In a message dated 8/13/02 2:51:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ETexGal@webtv.net writes: << ROCHE, BROWN, KELLEY, BURKE, LYNCH, >> Lots of those in the Worcester Area early on ( early for the Catholic-Irish). Lots more with those names would come later, but some of your people may be pre-famine or famine Irish.

A couple of helpful aids for genealogy searchers. www.raogk.org ( Random acts of genealogy kindness- RAOGK) www. helplist.org Both of these have been helpful especially the Worcester helpers. Bill

I think some of the Lynch's from MA migrated into the New River Valley where NC/VA/TN intersect. I have some Irish Lynch/Linch's in my line. A lot of Irish, German, Welsh, English, and Scotch-Irish families migrated from MA to this area.

There were several marriages of Daly or Daley men and women performed by Catholic priests assigned to Christ's Church/St. John's Worcester, prior to 1850. These priests covered a wide area back then. John

In a message dated 8/13/02 2:13:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bettythomas@charter.net writes: << people will trash posts [unread] without a descriptive subject >> A good Subject line will aid in effective searches of the archives. Last name (at least) c. Date and Town helps. John

Yes, I am glad someone mentioned this. It is so much easier when someone puts the Surname and/or location in the Subject Line.

--part1_f5.20617891.2a8c4046_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_f5.20617891.2a8c4046_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <GENTRIE@aol.com> From: GENTRIE@aol.com Full-name: GENTRIE Message-ID: <130.12b45aca.2a897d91@aol.com> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:07:29 EDT Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] Research Worcester City Hall and Westborough Town Hall To: Kgbmp@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 In a message dated 8/12/02 3:28:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kgbmp@aol.com writes: << Here in New Haven genealogy researchers can have full access to the records on Wed. AM >> You will not be given access to any of the "Town of Worcester" records, as they are "Lost", not that you would be allowed to handle any of the City records they can locate. The City Clerk, Mr. David Rushford, claims to have looked for the old vital records but can not find them. He claims they have been lost for a long time. Since before 1982 or so. Yet those books were filmed by the Holbrook Institute around that time. He should look again and, if the records can not be found, an investigation should be conducted. Anyone agree? John --part1_f5.20617891.2a8c4046_boundary--

In a message dated 8/13/02 12:48:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kbailey@techline.com writes: << need an official connection between the two Salems. >> Have you looked for a deed? OSV "does" the Salem Towne House & Farm. Go to OSV.org then "Ask Jack". They may have aready seen proof that Sr. is Jr.'s father.

Greetings from Truro, Nova Scotia I am researching my "Oborne" great aunts that went from Quebec (Eastern Townships) to Fitchburg, Lunenburg, Arlington and Bridgewater and married. They married and their surnames were: Wolfe, White, Carle and Warner. I would like to correspond to anyone researching those surnames in those locations - I do have husbands first names and in some cases the burial location. Sharon Oborne MacKenzie Truro, Nova Scotia

I must have rec'd 300 E-Mails at my Healdsburg, CA home! And more coming every day! Interested in finding references to Nelson BARNES b. abt 1760, son Aaron was in MA State Legislature 1812 and was born in Lanesborough (Berkshire) 3/16/1781. Do not know Nelson's wife's name. Other interest is Eliza STONE-Barnes (Cherokee?) b. abt 1809 in MA?. Anyone have info, it would be greatly appreciated.

McKinleyville, California = 100 miles south of Oregon border on Redwood coast. Cool Mediterranean Climate all summer long! today it is about 62 degrees! POMEROY Discovered two POMEROY lines in the family line of my late grandmother, Ethel May Sleeper, (Russell) from her 2 great grandmother, Pamelia Pomeroy B. 1760, that goes like this: POMEROY/Edtweed/Medad/Mehitable who married John King; and in the same family line I have POMEROY/Josiah/Eleazer/Pamelia who married Nathan Dodge b. 1758 of Dudley, MA. I am trying to see if there might be a connection between these POMEROYS to a POMEROY family of Worcester whose children were dear friends of my late mother (Sally Sleeper Russell b. 1919) who was born and raised in Worcester. The names of her friends were Virginia and Margaret "Peggy" Pomeroy. All three girls attended the Bancroft School in Worcester in the 1930s. I do not believe that either family was aware that they all might be related to each other. Is anyone on this list who might be familiar with this Pomeroy family of Worcester, Ma.? Thanks, Jacqueline Sleeper Russell

In response to where people live: I live in Minnesota. I am researching the surnames KROL and WALAS in Worcestor County. Edward and Cora (Walas) Krol (Kroll) lived in Templeton, MA from about 1908 through 1918. Laura Schroeder

Hi Im Collette Sabin, I live in Tampa Florida. My fathers family is from West Warren Ma,Palmer and 3 Rivers. I am researching Gilbert/Kenyon/Forte' I lived in West Warren from 1961 to 1966

I am in Virginia researching the Henry's. D Henry

I Live in Modena New York name Steve Schifani researching Wallis/ Wallace and Town from the Douglas area . thanks Steve.

Hello............I am Polly Fitt-Jones originally from Newport but now living in Bonney Lake, WA (near Seattle). I am researching PARISEAU, BROWN, ST MARTIN, PECK, HOYER all from the Worcester area. Polly

I live in Escondido, California, which is about 30 miles inland from San Diego in Southern CA. My Worcester families are BROWN; JEFFERSON; LA POINT; PRUE/various spellings; and TILLYER. Tim TILLYER

I am always looking for information on the following names: FLAGG, WOOD, CHASE, FISK, etc. Susan K. Spies

I decided to try again, though I don't have much information to help with my "brick wall". Charles Bowles (or Bolles) was born in Hanover, MA, October 1761, a mulatto, whose parents are unknown, not given on his birth record (which, by the way, resides with the State of New Hampshire, where he lived much of his life). He stated with a "Mr. Jones" in Lunenberg, MA, from soon after his birth to 1763, when Mr. Jones. He had a very interesting life, much of it documented and/or written into a history of his life, which is in the African-American collection in the library at the University of North Carolina. In attempting to sort out his origins, I wonder whether there are records which might mention Mr. Jones (and, possibly, a child) in Lunenberg, but I can't locate anything on the Internet. This is my only connection with Worcester, though I was born and grew up in Melrose! Live in West Michigan now and very seldom find a chance to go east. Any ideas - and thank you - Jean Stine

But is it a DRY heat?? Never understood that. HOT is HOT. An oven is dry heat and it's no cooler than humid heat, just drier! hee hee Judy