James and all One vote for. As Oak Hill [a larger part of Durham] and Newman [and other unknown family names] should have long lists, but no one seems to be looking there. I'll be happy to wait my turn, so on with the show, I'll follow as we go. Thanks all. Roger A. Newman ---- James Brady <brady.j@att.net> wrote: > 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