NHROCKIN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > NHROCKIN-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 7 > > Today's Topics: > #1 BRACKETT MASSACRE [penny hass <penhass@swbell.net>] > #2 Cemeteries [Dick Marston <dick@marston.net>] > #3 PARSONS, Amos and DOW, Mary: Rye, [Dick Marston <dick@marston.net>] > #4 Bracketts [KLKimball@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > Send messages to the list to the "To" address found above > in THIS message. > To send commands (subscribe/unsubscribe), insert -request > between the D and the @ in the address. Send only the command > and NO other text, including no signature, name, or email > address. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use the word "none" in the subject. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: BRACKETT MASSACRE > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:55:47 -0600 > From: penny hass <penhass@swbell.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > This Brackett massacre info is interesting. I would like to hear more > when you all get more answers. I would like to see you post your > findings. If you don't, would it be possible for you to send a copy to > me also? I am connected through the Frosts and Heards. This is > fascinating reading. > Penny > penhass@swbell.net > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Cemeteries > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:18:54 -0800 > From: Dick Marston <dick@marston.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > I found the attached on my recent edition of RootsWeb Review, and I > thought it it might be of interest to several of you. Following that is > a smile for today from the same source. > > CEMETERY AND MORTUARY RECORDS (Part 1 of 2) > > by Brian Mavrogeorge, Senior Development Manager > The Learning Company <bmavrogeorge@palladium.net> > > Americans rely heavily on the censuses for family group > information. But when searching for children or women who lived > prior to 1900 in the United States, these records are not > reliable. Infant mortality was high, and children who were born > and died between census enumerations don't appear on the census. > If you are looking for a woman in the U.S. who died before the > 1850 federal census enumeration, the only information you'll find > under her own name might be on her tombstone or in a cemetery > card file. Tombstone inscriptions, cemetery records, or > undertaker records might be the only tangible evidence of these > lives. The Family Tutor for Basic Genealogy Records > <http://www.uftree.com>, by Johni Cerny, offers this advice. > > Start your cemetery search by finding the names and addresses of > churches in areas where your ancestor may have died. The National > Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has a Web site for > locating cemeteries: <http://www.sar.org/geneal/cemtmaps.htm>. > > Churches with affiliated burial grounds usually kept records of > interments in their ecclesiastical registers (sometimes called > "Sexton's Books"). The local minister might be able to tell you > where these registers are now -- in the original meetinghouse, a > central church archive, in the possession of the heirs of the > then-presiding minister, or at the office of the current > minister. Also, thousands of church burial registers have been > microfilmed and can be found in genealogical collections, or at > the LDS Family History Library and Family History Centers. > > * * * * * > > HUMOR. Thanks to Sharon Chappius for sending this tale. > > THE WEDDING > > A little boy was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down > the aisle he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd, > alternating between bride's side and groom's side. While facing > the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar . .. so > it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the > aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing > by the time he reached the altar. > > The little boy, however, became distressed at all the laughing > and began to cry. When asked what was the matter, the child > sniffed, "I was just being the Ring Bear." > > **** > > Keep on smiling, and happy hunting! > > Dick Marston, > Rockingham County, NH, Mail List (NHROCKIN) Owner > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: PARSONS, Amos and DOW, Mary: Rye, N.H. > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 09:02:32 -0800 > From: Dick Marston <dick@marston.net> > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Can anyone tell me anything about Col. Amos PARSONS and his wife Mary > DOW, parents of Martha (1803- ) and Anna S. (1806- ) PARSONS, both > born in Rye, N. H.? I'm looking for all vitals on these folks, together > with parents, grandparents, source(s), etc. Thanks! > -- > Dick Marston, Marston Manor: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1638/ > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Bracketts > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:09:24 EST > From: KLKimball@aol.com > To: NHROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi all- > I am extremely interested in this Brackett Massacre business, since I have a > Brackett line that apparently survived the massacre! :) I am looking for > Joshua Brackett who married Mary Weeks. Their daughter Eleanor was born in > 1712. They may have been from Raymond, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'd like to > hear from anyone with information on the Bracketts. > Thanks, > Karen (perhaps I shouldn't mention that it's 80 degrees out here in Southern > California!)I wish to unsubscribe to rootsweb and do npt know how to do so. Please advise...Thank you...