Veterans History Project comes alive Collections from interviews and materials donated by veterans and civilians are beginning to appear on the web at the Library of Congress site www.loc.gov/warstories. Stories are under the headings of Courage, Patriotism and Community from among 7,000 collections that the project as received to date. As people realize how unique their own stories are, more and more are sharing them. Contact Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC 20540. source: Reunions magazine, June/July 2004, page 58, www.reunionsmag.com, 414-263-4567 [email protected], , www.reunionsmag.com, 414-263-4567, [email protected] (perhaps a relative's story is among the collection) ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Volunteers needed to inventory VA cemetery memorials The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking volunteers to research and photograph monuments in its 120 national cemeteries and 33 soldiers' lots under VA jurisdiction. In May, 2002, it was estimated that 300 memorials would be found. To date, nearly 800 memorials have been identified, with approximately 300 more in 20 states still to be documented. The VA provides instructions, survey questionnaires and film. Volunteers take measurements and photographs, record inscriptions, make notes about the monument's condition and conduct historical research. For information about the project or to volunteer, contact historian Darlene Richardson at 202-565-5426 or email [email protected] Projection information will be made available through the Smithsonian Institution's art inventory database. source: Reunions magazine, June/July 2004, page 59 (perhaps your cemetery research holds some of the information they are collecting) ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Topps Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/353.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi Linda, I already have you in my family database. We are cousins. My mother (Gwen) and I talk to your father, Lil' Brother, regularly. I saw him the last time I was home. Send me an e-mail and we can touch bases. I recently lost a lot of family information in my database because of a computer malfunction. Take care, AL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/353.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Jennings and Edna was my granparents. My father James is their oldest son.

Hi - For those researching the Hunt family of Franklin, Adams, and Amite counties, I have added the Deck Hunt cemetery located in Franklin county to our genealogy society's webpage under MISSISSIPPI CONNECTIONS at: www.aagssc.org They were of Choctaw, African American, and Irish ancestry and some were slaves in Amite and Franklin counties before Emancipation. I have also included pictures of a few of the decedents from the family cemetery, or their ancestors. There is also a will of a former slave owner in Amite county on the web page. I will be adding other documents and pictures, so if any one related can contact me through the web address. Denise Griggs, Founder/President African American Genealogy Society of Sacramento, CA www.aagssc.org (916) 369-5398

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/535.1 Message Board Post: Not sure if this will help (from index at ancestry.com): Name: Henderson paulena Age in 1870: 31 Estimated Birth Year: 1838 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1870: Township 8 Range 8, Panola, Mississippi Race: Colored Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Image Post Office: Como Roll: M593_747 Page: 226 Image: 454 Year: 1870 Name: Aaron Pullen Age in 1870: 45 Estimated Birth Year: 1824 Birthplace: Georgia Home in 1870: Eufaula, Tallapoosa, Alabama Race: Colored Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Image Post Office: Walnut Hill Roll: M593_42 Page: 119 Image: 237 Year: 1870

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: holsey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/413.1 Message Board Post: Hello. I am wondering if your Holsey could be related to me in any way. My grandfather's name was Holsey who came from Georgia. Can you help? Thanking you in advance. Jeanne Howell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phelan/Phelon/Philan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lIB.2ACE/535 Message Board Post: I am looking for Aaron Phelan and Henderson Phelin in the 1870 Census. If you have any information on this line, please share and help. Trying to complete data so I can began my slaveowner search.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/534.1 Message Board Post: Can you give me a little more background on your family. I've lived in Canton, Mississippi all of my life. My mother's roots are in Canton and Flora. I have a great aunt whose married a Frazier Jones, but I don't know to much about his family. I sorry that I could not be much more help

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/534 Message Board Post: Im looking for anyone in madison County(Canton or otherwise) who remembers an ancestor by the name of Surry Jones or Wyatt Jones.Surry Jones(male) married a Brown.Wyatt Jones may have married a woman named Ailsey Thompson in Canton,Miss 1870. Please let me hear from 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/an/lIB.2ACE/533 Message Board Post: looking for a man name (Ruth) or relatives. We know that there was 7 or 8 siblings, males: Clarence,George,Robert Lee,John L, and Ruth: Females names are Susie,Hattie,Mary. George had a son name Sonny.George drowned about 1935 in tate county mississippi,Ruth also had a daughter name Christine. any info please. 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/lIB.2ACE/480.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: do you have a William McCarty born abt 1852? my McCartys' are African American too

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POWE/HAYS/TROTTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/480.1.1.1 Message Board Post: African American

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/lIB.2ACE/480.1.1 Message Board Post: what race are we talking about? I don't recognize any of the names, but then again I don't have any informat ion on the McCartys' before William McCarty born abt: 1852, married Amanda Mott in Wayne County.

Searching for ancestors,parents, & siblings of WHIT MCGILL, born a slave July-1859 in Panola CO., MS. I believe he was a slave of A. D. MCGILL. Thank you for any help, slave records, freedom papers & etc...Andy 11-JULY-1860 SLAVES CENSUS: slaves of PANOLA CO., MS, SLAVE OWNER: A.D. MCGILL, female slaves: slave age-45 B. 1814, 25 B. 1835, 4 B. 1856, male slaves: age-35 B. 1825, 11 B. 1849, 1 B. 1858, this 1 year old slave is WHIT McGill, the other slaves may be his blood links. Names are unknown at this time. 10-JUNE-1870 census: FHL film # 552246, DIST-4, SHEET-53A, PANOLA CITY, LINE-2, PANOLA CO. MS, this was the slave owner: A. D. MCGILL age-50 R/R AGENT b. in NC, WIFE: I. A.-40 b. in SC, children: ANNA-16, WILLIAM-12, SAVANNAH-10, ADRA-8, SAM-4, JAMES 3/12

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/520.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm sorry, I don't know much else. I know that she lived in Georgia. But I don't know when she came or if she had been here for some time. She apparently gave up her daughter (Gertrude Riggins Johnson) at some point and came back out of the blue. Gertrude was very light complexed. Our history was very hush-hush so we didn't get much info from aunts who have passed on. Thank you for responding. VERY much in the dark. Here's my email. Feel free to contact me anytime. [email protected]

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/lIB.2ACE/520.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you know which county in MS your ROUNDTREE are from? I located mine in Hinds County. Tell me what you do know about your ROUNDTREE line.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roundtree Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/520.1 Message Board Post: Looking for anything! Very interested in the name also. We have very little information on our ancestor holding the name. Only a picture of a very dark woman. She gave birth in 1886 and died sometime after 1930.

DOES ANYONE KNOW MY RELATIVES IN NATCHEZ,MISS. I WANT TO TOUCH BASE WITH THEM [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lIB.2ACE/419.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I think Wesley had a another wife Virginia in I think the 1880 census.