My word! Movies in Friendsville! I remember the excitement of having movies available. It was in the fire hall, I believe, and folding chairs were set up for each occasion. They even had Bank Night, with a piece of glowing orange dinner ware given to each customer once a week. Mother collected a whole set, just for fun, then didn't know what to do with it. Of course, those pieces now turn up as collectibles. Local preachers would thunder on Sunday about the sinners who chose Wednesday night movies instead of paryer service. Reverend Greynolds would wave his arme and roar! Bettie

Here's a puzzler from the Sang Run, Hoyes area from the 1870, 1880 & 1900 census. John Kitzmiller, Moses Bowman and a Stephen Friend are on the same page in 1900. I'm not actively researching any of these families; I'm just curious about conflicting information. It's also a good example of the limitations of census data. <G> The information I have says John Kitzmiller was a son of Gaspar Kitzmiller and he was married to Nancy Browing (probably Browning) Mattingly born about 1835, died about 1912, her parents unknown; no children are listed. The 1870 census shows John b. ca 1827; "Ann" b. ca 1812. There are several "Whites" in the household; no Kitzmiller children. The 1880 census shows John b. ca 1828; "Annie" b. ca 1812. No Kitzmiller children, no Whites. The 1900 census shows John born Apr., 1827; "Annie" has presumably died; sons John (b. Dec., 1884) and George (b. Oct. 1886) are in the household, as well as a "Sarah Windle", b. June 1870 with a child Russel Windle, born Aug. 1898. By this time his second wife had apparently died. So John must have remarried after 1880 and had a few children. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll pass on the full census record. Sam

Yes, all records need to be cross referenced with other records & then sometimes it comes down to a judgment call anyway. I found one woman whose age varied 20 years over 4 decades. Another researcher pointed out sometime back that in the early years, a lot of people didn't actually know when they were born. I like to watch school attendance over the years and have as many records as possible for comparison. I do think the majority of census records were probably given by the lady of the house. _All records are useful. I don't mean to slight obituaries in the least, but they are taken under stressful conditions and sometimes not from the person with the best knowledge of the deceased persons background, especially where 2nd marriages are involved. I had an example of this last year which would be funny, if it weren't so sad. My mother had a brother Robert who had married Mary. Mary died in Jan. last year. They had raised a nephew of hers I'll call Eddy. He was the son of Mary's sister, and her sister's first husband. Mary's obituary listed Eddie "Smith" as a son, leading one to believe she was married twice, which she wasn't. The error was compounded in August of last year when Eddie died. Again, he was listed as a son, and his five half first cousins were listed as sisters. He had been married twice. The information was apparently taken from his second wife, who listed all of his children as her own. His mother had married a second time and a "brother" listed was actually a half-brother. Imagine a hundred years from now one of his great grand children running into _that brick wall. He was born in 1942 and I'm not sure even the 1950 census would be of any help figuring out who his true ancestors were. A birth certificate and maybe his Social Security record would be the about the only help in his case. This happens most frequently where second marriages are involved. I saw almost the same thing in a friend's obituary who died several years ago. Maybe a good example as to why we should all leave some kind of a family record. Maybe even a DNA sample in case genetically related disease surfaces in our descendants? Sam Thomas Shade wrote: > <Sigh> Too bad all censuses do not get info from mothers. In my family > history, one mother's age changes by more than 10 years from one census > to the next, and she was not always getting older. Sometimes I think > "Maybe a neighbor gave this info." Delores > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net.

Art, I have a memory of a young son of one of my cousins. I was a teenager, selling popcorn at the Saturday night movie in Friendsville (we had love story movies on Wednesday night and usually "Oaters" on Saturday night), when "David" swaggered up to the ticket booth. This small boy, who looked about 4 years old, and had been getting in free, stated this was his birthday, and he was 6 years old, so he had to pay. He had a quarter, and admission was 20 cents. After buying a ticket, he walked up to me and stated he wanted to buy popcorn. Now, popcorn cost 10 cents, and he only had 5 cents. I could not squelch his pride by telling him he did not have enough money, so I gave him the full size of popcorn and took his nickel, without letting him know the difference between his finances and retail cost of popcorn. He proudly marched through the doors into the theater, after giving his ticket to the usher. Delores

Sam, You are probably correct. However, I always wanted to be the age I was. I still do, but I would love to "tighten up" everything that is falling. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

It was good of you to do that with the reduced price popcorn. Do you remember what was showing? and what's an "Oater"? I have 4 sons, oldest graduating from college this May. I remember once his grade school basketball team got a free ticket each to the nearby high school's basketball game and the families were going so I got to the ticket seller w 2 adults and one (second) kid, plausible child admission, meaning I was right there deciding whether to deflate the truth about a year. My kids were all in parochial school then and being a librarian it was tough to come up with "disposable income" - for us I guess that was the money you spent on "disposable diapers", and in our neighborhood if you said you were going sailing, you meant "garage sale-ing". Anyway, the nice grandpa looking man selling the tickets read my mind and said, "he's $2" saving me $3 and some semiharmless fibbing. My 8th grader might go to that school next year. I think I have been in Friendsville twice for a few minutes, once on the way to Grantsville and Cumberland (when I stopped at the Grantsville Inn, my gm's favorite place to eat in the 19teens, for dinner and was just beginning to try to find out a little about my Friend family connection, through my mystery ggm Rebecca J. Friend/Haskell Tuhill who has been mentioned many times on this list lately. First of all I was a stranger both times in town, and felt really odd that from childhood I was told my ggm was Rebecca Friend from Friendsville, and knowing absolutely noone there. I think I remember going into a lunchroom or restaurant (was knocked out of the 8th grade spelling bee on this word so why spell it right now?) and it looked like senior citizen bingo going on, everyone stopped and just looked at me long enough for me to wonder if I was seeing a mass violation of the Maryland gambling laws!!!!! Well, people were covering their bingo letters with dimes and quarters, wha! t do I know I don't gamble (I will forgo the R. Cath. bingo humor for the moment). Maybe the Bingo caller was like a 4th cousin of mine! (Probably) will never know, don't care. Maybe this was native american bingo and run by fellow decendents of "Shawnee Chief Big Thunder" who shows up in the Old John Friend gedcoms if I (and whoever posted these gedcoms) am not mistaken. Well some day this summer or next, especially if I crack the mystery, I'm coming for the fiddle contest, etc, buckwheat festival in Kingwood, etc, and probably from this list I will know more people than in some towns I have lived in. (Take for instance if I visit the Bedford Ohio cemetery 1/2 mile from my house, I would know 3 names there at most. When I visited the Oakland Cemetery this summer after 5 years of working on my Oakland roots, I found it odddddd to know at least half the folks in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I ran a movie series for 8 years at the public library and always had free popcorn. I gave a talk on every movie I picked out (126 over the years) and most of them were from Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Buster Keaton days to 1939. These are the things that can really liven up a genealogy discussion, for instance someone I know very well mentions an unconfirmed story that in her gf's large family, one sister met Jimmy Durante when he came to town and ran off and married him, I can say, "You know Buster Keaton didn't like the Shnoz because his humor was all verbal, and Buster thought his physical comedy was much funnier!" And it was fun learning that Lew Wallace did stay at the Glades Hotel in Oakland, and probably worked on writing Ben Hur there with my 15 year old ggf James Tuhill right there shining his spittoon, "working for Mr. Daily" per the 1870 census. Maybe Wallace got that Charleston Heston driving 2 chariots at the same time thing from someone on this message list's very ancestor who was an Irish teamster driving wagons past the Glades. The Glades had a really nice porch. You never know. I like stories, not just names and dates, so let's all share. Art Thomas Shade <tomdel2@webtv.net> wrote: Art, I have a memory of a young son of one of my cousins. I was a teenager, selling popcorn at the Saturday night movie in Friendsville (we had love story movies on Wednesday night and usually "Oaters" on Saturday night), when "David" swaggered up to the ticket booth. This small boy, who looked about 4 years old, and had been getting in free, stated this was his birthday, and he was 6 years old, so he had to pay. He had a quarter, and admission was 20 cents. After buying a ticket, he walked up to me and stated he wanted to buy popcorn. Now, popcorn cost 10 cents, and he only had 5 cents. I could not squelch his pride by telling him he did not have enough money, so I gave him the full size of popcorn and took his nickel, without letting him know the difference between his finances and retail cost of popcorn. He proudly marched through the doors into the theater, after giving his ticket to the usher. Delores ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Way to go, Art. See, like some of the records that I have that are in Latin, you can pretty much figure out a lot of the words. Especially where the people were born. And lots of the first names are easy to figure out. Hang in there, it looks like a heck of a big job. Helen Rehm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Grady" <gradya3@yahoo.com> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] St. Peter the Apostle, Oakland, MD - baptisms 1858 to 1906 > I have 16 pages of baptisms from the St. Peter's microfilm in Annapolis. As in previous messages I am going to gradually transcribe them for the list. I am not going to try to translate the latin at this time. Some good people on the list have submitted web sites that give latin and english equivalents everyone can use to check the names. Catholic priests of this time kept Baptism records in latin. Another thing to keep in mind is if the parents gave their kid a non saint name the priest might ignore it and use a middle name as the name if was the first name. I will be chipping away at these records for quite some time. I am putting in the sponsor names as some will be godparents of my relatives, and my relatives will be sponsors of people I don't know. I would appreciate it if anyone who recognizes people in these messages go ahead and reply and say who you know and a little about them as I am not adding anything to the records and may be very interested in whoever you reco! > gnize. > Also remember I am just trying to read long handwriting which is often difficult to read exactly. If you contact me and tell me any of these records are important to you I will try to scan the item and send to you. As you can see below, I am struggling with reading the latinized hand writing. I think i am going to drop any language that looks like it relates to legitimacy as I have seen some genealogy ethics codes if not laws that say not to put that information out. Question marks are mine meaning I don't know for sure what I am seeing. > > Ta dah, from page 3 of the St. Peter records: > > Baptism #3, on Jan 16, 1859, Born Jan 1, Patritius or Patrisius Clark, Parentum John Clark ex ??Meo, et Maria Brigaloo ex Preston in Virginia, nomina patrinorum (sponsors, godparents?) Catharina Collins et John Tuohill, minister Wayrick, observanda parentes in comitatus Alleghanensi, prov. Ma??? > > Baptism #4, Jan 16, 1859, born Nov. 20, 1858, Margareta Gallagher, nomen et origo parentum, Michael Gallagher et Maria Clark, pater natus est in comitatu Galway, mater in Meo in Hibernia, nomina patrinorum Cahtarina O'Donnell, minister Wayrick, observanda, an leg. ????? in comitatu Preston, pro????? > > Baptism #5, Feb 27, 1859, born Jan, 1859, Thomas Dane, Nomen et origo parentum Patricius Dane et Anna McGraw ex Hibernia in Comitatu Meo, nomina patrinorum Michael manion et Mary Chrystal, minister Wayrich observanda. Mater defuncta est in ?artu ejus - infan in ?omo baptisat? et ?ostea in eulesia ceramonise ? completae. > > Baptism #6, Feb 27, 1859, born Feb 12, 1859 Nomen baptisati, Wilhelmus Kennedy, nomen et origo parentum, Wilh. Kennedy et Margretha Gibbons, in comitatu meo in hibernia, nomina patrinorum Mary Griffin et Thom Prendergast, minister Wayrich. > > Baptism #7 Feb 27, 1859, born Feb 6, nomen baptisati Anna Ryan, nomen et origo parentum, Thom Ryan et mar. Anna Martin ex comititu Down? in Hibern, nomina patrinorum Bernard Raynolds?, minister Wayrich, observanda, mater est ????? fidem Cath ex Calvinian? > > Baptism 8, April 3, 1859, born Marta 27, 1859 nomen baptisati Carolus Joseph Eggers, nomen et origo parentum Henricus Eggers, en Bratel (Borussia) et Margaretha Schaefers, en Hohenh?epel (Borussia), nomen patrinorum, Carolus Schaefers et Eva Cath. Schaefers, minister Ven de Brant, observanda Baptisati sub cond, quia jans ave baptisaverati??? > > Baptism #9, April 3, 1859, born Feb 18, 1859 nomen baptisati Anna Maria Theresia Schaefers, nomen et origo parentum Henricus Schaefers en Hohenzepel (Borussia) Helena Brinkmann en Bogentreich (Borussia), nomina patrinorum Carolus Schaefers, minister van de Braant. > > Thats page 3, comments, observations please...., harder than I hoped > > Art > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. >

Hi, I'm new to this list....researching my 2xgrandmother, Martha Ann CASTEEL-DeWITT-BEECHLEY. The earliest document/record I have of her is in the 1861 marriage records of Allegany Co., MD, when she married Peter BEECHLEY. Martha Ann had a brother named Bernard, and a sister named Margaret. Oral family history says that their birth surname was CASTEEL and that when their parents died they were raised in the DeWITT household. Martha Ann used DeWITT as maiden name on the marriage records. I have documents of her later life, but would much appreciate if anyone has info on this family during their early years. thanks for any response, Janice

I have 16 pages of baptisms from the St. Peter's microfilm in Annapolis. As in previous messages I am going to gradually transcribe them for the list. I am not going to try to translate the latin at this time. Some good people on the list have submitted web sites that give latin and english equivalents everyone can use to check the names. Catholic priests of this time kept Baptism records in latin. Another thing to keep in mind is if the parents gave their kid a non saint name the priest might ignore it and use a middle name as the name if was the first name. I will be chipping away at these records for quite some time. I am putting in the sponsor names as some will be godparents of my relatives, and my relatives will be sponsors of people I don't know. I would appreciate it if anyone who recognizes people in these messages go ahead and reply and say who you know and a little about them as I am not adding anything to the records and may be very interested in whoever you reco! gnize. Also remember I am just trying to read long handwriting which is often difficult to read exactly. If you contact me and tell me any of these records are important to you I will try to scan the item and send to you. As you can see below, I am struggling with reading the latinized hand writing. I think i am going to drop any language that looks like it relates to legitimacy as I have seen some genealogy ethics codes if not laws that say not to put that information out. Question marks are mine meaning I don't know for sure what I am seeing. Ta dah, from page 3 of the St. Peter records: Baptism #3, on Jan 16, 1859, Born Jan 1, Patritius or Patrisius Clark, Parentum John Clark ex ??Meo, et Maria Brigaloo ex Preston in Virginia, nomina patrinorum (sponsors, godparents?) Catharina Collins et John Tuohill, minister Wayrick, observanda parentes in comitatus Alleghanensi, prov. Ma??? Baptism #4, Jan 16, 1859, born Nov. 20, 1858, Margareta Gallagher, nomen et origo parentum, Michael Gallagher et Maria Clark, pater natus est in comitatu Galway, mater in Meo in Hibernia, nomina patrinorum Cahtarina O'Donnell, minister Wayrick, observanda, an leg. ????? in comitatu Preston, pro????? Baptism #5, Feb 27, 1859, born Jan, 1859, Thomas Dane, Nomen et origo parentum Patricius Dane et Anna McGraw ex Hibernia in Comitatu Meo, nomina patrinorum Michael manion et Mary Chrystal, minister Wayrich observanda. Mater defuncta est in ?artu ejus - infan in ?omo baptisat? et ?ostea in eulesia ceramonise ? completae. Baptism #6, Feb 27, 1859, born Feb 12, 1859 Nomen baptisati, Wilhelmus Kennedy, nomen et origo parentum, Wilh. Kennedy et Margretha Gibbons, in comitatu meo in hibernia, nomina patrinorum Mary Griffin et Thom Prendergast, minister Wayrich. Baptism #7 Feb 27, 1859, born Feb 6, nomen baptisati Anna Ryan, nomen et origo parentum, Thom Ryan et mar. Anna Martin ex comititu Down? in Hibern, nomina patrinorum Bernard Raynolds?, minister Wayrich, observanda, mater est ????? fidem Cath ex Calvinian? Baptism 8, April 3, 1859, born Marta 27, 1859 nomen baptisati Carolus Joseph Eggers, nomen et origo parentum Henricus Eggers, en Bratel (Borussia) et Margaretha Schaefers, en Hohenh?epel (Borussia), nomen patrinorum, Carolus Schaefers et Eva Cath. Schaefers, minister Ven de Brant, observanda Baptisati sub cond, quia jans ave baptisaverati??? Baptism #9, April 3, 1859, born Feb 18, 1859 nomen baptisati Anna Maria Theresia Schaefers, nomen et origo parentum Henricus Schaefers en Hohenzepel (Borussia) Helena Brinkmann en Bogentreich (Borussia), nomina patrinorum Carolus Schaefers, minister van de Braant. Thats page 3, comments, observations please...., harder than I hoped Art --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Hi Phyllis, Thank you for the lead. I appreciate your help very much and will check that out. Loretta ----- Original Message ----- From: <PRosley@aol.com> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Grantsville Cemetery > Loretta, > According to the obituaries for Roy and Bertha Gearhart, the services for > both of them were held at St. Anns Catholic Church. Does the church have a > cemetery? > Phyllis > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. >

I've heard that the neighbors did give information about a family when they weren't available. Seems they were all family so that that made sense. Also, you will see a lot of "nicknames" instead of proper names. My Grandma Hetrick had a handwritten list of relatives with their marriages and birthdates at the farmhouse. That's where I got most of my information. I have something similar from my grandfather on my mother's side. It appeared to be a couple of sheets out of a family Bible. It was a heavy stock paper though and yellowed. Was very old and worn (1890 era). The ink was very faded. Was folded and kept in the family trunk for decades. We still had to enlarge it and use a magnifying glass to make out the writing. I guess the acid in the paper in those days ate away the quality. Can buy acid free paper today/ archival quality. Would have been nice if they had had that in their day, huh. Lois Hetrick Stewart

Thanks, Art. This will be great. We all sure appreciate it. Helen Rehm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Grady" <gradya3@yahoo.com> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] St. Peter's baptism records > I know I am making this like "waiting for godot", or that old "I am de viper, in ten years I vill come to your house" joke. Between now and Monday I will actually sit down and input some baptisms, (making sure not to get TURKEY GRAVY all over my keyboard!!!!!) > > Art > > Helen Rehm <tar@direcway.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. I have gotten several records in Latin. I have a little > inside help with mine. I am Catholic and I ask the Priest at the Catholic > Diocesan Office in Kansas City to translate them for me, which he does. He > says it keeps him up on his Latin a little bit. I can tell you, that when > the first name is in Latin, the name is pretty easy to figure out. You'll > know what I mean when you see some of these names. Father Coleman would > probably be glad to translate. His email address is coleman@diocesekcsj.org > As long as we don't overpower him with requests. But he is a very nice man. > He is in charge of all the genealogy records for Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO. > I hope these records are put on this website, that would be wonderful. > > Also, another suggestion. One time I just searched "Latin translation" on > the Internet and a couple of websites came up. > > Happy Thanksgiving everybody, > > Helen Rehm > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "connie beachy" > To: > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:28 PM > Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] St. Peter's baptism records > > > > I agree 100% with Pat on this. I'll bet someone on this list will know > > enough Latin to help the rest of us. > > Connie > > > > > Hey, out on the list, do you agree I should try my best to type the > names > > > just as Latinized by the priests? > > > --------- > > > Type the names as you see them Art. If they appear to be names someone > is > > > researching they can probably find help translating them to English. > > > > > > To bad we can't send scanned images to the Rootsweb lists, it sure would > > save a lot of typing time, but I understand the reason we can't and am > > thankful for everything Rootsweb provides to the world of genealogy. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > > > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list > > administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the > web at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html >

I know I am making this like "waiting for godot", or that old "I am de viper, in ten years I vill come to your house" joke. Between now and Monday I will actually sit down and input some baptisms, (making sure not to get TURKEY GRAVY all over my keyboard!!!!!) Art Helen Rehm <tar@direcway.com> wrote: Hi everyone. I have gotten several records in Latin. I have a little inside help with mine. I am Catholic and I ask the Priest at the Catholic Diocesan Office in Kansas City to translate them for me, which he does. He says it keeps him up on his Latin a little bit. I can tell you, that when the first name is in Latin, the name is pretty easy to figure out. You'll know what I mean when you see some of these names. Father Coleman would probably be glad to translate. His email address is coleman@diocesekcsj.org As long as we don't overpower him with requests. But he is a very nice man. He is in charge of all the genealogy records for Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO. I hope these records are put on this website, that would be wonderful. Also, another suggestion. One time I just searched "Latin translation" on the Internet and a couple of websites came up. Happy Thanksgiving everybody, Helen Rehm ----- Original Message ----- From: "connie beachy" To: Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] St. Peter's baptism records > I agree 100% with Pat on this. I'll bet someone on this list will know > enough Latin to help the rest of us. > Connie > > > Hey, out on the list, do you agree I should try my best to type the names > > just as Latinized by the priests? > > --------- > > Type the names as you see them Art. If they appear to be names someone is > > researching they can probably find help translating them to English. > > > > To bad we can't send scanned images to the Rootsweb lists, it sure would > save a lot of typing time, but I understand the reason we can't and am > thankful for everything Rootsweb provides to the world of genealogy. > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list > administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Hi again listers. Forgot to tell you that I think at the book stores you can get a small paperback book that translates Latin to English. Helen Rehm

Hi everyone. I have gotten several records in Latin. I have a little inside help with mine. I am Catholic and I ask the Priest at the Catholic Diocesan Office in Kansas City to translate them for me, which he does. He says it keeps him up on his Latin a little bit. I can tell you, that when the first name is in Latin, the name is pretty easy to figure out. You'll know what I mean when you see some of these names. Father Coleman would probably be glad to translate. His email address is coleman@diocesekcsj.org As long as we don't overpower him with requests. But he is a very nice man. He is in charge of all the genealogy records for Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO. I hope these records are put on this website, that would be wonderful. Also, another suggestion. One time I just searched "Latin translation" on the Internet and a couple of websites came up. Happy Thanksgiving everybody, Helen Rehm ----- Original Message ----- From: "connie beachy" <cbeachy@gcnetmail.net> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] St. Peter's baptism records > I agree 100% with Pat on this. I'll bet someone on this list will know > enough Latin to help the rest of us. > Connie > > > Hey, out on the list, do you agree I should try my best to type the names > > just as Latinized by the priests? > > --------- > > Type the names as you see them Art. If they appear to be names someone is > > researching they can probably find help translating them to English. > > > > To bad we can't send scanned images to the Rootsweb lists, it sure would > save a lot of typing time, but I understand the reason we can't and am > thankful for everything Rootsweb provides to the world of genealogy. > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list > administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > >

Call the cemetery -----Original Message----- From: Loretta Myrter [mailto:lorettam@adelphia.net] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:29 PM To: MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Grantsville Cemetery Hi Jon, Thanks very much for responding and for your suggestion. I am looking for the graves of Roy A. Gearhart, died Dec. 16, 2000 and Bertha A. Gearhart, died Nov. 13, 1999 in Grantsville Cemetery. Again, many thanks for your help. Loretta ----- Original Message ----- From: <RobJon2@aol.com> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Grantsville Cemetery > Loretta, > > As Shelly mentioned, Garrett County Graves (1987) and Corrigendum (1995), both available from the Garrett Co Historical Society, are invaluable resources for any of us researching in the area. > > Many on the list have the publication, and have helped other researchers in the past. If you just tell us who you are looking for, I'm certain you will get a reply. > > Sincerely, > Jon Marie > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== Looking for your Garrett County ancestors? Make sure to visit us on the web at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdgarret/index.html

Then again, there are those who are almost guaranteed to lie about their age...Jack Benny...most all of my (dear) relatives....I think it starts in youth when some lie to be older, thus taken seriously, then as a parent, remember when there were more children's fares, like 15 cents off on a bus fare....12 year olds always cringe when their mom or pop says they are 9 or 10, then......er, uh, I lost a couple years for a while. Years ago I had a really tough union negotiating position for 6 months and after that I said 37, 40, 50 all easy when you've been 107. Art Thomas Shade <tomdel2@webtv.net> wrote: Too bad all censuses do not get info from mothers. In my family history, one mother's age changes by more than 10 years from one census to the next, and she was not always getting older. Sometimes I think "Maybe a neighbor gave this info." Delores ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

<Sigh> Too bad all censuses do not get info from mothers. In my family history, one mother's age changes by more than 10 years from one census to the next, and she was not always getting older. Sometimes I think "Maybe a neighbor gave this info." Delores

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Harriet, I am reading the book now, and although he was born in Frederick Co, that part of the county is now Montgomery Co. Page viii says, "After they reurned from this campaign Joshua Browning settled at the village of Damascus, Montgomery Co., where he married Nancy Farmer, who was the mother of Meshach Browning...." His father died when Meshach was 2 weeks old. If I am incorrect in assuming that Damascus was at that time a part of Frederick Co., I hope somebody will correct me. Again, I am not aware when Montgomery Co. was created. Was it created from only Frederick Co., or was part of Prince Georges Co. taken? If Connie is out there reading this, she probably has the dates at hand. The date of Meshach's birth was 1781.