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Greetings to all Maryland GhostTowners. In order to stimulate my quiet lists I'm writing to ask some questions of you the subscribers. No one on the list bites or says Boo to any questions or comments so feel free to write and talk with others. There are 42 subscribers to this list at the moment. Where do you live? What Ghost Town or area are you interested in? What county was your Ghost Town located in? Are there any remnants left of the town? Foundations? Buildings? Cemeteries? Do you have any information about the time line of the town? Did it have a post office? If a cemetery is there is it currently maintained? Has it been surveyed and is it posted on the internet? What's the link? Do you know if the State has posted a Historic Sign or Marker noting the town or area? Please cite any sources (book, publication, family history) you find the information in. Thank you all. This is your mail list and it only works when you post and others answer and add to it. Fred - Mail List Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://frederick.dittmar.org Member: Association of Professional Genealogy - http://www.apgen.org Board Member - Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://rootsweb.com/~okgs Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net

Thank you for your reply. The article in the Washington Post was an interesting article. Thank you. Kathy "Dittmar, Frederick M." <dittmar_ksa@ou.edu> wrote: Kathy, Try searching by Google. =Vindex, Maryland= Here is a link I found: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202172_pf.html Note it's two lines. Fred -----Original Message----- From: md-ghosttowns-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:md-ghosttowns-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathy McRobie Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:01 PM To: MD-GHOSTTOWNS@rootsweb.com Subject: [MD-GHOSTTOWNS] Vindex MD Hi all, I am looking for information on the ghost town of Vindex MD. Any help will be appreciated. Kathy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-GHOSTTOWNS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-GHOSTTOWNS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kathy, Try searching by Google. =Vindex, Maryland= Here is a link I found: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202172_pf.html Note it's two lines. Fred -----Original Message----- From: md-ghosttowns-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:md-ghosttowns-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathy McRobie Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:01 PM To: MD-GHOSTTOWNS@rootsweb.com Subject: [MD-GHOSTTOWNS] Vindex MD Hi all, I am looking for information on the ghost town of Vindex MD. Any help will be appreciated. Kathy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-GHOSTTOWNS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all, I am looking for information on the ghost town of Vindex MD. Any help will be appreciated. Kathy

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Greetings to all GhostTown subscribers from Norman, Oklahoma. I'm Frederick Dittmar and I'd like to introduce myself as your new Mail List Administrator of the Maryland (MD-Ghosttown ) mail list. I'm a member of the Association of Professional Genealogist, Genealogy Speakers Guild, NEHGS, & NGS nationally, on a local level the Plymouth County Genealogical Society, MA., & I'm on the Board of the Oklahoma Genealogical Society and the OKOLHA - Oklahoma Outlaw Lawmen History Association. I administrator 20 Ghosttown, 15 Surname and 27 miscellaneous mail lists. I would like to stimulate this mail list by asking if anyone has any GhostTown books for your state or other states? Would you be willing to list them and do lookups for fellow subscribers? BTW, there are 37 subscribers on this mail list. Do you live near a location that would be considered a Ghost Town? Would you be interested in writing a short story about it? Facts, History, Superstitions etc. Where do you live (State/Town/ your First name)? What is your Ghost Town interest? These are the Ghost Town books that I have: 1. 'Ghost Towns of the West' by Lambert Florin Promontory Press 1970 2. 'Ghost Towns of Oklahoma' by John W. Morris, University of Oklahoma Press 1977/80 3. 'Ghost Towns of Arizona" by John E & Barbara H Sherman, University of Oklahoma Press 1969 4. 'Small Town Ghost Memories of Oklahoma' OECO www.OK-Living.org 5. 'Oklahoma Post Offices' by Richard Helbock - Raven Press Lake Oswego, Or. 6. 'Oklahoma Place Names" by George Shirk - University of Oklahoma Press 3rd 1980 http://www.oupress.com/ Enjoy and Let's talk. Mail lists only work if the subscribers post. Fred Frederick M. Dittmar, Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma  73026 http://frederick.dittmar.org   Member: Association of Professional Genealogy http://www.apgen.org Mail List Administrator: 63 Mail Lists 2 Message Board - County Coordinator - Beckham County Oklahoma Web Page   Board Member & Genealogical Assistant Oklahoma Genealogy Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgs 20 Ghost Town mail lists.

This list is available for adoption. If you are interested let me know privately KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net Kathleen Burnett List Mom

I am new to this list and so far have not received any Emails. Would like to hear from anyone who has history on the town of Kempton, MD. I would be interested in general history regarding the coal company town and in particular history regarding the Enoch Grant King (and wife Lucretia) family. They were my grandparents whom I never knew. I understand he was some kind of foreman in the mines in Kempton. I am also researching Enoch Grant's brothers, James William (and Dora) King and Ezra (and Elma) King as well as his sister Stella who married Emory Lewis. Any input would be appreciated. I have some info I would be glad to share. Thanks, Pauletta in Virginia

Dear List Members, If you are interested in knowing about other genealogical mailing list available, one of the very best inventories of genealogical mailing lists is John Fuller's Genealogy Resources on the Internet located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html If you ever need to unsubscribe from this list or any Rootsweb list all you need to do is visit Password Central located at http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ Follow the instructions and you will received an e-mail of all lists you belong to and from it you can unsubscribe from the ones you want to. Always know that I will be more than happy to help you if you are having problems unsubscribing, you only need to ask. Please send this request to KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net not to the entire list. If you would like to visit the Archived messages of this list, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ and type in the name of the list you would like to search and from there you can search by dates. If you are having problem and I do not answer you right away, know that I will. I like many of you work full time outside of my home. I am fortunate that I can check my e-mail any time I wish, but know that there are spaces of time I cannot. I always check my e-mail each and every evening and will respond to message as quickly as possible. There are a few items I would like to suggest for the benefit of each of us. 1. When sending a posting to the list it would help if you would put the subject of your posting in the subject line. Doing this also might give you a better chance to attract the attention of someone who has the information you are looking for or the attention of someone who is searching for the information you are posting. Many members are on many many lists and when they see a subject line that reads "My Ancestors" they just delete it. 2. When posting a query regarding a surname it would help all of us if you would put your surname in CAPS. This way the members can easily pick out the surnames you are looking for. On the other hand when the entire message is in CAPS we feel that we are being yelled at. 3. Please remember to delete the tags and un-needed words when you re-send a message to the list with your answer. If you don't check this, your responses can become quite large and may cause problems with some of our member's servers. This member who might not be able to receive your message because of its size, just might be your long lost second cousin with all the answers you are looking for. 5. Remember to keep your Virus protection up to date and never open any attached file unless you are 100% sure what it is and even then you are taking a chance. 6. Now, the hardest thing is when one of our own, a fellow member becomes upset about a posting from one from one of us. It is so hard not to jump in and add our two cents. I want you to know how much I appreciate it when you just let these posting go by and delete them. Know that I am behind the scenes taking care of the problem. If you ever have a concern that I might have missed a message that needs addressed you are welcome to contact me during the day at Kathleen.burnett@era.com or in the evenings at KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net. 7. If your list has the gateway open, meaning the messages posted on the board also hit he list, know that every once in a while a SPAM message that is caught by the Board filter slips through the gateway and hits the list before it can be stopped. JUST DELETE IT. By responding to the list regarding he offending message, you just continue it on, and there is not one thing I can do about it at that point. Please remember, so that this list is better for each of us, the posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc., in other words Spam is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact me at KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net I want to thank each of you for your continued support of me and your willingness to help make this list the success it is. It is your list and is here for your benefit. If you have suggestions or comments you would like in future reports, you only need to send them to me. Kathleen Burnett List Mom KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net

Was there a place called Bullocktown in Maryland? I cannot find it on any map or on GNIS. I have Vincent Henry Harris born 1815 in Bullocktown, MD. What County? He removed to New Jersey by 1860. One of his youngest children may have been born in Kensington, PA in 1844, and I have to find where that is also. Penny Webster Brown Ft. Myers Beach, FL

Dear List Members, If you were effected by the Comcast buy out, then you need to read this, if not delete it. Just this evening, I have receive over 100 requests for me to change e-mail address to a Comcast address. Many of these requests mention multiple lists of which the sender needs their e-mail address changed. It will take me a good week or so to get through them all. My suggestion is; If you still have the ability to unsubscribe go to PASSWORD Central at http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ type in your old e-mail address, and follow the directions. You will receive an e-mail from which you can unsubscribe. If you can't do this, then you will just need to re-subscribe with your new address and let the old one bounce off. To re-subscribe this go to John Fuller's mailing list site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html or remember you can subscribe and or unsubscribe by sending only the word UNSUBSCRIBE or SUBSCRIBE to XXXXXX-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM or XXXXXX-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM if you are on the Digest List. Naturally change the XXXXXX to the name of the list. If all else fails, contact me, but be understanding if it takes me a while to get to you. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

Dear List Members, It is that time of year when some of you will be leaving on Vacations. You might want to consider unsubscribing from the list while you are gone and then resubscribing when you return. The easiest way to do this is by using Password Central. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ Follow the instructions and you will receive a e-mail list of all Rootsweb Mailing Lists you belong to. You can unsubscribe using this e-mail. Save it and you then have a list of mailing lists you want to re-subscribe to. When you return, you can check the Archives for this list at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Just type in the name of the list and you can check the messages for the dates you were gone. The following was shared with me and I think it is one of the best Maps I have seen showing the growth and history of the United States. http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html I appreciate each of you and know that it is because of you our list is the success it is. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

I rec'd this message last week. Have you ever come across a town by the name of Redstone in Maryland? I don't know what county it would be in - all I have is a very old letter saying my family returned to Redstone, Maryland. Can anyone identify this place? Please respond to the list, and I'll forward the information back to my correspondent. Thanks, Gary Speck (GTUSA@aol.com) "Experience a past life -- visit a ghost town!" Author of the book: "Dust in the Wind -- A Guide to American Ghost Towns" http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~gtusa/ http://hometown.aol.com/gtusa/index.html

The US Ghost Town site is located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usghstwn/ There are many states still available for adoption. If you are interested, contact Doris Robbins demwr@netzero.net If the state you are interested in is already adopted, consider volunteering for a county within that state, to do that contact the Web Host for the state. Kathleen Burnett List Mom