Some of my MYERS that lived in East Tennessee moved on out to Illinois, too. My generation and at least another generation back, at the very least, moved out to ILL. Funny, but now Pigeon Forge (the area that surrounds areas they were brought up in) has become quite a tourist attraction as a few of my great aunts own thriving businesses down in those parts. Funny story. 4 years back I was typing away in my old but then very new genealogy program Familytree Maker, while an aunt in Georgia was gabbing away long distance on the phone with me, as many memories as she could remember, and any clues that might help me to find our lines (I begged for anything, what can I say), well, she wrote that one of my great aunts and husband had one of those "Road Houses". Now I live in Maryland and we have "Bars", "Taverns", "Inns", "Bar and Grills" and even the trendy "Pubs" but I was typing away trying not to miss a word. As a northern it's hard to understand southern slang (I know, I know, we have the accent, not them) but I knew little about Family tree Maker except how to choice the "Put your files Online" and Wa-Laa, there it was for the whole darn world to see. One night, my aunt calls me (My dad's sister) and she says to me (as gently and as southern-lady-like as she can without hurting my feelings) "Chrystie, dear, we were scouting around on that internet thing and we found your Family tree Site". "We're soooo proud of you, putting all of us out there for the world to see (gulp) but would you mind taking down the part about great aunt (so and so).. You know, the part about the Road house. As it is we don't all get along too good now down here and... Well, I hadn't even realized I typed it much less that it was online. And besides, I had no clue as to what a Road House was anyway. After she explained, and I was done cleaning up the coffee I had spitted out all over the rug, and then I went through that 1/2 hour of "laughing hysterically" at myself (you know, when you're too embarrassed to look at your own self in the mirror) I quickly got online and deleted it. Live and learn by Trial and Error. I have about 50 more just like the one above I could tell you about. P.S. Any MOYER(S) MYER(S) in ILLIONIS from Sevier, Blount, Knox Counties of Tennessee out here. If so, no disrespect intended as we're probably "kin" ;) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Chrystie MYERS, ROOTSWEB LIST ADMINISTRATOR BROOKOVER - KRABAL - MOYERS LIST NEWSGROUPS -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > From: SusiCP@aol.com > Reply-To: MOYERS-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:11:31 EDT > To: MOYERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOYERS] Illinois research > Resent-From: MOYERS-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:11:53 -0600 > > YAH YAH WHOOPEE, My PA MOYER changed at times to MYERS moved to ILL. parents > dying there. But think before death data was kept. Thanks for the site. We > know a sister was near him in ILL just not a clue as to where or who. LA > SALLE CO he buried in with wife. > > SusiCP