Thanks for all your help, like I said, I am just getting started and I will take your advice. Thanks again, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "cheryl shiveley" <angel_wings1953@sbcglobal.net> To: <miiosco@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [MIIOSCO] Noel Family Records: > Hi: > > My first recommendation is to belong to the surname group to see if anyone > else is researching the same name: SurnameForum@yahoogroups.com > > Second, would be if possible, be part of Ancestry.com. There are other > great sites also. If you haven't already check out the Mormon site > www.familysearch.org > > Third, check out: www.cyndislist.com > > Don't know what genealogy program you are using. If you don't have one of > the new Family Tree Maker programs that offers 6 months to 1 year free to > Ancestry.com that is a good investment. I got mine off EBay and I LOVE > it. > > Also, check out the Huron Genealogy Society. I have one of their discs I > also got off EBay that you can look for family also from Iosco county > area. > > If I can be of help any more I will try. > > Cheryl > > > > >>I am trying to find out how and what records would show what country >>someone came from. >> My first family members, as far as I can determine show up in the 1870 >> census in Iosco County (East Tawas) to be exact, and the census shows >> they >> were French Canadians. >> Would naturalization records, death certificates or any other type of >> records from Iosco County show this information? >>>From your web site I also found the index information on St.Joseph's >>>Cemetery where they are buried and wonder if those records would have >>>this >>>information possibly? >> Alfred and Eliza C. Noel were their names, and as I said before, came to >> East Tawas around 1866 or so. >> Their children Alfred and Blanch also lived and passed away while living >> in East Tawas. >> There son Alfred had four children, Grace, Nina and twin brothers Joseph >> and Stanley Noel. From what I have heard, the two boys played allot of >> baseball and were in the Herald paper quite often during the spring and >> summer months of 1925 thru 1929. >> Stanley Noel was my grandfather who married Alice Ostrander also from >> East >> Tawas back in 1930 but he passed away I think around 1962 when I was a >> child. >> As best as I can remember he was good friends with a Hall of Fame >> ballplayer Hazen (Ki-Ki) Cuyler from Alcona County back in the 1920's and >> 1930's. >> I don't have but a few family members left and the information is very >> scarce anymore. I am just beginning a family tree and found the Iosco MI >> GEN WEB Site totally fantastic from both the county and state levels. >> Just >> want to say thanks in advance if anyone can help, and also a big thank >> you >> to all the volunteers and people involved in making this web site so >> fantastic. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIIOSCO-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 > MIIOSCO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/469 - Release Date: 10/9/2006 >