Hi... don't stay away to long you never know when something will come along and open the door for you on info.. just because a few people shut the door ...it always can be opened by someone else... its easy to say i will help be sometimes its hard to carry through... we all should watch our promises and try to do better... this is a long way to say don't give up... caroljane... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:58 PM Subject: Thank You Vonda > > Hi Vonda, > Again, I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful help you > provided me by > guiding me to the Snapp Cemetery and helping me find Ronnie Higgin's > place of > burial. You were superb in every way. I appreciate you taking me by the > church > where Ronnie married Willene Glenn. I sent a thank you card to the church > secretary. > Now for the bad news and I am not happy about it is that I sent a > letter to > the Taney County Courthouse at Forsyth to get a copy of Ronnie's > marriage record. I included a SASE with my request but I did not know > the > date of marriage. Now this is why we all contact the courthouse when we > are > looking for something that we don't know such as a date of marriage. > The courthouse responded that they could not help me because I did not > give > them the complete date of marriage and they made up the excuse that they > are > a small office. I will have to contact Jefferson City and try and get it > from them > if I can. All I know is that Ronnie was married at the church at > Rockaway Beach > which is in Taney County. > Willene also has failed to answer my letter too. She told me on the > telephone > that she would send me information. I sent her a letter with a SASE > shortly > after I mailed the letter to the courthouse. I am beginning to believe > that > Willene lied to me all the way. > The plan to meet Willene at Forsyth fell through. She never showed up. > She did call the restaurant and made up the excuse that traffic was > stalled on > Rt. 65 for 45 minutes and so she turned around and went back home because > she does not like to drive after dark. So, I did not get anything at all > from her > while I was down there. I really don't believe she wanted to see me at > all. > So now I am back to where I started from. I run across these kind of > people > in my family tree research often and it makes me very unhappy that I > can't > accomplish my goal. > I will be signing off Taney County web site within the next few weeks > because > I will be installing a new computer system. > Thank you again for all of your wonderful help. > > Best Wishes, > > John W. Pegg > > > > > ==== 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 > >