Hello List I am researching the following surnames: Brumley James Also any families that may have married into the above families that lived in the Denton area in early 1900's. Thanks Phyllis Rea

Hi, I'm new to the list and I'd like to know the surnames that people are researching. I didn't see a roll call as I looked through the archives of the mailing list. Would everyone announce to the list the surnames you are researching in Pemiscot? Maybe this way, we can help each other. My surnames are Holley & Boardman. Thanks, Marsha Bryant Marsha's Pemiscot Web http://us-gen.org/mo/pemiscot

COLEMAN, HOLLAND, NORMAN, HAMILTON Thanks for any help! Donna Eades

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/EMB.2ACE/657.1 Message Board Post: Hey Marsha thankyou for the new website. i will check it out later. riegie

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/EMB.2ACE/657 Message Board Post: I am Marsha Bryant. I've created a new website for Pemiscot researchers, that I hope will be full of information for us all to use! Please drop by and visit and let me know what you think. Also, if you have ANY information to contribute, I would love to have it! Currently, there are only 45 pages on the web. I'm hoping it grows like my Warrick County, Indiana web to almost 800 pages for researchers to look through. (http://us-gen.org/in/warrick) If you do any lookups, please contact me, so I can add your name on the Lookup list. If you have any cemetery listings (even if it's just your family) please send them in. There are all sorts of places in the web to contribute information!!! Please help this web become a great place to look for information on Pemiscot ancestors! Thanks, Marsha email: iammbk@nc.rr.com web address: http://us-gen.org/mo/pemiscot/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/605.9.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Charlotte , no problem. I appreciate the answer about Oak Ridge. My MIL (Oma Lee Howell) swore she was born there but all we could find was Oak Ridge in Cape Giradeau County. She said that was too far away. Now I can say for certain she was there. Does the Baptist Church have a grave yard? Thanks again Lorraine

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/EMB.2ACE/605.9.1 Message Board Post: Hey, There is still a small community called Oak Ridge just outside Cooter. Nothing there now except the Oak Ridge Baptist Church. I have not been able to work on any look-ups for a long time, busy doing other projects. I will see what I can find for you but I do have a large backlog of e-mails so it may take a while. Charlotte

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/605.2.2 Message Board Post: Allene , I noticed you had surname of Howell in Pemiscot. So do I. Some of my names are Roy Robert, Lillie, Kitty, Allie , Acy, Oma, Laura, John. Any of these in yours? Lorraine

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howell, Mckay, Little Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/605.9 Message Board Post: I am looking for a marriage cert on a Allie H Howell and Culperna Little Mckay approx 1922 - 1924 in Cooter. They had 2 children Helen approx 1924 - 1925 and Don 1926- 1927. Allie also died in Cooter . I am also looking for the death of an Acy ( A. C. ) Howell , twin brother to Allie approx 1908 - 1911 One other quick question since you live in the area, was there a town or small community called Oak Ridge in 1912 in Pemiscot? Thank you so much for your help. Lorraine

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/EMB.2ACE/656 Message Board Post: I'm trying to find if an Aaron Lloyd Crosstie Company operated out of Steele, MO 1890-1895 and if there might be any records to check.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: starling/smith/jowers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/655 Message Board Post: elizabeth (eliza, liza, lizzie) Starling married robert smith, date of marriage around 1892. Two daughters, Dolly Sue, dob 2/2/1895, died 7/4/1969, Elva, married Wood or Woods, and Thomure, died St.Louis, Mo. Dolly married Norman Clyde Jowers of Lake Cty. Tenn about 1913 or 1914. Elizabeth and Robert are my great-grandparents, any information on them is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

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

Looking for info and descendents of the following family. 1930 census, living on East 7th St Caruthersville. Will T. Stein b. abt 1890 Minnie Hammond Stein b. abt 1901 wife Marie M. b. abt 1921 daughter Lucille b. abt 1924 daughter Alberta b. abt 1925 daughter William Jr. b. abt 1927 son Carl E. b. abt 1929 son Any info about this family or where they might have gone to, greatly appreciated. Thanks, Delores

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Conner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/654 Message Board Post: I hope someone will remember a former owner of a drugstore in Tiptonville, TN by the name of George M. Conner. He lived there from early 1912-? We know he passed away in Tiptonville. Looking for any information on him. Please email to: fconner@austin.rr.com Many Thanks in advance.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Conner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EMB.2ACE/307.1 Message Board Post: Hello, I read your message that our grandmother is still living in Tiptonville, TN. Would she remember a druggest by the name of George M. Conner who owned the drugstore from the early years of 1912-maybe the 1920's. He passed away in 1966 in Tiptonville, TN. He was married to my grandmother and we are trying to locate any information about him. I would dearly appreciate any information that you would have. please email me at: fconner@austin.rr.com Thank you.

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/EMB.2ACE/30.181.1 Message Board Post: This is my family Dollie was my Aunt you can email me at jgregory8@austin.rr.com

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/EMB.2ACE/411.1 Message Board Post: I also have Marshalls in Pemiscot County. Would you like to share information?

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/EMB.2ACE/320.1 Message Board Post: Update! The new URL for my website is now http://www.geocities.com/jerrys28601us So many have visited that page that I am planning to make a separate page just for the highschool photos. Jerry