Brick wall Chenango Co , Oxford Melva Calaman mcalaman@penn.com Seeking maiden name of Rebecca Hackett reportedly born about 1790 in Vermont. She migrated to Clymer Twp. Tioga Co., Pa about 1829 with children Abigail b. 1813 and Lydia b. about 1823. She married Smith Cornell there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Stowell" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <nychenan@rootsweb.com>; <nycortla@rootsweb.com>; <nymadiso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:25 AM Subject: [NYCHENAN] not an update on data but one of sorts > While these lists are primarily focused on the history and genealogy of > the > people who lived in these counties in times past, so too are the posters > and > non-posters in some semblance members of a family as we ask things of all, > respond with answers and more questions - the interaction of a community. > > When a member loses a loved one and posts such information here or when a > member themselves pass away, we share the grief. Some times we also share > the joy of a brick wall broken down. > > As of this evening the lists have the following numbers of subscribers: > > > Chenango - 222 > Cortland - 175 > Madison - 225 > > Some folks, such as myself, are on all three lists. While I do not have > handy just how many unique addresses are represented on these lists, I > believe that more than just the members here are touched in some way by > these lists. > > Since my last update and also some time prior to that I've decided to go > back to school for the first time in 15 years. Having been out of > practice > so long, it's been difficult to take this one class and work full-time. > > It is just one class meeting 4 times a week for about an hour - but then > there is that old bugaboo homework. I'm two times plus the age of the > teacher, > four times plus the age of the other students. > > Still my interest of genealogy / history has not waned and I've been > pondering > another avenue, while running from one spinning plate to the next. > > To that end, I'd like to start 'Brick Wall' pages for each county. The > queries > need to be very simple - in other words not one's whole family tree - but > one > simple fact you are seeking, have been seeking for a long time. One of > mine > has been going now for 30 years. > > For example for me it would read something like this: > > Madison County - DeRuyter > my name - my email address > > Seeking parents of Whitman WILCOX - b. bef. June 1803 NY > d. ca. 1880, DeRuyter. m. bef. 1840 - Phebe THOMPSON. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > If you send me one that is verbose, I'll ask you to trim it. > > If you want to have such included on a page, please send to > me with the subject line - Brick Wall - whatever county. > > Once I have a few for a county I'll start posting them and > give you folks a URL. > > Tim > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYCHENAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message