This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/1712.1728.1.1 Message Board Post: Am I to assume, that you are saying that James lived in Arkansas as well? Pat cw

I have checked all my files and have not found your Samuel A MILLS. However, from the areas you say he lived could he be related to the Robert MILLS, the architect of Washington, D.C. You might check to see if there are any MILLS in or near the area of Robert on the census for the time period. pat cw

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/1840.1866.1 Message Board Post: Do not know if this is a possible link for you: Hope MILLS married Jane BARTLES had a son Hope, Jr.Warren Co, Ohio, to Fulton Co, IL, and could have moved on to Iowa. Of this family tree, there was also a Charles MILLS born in Dayton, Montgomery Co, OH also moved on and the family rumor was that they moved to either Kansas or Iowa. Of this family tree, there is also a Hope MILLS III, of New Jersey, has 3 children listed as Unknown MILLS, could be of your family? My family MILLS research is of Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio and back to Essex Co, NJ, with ties by DNA to Grimsby and Charlotteville, Ontario, Canada, with these families moving back to the US after the War of 1812, and settling in MO, ?IA, IL, IN. pat cw

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/1712.1728.1 Message Board Post: Looking for the parents or ancestors of James J. Mills b. 1825 d. 1885

Do you have Twila's correct e-mail address? Carolyn Mills Hughes > [Original Message] > From: <grandmas10kids@hotmail.com> > To: <MILLS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 11/20/05 9:10:39 PM > Subject: [MILLS] Re: IOWA MILLS....CLARKE/DECATUR/UNION COUNTIES > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/2476.1.2.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > My daughter must have posted that and used my email. She married a John Mills whose dad was Bruce MIlls. I'll see if Twyla has her family history handy and can neomail you. > > > ==== MILLS Mailing List ==== > Hoaxes and Urban Legends on the Internet > http://www.snopes.com/ > <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a> > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/2476.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: My daughter must have posted that and used my email. She married a John Mills whose dad was Bruce MIlls. I'll see if Twyla has her family history handy and can neomail you.

Descendants of George Mills Generation No. 1 1. George Mills was born Abt. 1795 in , , Virginia. He married Susan. She was born Abt. 1797 in , , Virginia. Children of George Mills and Susan are: 2 i. Daniel Mills, born Abt. 1824 in , , Virginia. 3 ii. Henry Mills, born Abt. 1828 in , , Virginia. 4 iii. Simeon Mills, born Abt. 1830 in , , Virginia. 5 iv. Susan Mills, born Abt. 1831 in , , Virginia. 6 v. Catharine Mills, born Abt. 1832 in , , Virginia. + 7 vi. Joseph Mills, born Jun 1834 in , , Virginia. 8 vii. Samuel Mills, born Abt. 1839 in , , Virginia. Generation No. 2 7. Joseph Mills (George) was born Jun 1834 in , , Virginia. He married Mary Abt. 1858 in , , Virginia. She was born Apr 1840 in , , Virginia. More About Joseph Mills and Mary: Marriage: Abt. 1858, , , Virginia Children of Joseph Mills and Mary are: 9 i. Laura V. Mills, born Abt. 1860 in , , Virginia. 10 ii. Thomas S. Mills, born Mar 1864 in , , Virginia. 11 iii. Mary A. Mills, born Abt. 1866 in , , Virginia. 12 iv. Joseph E. Mills, born Abt. 1869 in , , Virginia. 13 v. Alice Mills, born Feb 1870 in , , Virginia. 14 vi. Walter Mills, born 1872 in , , Virginia. 15 vii. James Mills, born Abt. 1874 in , , Virginia. 16 viii. Edgar Mills, born Jun 1876 in , , Virginia. + 17 ix. Samuel A. Mills, born May 1877 in , , Virginia. Generation No. 3 17. Samuel A. Mills (Joseph, George) was born May 1877 in , , Virginia. He married Susan Abt. 1900. She was born Abt. 1867 in , , Virginia. More About Samuel Mills and Susan: Marriage: Abt. 1900 Children of Samuel Mills and Susan are: 18 i. Ada M. Mills, born Abt. 1901 in Washington, District of Columbia. 19 ii. Elsie V. Mills, born Abt. 1905 in , , Virginia. She married Charles F. Wahl; born Abt. 1892 in , , Maryland.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills Wahl Witte Pearce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/3458 Message Board Post: My ggrandfather was born in northern VA and lived for a time in the District of Columbia. He was the sone of Joseph and Mary Mills, and married a Susie/Sue/Susan depending on the census I check. Daughters Ada and Elsie (my gmom) lived in MD. I found a Samuel Athey Mills in the WW I draft records and was wondering whether this was my Sam. Is anyone associated with this VA line? His brother was named George, and there were several others.

I saw this on another mailing list and decided to send along along......... http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,635160683,00.html Fake family trees online may trip up genealogists By Lee Davidson Deseret Morning News Genealogists beware. A software company is marketing a new program to Internet advertisers that could quickly generate Web sites full of extensive, but fake, family trees. Critics say the approach appears to be part of a new money-making scheme to lure people who search for family names on Google, Yahoo or other search engines to Web sites that use bogus data to help ensure they appear high on "hit lists." They then make money if visitors click on advertisers' links. They worry that novices might download false information that is designed to look real, and then corrupt others' family trees if they share that bad data online or through family history databases such as those offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or the commercial Utah-based Ancestry.com However, Don Harrold, co-creator of a program called "Fake Family," which he sells for $75, says data it produces has "absolutely zero chance" of matching any real person or family. He says he has offered the program to fewer than 30 self-described Internet advertisers, so its use is not widespread, and he has not made money on it. Why make it then? "Why not? I enjoy trying to find ways to create computer simulations of organic life," Harrold told the Deseret Morning News. But online chat groups of both genealogists and Internet advertisers are buzzing about what the new program could do to genealogical research, and why Harrold is marketing it, even if, as he says, to a small group. Dan Eastman, author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, wrote this past week that he believes Harrold "wants to flood the Internet with bogus genealogy material, all for the purpose of making easy money." Online information that Harrold wrote says his product can "create thousands of pages of unique . . . content with almost no effort. Neither humans nor search engines will be able to tell whether the content is 'real' or 'generated.' " How could that make money? Josh Anderson, an Internet advertiser from Idaho, who also is a genealogist concerned about the product, explains Web hosts can program their sites to display "sponsored links." Advertisers pay search engines to have these appear on screen whenever certain key words such as "genealogy" are part of a search. When such links are clicked by a visitor, the Web site host and search engine company split revenue from an advertiser. (Of course, Web sites can also offer other forms of advertising.) "It can be a very profitable source of income. Some people make millions of dollars a year doing it," Anderson said. "The whole purpose (of Fake Family-style sites) is to trick the search engine, so they get a top listing for some search words" to attract more visitors and potentially more revenue-producing mouse clicks. Search engine companies say they hunt for and remove from listings any sites that are bogus or that scrape content from other sites merely to act as a vehicle to carry advertiser links. But Fake Family boasts in written information that it can fool search engines. It does not merely produce lists of random names, but links them generation-to-generation with bogus birth, marriage and death dates and places. It adds that its randomly generated names "are era-specific," meaning you will get more names such as Orville and Bertha in the 1880s than the 1980s. Infant mortality, marriage rates and migration data is also encoded, and more. It's the rich family "experience" that Fake Family provides that is significant and makes the output stunning in its ability to look real to humans. Internet advertisers helped the Deseret Morning News identify a few genealogy sites that appeared to contain only bogus information, along with plenty of advertiser links. Harrold, however, said he only knows of one generated by Fake Family (even though he said in written information that he has "monetized" several family history sites). "This is scary to me," said Mindy Koch, an Internet advertiser from North Carolina and an avid genealogist. "There is a great chance that a novice could think this is real. If they download it, and then later upload it into repositories like (the LDS Church's) Ancestral File, those databases would include lots of people who never existed." Also, she added that it potentially could make search engines more difficult to use for genealogy if bogus sites slow them or account for all the "top hits." Harrold says such threats are imagined and not real. He said the chances of randomly selected first and last names, coupled with randomly selected places and dates, being shown as married to the same persons as people who actually lived "are not just slim, they are nonexistent." He said if someone still mistook such information as real and downloaded it, "that's their fault." He adds, "If you want real family information, why are you not looking at Census records? If you're not paying for it, and I didn't ask you to take it, and the name and date don't match your family tree, why are you taking this information? Any onus is on the people who take this information." Some in genealogy chat groups, however, complained that a name that looks even roughly plausible could be mistaken as real by a novice, or cause even a genealogy expert to spend a lot of time and money to eliminate the possibility it is the person for whom they are seeking. "Boo hoo," Harrold told the Morning News in response to such complaints. He said "the real story" is how Google and other search engines do not verify content they seek and guide others to for profit. He said databases by the LDS Church and Ancestry.com also contain some incorrect information submitted by patrons. His obviously false data creates less threat to genealogy research than they do, he said. Harrold suggested in chat groups that he might sue people who referred to his work as a "scam." He also warned the Morning News to be careful what it said about him. In turn, makers of the Legacy Family Tree software threatened to sue Harrold if he did not remove from his Web site instructions about how to download free software from them that could assist the Fake Family program. Meanwhile, Mary Kay Evans, spokeswoman for Ancestry.com, a Utah company that, as part of its service, offers a large database of names, said, "It is so unfortunate that there are predators on the Web who target people interested in their genealogy. Genealogy is such a popular hobby that predators are moving to take advantage of that." Evans, as well as many genealogists and even Harrold himself, urges genealogists to verify carefully all sources of information in genealogy, especially any obtained online from people they do not know. "That is a primary role of Ancestry.com, to help people see source records," Evans said. Anderson, who operates a small family Web site, also encourages genealogists to actually talk to people operating such sites and ask for all source information. E-mail: lee@desnews.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3457 Message Board Post: MILLS_Billie_C_1924-2000.JPG I received this gravestone photograph as an Eagle Scout Project by Matthew Pepper. They were taken in the Pleasant Point Cemetery , Lillian, Johnson Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records. This is one of the 130,331 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3456 Message Board Post: MILLS_Royce_W_1919-1982.JPG I received this gravestone photograph as an Eagle Scout Project by Matthew Pepper. They were taken in the Pleasant Point Cemetery , Lillian, Johnson Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records. This is one of the 130,331 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3455 Message Board Post: MILLS_Royce_W_and_Billie_C.JPG I received this gravestone photograph as an Eagle Scout Project by Matthew Pepper. They were taken in the Pleasant Point Cemetery , Lillian, Johnson Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records. This is one of the 130,331 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3454 Message Board Post: MILLS_Royce_Wilson_1919-1982_.JPG I received this gravestone photograph as an Eagle Scout Project by Matthew Pepper. They were taken in the Pleasant Point Cemetery , Lillian, Johnson Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your personal records. This is one of the 130,331 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3453.1 Message Board Post: HI COLLEEN, SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO REPLY. I AM NOT SURE OF GEORGE'S PARENTS NAMES. I KNOW THAT IN THE CENSUS IT STATES THAT GEORGE'S PARENTS WERE BOTH BORN IN MISSOURI. I AM IN THE PROCESS OF SENDING AWAY FOR BIRTH CERTIFICATES. IT JUST ALL TAKES TIME. MY FATHER BILL CHILTON JUST PASSED AWAY, IT IS GETTING HARDER TO FIND SOMEONE LIVING TO ASK THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. BILL IS THE SON OF BESSIE (MILLS) CHILTON. BESSIE WAS ONE OF GEORGE AND JOSEPHINE'S DAUGHTERS. BESSIE WAS BORN IN CENTERVILLE MISSOURI ON JAN. 19TH 1902. THANK YOU FOR THE REPLY, AND GOOD LUCK WITH ALL YOUR SEARCHES

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: scott, Debnam, Wilson, Bradford, Brown, Williams, Watkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/708.758.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any Scott, Wilson, Debnam, Hipkins, Williams, or Brown in your family. In the area of Canada and Massachussetes or maine.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: scott, Debnam, Wilson, Bradford, Brown, Williams, Watkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/708.759 Message Board Post: My family is Wampanoag. My ggggrand mother was Drusilla Wilson(1884) born in Canada who married George Debnam born in North Carolina. Her mother Was Charlotte Wilson (born in Canada and immigrated to Massachussetes in 1890)we do not know her maiden name. Please tell me if you are family

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/3449.10.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Update: Re: MILLS of Montgomery Co. Ohio and Essex Co, NJ. DNA test run on descendant of Richard MILLS of Montgomery Co, Ohio, matched with 3 other DNA kits on www.familytreedna.com under MILLS. John, B: 1733 Sussex Co, NJ, UE Loyalist of Ontario, Canada, and Lewis, B: 1798 NJ, and Abraham, B: 1808 of Charlottleville, Ontario, Canada. John and Abraham's families have descendant children who have married and linked the families. Will send my little gedcom to you, today. 11 15 05. I am still looking for parents of John, Abraham, and Lewis, to tie them into our George MILLS of Jamaica, LI NY family tree. pat cw

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MILLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jE1.2ACEB/30.39.844.1 Message Board Post: Joanne: Do not remember if I wrote to you prior or not. But am also interested in MILLS of Sussex Co, NJ. Through DNA our family matched John, B: 1733, Abraham, B: 1808, of Sussex Co, NJ and Charlottleville, Ontario, Canada, and Lewis, abt 1798 NJ. John removed from NJ was a loyalist, was on pillory, is on UE Loyalist List of Ontario, Canada. His family members too. I have put together a little gedcom of related family for John, etc. pat cw

Just noticed that the George MILLS and Susan Kelly is documented very well on either rootsweb.com or ancestry.com or other gen sites. As George Washington MILLS, and Susan Clementine Kelley. He son of John Riley MILLS descendant of Aaron and Pamela, son of Seth and Charity Thornburg(h) MILLS family tree. pat cw

Have you both tried checking old postings to the various message boards. Another researcher, Kelly Schmidt _kellys@kcisp.net_ (mailto:kellys@kcisp.net) is also researching similar family names. George MILLS and Susan C Kelly, she born 1860 in AR, they were married 9 29 1879. She dau of John R. and Cyrene Chandler Kelly, 1 8 1839 in AR. pat cw