Thank Joe for all your past help thanks for being there for all of us pat

Missouri Marriages - Washington, St. Francois, Jefferson, Franklin, Crawford Jefferson County Marriages Volume 1 1881-1885 is now migrated into the searchable index. Over 64% of the marriage entries have been moved from the static pages into the database. The site has 23,630 marriage entries in the searchable database with another 13,082 on static pages accessed from the indexes. The searchable database has entries for Washington, St. Francois and Jefferson, so far. The Washington and St. Francois County consolidated indexes are in place. All names extracted from Washington County marriage books from 1815 through 1937 are in one index. All names extracted from St. Francois County marriage books from 1818 through 1903 are in one index. Next up, Jefferson County Marriages Volume 2 1885-1890. Searchable database http://www.vienici.com/moabs/lookups.html Marriage Indexes http://www.vienici.com/abmomarr.html On the site Vien Ici (Cajun French for Come Here) you can find Crawford County marriages from 1828-1897 are abstracted Franklin County all marriages from 1819-1865 & 1914-1921 are abstracted plus African-American marriages 1865-1875 Jefferson County all marriages from 1826-1885 are abstracted plus African-American marriages 1866-1878 St. Francois Co. marriages 1818-1903 Washington Co. marriages 1815-1937 plus African-American marriages 1865-1875 Brian J. Oster Vien Ici webmaster mailto:[email protected] http://www.vienici.com

Welcome Tami! If you're the one responsible for setting option for the [MOCRAWFO] to appear on the subject line, you've made your first good move. I've had problems in the past distinguishing the Crawford County list mail from ordinary e-mails without it. Thanks! Dan

I forwarded the message received about vital records to my state senator. This is the reply I received. Did anyone else get a response? Who was the author (Joe Miller?). I either deleted it or it's on another computer's hard drive. Carol McDonald Manchester --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Sen. John Loudon" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:08:53 -0500 Subject: Re: In-District: Vital records Dear Carol: Thank you for this information. Being a history buff myself, I know how important it is to have these records available. The timetable for introduced legislation begins December 2003 for bills will be to be considered in the 2004 Session. I will pass your letter on to Senator Loudon and either he or Scott Crosby, our Legislative Assistant, will contact you. At 05:30 PM 06/12/2003 -0600, you wrote: > Access to Records > >In 1910, the State of Missouri assumed the responsibility for keeping >vital records. The records were kept confidential, as was proper, at least >for birth records. However, some of the records are now 90 years old; it >is time to place microfilms of all the birth records, with indexes, that >are older than 72 years, and all of the death and other records, into the >State Archives for full public access. > >Efforts have been made in the legislature, but the Department of Health >obfuscates. The Department proposes to place on line images of the birth >records 90 years or older and death records 50 years or older. That will >be fine, but it is not enough. > >Owing to the Federal regulation that census data remain closed for 72 >years, that interval has become a de facto standard in the USA. A 72-year >interval suffices for privacy. > >All that is needed is to add to Sect. 193.245 of RSMO 1994 new >sub-paragraphs as follows: > >(4) The department shall enable the State Archives to duplicate, for >public access, microfilms of the following: > >a) all birth records that are 72 years old or older, and indexes to such >records, and > >b) all other vital records and indexes. > >(5) The department shall enable, annually, the State Archives to duplicate >microfilms of the following: > >a) all birth records that have become 72 years old or older, and indexes >to such records, and > >b) all other vital records and indexes. > >Carol Davis McDonald >Manchester I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. --Abigail Adams (writing to John) And since he didn't take her advice, we must pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Visit our state AAUW web sites - http://www.aauwmo.org and www.aauw.org

Welcome Tami, we are glad to have you, Mary Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe L. Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 4:26 PM Subject: [MOCRAWFO] New Crawford County Coordinator > Please help me in welcoming Tami Ramsey. > She will be taking over Crawford County and > we are in the process of making the changeover. > She has been a CC for a number of years and is > the current Holt County, CC. > She is also the listmaster. > > I will still be on the list and help you with > cemetery lookups and such, and will have more > time to do so. I also do courthouse lookups > here in my home town. > > Best of luck with all your reseach efforts. > > -- > Joe L. Miller > > Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ > > Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm > > Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html > > United We Stand > > > > ==== MOCRAWFO Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. Send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains (in the body of the message) the command > > unsubscribe > > and no additional text. > > >

Thanks, Joe, for all you've done so far.... And a big welcome to Tami! Deb At 02:26 PM 6/13/2003, you wrote: >Please help me in welcoming Tami Ramsey. >She will be taking over Crawford County and >we are in the process of making the changeover. >She has been a CC for a number of years and is >the current Holt County, CC. >She is also the listmaster. > >I will still be on the list and help you with >cemetery lookups and such, and will have more >time to do so. I also do courthouse lookups >here in my home town. > >Best of luck with all your reseach efforts. > >-- >Joe L. Miller > >Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ > >Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm > >Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html > >United We Stand > > > >==== MOCRAWFO Mailing List ==== >How to unsubscribe. Send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains (in the body of the message) the command > > unsubscribe > > and no additional text.

Please help me in welcoming Tami Ramsey. She will be taking over Crawford County and we are in the process of making the changeover. She has been a CC for a number of years and is the current Holt County, CC. She is also the listmaster. I will still be on the list and help you with cemetery lookups and such, and will have more time to do so. I also do courthouse lookups here in my home town. Best of luck with all your reseach efforts. -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html United We Stand

Joe, Would like to tell you that I could do it. Unfortnately right now, I have other responsbilities. I do want to thank you for what you have done. Hope that all is alright with you and look forward to sharing in the future. Ed Hill At 11:02 AM 6/11/2003 -0600, you wrote: >MOCRAWFO-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 23 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Crawford County Coordinator ["Joe L. Miller" <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from MOCRAWFO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:43:02 -0500 >From: "Joe L. Miller" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Crawford County Coordinator >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >I would like to know if there is anyone that would like to >take over the Crawford County Web site. >I have been doing it now going on 7 years and >have some other things coming up I must do. > >It is not a real busy site, but we can use some fresh >ideas. > >I will still be here to help you as a lookup volunteer. >This will entail taking over the Crawford County >Archives and Mailing List as well. > >I prefer to ask here first before going statewide. >Please let me know soon. >Thanks. > >-- > >Joe L. Miller > >Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ > >Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm > >Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html > >Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ > >United We Stand >

I would like to know if there is anyone that would like to take over the Crawford County Web site. I have been doing it now going on 7 years and have some other things coming up I must do. It is not a real busy site, but we can use some fresh ideas. I will still be here to help you as a lookup volunteer. This will entail taking over the Crawford County Archives and Mailing List as well. I prefer to ask here first before going statewide. Please let me know soon. Thanks. -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand

Take a look at this link. http://www.arealdomain.com/crawford1883.html -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand

I am the USGenWeb Archive File Manager for the state of Missouri. The archives is a free, permanent storage tool on the internet for any family records that you would like to share with others. Many countless patron's have spent countless hours typing obituaries, bios and so many other records to the GenConnect Boards, owned and operated by RootsWeb, only to have them disappear literally overnight. I have advised on numerous occasions for these records to be placed in the archives, a USGenWeb project, run by us and not RootsWeb, which fell mainly on deaf ears. On the State directory I have a search engine that will search statewide. I have a search engine on each county site to search countywide. The advantage of submitting information is that your name will be attached to your submissions and others can coordinate work with you. Please do not send tombstone photo's, but it is acceptable to submit bio's, cemetery transcriptions, census, deeds, obituaries, birth, death, marriage, military, old letters, probate records, like wills, school records and historical articles and others. The beginning of summer offers us the opportunity to get out to cemeteries. I often use my camcorder to record cemeteries so I can transcribe them at home. If anyone would like to volunteer to transcribe records, please let me know what county. Thank you for your time and have a safe and happy summer. -- Joe L. Miller Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand

Missouri Marriages - Washington, St. Francois, Jefferson, Franklin, Crawford Jefferson County Marriages Volume 1 1869-1881 is now migrated into the searchable index. Over 62% of the marriage entries have been moved from the static pages into the database. The site has 22,888 marriage entries in the searchable database with another 13,640 on static pages accessed from the indexes. The searchable database has entries for Washington, St. Francois and Jefferson, so far. The Washington and St. Francois County consolidated indexes are in place. All names extracted from Washington County marriage books from 1815 through 1937 are in one index. All names extracted from St. Francois County marriage books from 1818 through 1903 are in one index. Next up, Jefferson County Marriages Volume 1 1869-1881. Searchable database http://www.vienici.com/moabs/lookups.html Marriage Indexes http://www.vienici.com/abmomarr.html On the site Vien Ici (Cajun French for Come Here) you can find Crawford County marriages from 1828-1897 are abstracted Franklin County all marriages from 1819-1865 & 1914-1921 are abstracted plus African-American marriages 1865-1875 Jefferson County all marriages from 1826-1885 are abstracted plus African-American marriages 1866-1878 St. Francois Co. marriages 1818-1903 Washington Co. marriages 1815-1937 plus African-American marriages 1865-1875 Brian J. Oster Vien Ici webmaster mailto:[email protected] http://www.vienici.com

Listers, I have a Julia GRAHAM who married a David BIGLEY 1 Apr 1885 in Crawford Co., Missouri. I have been told that her parents are William GRAHAM and Rebecca BROOKS. I do not have any dates for her except the marriage date, which I retrieved from Brian Oster's marriage abstracts. Does anyone know if her parents are the above mentioned and when she was born and died. I believe that it is possible that she may have died in Joplin, Missouri or that area or that she died in Kansas. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you so much. Ann PS I have also sent this to the BIGLEY list so please excuse a duplicate if you get it.

Hello, I tried to send a message on Friday and I'm not sure it went through so I am sending another one. Do any of you know Virginia Berryman Benson? Is she on this list? If anyone knows her, please ask her to contact me. We are descendants of the same FERGUSONs, Catherine GILMORE and William FERGUSON of Albemarle Co., VA. I don't know who William's parents were, but he and Catherine married 27 Oct 1793 and then moved to Sumner Co., TN and then to Barren (later Allen) Co., KY around 1810. He died there shortly after that, and Catherine married a local Baptist minister, Benjamin BAILEY. I am a descendant of their oldest -- I think -- child, Frances "Fannie" FERGUSON who married Thomas SPILMAN abt 1825 in Allen Co., KY. Three of Catherine and William Ferguson's children moved to Crawford Co., MO: Obadiah, William G., and Elizabeth, who married a MERRITT and then a RICHEY. The genealogist for Clan Ferguson called me Thursday night and told me about Virginia being a descendant of my Fergusons and I am dying to talk to her. If any of you know Virginia, please ask her to contact me. Thank you, and have a great evening. Best wishes, Sharon Clark Fort Worth, TX [email protected]

CHANGES IN SERVICE ------- -- ------- After the repeated problems with my web hosting service, Wyenet, I contracted for a second service provider and with a DNS Service. Should Wyenet service continue to be unreliable, I would have the option of swapping to the alternate site at Nevidia. Well, after repeated outages by Wyenet in March, I pointed the site to Nevidia and for the past month we have had uninterrupted service. Wyenet has not yet responded to my email requesting a guarantee of stability . . . I guess Nevidia has a higher service level. For any of you wish, you can still alternatively log on to either site. They are identical. Use http://66.221.39.216 for Wyenet Use http://198.247.173.17 for Nevidia Or use http://www.vienici.com for whoever I consider active. LOUISIANA CEMETERY ABSTRACTS --------- -------- --------- The March burials are completed and with the help of Chris Tidwell, hundreds of new entries have been added to the site over the past few weeks. Hundreds more can be anticipated as we backtrack through old obituaries. Right now we are up to June, 2001. MISSOURI MARRIAGES -------- --------- The entry abstracts for Franklin County Volume C 1863-1872 are a 55% complete. Close to 2,300 marriage are included in the first two hundred twelve pages. I'm finshed converting the Jefferson County Commissions and Marriages 1838-1849 and have included them in the searchable database. Now, over 59% of the marriage entries have been moved from the static pages into the database. The site has 21,504 marriage entries in the searchable database with another 14,679 on static pages accessed from the indexes. The searchable database has entries for Washington and St. Francois, so far. Also, 25 error corrections were posted, database pointers which had individuals unassigned to entries. My thanks to those who keep me posted on errors. I may never have found this on my own. Next up, Jefferson County Colored Marriages 1866-1888. Brian J. Oster Vien Ici webmaster mailto:[email protected] http://www.vienici.com

Hi A large source of leads to family-history data is now on line. It is comprised of the Tables of Contents of the first 22 volumes of the Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal, 1981-2002+. Importantly, below the Tables of Contents, is an index. Reviewers find the whole page easily navigated despite the great amount of data included. A few of the key words with which to search the index are county names, directions (east, south, north, west), and family surnames (for Bible records). Use your browsers search function. When you find interesting leads on the web page, you will probably want to see actual copies of the Journal. Many libraries subscribe to the Journal. There is also information, below the index on the web page, on how to obtain copies of articles or issues. One can get an idea as to the length of an article in the Journal by noting the page numbers where it begins and where the following article begins. However, some articles are serialized over two to four issues. The URL is <http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/contents.htm>http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/contents.htm >

Been a while, but once again wanted to say thank you for your work!!!!!! At 10:02 AM 3/31/2003 -0700, you wrote: >MOCRAWFO-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 15 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Crawford County, MO Genealogy ["Joe L. Miller" <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from MOCRAWFO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:04:23 -0600 >From: "Joe L. Miller" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Crawford County, MO Genealogy >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Spring is here, and time to get out of the house and trace family >history. >Just a few reminders, your Crawford County web site has many places and >things to assist you in your genealogy ventures, but we need more, much >mire. > >If you are planning a trip to the county (assuming you live a ways >away) and plan to visit a cemetery or two, take along your camcorder and >record all the tombstones, if we do not already have that cemetery >online. Then you can either transcribe the stones or send them in to be >added to the web site. I have never had a cemetery I found family in >that I never visited more than once. You may find in the future a reason >to revisit a cemetery after finding inlaws or parents of an ancestor, or >children etc., so by having the entire cemetery transcribed, you have it >online for easy access in the future and can help out other patrons. > >The web site still has current obituaries posted, which appeared in the >local paper (third year running). If anyone would like to transcribe >obituaries from the local paper from microfilm or old newspapers, let me >know. We have a long way to go. We also take scanned obituaries. > >We have the 1830-1900 census online either in transcribed form or >images, or by volunteer. > >We still have an active Photo Album page, and you can send a link to >your personal web site if it has genealogy, or send in a gedcom. If you >send a gedcom, be sure to update your email address. Gedcoms are >permissible if they contain Crawford County families. > >Got a Family Reunion planned for this summer? >Inviting any related members or just by invitation? >If you want to advertise your reunion here, send me the >particulars, i.e.. date, location, "bring family pictures" etc. > >Want to make a quilt with pics of all of your ancestors? >This is easy to do if you know how. You have >to have pics to do this, but it is easy now. >Email me for the particulars if you're interested. > >Last but not least I think it is worthy to add in a special >thanks to the troops that are assisting in this effort. >Brian Oster for all of his work in providing marriage >records not just for our county, but several others >around us. >To Ed and Sandy Mackley for providing census images. > >To Larry Flesher and the other CC's for running the >best GenWeb state in the Nation. > >Take care and God bless. > >-- > >Joe L. Miller > >Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ > >Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm > >Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html > >Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ > >United We Stand >

Spring is here, and time to get out of the house and trace family history. Just a few reminders, your Crawford County web site has many places and things to assist you in your genealogy ventures, but we need more, much mire. If you are planning a trip to the county (assuming you live a ways away) and plan to visit a cemetery or two, take along your camcorder and record all the tombstones, if we do not already have that cemetery online. Then you can either transcribe the stones or send them in to be added to the web site. I have never had a cemetery I found family in that I never visited more than once. You may find in the future a reason to revisit a cemetery after finding inlaws or parents of an ancestor, or children etc., so by having the entire cemetery transcribed, you have it online for easy access in the future and can help out other patrons. The web site still has current obituaries posted, which appeared in the local paper (third year running). If anyone would like to transcribe obituaries from the local paper from microfilm or old newspapers, let me know. We have a long way to go. We also take scanned obituaries. We have the 1830-1900 census online either in transcribed form or images, or by volunteer. We still have an active Photo Album page, and you can send a link to your personal web site if it has genealogy, or send in a gedcom. If you send a gedcom, be sure to update your email address. Gedcoms are permissible if they contain Crawford County families. Got a Family Reunion planned for this summer? Inviting any related members or just by invitation? If you want to advertise your reunion here, send me the particulars, i.e.. date, location, "bring family pictures" etc. Want to make a quilt with pics of all of your ancestors? This is easy to do if you know how. You have to have pics to do this, but it is easy now. Email me for the particulars if you're interested. Last but not least I think it is worthy to add in a special thanks to the troops that are assisting in this effort. Brian Oster for all of his work in providing marriage records not just for our county, but several others around us. To Ed and Sandy Mackley for providing census images. To Larry Flesher and the other CC's for running the best GenWeb state in the Nation. Take care and God bless. -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand

I want to say thank you for posting of these marriage records. I have looked for many years for my great grandparents marriage records. I have even written to the Crawford County Courthouse but with no luck. I recently went back into your marriage records and started digging. I always thought that my great grandfathers name was Willis. I had been looking for the wrong name. His name was David Willis Martin. I found their marriage record in Volume D 1881-1890. It was on page 459. It states that Barbara Roehrer father as being Charles Rosehrer. That could have been a misprint. Does anyone in this fine county no of any information regarding either of these families. I would appreciate hearing from you. God Bless, Barbara J Browning [email protected] 304 792 2059 204 945 4335

I's just a thought, but if they were from a foreign country, the name may have been spelled as it was in the mother land. I have seen so many names changed. Also following a war or relocation, names were changed. I am not certain as to why just yet. Brian's web site has helped me in many ways too. Barbara Browning wrote: > I want to say thank you for posting of these marriage records. I have looked for many years for my great grandparents marriage records. I have even written to the Crawford County Courthouse but with no luck. I recently went back into your marriage records and started digging. I always thought that my great grandfathers name was Willis. I had been looking for the wrong name. His name was David Willis Martin. > I found their marriage record in Volume D 1881-1890. It was on page 459. It states that Barbara Roehrer father as being Charles Rosehrer. That could have been a misprint. Does anyone in this fine county no of any information regarding either of these families. I would appreciate hearing from you. > > God Bless, > > Barbara J Browning > [email protected] > > 304 792 2059 > 204 945 4335 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 -- Joe L. Miller Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Coordinator of Crawford County, MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocrawfo/ United We Stand