Since the last roll call back in September I've been wondering if there was any interest on the part of members of this list to do a geographically-based roll call. My thinking here is that throwing out lists of names can match people up pretty easily with other researchers working on the same surnames, but it doesn't help people whose family links may be obscured by things like missing wives' surnames. Some (most?) of us are probably pretty good at scanning indexes for surnames and yet miss things on our families that somebody researching another family might have. Anyway, families did seem to have a geographic concentration, or a home base, before spreading out later, that might help in figuring out some inter-family connections. If there's an interest, I would suggest, as the title above shows, that we start with Athens, move to the other towns on the river and then work our way inland, like I suspect the population did. Somebody want to toss in an Athens family name to start it off? Or should I? Jim Brady

OK, heres one: Socrates! Happy New Year! Bill Smith Whitcomb, Angle, Chase, Chapman From: James Brady <brady.j@att.net> Date: Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:11 pm Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Roll Call - Athens? > Since the last roll call back in September I've been wondering if > there was > any interest on the part of members of this list to do a > geographically-based roll call. > > Somebody want to toss in an Athens family name to start it off? Or > should I? > > Jim Brady > > > ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== > Your on-line source for Greene County history and genealogy. Stop > on by and find your lost link! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn > more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Jim, great idea. In Athens: Hollenbeck, Van Loan, Clough & Van Hoesen These families were also located in other towns as they moved around so I'll post them again when those towns are called for. Joan Swaney (also researching these families & Markhams in Berkshire Co, MA) -----Original Message----- From: James Brady <brady.j@att.net> To: NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:11:27 -0500 Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Roll Call - Athens? Since the last roll call back in September I've been wondering if there was any interest on the part of members of this list to do a geographically-based roll call. My thinking here is that throwing out lists of names can match people up pretty easily with other researchers working on the same surnames, but it doesn't help people whose family links may be obscured by things like missing wives' surnames. Some (most?) of us are probably pretty good at scanning indexes for surnames and yet miss things on our families that somebody researching another family might have. Anyway, families did seem to have a geographic concentration, or a home base, before spreading out later, that might help in figuring out some inter-family connections. If there's an interest, I would suggest, as the title above shows, that we start with Athens, move to the other towns on the river and then work our way inland, like I suspect the population did. Somebody want to toss in an Athens family name to start it off? Or should I? Jim Brady ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== Your on-line source for Greene County history and genealogy. Stop on by and find your lost link! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx