Question Guys, I have a some friends that are talking of coming to the Cumberland / Ridgeley / Ft. Ashby area to do genealogy for a couple of weeks or so. They have asked for recommendations of places to stay, can you guys help? When I come to the area I always stay with relatives so have no clue what is available in that area. Maybe an apartment house that rents by the week? Any motels that rent by the week? Or that have cooking facilities for breakfast, etc. Thanks. **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)

Sept. 11, 1912 page 5 Evening Times Cumberland, Md. LONACONING - While John Cosgrove, John Robertson and John Fazenbaker were digging out bottoms in Detmold mine No. 12 yesterday they found a live black snake imbedded in the coal. The snake was 4 1/2 feet long and very much alive. John Fazenbaker has the sanke, and it is apparently enjoying life in the open. Last Sunday in this same mine, a live toad was found entombed in a piece of coal, and in one of the mines up the road a toad was uncovered by the miners' picks. How long these reptiles were in the coal no one can tell - and it is useless to conjecture how they got there. WEIRD - Ruth Sprowls

When are they coming?  How many?  What price range do they seek? --- On Sat, 3/28/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [MDALLEGA] Accomodations in MD/WV To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 11:28 AM Question Guys, I have a some friends that are talking of coming to the Cumberland /  Ridgeley / Ft. Ashby area to do genealogy for a couple of weeks or  so.  They have asked for recommendations of places to stay, can you guys  help?  When I come to the area I always stay with relatives so have no clue  what is available in that area. Maybe an apartment house that rents by the week?  Any motels that rent  by the week?  Or that have cooking facilities for breakfast,  etc. Thanks. **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store?  Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Chere, What is your or your friend's interest in the Counihan family? John's wife, Catherine Elizabeth (Keating) Counihan, was my Great-grandaunt. I believe I have the same photo in my records. I'm not sure I have the location, but I'll look for it and see if it is written on the back. Sadly, my primary contact for that side of the family, Judy Kenney, passed on not long ago. I would love to find more of this family. I do know that some of the Counihans are now in Rockville, MD. Cheers! John On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Chere Athey <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend has discovered a photo of the John Counihan family taken in front of the John Counihan (General) Store, reportedly in Frostburg.  Does anyone have any information about when the store existed and it's location in Frostburg? > For those on The Crick Site, the photo is there. > Thanks, > Chere > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- John W. Keating III [email protected]

A friend has discovered a photo of the John Counihan family taken in front of the John Counihan (General) Store, reportedly in Frostburg.  Does anyone have any information about when the store existed and it's location in Frostburg? For those on The Crick Site, the photo is there. Thanks, Chere

If you check the 1900 census records you can possibly find the address where they lived. It should be printed on the left margin of the census page that they appear on. It will sometimes give their house number and the street name is listed sideways on the margin of the page. Linda Harden-Lantz

Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone with an Allegany County history would look and see if Towles photography studios are mentioned. I understand there were three studios, Frostburg, Cumberland, and Lonaconing. I'm curious about when the first studio came into being. I have a picture of my great, great grandparents with their baby daughter taken in 1900. The picture says, Frostburg and Cumberland, Towles. So, in 1900, I'm wondering if there was just the two studios? I'm really trying to figure out which studio the picture was taken at, maybe the Lonaconing studio hadn't come into existence yet? I can't imagine that in the year 1900 you would travel very far to a studio to have a picture taken, transportation could not have been that great. I'm guessing my ancestors lived close to one or the other studio. I'm really trying to find where they lived in the year 1900. If anyone can give me some history regarding the Towles Photograpy Studios, I would sure appreciate it. SHEILA **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001)

There are several ways to locate an ancestor in Allegany county other than trying to track the location of a photography studio.  There is the census, city directory, civil birth records which started in MD in 1898.  Also, if you know their religion, you could check out sacramental records at the church of their denomination.  Find out where the archives for the church are stored.   Mary Ellen Chambers --- On Fri, 3/27/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [MDALLEGA] TOWLES STUDIOS To: [email protected] Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 2:36 PM Hi there, I'm wondering if anyone with an Allegany County history would look and see if Towles photography studios are mentioned. I understand there were three studios, Frostburg, Cumberland, and Lonaconing. I'm curious about when the first studio came into being. I have a picture of my great, great grandparents with their baby daughter taken in 1900. The picture says, Frostburg and Cumberland, Towles. So, in 1900, I'm wondering if there was just the two studios? I'm really trying to figure out which studio the picture was taken at, maybe the Lonaconing studio hadn't come into existence yet? I can't imagine that in the year 1900 you would travel very far to a studio to have a picture taken, transportation could not have been that great. I'm guessing my ancestors lived close to one or the other studio. I'm really trying to find where they lived in the year 1900. If anyone can give me some history regarding the Towles Photograpy Studios, I would sure appreciate it. SHEILA **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000001) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I forgot to mention that City Directories are a good way to date photos if you can find the name of the studio that took the picture and find out when the studio was active. Donna Hogle

I just found something the list might enjoy. I've been researching Nelson Preston/Eliza Sturtz' family around Wellersburg and having a hard time with the geography, since there's family activity in both MD and PA. Searching for some of their children that I find mentioned in a newspaper account of the Feb. 4, 1960 fire when the Preston house burned down, I Googled "Barrelsville". The result was: http://maryland.hometownlocator.com/md/allegany/barrelville.cfm on page 2 is a beautiful Google map which can be manipulated to as much or as little of the area as you like, even with a milege scale at the bottom. Donna Hogle, San Diego

One of the young ladies in a family picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/keating/3370612472/) was recently identified as one Mary Moody, who was in the St. Michael's Church Choir in or around 1933. Is anyone researching the Moody family? Thanks, John

I had a similar lack of success opening these files inside my web browser (I use Firefox). So I turned off the Acrobat plugin in Firefox and saved them directly to my computer. Then they opened just fine with Acrobat. I don't know how you would do the same thing with Internet Explorer or Safari, but I suspect it would work similarly. Richard Perrin Day On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Ruth Sprowls wrote: > Hi Sharon, there are some that are listed in the lower left column, > for the 1920's that would not open for me. But, thru a google search > was how I originally was taken to one of those same files. I will go > back to my saved messages later today and see what additional info was > in the URL in order to open those files. I don't understand how all > that works, but will play around and see if I can add some things to > the url after this and see if I can get them to open. I will be in > touch later this evening. > If anyone else has figured out how to open those files for the 1920's, > would you please post to the list? Thank you, > Ruth > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Hi Sharon, there are some that are listed in the lower left column, for the 1920's that would not open for me. But, thru a google search was how I originally was taken to one of those same files. I will go back to my saved messages later today and see what additional info was in the URL in order to open those files. I don't understand how all that works, but will play around and see if I can add some things to the url after this and see if I can get them to open. I will be in touch later this evening. If anyone else has figured out how to open those files for the 1920's, would you please post to the list? Thank you, Ruth

I cannot get any of the files on this website to open so I can read them. Is anyone else having this problem? Sharon

Thank you all so much for the workable links. Haven't been able to keep up with my geneaology work lately.....but want to get started again. These links work and I really appreciate it. BTW, I came across a book at an estate sale recently titled West Virginians In The American Revolution. There are lots of names with short bios of each....applications for pensions, where they died, etc. I realize it's not Maryland, but there may be some family connections. Be happy to look up/type out the short bios for anyone. Thanks again for the census links. Susan

I forgot to add http.....

http://usgwarchives.net/md/allegany/ The census link isn't taking you to the page that gives the new link. This is the new link, maybe you better bookmark it if you can get it to work. I just went to the census pages using this link (above). ----- Original Message ----- From: Nora Avery To: Patty-Friend-Thompson ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] link to allegany co. census ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/maryland_newspaper_obituaries.htm

http://somd.com/announcements/obits/report.php

This will lead you to the census (left side of the home page) plus much more information provided. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mdallegh/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie" <[email protected]> My links to Allegany Co. census images are broken. Could someone provide them, please? Thanks so much. Susan Drake