This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sjyoung72 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1458.8/mb.ashx Message Board Post: HELLO MY NAME IS SHARON YOUNG I REALY DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MS BUT MY FAMILY ARE FROM AMITE AND PIKE MS MY GRANGFATHERS LAST NAME WAS YOUNG AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A SMITH HIS FIRST NAME WAS OLLIE HERS WAS MABLE IS B YEAR WAS 1902 HIS PARENTS WHERE DALLAS AND ANNIE YOUNG FROM AMITE MS IF YOU HAVE RAN ACROSS THESE NAMES E-MAIL ME AT SJYOUNG72@YAHOO.COM Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Lulu4425 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1489.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: thanks for sharing this Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: charbmoore1 Surnames: McCoy, James, Ward, McCormick, Rogers Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1489/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From the Mobile, Alabama Newspaper September 1936 . "(From Laurel, Miss.) Kidnapping charges were filed tonight against Leroy Rogers, 32, Jasper County farmer who was alleged to have abducted four Laurel negro boys and to have forced them at gun point to pick cotton on his 14-acre farm. Rogers was put in the Jones County jail. District Attorney Jack Deavours said the four boys at first went to work for Rogers voluntarily but became dissatisfied and quit. When they left, Rogers was said to have trailed them with a dog and gun to a negro house where they sought refuge. Officers said one of the boys was dragged from under a bed where he hid. All four boys were forced to return to Rogers' farm, officers said, where they picked cotton in the daytime and were locked in a corn crib at night. Rogers denied he forced the boys to work. 'They have been working for me all week and I kept them on the place,' he said. Deavours was reticent regarding possible motives for a kidnapping. There is a general labor shortage in this area but it was not regarded as alarming. The four boys were: Cleo McCoy, 16; Manning James, 12; Sears Ward, 14, and Robert McCormick, 14. They had been reported missing and Deputy sheriffs, sent to look for them, found them on Rogers' farm." Not my line, just sharing. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Greetings, Some of Chapter 1 of "150 Years Later" is now featured on LowCountry Africana. The link is http://lowcountryafricana.net/excerpt_150_years_later.asp Thanks,  Melvin J. Collier 150 Years Later, Broken Ties Mended See www.150YearsLater.com for details.

Greetings, Some of Chapter 1 of "150 Years Later" is now featured on LowCountry Africana. The link is http://lowcountryafricana.net/excerpt_150_years_later.asp Thanks,   Melvin J. Collier 150 Years Later, Broken Ties Mended See www.150YearsLater.com for details.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: nancy81974 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1453.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for posting that... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Lace_Lynch Surnames: Fairconeture, Cooper Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1453.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Private services were held for Ms. Arthurine Cooper, 64, who went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, at Campus Health Care. Ms. Cooper was born Dec. 9, 1946, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, a daughter of Arthur and Deloris Fairconeture Cooper. She was a graduate of The Rayen School, Youngstown, Ohio. She leaves to cherish her memory, a brother, Otha (Wanda) Cooper of Youngstown, OH; two sisters, Jewel Cooper of Youngstown and Patricia Cooper of Texas; one grandson, Raymond A. Cooper Jr.; a granddaughter, Brandee Buckley; and a host of family and friends. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Arthur Cooper and one sister, Carolyn Cooper Ritchie. Arrangements were entrusted to the L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home, Youngstown, Ohio. http://www.vindy.com/news/tributes/2011/aug/28/arthurine-coope/ Courtesy Post; Not related. Hancock Mahoning Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: quinicem Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/76.117.3.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hey cousin. Im from Michigan. My grandmother is Arnell Phinisee, one of Clevelands daughters. I live in Arlington Texas now and would love to get any information you have on our relatives here in Texas. You can email me anytime.....quinicem@gmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: quinicem Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/76.117.3.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hey cousin. Im one of your cousins from Michigan. Arnell Phinisee, one of Clevelands daughters, is my grandmother. I live in Arlinton Texas and would love to get any information you have. You can email me at any time. quinicem@gmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

See book review by Robin Foster entitled "150 Years Later" Incorporates Everything Historians Dream About at http://www.overtroubledwater.org/2011/08/150-years-later-incorporates-everything.html#axzz1VQaYCECL   Thanks, Melvin J. Collier 150 Years Later, Broken Ties Mended See www.150YearsLater.com for details.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: terrijohns95 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1444.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for info on William Joseph Johns African American. He lived in Wilkinson Mississippi,in 1900 he was 44 years old at that time. I am trying to get his death cert. So I can find out his parents names. I think they may have been born in maryland then moved to LA. then Miss. Terri Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: terrijohns95 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/702.2.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am also looking for Johns /Williams/ and McCray William J. Johns / Joseph W. Johns from Mississippi. The Johns is on my husbands side of the family. Terri, Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hello, Here is the link to the group. http://www.facebook.com/groups/NoxubeeMSAFGenealogy/

Hello, There are two African American genealogy groups on Facebook: Carroll County,MS Afro-Amer Genealogy and Noxubee County,MS- African American Genealogy. You can post information, surname, make connection and find some advice. If you have an account on Facebook,check it out.  You must do a search on the title of group to  find it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: larkinmil80551 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/139.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Was George Lindo a minister? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ednamae07 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/723.1.1.1.2.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Are you still available to help with researching surnames in Mississippi? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: familygriot1972 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1444.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: hi bydegree1, inbox me on ancestry. Thanks! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bydegree1 Surnames: Henyard, Dennis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1444.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm related to the Henyard family from Wilkinson country through my maternal great-grandmother Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ngandy199 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/393.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Try the Mississippi State University website (library.msstate.edu),under "Research," click "Digital Collections". Scroll down, and you'll find the CHARM Digital Collections. Click on that, scroll down until you hit "Collections." Click on "View a list of collections". A page with a list of the digital collections in the CHARM database will appear. Scroll down to the "W"s. Click on "Ward(Rufus)Collection". Apparently, the Billups had two residences in MS: Ashton Hall, and Billups Gate Plantation. The name is Thomas Carleton Billups (T.C) Billups, III. At or near Billups Gate Plantation, there was a house called Mims Place House. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Greetings Everyone! The trailer and webpage for my upcoming book, 150 Years Later, are now up!  See www.150yearslater.com. This is a genealogical story and outcome like none other!! The book will be ready for purchase by August 1. Thanks,   Melvin J. Collier 150 Years Later, Broken Ties Mended See www.150YearsLater.com for details.