This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1936.2.1 Message Board Post: You need to look at the Dunklin CO USGENWEB SITE!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HICKS-MOYER-JOHNSTON-BURKE-DEMAY-SMITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1936.2 Message Board Post: I had family in Dunklin County. Holcomb,Maulden,Clarkton. I also had family in Greenville MO, Wayne County. I am looking for these surnames: HICKS-MOYER-JOHNSTON-BURKE-DEMAY-SMITH.Thanks, Sharon. My Email is [email protected]

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/lMB.2ACI/1939 Message Board Post: Would like to correspond with children of Gertie Crawford children, I believe they are Ben and Brenda live at Kennett MO Grandmother was Ame Jenkins Crawford. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bundy, DeFeyter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/1938 Message Board Post: To Theresa DeFeyter I found your baby sister Tina Bundy's burial. Please respond to this message or to me privately. Debbi

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

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

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. This is to urge that, during this political season, your candidates for the legislature and state senate be queried as to their positions on the matter. 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. Bob Doerr Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Please see http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/state.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DEMAY/HICKS/BURKE/MOYER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/482.1.1 Message Board Post: My Father was born in Holcomb Mo. My First cousins lived in Maulden an the people that raised my father lived in Maulden. they are Earl and Iva Johnston, Earl was a mechanic in Clarkton in the 1930,s.Lizzie and Tom Burke were the ones that lived in Maulden. Her maiden name was Hicks. i just got back from a trip all around the Dunklin County area.My grandma was Effie Moyer Demay Hicks.She was my grandfathers' third wife. I did not know that she had been Married before until I saw the 1930 Wayne Co. Mo.census. Listed was Jess Hicks Wife Effie,one Daughter and a Stepson Ullis Demay. Do you know any of these connections? Please e-mail me at [email protected] Also I would love to have a old map of Dunklin County. My Address is ---Sharon Rowe,184 Mills Drive, Louisville,Ky.40216..Thanks

Daniel H. Stephens is my great great grandfather. He is supposed to be buried in Liberty cemetary at Caruth.I have walked that cemetary and did not find him.It is also said that he married Lou Ann Williams. She would have been his third wife. It is said that Lou Ann is buried in the Dutch graveyard near hornersville. This information was found on an old family chart. I have not been able to substantiate any of this, and there is no one alive in the family that knows anything about it. The last information I have for Daniel is the Greene County Arkansas 1900 census. He was living with his son's family near Marmaduke. That was my great grandfather William Morris Stephens. I do not know when or where Daniel died. I know that William Morris and his wife Falby Caroline and their family spent a good portion of there lives near or around Hornersville. They are buried in the Hornersville cemetary. Does anybody know anything about this family. Does anybody know anything about a Dutch graveyard? Daniel was part Cherokee. Is the Dutch graveyard an Indian burial ground? Is there a graveyard like that near Hornersville?This family originally came from Stoddard County Missouri near Bloomfield. Thank you Glenn Payton

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/452.1061.1 Message Board Post: I am searching for any information that might lead me to a Clara Ma(e or y) PROXMIRE from OHio. You mention that your mother, Viola May PROXMIRE, is from OHio. Are you, by any chance, aware of some connection? I'd appreciate any help you could give me. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: hanners Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/914.913.1147.1.1 Message Board Post: hello i am a hanners from missouri my father was henry franklin hanners born in the hornersville area. would like to hear from michael or linda to see if we are looking for same family members. frank was married twice the first time had four children frank jr. ,marie, and twins kenneth and sue. marie is gone now and so is sue but the boys live in the bangor mich. area.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pickett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/840.1276.1278 Message Board Post: Don Are you researching the same line of Picketts that I'am . Sorry it took me so long to get back with you . I guess I just gave up on looking for that side of the family . Was getting no where with that side til this week .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pickett , Dill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/840.1277 Message Board Post: I'm looking for a William H. Dill that married Ellen Pickett she had three children by her first husband Carroll Pickett . I found him in the 1900 census in Stoddard Co., Missouri . I know he had two sons then . But Ellen was not with him . Rosier V. Pickett was living with him and it had Stepson on the census .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1936.1 Message Board Post: Dunklin Co USGENWEB

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1936 Message Board Post: DUNKLIN CO US GEN WEB... Contact me for more information If you are related to someone from Holcomb from 1880-1930 I may be able to help you Dye, Boswell, Avery, Rice, Swindle and more...

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burge, Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lMB.2ACI/843.1.1 Message Board Post: Could this be his second marriage? I'm starting from scratch. I don't know anything about my grandfather except that his name is/was Miller Burge, and he and my grandmother (Ila Maurine Taylor) lived in Kentucky. Any of this sound familiar? TIA, Carol Burge

Does anyone have marriages of Dunklin Co from 1929 thru 1944 Looking for a marriage of Gracie Howard to Hafford. Also looking from Gracie Howard in 1930 Cardwell or Kennett Mo. children Edward, Charlie, Jessie dau. Gracie could be listed as Hafford but don't think they were married in 1930 not sure... Thank You Ronnie Moore [email protected] Yahoo ID runt49 http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/moore/index.html or http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rmoore/index.html Moore/Bramlet etc. http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/moorear/index.html Davis/Samons Surnames: Moore,Clayton,Maples,Howard,Hays Davis,Bramlet,Samons,Mitchell,Clutts,Bush Hodges,Carmicheal, Gray, Jordan,Perkins,, Yates,Davis 2nd line,Songer,Gould,Barnes --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.393 / Virus Database: 223 - Release Date: 9/30/2002

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1793.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks so much for the suggestion! I will give it a try. Jean Mefford Leyder

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Pension Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lMB.2ACI/1935 Message Board Post: My mother is seeking information on the death of Albert Willie Taylor who worked for the L&A Railroad in Shreveport, Louisiana. If anyone has any information please contact Mrs. Mattie Kennedy (318) 636-6075. Thank you so much..

Received information the Spencer Co IN mail list indicating that the Ft Wayne (Allen Co) Library will be relocating the genealogical department to a building which is about 5 blocks away. The department will closed down at 6:00 PM on December 14th. The new location will then be available in late January 2002 for visitors. All materials will be readily accessible to researchers without having to request or page the materials/books. The department will be at the temporary location for 2 to 3 years so that renovations can be done at the regular location. There are parking meters in the area as well as a parking garage across the street. Anyone thinking of going to Ft Wayne for research should first contact the library to avoid any inconvenience or problems upon arriving. Debbi Geer __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com