am new to this list and hoping someone can help me. I am looking for John W. Wright, son of Dora and Will Wright who was born in July of 1887 in Springfield, MO. Does anyone have this person in their ancestry? Dottie in So. Cal.

I don't know about Heritage Quest's 1910 Census Index, but I've just learned that if you'd like free access (thru December) to their Index to 1870, you can go to: http://librarycommission.lib.wv.us FALL 2002 DATABASE TRIALS WEB PAGE select HERITAGE QUEST the password is welcome (small letters) expires 12/31/02 I found some missing ancestors here...enjoy! Rod, Austin, TX

I am looking for his burial place.He was in your esteemed county in the 1880 census.But his wife was in Chariton County in 1890 census.She was ultimately buried in CA..Since he was in your county last I am assuming he died there,does anyone on the list know how I could find out about where he might be buried? Or if he did died there? Linda

I ran across this site this last week and thought some of you might find it helpful in locating a site that will help you with your genealogical research. Internet Resources - for Genealogy http://www.d230.org/stagg/LiskaLinks/genealogy.htm Kathleen Burnett List Mom

I am searching for an obituary for my great-great-great grandmother, Elizabeth (or Eliza) Green. She was the mother of James Edward Green. Born in KY about 1805. Was living with James and his family south of Mexico in Salt River Township in June 1880 during that year's census. It is believed she was a founding member of the Union Chapel Church. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. Rod Green Austin, TX

Robin, this may be a duplicate, my computer when down. Could it be Mineola, Missouri you are looking for? It is in Montgomery County, which is next to Audrain County. I can see where the handwritten word could be confused from Mineola to Mindols or Mendols. Sharon P. Williamson Sharon P. Williamson spwilli@psyber.com

Robin, this may be a duplicate, my computer when down. Could it be Mineola, Missouri you are looking for? It is in Montgomery County, which is next to Audrain County. I can see where the handwritten word could be confused from Mineola to Mindols or Mendols. Sharon P. Williamson spwilli@psyber.com

If someone has access to the Benton City Cemetery directory, I would appreciate if you could see if a James L. Hampton, date of death November 15, 1884, is listed. I am looking for his date of birth. From death records he is buried at Benton City Cemetery. Thank you. Betty Kokal

The US 1880, and 1881 British and Canadian Censuses are now online and available to be searched FREE on the LDS site... http://www.familysearch.org/ Kathleen Burnett List Mom

Thanks. I'll keep that in my notes. The only names I have so far are: Charles Franklin; Mary (Stokes); William Patrick, John and Ida. ----- Original Message ----- From: Leslie & Gary Kohler Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:06 AM To: MOAUDRAI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOAUDRAI] Community in County? Robin, I see that you are still searching for an answer to finding your unknown town. I forgot to say that we have a Margaret ("Peggy") MOORE, who m/ Hugh GLENN. All that I have so far on them is that he died 1834 in Randolph County, MO. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler ----- Original Message ----- > Was wondering if anyone would have knowledge of a community/town/city? that would have been around in the late 1800's. I'm not sure of the spelling because the only lead I have for this particular branch of the family is an old social security application. Her birthplace is listed as Mendols? Mindols? (can't read her writing) MO. The family I'm searching for information about is Charles Franklin and Mary (Stokes) Moore. Ida Moore was born in MO. Thanks for you time. Robin ==== MOAUDRAI Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net

Robin, I see that you are still searching for an answer to finding your unknown town. I forgot to say that we have a Margaret ("Peggy") MOORE, who m/ Hugh GLENN. All that I have so far on them is that he died 1834 in Randolph County, MO. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler ----- Original Message ----- > Was wondering if anyone would have knowledge of a community/town/city? that would have been around in the late 1800's. I'm not sure of the spelling because the only lead I have for this particular branch of the family is an old social security application. Her birthplace is listed as Mendols? Mindols? (can't read her writing) MO. The family I'm searching for information about is Charles Franklin and Mary (Stokes) Moore. Ida Moore was born in MO. Thanks for you time. Robin

Was wondering if anyone would have knowledge of a community/town/city? that would have been around in the late 1800's. I'm not sure of the spelling because the only lead I have for this particular branch of the family is an old social security application. Her birthplace is listed as Mendols? Mindols? (can't read her writing) MO. The family I'm searching for information about is Charles Franklin and Mary (Stokes) Moore. Ida Moore was born in MO. Thanks for you time. Robin

Dear List Members, >From the amount of messages I am getting asking for help in changing subscriptions to a new address, and or unsubscribing I thought it was time again to remind you how to accomplish this. First....If you are needing to change your subscription to a new e-mail address, my suggestion is to go to Password Central before your address changes. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ Type in the e-mail address you will be loosing... and mark "To which lists am I subscribed? " Don't forget to click on "E-mail me my Info" at the bottom of the page. In a few moment you will receive via e-mail a list of all Rootsweb Mailing Lists you belong to. Save a copy of this e-mail. From this list you can unsubscribe from any or all of the lists. From your saved copy you will know what lists you want to re-subscribe. If you are just trying to unsubscribe....send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to NAMEOFLIST-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM Change NAMEOFLIST to the name of the list you are wanting to unsubscribe from. Remember if you are on the Digest list you need to change the L to a D. If you are still having trouble unsubscribing...then you can contact me KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net and I will try to help. Please let me know what you have tried and what happened. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

Just type in www.segenealogy.com/ and then go from there to other links. I got the same error msg on the address you gave. It may be that that site is not up and running yet. Howard

Sorry I got the wrong page http://www.segenealogy.com/missouri/mo_maps.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: SistCnslr2002@aol.com To: floridamom@mchsi.com Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:42 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Census maps I get an error message when I use the link in the message. What about you? Charlene

This is a follow-up to my recent post about needed access to Vital Records. The problem is not that the vital records cannot be accessed; they can. For a fee, the staff at the Department of Health will search for a record. If they find it, they will send a copy. Too often the response is that they found no record. I sought birth and death data re my aunt, who died before her brother, my father, was born. He told me that her given name was Mildred. I sent my money for searches and was advised that no records were found. I found her baptismal record by a different given name. It happens that the relevant records in this case were not held by the Mo. Dept. of Health, and I was able to review the hand-written birth and death records. I found her birth record by a third given name, but, by the time she died, she was indeed Mildred. A staff simply cannot locate a record under such circumstances. A researcher can, but depends on access to the data. My grandmother's maiden name was very difficult to spell. I knew the ship and arrival date of her aunt (same surname). It took me three times thru a transcription of the ship list to recognize her thoroughly-butchered name. Of course, I could not find her name in the index. I never did find her sister who was with her. My name is Doerr; in an old list, it is spelled 'Ter'. Only by searching the original records, or microforms thereof, can one find the needed data in such cases. (I guess I now have an idea as to how my ancestors pronounced our name.) The researcher has patience and incentive to find the data; any staff must depend on their imperfect indexes and the Health Department has incentive to send a 'no find' letter. Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Please see http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/state.htm

Hello! I'm new here and new to this genealogy stuff, but I'm having a blast with it!! [As soon as I find a "newbie" FAQ I'll feel better about what I'm doing, where to find information, and how to track down history! :) ] My grandfather carried the mail in Vandalia for 33 years and I posted two pictures, one of the horse drawn mail cart I played in as a kid, the other of his retirement. http://www.cjsystems.com/mill1.htm Have a very great day!! joe

I had a crash in June. I lost all my e-mail matter, but NONE of my data which I back up carefully. I wish it were easy to back up e-mail. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathleen Burnett To: MOAUDRAI-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 9:55 PM Subject: [MOAUDRAI] From List Mom - Computer Crash Dear List Members, My Computer crashed this week and I lost all e-mail that I was saving to answer and over 800 messages that I had just downloaded. If you sent me a personal message within the last week, you need to send it again. Kathleen Burnett List Mom ==== MOAUDRAI Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net

Dear List Members, My Computer crashed this week and I lost all e-mail that I was saving to answer and over 800 messages that I had just downloaded. If you sent me a personal message within the last week, you need to send it again. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

Records at risk A number of kinds of records that are of value for family historians are often at risk because only the originals exist. Thus, they are at risk of discard as old and value-less, or of fire, storm, mold, age-related deterioration or vandalism. These include mainly school records (teachers daily records that show the names of the pupils, often their parents or guardians), bible records, sexton's records, mortuary records and church records. You may know of others. Some business records are also valuable, if only indirectly. (Fortunately, in Missouri, most courthouse records have been microfilmed, but it pays to check with the officials to be sure.) There are several ways to reduce the risk of loss of these records. These include photocopying, microfilming (with the negatives stored safely, at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at the State Archives), photography, copying to CD or DVD, and publication in a well-distributed and well-indexed organ. By well-indexed, I mean both name-indexed within the organ and, for periodicals, indexed in Periodical Source Index (PERSI). For the present, a procedure of both publication and filming on silver (not color) film provides the most security. That way, both an image of the original and an indexed transcription is preserved. Digital recording media change so often that the records may become unavailable when the system for reading the media become obsolete and are discarded. This is to urge all those interested in family history to search for such records and to see to the protection of all those found. If you cannot make the rounds of your local courthouses and historical societies and museums, please call around, and use mail or e-mail. Judgment is needed as to where to publish. Church, school, sexton's and mortuary records are best published in a local magazine if it is indexed in PERSI. Bible records, which, by the way, do not lend themselves to microfilming, are best published in a magazine that covers the area in which the family lived, or in a magazine of regional or state-wide coverage if the family extends beyond, say, a county. I offer publication of good transcriptions in the Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal. The Journal is widely distributed, has a good annual index, and is indexed in PERSI. I can work from good photocopies or scans of the originals. There is, of course, no charge for publishing in the Journal, and submitters receive a copy of each issue in which their work appears. If a record collection is too large for publication in the Journal, I can probably help arrange for publication in book form. Bob Doerr, Editor, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal Please see http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/state.htm