Justine, I'm so happy for your good fortune.....I know just how you feel. Those unexpected genealogy surprises are the stuff family researchers dream about. I forwarded your message to an ardent Bull family researcher, so you may be hearing from him......don't believe he has ancestors in this part of the country, but thought I'd give it a try. Welcome......good luck in your research! Nancy, researching, Doty/Warren/Stringer of MA/VA/NC/GA/MS McCormick/Dawkins/Carmichael of NC/SC/MS Garrett of SC/MS Robertson of NC/AL/MO Matthews/Jackson of IL/AL/MO/TX Cain/Garmon/Yancey of GA/TX ----- Original Message ----- From: <POGMOTHOIN824@aol.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: [MOTANEY] Bull family just sharing > this is Justine I am new to this group and genealogy so I don't know any of > you but I had to share this with someone I was so excited. I got a manila > envelope in the mail from OK, hadn't the foggiest who or what it could be and > to my surprise it was copies of pages from a book called standard history of > Kansas and kansans written in 1918. with these copies was a message saying I > heard you were researching and thought these might help. needless to say > through the family grapevine she heard this and i now have about 10 pages of > the bull history to pour over but it seems to go back to about 1600 or > earlier. I was thrilled since I couldn't even find my g-grandparents anywhere > on that side. I guess persistence, patience, asking questions of anyone > who'll listen and some luck just got me a mother load. where frustration was > setting in I now have excitement and enthusiasm this is all because I joined > this group and told my aunt about it, yippee! I'll stop babbling good hunting > to all of you. Jus > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >