I would be interested in any McBee connection to Western KY, especially Graves Co. Surenames: MCBEE, LAMB, HARRIS, CANTER, JOHNSON -- Bobby E. McBee - San Antonio, TX E-mail: http://[email protected] Genealogy web Site: http://www.flash.net/~bemcbee

--part1_5a2eb024.2476a6f5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_5a2eb024.2476a6f5_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: USMail1944 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:03:03 EDT Subject: Fwd: William Pryor Mcbee To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_5a2eb024.2476a577_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 --part2_5a2eb024.2476a577_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part2_5a2eb024.2476a577_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: [email protected] From: [email protected] Full-name: USMail1944 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:11:58 EDT Subject: William Pryor Mcbee To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Hi all I'm searching for information that will prove or disprove that William Pryor McBee born Abt. 1803 married to Nancy Dyer was the Son of Israel Mcbee and Nancy Hale. John Henry Mcbee son of William Pryor was my Gr Gr grandfather, he was married to Lettie Jane Lay. These McBee's were from Grainger County, Tennessee. Thanks Butch Conover knoxville, Tn. --part2_5a2eb024.2476a577_boundary-- --part1_5a2eb024.2476a6f5_boundary--

Hi, everybody! I'm still gleaning (and deleting like crazy!) from my "Sent" folder. Here's an old post of mine.... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Making of America research site Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:34:25 -0700 From: Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Attention: Vardry MCBEE researchers While I don't know for sure that my line of McBees connects back to Vardry, as I was researching another of my ancestors, I came across this site: http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=AFK4115 5 matches in 5 of 46 pages of "South Carolina. Convention: Journal of the state convention of South Carolina" for MCBEE. If you've never used the Making of America site (MOA), you've missed a *wonderful* research resource. You can search a number of different ways, and every time I go back, I find more. Good luck, Valorie Cowan McBee Zimmerman

>Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:48:18 -0500 >To: [email protected] >From: Bonnie & Jeff Treon <[email protected]> >Subject: MCVOY/MCVEY/MCBEE (ROSTER OF CONFEDERATE BURIALS) > >Found an interesting list which has some MCVOY/MCVEY/MCBEE burials. >(Confederate) > >http://www.lynchburgbiz.com/occ/burials/conf%20section/m-conf.html > >Hope this helps someone. >Bonnie >mailto:[email protected]

In a message dated 05/18/1999 10:22:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > As it happens, I checked out these homesteading applications for > Saskatchewan from the FHC a few years ago. I have no Ben McBee in my > database, and don't know where his land might lie. Anywhere close to > Fillmore, Sask., where my grandfather helped his brother settle in with > his new family, in 1910? Don't know if this has any bearing on your Canadian, Ben McBee but, In Janice Mercer's book in the McBee Ramblings section there is mention of Melvin McBee of Midnapore Alberta, Canada marrying at Eugene Ore. in Jan. 1944 Mary Anne Weld (widow of Dodd Miller) They lived in Sorrento, B.C. until 1951 then moved to Vancouver Island He died 1956. She died 3/18/1968. Jean

GeneaNet search for McBees led to The Computerized Ancestor (Yates) <http://cgi.aros.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/sanbachs/nfCDIL01.pl>, where a search for McBee 'husband,' yielded: MCBEE, A. C. FREEMAN, Louise 1879 359.000 DB ARC 1 IL MCBEE, Albert , Martha 923.000 DB JDG 1 MCBEE, Arthur ( ), Maxine 1177.000 DB MLC 1 MCBEE, ASA 1806 SC ROBINSON, RUTH 1813 SC 24020.001 P 1 OF KY MCBEE, Charles THOMAS, Eunice 1176.000 DB MLC 1 MCBEE, Daniel M SAWYERS, Rebecc 1831 18366.000 DB WAY 1 1851 MCBEE, Ganum C. SAWYERS, Nancy 1843 18379.000 DB WAY 1 1865 MCBEE, Gorden HELLMANN, Peggy 88.000 DB DLT 1 MCBEE, Hiram 1839 MO TUNNELL, Sarah 1840 MO 426.000 DB RIB 1 1859 MCBEE, Irvin CL BRYANT, HAZEL 16269.000 DB JJ2 1 MCBEE, J.M. 1858 TX BARTON, SARAH B 1862 TX 24045.001 P 2 1883 TX MCBEE, James KEESEE, Margare 1861 MO 8109.000 DB WAY 1 MCBEE, James A. SAWYERS, Rachel 1833 18378.000 DB WAY 1 1855 MCBEE, James Do HEIL, Donna 16274.000 DB JJ2 1 MCBEE, James Mi 1852 TN KILLION, Sarah 1855 TN 799.000 DB IJY 1 1874 TN MCBEE, James St 1858 AL BARTON, Sarah B 1862 TX 696.000 DB GB1 1 1883 TX MCBEE, JAMES ST 1858 TX BARTON, SARAH B 1862 TX 4793.011 F! 1 1883 TX MCBEE, Meffert 1880 TYE, Stella Ter 1880 15691.000 DB JJ2 1 MCBEE, PRESTON 1826 AL WINCHESTER, LEA 1823 AL 24045.001 P 2 1847 AL MCBEE, PRESTON 1827 AL WINCHESTER, LEA 1819 AL 4793.004 F! 1 1849 AL MCBEE, Raper BOVEY, Rosie 359.000 DB AEP 1 *MCBEE, SILAS BE 1843 TN ALTON, MARY C. 1844 GA 4793.006 F! 1 1866 GA MCBEE, Stephen BROUGHTON, Perm 1840 KY 472.000 DB BDJ 1 1859 MCBEE, W.J. MCBEE, Missouri 1865 432.000 DB RIB 1 1885 MCBEE, WILLIAM 1837 TN , GEORGIA 1838 KY 4793.001 F! 1 OF AR MCBEE, Y.H. NEEL, Cora Sama 1883 MO 695.000 DB CGK 1 1899 MCBEIGH, John NUGENT, Nellie 2995.000 DB JJK 1 1898 MCBEIGH, John 1822 Ir MCCUTCHEON, Mar Ir 2536.000 DB JJK 1 Click on *, yields these results: HUSBAND MCBEE, SILAS BENTON WHEN BORN 1843 WHERE BORN TN MARRIAGE DATE 1866 WHERE MARRIED GA WIFE ALTON, MARY C. WHEN BORN 1844 WHERE BORN GA DOC NUMBER 4793.006 TYPE F! AUTHOR (Order from Yates Publishing) PAGES 1 I have ordered group sheets from Yates before (they usually have multi-page ads in Everton's Genealogical Helper magazine). When the website was begun, it was pledged that the online entries would remain free, so this must be an old hand-typed or hand-written family group sheet. Maybe helpful, maybe not. But *somebody* out there is researching old Silas! If these are your folks, go to the Yates site and search for the submitter. All those little 3-letter codes are submitter codes. The ones without the code will say "order from Yates Pub." I didn't search for McBee as wife. Good luck! Valorie

I came across the GEDDEX site through my GeneaNet search for McBees. I decided to send my search findings along to the list both to show what GeneaNet trawls up, and in case anyone has these McBees in their line! Go to the Geddex site to get the gedcom files. Gedcom library compiled by Andrew J. Morris on Genealogy Online GEDDEX search for McBee <http://www.genealogy.org/~ajmorris/geddex/geddex.htm> MCBEE, ALBERT ae13 MCBEE, GEORGE WASSON , WASS av19 MCBEE, HOLLIE ar06 MCBEE, IDA ae13 MCBEE, JAMES WELKER av19 MCBEE, JESSE BIRD av19 MCBEE, JESSE GRUBBS av19 MCBEE, JOHN HUSTON av19 MCBEE, MARTHA ABRIGAIL av10 MCBEE, MARY CARMEN av19 MCBEE, ONA at08 MCBEE, RUBY LEE NEVAH av19 Morris states on the page: "I've prepared an EVERY-NAME index for the GEDCOM files on this server. These GEDCOM files have all been given arbitrary names, starting with aa01.ged -- the name consists of two letters followed by two numbers, with the suffix '.ged' -- the numbers go up to 20, then the next pair of letters for the series is used. The index consists various files, covering different sections of the alphabet. After each name are listed the GEDCOM files containing that name, only the '.ged' suffix (or in some cases '.zip') has been left off. "We have MORE INFORMATION about these Gedcom files, how to retrieve them, and how to submit your own Gedcom file to this collecton. Simply choose the link below to go to the corresponding file in the index. If you find a GEDCOM file you want to look at, you can retrieve it by FTP from this site." Good luck! Valorie

Until I saw it referred to on another list, I had forgotten what a *superb* page of links <http://www.familychronicle.com> has. The link page is <http://www.familychronicle.com/worthsurf.htm>. One of the listed sites: GeneaNet <http://www.geneanet.org/>, which is a really useful surname search site. This is Family Chronicle's review of the site: "Yet another site with extremely lofty aspirations, GeneaNet's goal is nothing short of constructing "a database indexing all the genealogical resources over the world, on-line as well as off-line." GeneaNet's database consists of a list of surnames dating before 1850 which connect to pointers toward further information. One simply enters a surname into GeneaNet's search program and up comes a list of addresses where one can find further information about people of that surname. These addresses could be websites, e-mail addresses or postal addresses. Searches can be limited geographically if one wishes. "Among the resources stored in the collection are families studied by genealogists, genealogical publications (including both books and periodicals), manuscripts from libraries and archives and official sources such as church registers and deeds. "One of GeneaNet's nicest features is the ability to sign up with its SearchList to receive periodic e-mail updates on the names one is researching. Registering with the SearchList utility is a simple matter of filling in an online form with the surnames (and regions) in which one is interested and one's e-mail address. There is presently no limit on the number of names one can register. "GeneaNet is free of advertising, and a note at the bottom of its main page proclaims "GeneaNet is free, and will remain free forever."" GeneaNet has an interface which allows you to submit your own files, site or even just a contact address. I found ftp sites, websites....too much to search in one evening! Valorie

Hi, everybody, I saw this message in the Alberta newsgroup: "At the National Archives of Canada, <http://www.archives.ca/> in the "Dominion Land Grants" database, I found my gg-grandfather's brother who immigrated about 1900 to Alberta, Canada." I remembered that since last I visited the NAC, they have put ArchiviaNet up. So I clicked over to the Dom. Land Grants, plugged in McBee, and came up with these results: Dominion Land Grants Search terms : " : 2=1 : 1=MCBEE.R100. : " References: 1 - 5 of 5 : Last update: October 13, 1998 Legal Land Description 1 NW 25 14 21 W3 Part Section Township Range Meridian Reference: Liber: 741 Folio: 12 File reel number: C-6529 Names: Ben McBee 2 LS 3 OF 36 14 21 W3 Section Township Range Meridian Reference: Liber: 757 Folio: 430 File reel number: C-6543 Names: Ben McBee 3 LS 4 OF 36 14 21 W3 Section Township Range Meridian Reference: Liber: 757 Folio: 430 File reel number: C-6543 Names: Ben McBee 4 LS 6 OF 36 14 21 W3 Section Township Range Meridian Reference: Liber: 757 Folio: 430 File reel number: C-6543 Names: Ben McBee 5 LS 5 OF 36 14 21 W3 Section Township Range Meridian Reference: Liber: 757 Folio: 430 File reel number: C-6543 Names: Ben McBee Remarks: S1/2 AND NE LS 5 OF 36 As it happens, I checked out these homesteading applications for Saskatchewan from the FHC a few years ago. I have no Ben McBee in my database, and don't know where his land might lie. Anywhere close to Fillmore, Sask., where my grandfather helped his brother settle in with his new family, in 1910? The King book excerpt that I posted last week indicates that Sydney McBee bought his land.....but maybe this Ben McBee was a relative I don't know about, and was part of the 'pull' to Canada? After all, they had just made the move north from Missouri to Warren Co., Iowa, and put down some roots. When they moved to Sask., they left *both* natal families behind.... Anyone know anything about this Ben McBee? (I can send you copies of MY copies....) Does anyone know where this land (described above) might lie? All the best, Valorie PS: ArchiviaNet is pretty neat. If you have any Canadian searching to do, visit the NAC again. Very easy to search. v

More good stuff at NARA. The author of this message is a professional researcher, I believe. Valorie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Civil War Records at National Archives Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:34:43 EST From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Recently a GenTipper asked about researching Civil War Military records. Since I have done a great number of Civil War soldier research projects I thought this question must have had my name on it. These comments apply to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) in Washington DC. This subject is very complex and covers a large amount of records. There are several kinds of records of interest to the genealogist and family historian. I will divide these into two basic groups; they are (1) Union Records and (2) Confederate records. Many, but certainly not all, of these records are on film. Most of the useful records are also indexed but sometimes not very well. (I) Union Records (A) Regular Army (1) Registers of Enlistments (2) Muster Rolls (3) various returns from Posts and Regiments (B) Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers (1) Compiled Service Records (Military Record) (2) Movements and histories of Volunteer Union Organizations (no genealogical info to speak of but interesting if you would like to know what your soldier did during the war) (C) Records that pertain to both Regular and Volunteer soldiers (1) Pension Application Files (2) Index to General Correspondence of the Record and Pension Office (3) Records of the Adjutant General’s Office (II) Confederate Records, record pertaining to service only (pension records are held by the various states) (A) Compiled service records, state indexes and consolidated index (many records where lost) (B) Records relating to Confederate and Marine Personnel (C) Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War. (D) Confederate States Army Casualties: Lists and Narrative Reports. (E) Records of Confederate Movements and Activities There are many more records that could be added here but few that could provide the genealogical information of the ones mentioned above. The National Archives has the following web pages that will provide details about Civil War records held by NARA. Civil War Records http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/civilwar.html Confederate Pension Records http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/confed.html Military Service records on Microfilm http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/military/service.html More information at my web site. URL listed below. Good luck in your searches. Remember, one step at a time, backwards. Ralph Komives ________ http://members.aol.com/RalphK/DocumentSearch.html Document Searches in Washington, D.C. Area and Annapolis, MD.

I know we have some folks with Cherokee lineage on the list... EVERTON'S FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLINE Tuesday, 18 May 1999 The Clifton-Kern Roll of Cherokee Freedmen As Frank Beacon pointed out in his column "Publican Papers", in many cases the "census substitutes" we use in our genealogical research were originally compiled by government workers as part of their jobs to collect money. But the work of the Clifton-Kern commission was quite the opposite. They were to compile lists of people who would receive government money. The "Clifton-Kern" commission was actually composed of three men: William Clifton, William Thompson, and Robert Kern. Their work, completed in 1897, was in the form of a census conducted among the Cherokee Freedmen -- the descendants of unions between Cherokee and African Americans. Like the Wallace Roll, the rolls of the Kern-Clifton team list the names of those who were confirmed Cherokee Freedmen roughly in alphabetic order by family, giving the full name (English, not Native American) of each, his or her relationship to the head of the household, gender, age, and residence (by district). Each name was also assigned a (serial) number, allowing that person to be quickly identified -- and cross-referenced -- in subsequent matters regarding tribal membership. The list and its supplement were compiled into typewritten sheets, numbering about 200 pages. Although the photographic contrast of these century-old pages is not perfect, it is certainly high enough to result in very readable JPEG images of each page. While it should be easy to save a copy of a relevant page to your hard drive and clean it up a bit with a graphics program, you may want to contact the National Archives and purchase a photocopy of a page you value. Fortunately, instructions for this are included online. Resources: Search the NAIL Collections http://www.nara.gov/nara/searchnail.html Old Military and Civil Records National Archives Building 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20408 Online Resources for Native American Genealogy http://www.everton.com/resources/special.html#native Copyright 1999, Everton Publishers All rights reserved - ------------------------------------------------------------------ FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLINE is a free daily genealogy news service provided by Everton Publishers subscribe: <[email protected]> message: subscribe history unsubscribe: <[email protected]> message: unsubscribe history Recent articles are available online at http://www.everton.com/FHN/

Thank you Valorie for all of the good sites, I have many, but some of yours are much better than the ones I had. Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > OK, One more tidbit from my own personal archive, and I'm gonna hit the > sack. > > --------- > 13 April 1999 > > U.S. Censuses Online > > Resources: > > Censuslinks > http://www.censuslinks.com/directory/ > > Copyright 1999, Everton Publishers > All rights reserved > ------------ > > I checked this one out, and it seems very comprehensive. Enjoy! > > All the best to all my relations, > > Valorie, IBSSG > > ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe: Click on <mailto:[email protected]> (list), > or <mailto:[email protected]> (digest) with UNSUBSCRIBE as > the *only* text in the message. Contact Valorie <mailto:[email protected]> > with any questions, list problems, or virus warnings.

Thanks Valerie for taking the time to post the information. I am always searching for new sites and links. Sharon Knotts ---------- From: Valorie Zimmerman Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 2:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MCBEE-L] From Everton's - Online Census links OK, One more tidbit from my own personal archive, and I'm gonna hit the sack. --------- 13 April 1999 U.S. Censuses Online Indexing U.S. census records has long been a favorite activity for genealogists and their computers. Fortunately, the number of censuses available online or on CD-ROM is growing daily, much to the delight of those of us who are seeking our ancestors in the United States. One site cannot list every online census index, but there is a site which is working on it. Censuslinks.com is building an extensive list of links to online census indexes. The directory page has an alphabetic list of links to state pages, and one to "Native American" censuses. These state pages are populated with links to county pages, which in turn are linked to the online indexes themselves. The result is a handy access point for many of the indexes placed on the Net, and a quicker way to carry out some of your genealogical research. Fortunately, this site does not confine itself to census indexes. There are also useful links to other genealogy websites, including the RootsWeb Cooperative, U.S. National Archives, Immigrant Ships Transcibers Guild, and more. Censuslinks is worth a visit today, and it's worth a bookmark and frequent visits in the future. It just may be one of the best ways for you to save time in your census searching. Resources: Censuslinks http://www.censuslinks.com/directory/ Copyright 1999, Everton Publishers All rights reserved ------------ I checked this one out, and it seems very comprehensive. Enjoy! All the best to all my relations, Valorie, IBSSG ==== MCBEE Mailing List ==== To Unsubscribe: Click on <mailto:[email protected]> (list), or <mailto:[email protected]> (digest) with UNSUBSCRIBE as the *only* text in the message. Contact Valorie <mailto:[email protected]> with any questions, list problems, or virus warnings.

In a message dated 05/15/1999 2:50:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Bonnie writes: > Anyway, this is for ST.LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CEMETERY in LINCOLNTON,LINCOLN CO,NC > > and was done by a W.D.FLOYD who has it posted on the net at the following > > address: > > > > http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/StLukes.html > > > > There are approx. 15 MCBEE'S buried there and seem to be intermarried with > > the SUMNERS. I don't live too far from Lincolnton, but was looking for my > > MACABOY/MCVOY ancestor and saw them. > > > > Bonnie Some of you might want to check out other cemeteries that are listed on W.D. Floyd's page. The homepage addres is: http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/index.html There are listings for cemeteries in both NC andSC. Jean

OK, One more tidbit from my own personal archive, and I'm gonna hit the sack. --------- 13 April 1999 U.S. Censuses Online Indexing U.S. census records has long been a favorite activity for genealogists and their computers. Fortunately, the number of censuses available online or on CD-ROM is growing daily, much to the delight of those of us who are seeking our ancestors in the United States. One site cannot list every online census index, but there is a site which is working on it. Censuslinks.com is building an extensive list of links to online census indexes. The directory page has an alphabetic list of links to state pages, and one to "Native American" censuses. These state pages are populated with links to county pages, which in turn are linked to the online indexes themselves. The result is a handy access point for many of the indexes placed on the Net, and a quicker way to carry out some of your genealogical research. Fortunately, this site does not confine itself to census indexes. There are also useful links to other genealogy websites, including the RootsWeb Cooperative, U.S. National Archives, Immigrant Ships Transcibers Guild, and more. Censuslinks is worth a visit today, and it's worth a bookmark and frequent visits in the future. It just may be one of the best ways for you to save time in your census searching. Resources: Censuslinks http://www.censuslinks.com/directory/ Copyright 1999, Everton Publishers All rights reserved ------------ I checked this one out, and it seems very comprehensive. Enjoy! All the best to all my relations, Valorie, IBSSG

This is another nice surname search site. I may have found a few of you who are reading this message through this site! Valorie ------- >From Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 15 - April 10, 1999: The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. - GenealogyPortal.com The Internet trade press is abuzz these days with articles about "Internet portals." Even Wall Street venture capitalists are investing millions in companies that provide Web portals. Now Steve Wood has created a genealogy portal Web page. A portal can loosely be defined as a starting place. It provides quick and easy access to many other Web sites of a particular interest. Portal sites such as Yahoo!, Webcrawler and CompuServe.com provide menus grouped by popular topics such as news, weather, sports, Hollywood entertainment, etc. When you click on one of these, you are quickly taken to pages of that interest. These portals are popular as they are easy-to-use "main menus" for many people. Steve Wood's GenealogyPortal.com is similar in concept. The first thing I noticed is that it has a quick and easy method of searching hundreds of genealogy sites looking for names. I searched for my own surname and found thousands of "hits," too many to manage. I then narrowed the search by specifying my great- great-grandfather's name. GenealogyPortal.com quickly found 91 matches and ranked them as to which were "most probable." A rating of four trees indicated a high probability of a match, three trees was still somewhat probable, etc. Each "hit" gave a small extract from the text of the matching site. All I had to do was click on the text, and I could then look directly at the selected site. GenealogyPortal.com also has lists of Archives and Libraries, Guides to Research, Historical Sites, Primary Records, and Research Supplies, as well as a list of Software and Utilities. This is a good site from which to launch your online searches. Look at: http://www.genealogyportal.com ----------- All my best to all my relations, Valorie Cowan McBee Zimmerman, IBSSG Black Diamond, Washington USA Proud sponsor of Rootsweb

In a message dated 05/14/1999 11:13:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/StLukes.html > > There are approx. 15 MCBEE'S buried there and seem to be intermarried with > the SUMNERS. I don't live too far from Lincolnton, but was looking for my > MACABOY/MCVOY ancestor and saw them. > > Bonnie It should also be of interest to you folks that are related to the HOKEs. 1 Vardry Alexander McBee . +Mary Elizabeth Sumner ..... 2 Mary McBee ......... +W.A. Hoke and possiblely to folks with the LOVE-MCBEE connection. There are a few LOVEs buried there too! Jean P. McBee

Wow! Have I been coming across great stuff today! I'm familiar with the first site, but the next two are *really* different, and completely COOL! Especially the last one. I checked the URLs, and after a minor correction, they all work. All the best, Valorie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: County Locator Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 From: Linda Wright <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Here are a few city/county locators http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html http://decoder.americom.com/main.html http://www.calle.com/world/index.html

Sunni Bloyd mentioned this site on Sweden-L, but it is about American genealogy. To quote from this wonderful, informative site: "...Did you know that there is a county-wide surname index to virtually every land owner in America since the early 1600s -- an index that is more complete than any head-of-household census index ever compiled? And did you know that you have a ninety percent chance of finding your ancestor in that land ownership index? "There are few indexes used by genealogists that offer a ninety percent chance of finding the right person. Even today, a modern telephone directory gives the names of only those households with a publicly listed telephone number. A recent study in Los Angeles revealed that over twenty percent of the telephone numbers are unlisted numbers. Yet, there is a surname index for Los Angeles County that gives the names of ninety percent of the heads of households of that county during the 1850s. The index is called the "Grantee/Grantor" index or "Index to real estate conveyances". Such an index can be found in all 3,100 counties in the United States." Check it out! It's an article from the Genealogy Bulletin, Retracing the Trails of Your Ancestors Using Deed Records, by William Dollarhide. http://www.remaxheritage-ri.com/~deeds/deeds.htm Good luck! Valorie, IBSSG Proud listmom of Baysinger-L and McBee-L Black Diamond, Washington USA Proud sponsor of Rootsweb

sanford collins wrote: > > Hi Valorie and other McBee hunters. I went to the site shown below and got > an altogether different impression than Valorie did. > Unless I'm totally misconstruing the meaning of the whole thing, they > don't mean for you to access the links given, just the opposite, they are > warning AGAINST using them, and quite clearly telling you why they are NOT > desirable sites, and the reasons why not. > How do the rest of you read it? I think it is a very valuable service > that they are offering and intend to access it often to remain up to date on > the new scams that are discovered. Pat, in Oregon Thanks for raising the issue, Pat. I should have let this post sit on my desktop for an hour or so, and seasoned my rhetoric. Yes, the site I referred ya'll to is a GOOD site, about a BAD problem. Sorry I didn't make this clear. Valorie > original message: > > Someone referred to this site on another Rootsweb list, and I decided to > > check it out. Oh, my goodness! The first link I followed had a scam site > > that was not only collecting genealogical information and selling it, > > but also getting names, SS#s, addresses, familial relationships and > > email addys to sell to mass marketing list resellers! This could be > > *dangerous* for people. > > > > Check it out for yourself.... > > > > <http://www.ancestordetective.com/watchdog.htm> > > > > I believe it was set up to counter mis-information, but its mission has > > grown more important, even crucial to our personal safety, over time. > > Watch yourself out there, folks, and BE SAFE!