Hi Jo William Carsten & Sadie Stiffler are my great-grandparents. Thanks for sending the info tho. ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNING SKY ENTERPRISES</A>

Can anyone tell me where Ozarks Memorial Park is? Is that in Taney Co.? ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNING SKY ENTERPRISES</A>

am looking for the marraige record of Lusaney Jones who might have married in Taney co in in 1870-1880. she was the ward of William Bailey Raines .she was born 1865 in walker co ala.

Would anyone having the 1880 census lookup my Jacob Smith family. Thanks, Shirley

Hi, I also would appreciate a look-up for the Will Carpenter family wife Melvina or Vina and children. Thanks for any help.Brenda

Don, As always, you are a great help. I hope you are doing well. Thank you again. Bill -----Original Message----- From: HOUK DON (CBD) <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: RE: [MOTANEY] 1880 Census Lookup >Index to 1880 Taney Co,MO Census compiled by >Janice Soutee Looney in 1986 page 49: >Beaver Township Family #62 >HICKS, William 34 GA-TN-TN > Matilda 30 MO-TN-TN wife > William 10 GA-GA-GA(sic) son > Laura Jane 8 GA-GA-GA(sic) dau > Claucry E. 6 MO-GA-GA(sic) dau > Dora Alta 1 MO-GA-GA-GA dau > >Beaver Township Family #87 >HICKS, Thomas 38 TN-TN-TN > Sarah 36 TN-TN-TN > George 17 TN-TN-TN > Andrew J. 13 GA-TN-TN > Mary E. 11 GA-TN-TN > James B. 9 MO-TN-TN > Sarah 8 MO-TN-TN > Nancy M. 5 MO-TN-TN > Albert M. 2 MO-TN-TN > John W.B. 5/12 MO-TN-TN > >Don Houk >E-mail: [email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill Dunn [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:15 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MOTANEY] 1880 Census Lookup >Hi List! Does anyone have access to an 1880 Taney Co. census? I am looking >for Laura Jane HICKS, b. 15 Sep 1871. I would greatly appreciate any help. >Bill > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

Hi List! Does anyone have access to an 1880 Taney Co. census? I am looking for Laura Jane HICKS, b. 15 Sep 1871. I would greatly appreciate any help. Bill

am trying to locate the marraige record of Mary Raines and George Haskins who married in the early 1880s supposley in taney co. she may have married under the name Mary Loggains as she was married before any help appreciated dolores

I know how busy you have been, but just wanted to know how the cemetery transcriptions were coming along, Is there anything else we can do to help you finish them? Marge

It's Wednesday. The good news, the family which owns the Freeland Bldg is not letting the stuff inside go to the dump. They have storage space and the muscle necessary to get it moved before Monday. So it's taken care of, which was our first concern. The not-so-bad news (and thanks for your positive thoughts on it) is that the society might be/will be able to borrow or take care of the stuff in the future (and we may even get it donated). Since we don't have a working museum, or even space to put the stuff for now, that's the best way to go. Which, of course, means I got the idea to build a museum in the next few years. One of these days, I might just go nuts! <BG> Those of you anxiously waiting on tenterhooks for the Taney Cems to go online...I've not forgotten about you. It's being worked out, but it should be ready in the near future. I've been promising, and promising, I know, and for that, I'm sorry. It takes me so long to figure out programs and stuff, and you've all heard me hollering about my puter making me look stupid...so after some file transfers and etc., it should be going much smoother, soon. Y'all have a great day! And thanks for the notes you keep sending...it's folks like yourselves that keep me going. Knowing that many of you don't live here, but would like to see your past when you visit, is the main thing that started my yelling in the first place. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

Jan: You be in Iowa as well? I live in Fremont Co. down close to the Missouri border in Southwest Ia. Hello neighbor. Nancy Boyd

Wow...What a gal you are, Vonda!! Sounds like Greg is the one who needs caffeine just to keep up with you :) I am so awed at the possiblities you present for the finds in the old Freeland building, and you can bet yer lucky buckeye I'll be praying hard for ya'll to get this stuff, and then make it available to the public. Ya'll are living, breathing examples of what can be done, regardless of what class city, town or area you live in. I am wishing you guys the best of luck with the Outlaw Roundup, and also with the wonderful projects ya'll have in the works. I wish I could be there for the Roundup, but it's during racing season at I-70 Speedway (gotta go, gotta race, ya know!) and it's doubtful my crew will let me go. But I'll be there in spirit, cheerin' you on. Wish I could tie my Polk Co. Middletons into the Taney Co. Middletons-would be nice to tie them in with ANYBODY after all these years :) Just want to add I think you guys do a bang-up job on this list-it's great!! Toodles-Jan!

Well, howdy! I see y'all are just cooking right along, and I'm glad...sorry, I've not had a lot to contribute. I think you're doing fine, though. Gots lots of news. The plans for Outlaw Roundup are cooking right along. For newbies, and for those of you who've forgotten, Outlaw Roundup is an event to be held 19 May 2001 at the old Taney County Jail in Shadow Rock Park, in Forsyth, MO. There's gonna be music and storytelling, kids' activities, book and magazine publishers and vendors, and--ta da!--a Bald Knobber Re-enactment. If you can't come, I'll forgive you, just this once...<BG> and I'll be sure to let you know where you can get a copy of the play book. You all know by now--I can get into trouble when I go out "gallivantin'." Well, I wasn't gallivantin' today--Ingrid, Greg and I went and did that down by Protem and Cedar Creek on Saturday, got the Blazer so muddy that even Greg couldn't stand it and washed it Sunday--but I had a good day anyway. First of all, people keep asking where the idea for Outlaw Roundup came from. Well, it's because folks like yourselves asked the right kind of questions and because there wasn't anything around here but maybe once a year I could wear my tear dress to. And since I'm very proud of it--my mother did an awesome job--I like to wear it, and people look at you funny when you wear those kinds of dresses without working at Silver Dollar City or something. (Besides, it's prettier than the dresses they wear out there, anyway) So...things have been leading into other things, which are leading into still more things, and it's a wonder I haven't lost track of where I live on some days. Yes, there are times y'all should feel right sorry for Greg. Take today. Ingrid and I were in Forsyth to get on the agenda for the Forsyth City Council meeting on 23 Jan, so's we can get permission for having horses in the park for Outlaw Roundup. We have to ask for a couple other things as well, but that's the main thing. I've never done this kind of event before, so I ask all kinds of questions, and when it comes to donations of time or material, I usually ask for the moon. Occasionally, I get it. Gerry Grummons, who is involved with the Lions Club in Forsyth, called me as we were leaving Forsyth City Hall. The Lions Club is gonna be doing the food for Outlaw Roundup. But that wasn't what he called about. He called because the building his office is in is going to be turned over to the county next week--the county needs the space--and there are 4 piles, if I remember right--of newspapers in this building. All of these piles are as tall as me, and I'm about 5' 7". We rushed right over there, and he showed us the piles of old "Leaders" and "Republicans" and we were rather "goo-shie" about that. Gerry seemed to think the owner of the building would be interested in giving them to the White River Valley Historical Society. So, okay... We start looking around...there's a couple of old desks. Over there are printing presses and tables and those little lead blocks with letters on them. A safe. We realize we are in the old Freeland building...the Freelands being publishers of a couple of early Taney County papers...and the owner is one of their descendants. The owner is also an Ingenthron descendant. We start going nuts. Much of that stuff would fit right into the old jail, for the sheriff's office. The rest, by George, I'll find a place to put it, if I gotta go cut the trees down and build it myself (but I don't think that'll happen). So we've put in calls to the owner. Because we are nervous, because we are antsy and excited, we are worrying that this lady is out of town. And we've got until Sunday night to get this stuff out of that building. So if we don't hear from her by tomorrow morning, we are going to call her cousins and any other people we think know her, FIND her, and ask her if she'll donate or at least lend that stuff to the historical society on a perpetual kind of basis. I'll even get a plaque engraved stating who donated it. Y'all? Put in a couple of prayers. This does not happen everyday, despite that it seems that way. I don't think the lady will care, because she apparently has made no provision for the stuff before the county takes it over....but y'all do what you gotta. BTW, those papers are on microfilm at the Forsyth Library. Still not as cool as actually holding them in your hands. Oh, man... If that wasn't awesome enough, I went poking around the courthouse after Ingrid left. We have new county commissioners--Taney county just went 1st class last week--and they are doing a lot of work. I really didn't mean to interrupt their meeting...<BG> but I did. I was advised by a friend in the courthouse to get an appointment with one of the commissioners to talk about an idea I got for the new parks department the county can now establish (with 1st class status). The upshot of the idea is that "Why doesn't the county's new parks department become actively involved in historical and cultural preservation?" So I went looking for the secretary to the commissioners, and after a few minutes, managed to corral her. After she found out that I wanted to discuss the parks department, she went and pulled Mr. Herschend out of the meeting, and we got to chat for a few minutes. It won't happen in this fiscal year, but he'll call me for some ideas after this first business they're dealing with is done. Ingrid is starting to think I do this stuff on purpose. But I honestly don't. Greg just starts laughing at me now when I come home, higher than a kite. And no...that's NOT all. Hee hee. Linda Morgan is the editor of the Taney County Times. Ingrid and I were in that office today, just missing her by a few minutes, both ways. We were there to get an article done about Outlaw Roundup, and our need for volunteers, and a meeting (More about that in a minute). We left a flyer about Outlaw Roundup, and I jotted down a few notes on the meeting, on the back, along with my number. The call came on my cell, just as I was near home, and I ended up sitting in my driveway talking for quite a while. Linda is very excited about what the things I've discussed on these lists, and what we're doing, and what we need. She basically told me anything the paper can do to help...it will. She's a native, and she, like me, is pretty disgusted that our grandkids won't be able to find Mutton Hollow if we don't do something now. She asked me where the idea for Outlaw Roundup came from, and I told her there just weren't enough events in this area for me to wear my tear dress to. I hope she doesn't print that, but then again, it's rather typical for me. No wonder I just jumped when Greg popped his head in my door to ask me a question. Who needs caffeine? LOL The meeting, for anyone and everyone, is to be held 30 Jan at Una's Cafe. I know, I previously said the 23rd, but Ingrid and I can't be 2 places at once, and we have a council meeting that night. So we moved the meeting up a week. Write me for more info. Now. I wonder if I have anything in this house to calm me down? Don't forget to say your prayers tonight. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

School Of The Ozarks at Point Look-Out outside of Hollister has this newspaper in their Library

At the bottom of all the messages that Vonda Sheets sends out on both of the Rootsweb Lists she has for Taney Co. and the surrounding counties in MO & AR, I think there is a URL that you can just click and it takes you to Taney Co,MO website & among the items included in that website is the Alphabetical Index of Taney Co Marriages 1885-1900 by both bride & groom. I'm not sure this will work but here is the URL that shows when I pull that website up: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/taney_index/Taneyindex.html If it doesn't work for you, then watch for the next message that Vonda puts out on the Taney Co. List. Don Houk E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOTANEY] MOTANEY] White River Valley List Doug - You mentioned a White River Valley List - how would I find that? ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNI NG SKY ENTERPRISES</A> ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== Visit webpages by other Taney Co. MO researchers to see if they have some of your family information http://www.rootsweb.com/~motaney/taney.htm ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

The cover page says "Marriage Records of Taney County, Missouri 1885-1900" copied by members of Taneycomo Chapter DAR and compiled 1966-1968. Cover page also states: Quote "Taney Co., MO was formed from Greene Co. in 1837. Forsyth is the County seat of Taney Co. Census records available 1840-1880. "County records were destroyed by fire in 1885, but some real estate records are in existence through the records of Mr. Chas. H. Groom, Abstractor, at the time, who was convinced that a second set of records should always be maintained. "In the following marriage records, affidavits are recorded proving the marriage of certain parties prior to 1885, the records of which were destroyed in the fire, and they desired to again record their marriage for posterity." unquote These same DAR marriage records can be viewed on the White River Valley List which Vonda set up & which are in alphabetical order whereas the list I have is in chronological order under each letter of the alphabet. From my own experience, I don't think there are very many records prior to 1885, at least I've only run across a couple that involved anyone in any of my Taney County lines. Don Houk E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Phillip B. & Lydia Carsten What dates are included in the DAR marriage index for Taney Co.? Is there anything as far back as the beginning of the county. I thought all burned more than once. Thanks, Ida ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

I have asked this before and I cannot find were I put the replay. I must have deleted it or something. anyway What was/is the name of the newspaper that would have been in circulation in 1898 in Protem? Were might I get a copy of the microfilm? What would the name of the library and or historical society be for that area? Thanks Marge

Gina, I don't know if this will help or not, but William C. Carsten and Sadie Stiffler were married in Christian Co. June 19, 1896. This is shown on the marriage records located on the Christian County Transcribed Records site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~moccl/marriages.htm Jo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, January 08, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: [MOTANEY] 1890Taney Co. MO Census & Frederick William Carsten Does anyone have access to an index of the 1890 Veteran's census for Taney Co.? I am wondering if it could be checked to see if my g-g-grandfather, Frederick William Carsten is located there. One of his son's married in 1890 in Taney Co., which is more evidence the family had to have been there, as my g-grandparents - William Clayborn Carsten & Sarah Lucinda "Sada" Stiffler had to have met somewhere as the Stiffler family was from Forsyth. ~gina thomas patterson~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNING SKY ENTERPRISES</A> ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

Doug - You mentioned a White River Valley List - how would I find that? ~gina~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNING SKY ENTERPRISES</A>

A NARA archivist posted this on another list: >The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has posted >two new web pages: >Deaths of U.S. Citizens in Foreign Countries >http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/deaths1.html >and >World War I Draft Registration Cards >http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/w1draft.html >which are both accessible through the main >Genealogy Page (see Part 2: Online Information) >http://www.nara.gov/genealogy >or >http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html ~gina thomas patterson~ Visit my homepage at http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/myhomepage/business.html">BURNING SKY ENTERPRISES</A>