (focused on genealogy links)