Dear Friends, After our March meeting, we're off to a promising start! Our April meeting will be Monday, April 28th, 6:30 p.m., at the Davidson County Public Library, 602 South Main Street, Lexington. There's a printable meeting notice here: http://www.tradingford.com/meeting.html (Note the spiffy new - and shorter (whew!) - domain.) We need to reach more people if we're going to be effective. Please spread the word to people and organizations who'd be interested. (Notifying the newspapers and media outlets will be taken care of.) Please put on your thinking caps and come with ideas about how we can get NCDOT's attention!!! The latest on that poor Confederate earthwork that was run over and parked on by NCDOT trucks in January and February is that NCDOT now questions the opinions of the two experts who validated it, and their archaeologist wants to dig it up to see if it really is a Confederate earthwork. There wouldn't be anything left! I'd say this is an outrage if they hadn't passed "outrage" a long time ago! Press coverage: Trading Ford History vs. Progress, by Mark Wineka, Salisbury Post, March 23, 2003: http://salisburypost.townnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/March/23-165-23-1%20trading%20ford%20fight.txt Effort Seeks to Preserve Historic Area, by William Keesler, The Dispatch (Lexington), March 27, 2003: http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LD&Date=20030327&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=303270323&Ref=AR&Profile=1006&SectionCat=ARCHIVES14 Oh, WOW! POINT! POINT! Editorial - County Government Needs to Get Involved - Quickly - to Save the Yadkin Trading Ford, by William Keesler, The Dispatch, April 5, 2003: http://www.the-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=LD&Date=20030405&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=304050303&Ref=AR&Profile=1012&SectionCat=ARCHIVES14 Hope to see you on the 28th! Come early and get some Lexington barbeque. And don't forget the Rowan 250 Fest Parade on Friday (2:00 Main Street, Salisbury). Ann Trading Ford history: http://www.tradingford.com/ Save the Trading Ford: http://www.tradingford.com/save.html "Here is your country. Do not let anyone take it or its glory away from you. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches, or its romance. The World and the Future and your very children shall judge you according to [the way] you deal with this Sacred Trust." -- President Theodore Roosevelt

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/529.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm sorry, but I can't help you much. John Adams, Jr. is not my line, his brother, Peter. B. F. Adams is. William, I believe is John's son, his oldest, but I don't know anything about his family. I do know a man in Missouri who might know. His name is Zane Teeter, and he publishes a newsletter about John Adams, jr, and his ancestors. They celebrate Jefferson Adams birthday with a reunion every year, unless that have changed. The only email address I have for Mr. Teeter is zteeters@wk.net. I haven't tried this in some time. Good luck. Mrs. Heiney

Hi Betty, Margaret Hofmann's url is http://www.margaretmhofmann.com/ sure wish I was going to be able to attend her seminar. Audrey Orlando, FL > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:43:40 +0000 > From: "Betty A. Pace" <bapace2@juno.com> > To: NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <20030408.164341.-230761.2.bapace2@juno.com> > Subject: [NCRowan] 300 Years of NC Patents and Grants by Margaret M. > Hofmann > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > A wonderful opportunity for those of you who live in North Carolina. > If you go to this web site, you will find the announcement of a workshop > by Margaret M. Hofmann, premier historian and genealogical researcher. > The workshop will be Saturday, June 7th, in Smithfield, NC. I know this > researcher will be well worth the $15 fee (includes lunch). I know that > she has a web site, but I have lost the URL. >

A wonderful opportunity for those of you who live in North Carolina. If you go to this web site, you will find the announcement of a workshop by Margaret M. Hofmann, premier historian and genealogical researcher. The workshop will be Saturday, June 7th, in Smithfield, NC. I know this researcher will be well worth the $15 fee (includes lunch). I know that she has a web site, but I have lost the URL. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjohnst/calendar.htm 300 Years of NC Patents and Grants by Margaret M. Hofmann 7 June 2003 Margaret M. Hofmann has published in eight volumes, in abstract form, the extant land patents and land grants from North Carolina's Colonial era as found in the North Carolina Secretary of State's holdings. She is presently preparing for publication abstracts of the North Carolina State Grants beginning in 1778. Volume One of this new series came out in May 1999. She is a native of Raleigh. She has published genealogical reference books for nearly thirty years. In addition to the publications already mentioned, her more than a dozen and a half titles include wills and deeds at the county level and two "how to" books beginning and intermediate genealogical researchers. She is a charter member of the NC Genealogical Society of which she was a Board member and Publications Chairman when the North Carolina Research Volume 1 was first published in 1980. The National Genealogical Society honored her in 1990 with the Award of Merit for her contribution to genealogy and she was the 1986 winner of the prestigious McDaniel Lewis Historian of the Year Award given by the North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc. On April 12, 1999 she received from the Historic Halifax Restoration Association the Halifax Resolves Award for Lifetime Support of Historic Preservation. The one day workshop will be held at Centenary United Methodist Church, Market Street, Smithfield, NC. The workshop will be from 10 am to 3 pm and lunch is provided in price of registration. Cost will $15.00. Lecture 1 First owners in Colonial Period Lecture 2 First Owners in State Grant Period to 1960 Lecture 3 Nine Categories of County Records Lecture 4 Search for the Old Court House Please check back for further details as they become available and a downloadable application (This was copied from the web site.) Betty Pace

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/0VB.2ACI/7134 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on James Thompson moved to Virginia early 1800s. Born abt 1785 in North Carolina. Wife's name Agnes Father believed to be named Elisha, mother Elizabeth. Thanks

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/0VB.2ACI/1336.1975 Message Board Post: I have just begun the search for ancestry. I can go back to Peter and Elizabeth. Were you able to get any info? I would be happy to e-mail you with how I have traced back to these two relatives. Thank you. Sue in Wisconsin

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/0VB.2ACI/7133 Message Board Post: John C. Beaver born 13, Mar 1865 in Salisbury area, Rowan or Cabarrus CO. Died in Kaufman CO. TX, died 15 Jun 1921. Came to TX in early 1900's, married Flora Roberts. Related to the Dry family Charles and Thoban Dry were his nephews. David Cherry info has a John Crawford Tobias Beaver born in 1861. Not sure this is same person. Dates just don't match up. Looks like sister Mary was married to Jacob Dry. My record has his middle name as Columbus. Who was his father and siblings?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: adams randall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/529.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any info on William's dtr, Elizabeth? I have an Elizabeth Adams born 1770 NC and mar John Randall bet 1785-1789 in Rowan Co. They later lived in Cleveland Co, NC. Thanks for any help. Teresa

Organ Lutheran records: John Peter Miller b 24 March 1794, son of Jacob Miller and Catherine Friendly, married 18 June 1789 (bond date). Married Sophia Brunner 10 Nov 1823 (bond date). Jacob is the son of Wendel Miller and his first wife??? Jo White Linn published a book on the Jacob Miller family. When we decided to do the family of Wendel Miller, we copied her material in this book: Descendents of Wendel Miller. Her material list only Henry Wilson as Peter's child. He was baptised at Organ Lutheran Church. Pat Beck, Miller descendent --- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Smith" <andy.smith@union.utexas.edu> To: <NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:56 PM Subject: [NCRowan] Peter Miller > The 1850 federal census for Rowan County, NC lists Peter Miller > (b.1798) and his wife Sophia (b.1804) and their six children, Olla > C., Jacob, Albert, Phillip J.,Abram M, and H.W. who is my > gggrandfather. My line runs Peter Miller-H.W.Miller-Lucius Walter > Miller-Robert Lee Miller - Lillyan Miller(my mother). I am really > stuck on the ancestors of Peter and Sophia Miller and would > appreciate any and all help that can be provided. I am specifically > interested in whether or not there is a connection to the Wendel > Miller line that is so prominent in Rowan Co. > > Many thanks in advance. > Andy Smith > > > ============================== > 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 >

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/0VB.2ACI/587.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Linda, I know of a Peter Byrd/Bird, in Rowan County, NC, this is my line as well. I descend through Michael Byrd/Bird, his wife being Catharine. I have some information on that line, and I would be willing to share same. Thank you, Jeane

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/0VB.2ACI/1051.5804.5834.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Edd Ray was a friend of mine for years. I did not know that he passed away. I am truly sorry. I remember him and his old Studebaker with fondness. I met him when I was working at the City Grocery and market on main St in downtown Mooresville. Sincerely, Cotton Ketchie

From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" otg@csolve.net To: otg@csolve.net Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:44:13 -0500 Subject: [TSL] Ships to VA from Eng 1635 now online Hello everyone, Thanks to volunteer transcriber Laura Freeman, Olive Tree Genealogy has new ships passenger lists going from England to Virginia in 1635. There are 20 ships in this database; the first 10 are now online for you to search for that elusive ancestor. As always, all databases on Olive Tree are FREE to use. Please let each page load completely, then scroll down to read the list of passenger names. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_merchbona1635.shtml Merchant Bonaventure 1635 England to St. Domingo then Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_america1635.shtml America 23 June 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_eliz1635.shtml Elizabeth of London 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_globe1635.shtml Globe of London Aug. 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_alice1635.shtml Alice July 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_assurance1635.shtml Assurance of London July 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_george1635.shtml George 12 Aug 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_david1635.shtml David 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_constance1635.shtml Constance 24 Oct. 1635 England Virginia http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tova_abraham1635.shtml Abraham 1635 England Virginia To find ships to VA for other years, you can start your search at Ships to VA before 1820 http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_va.shtml or Ships to VA after 1820 http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tousa_va1820.shtml Ships to VA before and after 1820 are INDEX pages - they have lists of online (free) passenger lists. Each ship has a link to click on which takes you to the names of passengers. Olive Tree ships are marked with my little Olive Tree button; ships on other sites are marked with a square "offsite" button. Remember to let each page load *completely* before you try to get to the list of ships. Feel free to pass this message on to anyone you think might be interested. Enjoy! Lorine **Search Ships Passenger Lists to USA http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_ships.shtml **Search Ships Passenger Lists to Canada http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml **Search Ships Passenger Lists to Australia/New Zealand http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/searchships_aus.shtml otg@csolve.net ______________________________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rowan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0VB.2ACI/7132 Message Board Post: Found a picture of Sallie Rowan, taken Oct 22, 1899. There is another name not sure if it's a middle name or maiden name and not able to make out clearly but looks like Tawfly or Tawfby. The middle letters are *awf and ends in a Y. Was given to me needs home. Sherry

If you go to this web page, there are some Rowan Co. etc. names, in addition to the names in this forwarded message, which only gives the Vanderpool names.. Betty Pace ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Myra Vanderpool Gormley" <myravgormley@earthlink.net> To: VANDERPOOL-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 07:43:02 -0800 Subject: [VANDERPOOL-L] Stray VANDERPOOLs in Gold Rush era of California Thought these references might be of interest. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/argosea1.htm THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA BY A PIONEER C. W. HASKINS 1890 (Second Half of Book) Following is a list of vessels with the names of their passengers that sailed from the various Atlantic Seaports for California in 1849. >From New York City. Passengers of bark Norumberg, from New York, March 8th : David Kisner, Wltr. Hyer, Ed Pillet, Sml. Goodenough, G. A. Backus, Chas. Bloom, C. D. Smith, Wm. Jones, J. S. Monroe, Hardng. Vanderpool, Andw. Perinem, Robt. Buchannan, Dd. Demerest, Edwn. Roe, W. J. Watkins, Frcs. Donnelly, Sml. Young, W. J. Howard, Myers Morange, Rd. Dugan, Cornls. Fulkerson, S. H. Denton, W. H. Warden, P. M. Mahon, Geo. Thompson, W. H. Benjamin, Geo. Lansdown, Geo. Young, T. W. Denton, Jn. McBeath, J. F. Wilkins, Angus S. Noe, Wm. Bason, Rdm. Backus, Dd. Levitt, Jn., Denton. ======== Passengers of Ship J. G. Costar from New York, February 21st: Wm. Floyd, R. R. Nelson, H. H. Nelson, Abm. Vanderpool, A. A. Aikin, Wm. Bush, J. Talmage, Dr. B. B. Coit, G. D. Sharp, Hy. Wright, L. A. Thorn, J. Flintoff, C. W. Tucker, Thos. Carpenter, T. Hidelir, Jhn. Carr, P. McKinna, W. W. Savage, W. Kelly, G. P. Down, W. J. Kelly, Hy. Drufe, G. H. Estyle, Mark Corby, B. Cohen, John Otten, Hy. Thompson, C. Domiticus, P. P. Manville, P. B. Beebe, Jn. Standish, J. F. Valentine, D. Ranchenburgh, I. Wahn, C. Kahn, Frank Snell, Dan Mott, T. Brand, J. Connor, Rbt. Evans, Jas. Frazer, J. B. McAdam, H. J. Davis, Ed Osgood, R. W. Tone, S. B. Hart, J. Gaffney, B. Hart, E. D. Judah, Hy. Robinson, Harris Goldner, W. A. Booker, C. F. Steele, Andw. Jelly, J. R. Hutchinson, G. Rent, J. C. Johnson, J. V. Mulvany, Abner Barton, J. Whelan, Dan Jones, J. Castelli, Lyman Nutting, M. R. Shannon, E. Gaylord, D. C. S. Johnson, J. R. Wightman, C. C. Tefft, Dan Marble, G. Williams, Ed Blake, R. Hughes, N. H. Bates, H. C. Henry, T. J. Newland, S. A. Rendall, S. T. Harris, F. Doolittle, G. A. Clarke, J. O. Wilkinson, A. B. Rogers, W. Blake, C. Rose, N. Wrix, G. C. Fisher, M. S. Thraesher, R. W. Lacy, J. M. Gilleland, Jas. Myres, J. H. Pendleton. --Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: [NCRowan] Historic Sites along Yadkin River Threatened > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:52:57 +0000 > From: "JON WILLAND" <jon.and.lois.willand@worldnet.att.net> > To: NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com > > Please remind us where non North Carolinians should write to support your > cause. > Lois Willand > Minneapolis, Minnesota Sho' 'nuff. Go to http://www.tradingford.com/save.html (note the spiffy new domain) and click on the first link under "What you can do". A ready-to-go email will pop up. Please feel free to change or add to the message. "Sign" your name and city, state and send it off! Thanks!!!!! Ann > ---------- > >From: Ann Brownlee <girlywhig@webkorner.com> > >To: NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [NCRowan] Historic Sites along Yadkin River Threatened > >Date: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:53 AM > > <snip> > > Good (long) article in Sunday's Salisbury Post including a range of > > opinions: > > > > > http://salisburypost.townnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2003/Ma > rch/23-16 > > 5-23-1%20trading%20ford%20fight.txt

I am not familiar with this family. I am intrested, however, in your last name. Is it Goodin? My Mother's maiden name was Goodin. My Grandfather, Charles E. Goodin was from Kentucky. If you have any info on this family you would like to exchange, please, e-mail me at: vicblondie@aol.com Thanks, Vickie

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/0VB.2ACI/1400.5680.2 Message Board Post: Elizabeth Hampton was the mother of George Washington Tompkins a brother to Eli and Matilda. George Washington Tompkins is my line of the Tompkins. I have information from Benjamin on down and a lot on the Tompkins on back but I want to be sure it is the correct family line. According to what I have found their father was James born In New Jersey. I would appreciate any information you have or pictures of the family and I would be glad to help you with any I have. bg1932@yahoo.com just e mail me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tompkins-Hampton-Jackson- Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0VB.2ACI/1400.5680.1.1 Message Board Post: Your Matilda was a sister to my GGGgrandfather Geosrge Washington Tompkins. I want to prove for sure who Benjamins parents are. I have information on him on down and more back on the Tompkins I want to prove. I also have some on the Hamptons. I live now by a small chance not far from where Matilda is burried. I can remember my mother talking about the Sisneys and an Earnest Sisney use to visit us some In Springfield. There was an Avlis or Alvey Sisney that lived not far from us. If you have any information I would appreciate it and I would be glad to help you with what you need. bg1932@yahoo.com just E mail; me

Dear Researchers, Professional genealogists always advise beginning genealogists to begin searching the US censuses. (And we all begin again when we find a new ancestor--like the father of a previously unnamed wife of one of our ancestors) Admittedly this census search is NOT easy to do. However, if one lives near an LDS family history center (FHC), there may be a tool or two at that center, no matter how small. Practically all LDS FHCs have on hundreds of microfiche a very useful tool called AIS = Accelerated Indexing System. This is a comprehensive census INDEX (not the census itself) for the entire US through the 1850 census. For some midwestern and western states the census index goes beyond the 1850 census. This tool MAY help you find migrating families--heads of households only. But even if you have a common surname to search, you may know where that family was in 1850 census. Therefore, start with that Search (each census year is called a Search). Then move backwards and pick up likely candidate families in earlier census indexes. This is filed not only by searches but by surname, first name, [not in this order--I'm recalling from memory] county, state, page number, and year of census. You may find that the person whose whereabouts you knew in 1850 was earlier in another State in 1840 and still another State in 1830, and so on. Search 1 is the earliest censuses' indexes. To make up for the destroyed 1790 census, there may be tax lists for early years--a great people-finder. You should know that the error rate is high--but if you find your ancestor, what do you care? Collect your ancestors' neighbors. For instance, if you know the wife's maiden name, look for her family and her cousins and her uncles, etc. To find an LDS center near, go to this website: www.familysearch.org On the lower right is a link to a list of FHCs around the world. Below that is the online catalog for the vast genealogical library at Salt Lake City. Take a look at it. And on that website, check the 1880 online census--tricky to use, but try it anyway. Misspell the name, just like the census-taker did and also the indexer. Happy hunting! E.W.Wallace

Cannot find a Jesse Park who married Tabitha Baker in the Park Family History or in the history of Elbenzor Parke. Pat Beck, Rowan County, NC, descendent of Noah Park, Sr. ----- Original Message ----- From: <springerart@yahoo.com> To: <NCROWAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:14 PM Subject: [NCRowan] Re: Noah Park > 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/0VB.2ACI/5677.5724.5732.1 > > Message Board Post: > > i'm trying to locate the correct line for jesse parke, b. NC 1789; married tabitha baker, 1821, scott cty, IN was it ebenezer or noah. appreciate help. > > > ============================== > 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 >