Glad to hear from you. I messed up really badly and wiped out my hard drive and e-mail.......need I say more about the badness of that. I did have most of my pictures and many other things saved to disk but I lost lots of e-mail that I hadn't yet saved to disk..... So I've been sitting back hoping everyone would get in contact with me. I do have a hard copy of my address book from several months ago but I just haven't had time to re-enter it. And I had made a new Rowland contact and lost her. Her name was Merrilee.....I think. She had made contact with Bob Owens though so I'm sure she'll turn back up. Hope you both are doing all right. I see Missouri has lots of snow. They were calling for up to 6 inches in Springfield. Kind of makes one glad not to be there ..... I'm beginning to think a summer home there might not be a bad idea for retirement.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <FlorandBill@worldnet.att.net> To: <MOGASCON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:52 AM Subject: [MOGASCON] Re: SHOEMAKER and STREIN/STRAIN family > 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/nMB.2ACI/71.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Mary Polly Shoemaker was Benjamin's twin. She married John Strain and they had 4 children: George W., Daniel, Nancy, William. Mary died about 1852 and John Strain married Lucy Keffer. John and Lucy had 8 children. > > > ==== MOGASCON Mailing List ==== > Please check out the Gasconade County Web Page at www.rootsweb.com/~mogascon/index.html > >