I would take the info and continue the hunt. As Jim said, there would always be that question - did the transcriber write it down right? And I love collecting the old documents, photos, visiting the cemeteries and finding the stories there. Even if the documentation is given to you, I just feel a need to personalize the records - fill in my own personal history. I guess you could say it is comforting. BUT, genealogy is not just about learning about your ancestors. It is also learning about your unknown living relatives. I love walking up to someone here and town that I have known all my life and saying "Hey, did you know we are cousins?" Last year I found out my next door neighbor (whom I have lived beside for nine years) is my third cousin on my Bellah side. I went over and said "Hey Don - - did you know we are cousins?" He had known my mother and her brother all his life, but never knew they were related! He started whipping out pictures and talking about relatives - what a blast! SO, I already take all the info I can get (that's why these lists are started isn't it - the helpful nature of the genealogist?) and set about trying to collect my own documentation. Peggy -----Original Message----- From: Lanita Sconce Miller [mailto:ozarkn@southwind.net] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:43 PM To: MO-OREGON-HISTORY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] discussion topic If you had a chance to know all about all of your ancestors, with no more searching and investigating, would you take it? In other words, how many of you are doing this to learn the information over doing this because you enjoy the challenge of finding the information?

My oh My what a question!! After researching for only 3 years I cannot imagine giving up the chance to do the chase and hunt of researching. I have been given stuff, butlooked at it and stuck it on the bookcase. I love to research, it stimulates my mind in ways that most things don't. I want more than the dry dates, I want the nitty gritty. When I started out my mother had 3 cousins on her Thompson side of the family. And none of them close. If nothing else my research has strengthened the family ties. This family is talking again. I feel a tremendous blessing when one cousin says "cousin so and so called the other night and we talked a long time" , when before it had been 10 years since there was any contact. I love it. I don't get to get out as often as I would like. But hopefully once it gets warmer and all I will be able to. Carol >From: Lanita Sconce Miller <ozarkn@southwind.net> >Reply-To: ozarkn@southwind.net >To: MO-OREGON-HISTORY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] topic >Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 18:29:46 -0600 > >Okay.. let's make it harder.. > >Let's say that all the information on every ancestor, guaranteed to be >true with documentation, is available to you, and there is no more >'need' to search, stomp through cemeteries, read census, Wills, etc.... >It's all handed to you on a silver platter... would you take it, or >would you say, no thanks, I'll do it myself!!... > >Lanita > > >==== MO-OREGON-HISTORY Mailing List ==== >http://www.oregoncountyhistory.net/ _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

Sorry Guys, I love this genealogy "stuff," but my Sparks side just simply will not cough up any information. So....I would take it in a micro-minute! Trying to find information on my grandmother's family is like playing a mind crushing game of chess....and never winning. After I received the information I would have a blast contacting "cousins" and family that I never knew existed, which would open another totally new world. What fun that would be! So find it....and I will come! By the way.....in case I haven't mentioned it....I love this list! Lorena

Hey Gang, Been awhile since we have had a thought provoking subject.....Interesting. Lanita, Blanks could be the period of time not shown by actual documents, such as living in Tn in 1880 and then having a baby in Ky in 1885, and then BAM ending up in Alabama in he late 1800's, while the rest of his family siblins and Mom are in Mo. If a person had that info I would have to look at it ......Curiosity is killing me. Have to admit though I love the research and the friends and family I have found doing the research. What great fun!!!!!!! C.J. Williams

RE: fill in the blanks What blanks? You already have all the info with the documentation.. there won't be any blanks!! See why I struggled with this question! Lanita

Someone find all my missing links and then test me. I won't take it. Honestly, I would take it but I would try to check it myself and fill in the blanks. There is a lot to know other than the just the dry dates. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lanita Sconce Miller" <ozarkn@southwind.net> To: <MO-OREGON-HISTORY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:42 PM Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] discussion topic > Okay, I saw this question when I was surfing the net this week, and have > thought about it ever since.. > > What are your thought son this? > > > If you had a chance to know all about all of your ancestors, with no > more searching and investigating, would you take it? In other words, how > many of you are doing this to learn the information over doing this > because you enjoy the challenge of finding the information? > > Okay gang.. step up to the mike, and tell us your thoughts! > > Lanita > > > ==== MO-OREGON-HISTORY Mailing List ==== > http://www.oregoncountyhistory.net/ >

Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] part 2 Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:27:11 -0500 From: Jeanette <jmcclur@mail.tigernet.gen.mo.us> To: ozarkn@southwind.net I would probably take it, weed through it, put it aside and go on with what I am doing...Ha. We are sometimes called "Diehards". And I love the HUNT, and always have. I think it's all my fathers fault, he was always "digging up kin" altho, he never wrote a thing down....Jeanette.

Ken tells me that some of the links from the "Confederate Cemetery Listings" are broken. Hopefully, the urls below will lead you to the same information. Confederate Veterans buried in Oregon County, MO: http://home.columbus.rr.com/oregonco/cveterans.htm Missouri Civil War Veterans buried out-of-state: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/veterans2.html Missouri in the Civil War: [includes county-by-county listings]: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocivwar/veterans.html Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery: [132,045 records] http://www.interment.net/data/us/mo/stlouis/jeffbarr/

I think I would have to have the information given to me. I have worked on my father's Morris-Dodson line for so long . I have made progress but not much. I can not find my father Ethridge Morris , his mother ( Ellen Morris) nor Her sister (Elsie Pollard Wilson ) anywhere in the 1930 census. I found Ellen in 1929 when she married a R.W. Morris in Dunklin co Missouri. After years of looking I did find My grandfather Gus Morris in 1920 census !! That was a surpise since I was always told he died in 1919 . That was so great. But I think I would on most days want to know. Other days I enjoy the hunt. So maybe it depends on the day you ask. could be tomorrow I would like the hunt more! Jennie -- ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/

AND... if you say, I'd grab it...... THEN, what would you do with all the info? How would you continue your genealogical habit/passion? Lanita

Okay.. let's make it harder.. Let's say that all the information on every ancestor, guaranteed to be true with documentation, is available to you, and there is no more 'need' to search, stomp through cemeteries, read census, Wills, etc.... It's all handed to you on a silver platter... would you take it, or would you say, no thanks, I'll do it myself!!... Lanita

Lets face it ,if you don't find it your self, their is allways a question of ," Is it true or not " is it realy them ,with ouy your own documentation, you will allways have a dought in the back of your mind . JIM

Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] discussion topic Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 16:09:31 -0500 From: Jeanette <jmcclur@mail.tigernet.gen.mo.us> To: ozarkn@southwind.net Lanita!! I do it because I have done it for 34 years and am still very much enjoying the HUNT. Think I shoulda been a Detective. Ha. Jeanette Henson McClure, Pres. of ICGS, and CG.

I have long been a "cross-word puzzler" (fanatic, my husband would say) and that extends to my genealogical searches. I definitely do it first for the challenge and then for the information and all that it provides. It's definitely not one or the other, just one more being more important than the other. Catherine Lanita Sconce Miller wrote: > > If you had a chance to know all about all of your ancestors, with no > more searching and investigating, would you take it? In other words, how > many of you are doing this to learn the information over doing this > because you enjoy the challenge of finding the information? >

Lanita, Now this is a very good question and really something to think about. Now take it - YES I couldn't resist taking it - but would I be satisfied? That would be a resounding NO - I would have missed the 'chase', the 'friends', the 'thrills', 'the struggles' and yes even those brick walls. That is the joy, finding that little clue which always opens up MORE QUESTIONS and more to search for. Never-ending, yes - but that is the fun - knowing that if, for some unimaginable piece of luck, I ever did find out all that there was to ever know about even ONE of my direct ancestors, there are always two more, four more, eight more and so on! It is always wanting to know more. If I knew everything and had it just handed to me, I would just be reading continually and missing the 'ride'. Makes me think of the Bible and can readily see why God doesn't provide us with all the answers at once! Are we really ready for ALL the facts on a platter! NOT ME! But please do keep those 'appetizers' coming my way! >smiling< Ann (Jobe) Brown > > > If you had a chance to know all about all of your ancestors, with no > more searching and investigating, would you take it? In other words, how > many of you are doing this to learn the information over doing this > because you enjoy the challenge of finding the information? > > Okay gang.. step up to the mike, and tell us your thoughts!

Okay, I saw this question when I was surfing the net this week, and have thought about it ever since.. What are your thought son this? If you had a chance to know all about all of your ancestors, with no more searching and investigating, would you take it? In other words, how many of you are doing this to learn the information over doing this because you enjoy the challenge of finding the information? Okay gang.. step up to the mike, and tell us your thoughts! Lanita

I have 2 family lines I have been searchen for over 20 years and got nowhere. James Sutton died in Wayne county MO. between 1850 and 1860 can't find anything that would show who his parents are. Also William Leach is a orphan on the 1850 Wayne counry MO. census and can't find anything that shows his parents. A fire took all records is what I get. So would gladly take the information. Barbara eor@saber.net

This website includes Confederate Cemetery Listings. Here's the link for Missouri, which includes Higginsville: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Grounds/7235/Missouri.htm

This is a site a friend sent ,its Native American foods . JIM http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/recipes.html

Good Evening, I know some of you have been following the controversy surrounding Confederate Battle Flags being lowered at two historic memorial sites in Missouri. If you would like to bring yourself up-to-date on this important issue concerning everyone's heritage, browse through the relevant discussions in the MO-CW Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MO-CW/2003-01 If you STILL don't think this will have its ramifications on you, then consider this: The next time you go to search for one of your ancestors on the internet, or at the historical society, or ask me to do a lookup for you, or ask Lanita to do a lookup for you, or one of the volunteers on the website to do a lookup for you, Grandpa or Grandma's records just might not be there. Because, unfortunately, the people who you are paying to preserve these records have decided it is within their power to [and I quote here] "interpret history so that it does not offend...." And some politician may have decided to get his 15 minutes of fame by erasing YOUR family's name from the pages of history. N "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmund Burke