Derick/Anybody, Found the Bastardy Bonds very interesting but could use some help on how to interpret them. For instance, which is supposed to be the father? I noticed that sometimes the mother's name is also under Bondsman. Thanks! > [Original Message] > From: <ncburke-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <ncburke@rootsweb.com> > Date: 9/18/2007 3:02:28 AM > Subject: NCBURKE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 112 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Burke County Bastardy Bonds (Phillip M. Heavner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:59:55 -0400 > From: "Phillip M. Heavner" <pheavner@vistatech.net> > Subject: Re: [NCBURKE] Burke County Bastardy Bonds > To: <ncburke@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <008301c7f99f$ff18cc40$0202a8c0@OfficeDT> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi, Derick: > > Hope you're not as overwhelmed with 'stuff' as I am right now! Between > genealogy and church work, I feel like the little mouse on the wheel! > > I looked at the Bastardy Bonds site. It's the work of the Camins as > published by them a number of years ago. Who is Elizabeth Pope? I don't > see any relation she has with the site or the info. > > Lib Michaels told me today that she'd checked and Betty Camin died this > spring (website says she was in a nursing home). It seems from the site > that her husband has put up Betty's genealogy work for folks to use at will. > > Betsy has a few bones to pick with the info on the BB site. Her use of the > same records indicates that there are plenty of transcription errors. Lib > tells me of an example in her family where 3 of the four names are mis-read. > Wonder if we could (or should) put any kind of 'use at own risk' warning or > something like that? I do think that it's better than having nothing at > all, but lots of users probably take it as absolutely correct and run with > it, especially since checking the originals involves that nice trip to > Raleigh. > > The other thing we might note is that it only goes through 1878, so there > are a number of the bonds that were not included (the Camins did so with the > stated purpose of respecting the privacy of folks perhaps still living or > recently deceased). > > I had just examined the Camin site the other day myself (more of that Lail > work), so I immediately saw the data was familiar and noted the URL was the > Camins'. > > We got a note from the genealogy society (Old Tryon or Cleveland Co.--don't > remember which) which was read at the Board meeting last week. Seems the > new owners of Mr. Floyd's ISP took down the site...must have wanted more > money or something. > > Take care of yourself. > > Phillip > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derick Hartshorn" <DerickH@charter.net> > To: "Burke-L List" <NCBURKE@rootsweb.com>; <Burke Co.NC surname list Burke > Co.NC surname list :>; <Burke Surname listers :> > Cc: <garebel@embarqmail.com> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:42 AM > Subject: [NCBURKE] Burke County Bastardy Bonds > > > > > > Through the courtesy Diane Siniard, page owner of the NC Military > > page (and so many other great RootsWeb resources), the Burke County > > Bastardy Bonds have been added to the Burke County page > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncburke/records.htm. Transcribed by > > Elizabeth Pope, these records may help solve some of the sticking > > points have regarding dead ends in Burke County. > > > > Sadly, the contributions of Bill Floyd that appeared on the Burke > > County pages have been removed and have been consolidated on a CD for > > the benefit of the Old Tryon Genealogy Society. > > > > --Derick > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > NCBURKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NCBURKE list administrator, send an email to > NCBURKE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NCBURKE mailing list, send an email to NCBURKE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCBURKE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NCBURKE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 112 > *************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >