Hi Jim -- try using your surname interests as search terms in the JeffCo GenWeb site search engine at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/ It works GREAT!! ..... Our hat's off to Nan for making this recent addition to the website. // Gord (in Regina SK CA) JVaughn755@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for any information on my third great grandfather and > grandmother. Marlin Vaughn was born in 1802 and Amarylla was born in 1804. > They would have been married around 1823. Where unknown. I first found them > in Ostwegatchie Twp.,St. Lawrence County, New York in the 1830 census. I > later found them in Ellisburg Twp., Jefferson County, New York in the 1840 > census. My grandfather bought land in Allen County, Fort Wayne, Indiana from > Robert and Mary Ellis of Jefferson County, New York. They moved to the Fort > Wayne, Indiana area around 1842. The Family has been there ever since. Many > times the ( L ) in Marlin has been crossed to make it Martin. Also Amarylla's > name has been spelled many different ways. The last name has been spelled > Vaughn and Vaughan. I have been looking for them for the past 22 years, but > can't find anything previous to the New York 1830 census. They had seven > children. If anybody can please help me or give me any suggestions, it would > be greatly appreciated. Children are: George W., Willard Mann, Eliza, Henry, > Calista H., James Marlin, and Harrision K. > Sincerely, > Jim Vaughn ( JVAUGHN755@AOL.COM ) > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

The Master Files of Harold Sanderson's Jefferson County Civil War Soldiers are all up. The February front page is yet to be updated. Please browse, and let Mr. Sanderson know if you like them, or if you fid any typos. We can change them with his approval. Nan Dixon -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/

Hi, I am looking for any information on my third great grandfather and grandmother. Marlin Vaughn was born in 1802 and Amarylla was born in 1804. They would have been married around 1823. Where unknown. I first found them in Ostwegatchie Twp.,St. Lawrence County, New York in the 1830 census. I later found them in Ellisburg Twp., Jefferson County, New York in the 1840 census. My grandfather bought land in Allen County, Fort Wayne, Indiana from Robert and Mary Ellis of Jefferson County, New York. They moved to the Fort Wayne, Indiana area around 1842. The Family has been there ever since. Many times the ( L ) in Marlin has been crossed to make it Martin. Also Amarylla's name has been spelled many different ways. The last name has been spelled Vaughn and Vaughan. I have been looking for them for the past 22 years, but can't find anything previous to the New York 1830 census. They had seven children. If anybody can please help me or give me any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. Children are: George W., Willard Mann, Eliza, Henry, Calista H., James Marlin, and Harrision K. Sincerely, Jim Vaughn ( JVAUGHN755@AOL.COM )

I am sure that many people on this list are descendants of the 18th Century Mohawk Valley Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman family. Therefore, I wish to let to know that a web site for this family is finally on-line. Go to: http://www.sginet.com/szt/ For those not familiar with this extended family, here is a brief introduction. This project was conceived two years ago, and announced in the SZT Reunion Newsletter eighteen months ago. The goal was to create one integrated computer file that contained all known SZT descendants, using SZT publications as our initial source. Thus, we began to extract data on each individual found in each SZT publication. Since each book has a degree of duplication (due both to intermarriage and planned content overlap) entries from each book are merged to eliminate duplicate records. The result is a HUGE database that currently exceeds 20,000 persons, taken from six SZT books. The data is presented as ONE family tree. Details about the extracted books, the pending books, and the database itself are found on the web site. The project is not "completed." Genealogy projects are never "completed." Two more books are in the process of being extracted, and will be added to the database when completed. Other sources will be added, to the extent we have volunteers to do the work Your comments and suggestions are welcome. However, be aware that most suggestions can only be implemented if helping hands accompany helping minds. We extend our thanks to those volunteers who have extracted data. And special thanks go to Bill Boller, who not only extracted a major portion of the records, but designed the site. Without him, the extracted records would still reside only in my computer. Finally, for those of you who hope to download these records, be patient. We intend to eventually provide a GEDCOM file on the site. In the meantime, happy browsing. Ray Kuehne

MRS. HARRIET E. BAILEY, 74, DIES Adams, June 11. - Mrs Harriet Elizabeth Bailey, 74, widow of Dwight L. Bailey, died this morning at 10 at her home in the town of Rodman where she had passed practically her entire life. She was one of the leading citizens of her neighborhood and prominent in church and club circles. Mrs. Bailey was born Dec. 10, 1855, in the town of Rodman, a daughter of John G. and Betsey L. Wait. She was the twelfth child in a family of 13 and is survived by one sister, Mrs. Eunice Robinson, 328 Academy street, Watertown. She was married Sept. 20, 1876, to Dwight L. Bailey who died Oct. 2, 1902. She was a member of the Eastern Star, and a member of the Ladies Aid society of the Congregational church. Mrs. Bailey is survived by one son, J.Hart Bailey of Rodman and two daughters, Mrs. R.W.Hardy of Watertown and Mrs. A.E.Cole of Rodman. Her sister, Mrs. Eunice Robinson of Watertown, also survives as do five granddaughters, one grandson and one great grandson. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from the Bailey home with Rev. A.G.Todd, pastor of the Congregational church, officiating. Interment will be made at Fairview cemetery at Rodman. * NOTES - I have a photocopy of this article that I got at the Flowers Library, out of the BAILEY family file. The article doesn't say what newspaper it was in or the date of the article. I am guessing that her year of death was June 11, 1930.

Looking for the following in New York: William and Catharine PHILLIPS. Children: Jacob b. abt. 1842 in Jefferson County, NY Ethan (twin) b. about 1844 in Jefferson County, NY Edson (twin) b. about 1844 in Jefferson County, NY Sanford b. 1850 in Palmyra, Wayne County, NY Sanford sr., married Josephine Chesebro and/or ALLEN children: Edson PHILLIPS b. abt. 1876 in New York Sanford PHILLIPS, Jr., b. Aug. 1879 in New York William PHILLIPS b. abt. 1886/7 in New York (MY LINE) Sanford PHILLIPS, JR. He was born August 1879 in New York but he was a farmer in Machester Town of Ontario County when he was about 16 years old. William PHILLIPS, in 1900, lived in Madison County, New York with his grandparents, Angeline and Monroe ALLEN. He was 13.

I would like to receive any more information on James Cole and James Stockwell Cole, they were father and son and was in company 94 of the NYVI in the civil war. James Cole was born in Ottawa Canada, March 30 1819 and died in Gig Harbor, WA Nov. 21, 18??. He was adopted by the Cole family. His birth surname was Hughes. James Stockwell Cole was born in Jefferson Co. NY Aug. 11 in 1841 or 1843 and died in Tacoma, WA Nov. 27 1918. I have tin type photo's of both as well as a match box that James Stockwell cared in the war. The are My Great, Great and Great, Great, Great Grandfathers. Thank You. George. E-Mail gyost @ria.net

I am willing exchange info. for the Van Wormer, Hoover/Huber and Huston families. I am very interested in the Huston family who were weavers in the early part of the 1800 and lived for a time around LeRay. They were Irish by birth. Dennis Devereaux

I have posted to my Hounsfield website some information generously submitted by Dorothy Creely about the family of Samuel McNitt, Keeper of Norn Island Lighthouse, off Sackets Harbor, during the 1830s-1850s. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/hounsfield-alhn.html (follow the link in the "Hounsfield Helpers" section) Please visit when you have the chance and give Dorothy a big "Thank you!" Sincerely, Mark A. Wentling

Hi Everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that I just finished posting somemore Births, Deaths, and Marriages that were listed in some copies of the Jefferson County Journal. Check it out at; http://www.genexchange.com/ny/jefferson/ Happy Hunting, Carol

Nan, I used the search engine for the first time this weekend -- WOW! -- THANKS! I ended up finding information in some towns it never would have ocurred to me to look into otherwise. This is GREAT! THANK YOU! Mark Wentling

Hi Nan -- pardon my yelling -- but, THANK YOU!! (3 times).... on behalf of all of us who have been asking you for a site search engine. What a tremendous "gift" you've given to all of us, Jefferson County researchers!! ...and it is not even Christmas... Thank you, especially, on behalf of those new to genealogy, who have not yet found this GenWeb site but will in future.... they will never know the hours they will have saved from having to "manually" pour over the electronic pages looking for their surnames and variant spellings of same... (always wondering, too, if they've missed any as their eyes grew weary -- or had simply never even considered all that work, and gave up before they even started)... I do not think you fully appreciate the thousands of research hours you have saved the many (future) visitors to the site... and the increased "search" accuracy and probability of successfully locating anything relevant to their genealogical searches! GREAT WORK!! Thank you, again.... // Gord HINES (in Regina Saskatchewan Canada) Nancy Dixon wrote: Subject: Search Engine Resent-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:06:21 -0800 Resent-From: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:35:03 -0800 From: Nancy Dixon <nandixon@gisco.net> Organization: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/ To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > To all of you who have asked, suggested and otherwise, Gord Hines and > Mark Wentling in particular, but there were others... > > It's there. Not perfect, and this is a trial run, but the search engine > is up on the first page of > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer > > and we're both still alive! Thanks to you guys who nagged. > Unfortunately, sometimes it's necessary. Also thanks to Vicki Titus, who > helped out AGAIN. > > Suggestions, comments, criticism welcome. I don't like the answer page > either; it will be changed as soon as I figure out how. > > Nan Dixon > -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/ > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

Dear Listers, http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ny/jefferson/jefferson.htm has been there all along, but I just happened to come across it. We are now linked to it. If you have birth or marriage records, or other records that GenConnect has no place for, here's a good spot to store them. We may be adding more soon. Speaking of GenConnect, someone pointed out recently that the Bible records had disappeared, and wondered what monster ate them. As usual, I merely had to push a button to get them visible again, and also, as usual, it took me a week to find the button to push. Please, if you see anything that doesn't work as advertised, let us know. You out there see far more (and better) than we do here. Nan Dixon -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/

Hi Ann & the list Here is one source: Try the NY State Assembly page at http://assembly.state.ny.us/historical.html It's a start.... .... also try the new "super fast/ comprehensive" web search engines like http://www.google.com/ http://www.alltheweb.com/ using the terms: new york state legislature history -- try adding assembly or senate -- or replace "legislature" with either of those. NOTE: with google, rerun your search after your first run, but using the display "100 results" option, In this way, all common pages under an url are then grouped together -- and the total list is shorter. A BIG advantage of google is its use of the cached pages -- even if a link is no longer live on the www, you can still see the archived copy in the google cache... I know of no other that does this. Unfortunately, for the search terms "new york state legislature history", over 52,000 pages were found using google -- and over 58000 with alltheweb.... so there's no shortage of information out there. Add more terms to your search to reduce the number of pages returned. Hope it helps.// Gord Hines (in Regina SK Canada) RJMOM34@aol.com wrote: Subject: Legislature Resent-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:35:49 -0800 Resent-From: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:35:22 EST From: RJMOM34@aol.com To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > I was wondering does anybody know where to finding info about the Legislature > in the late 1800-early 1900 in New York > > ANn JOhnson > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

I was wondering does anybody know where to finding info about the Legislature in the late 1800-early 1900 in New York ANn JOhnson

Does Van Amber Road still exist it is said to be from Naumburg, NY to New Bremen, NY parallel to the Black River. Ann Johnson

Hi, I am looking for anybody that has any info on the Ribley family ANn Johnson

Hi Im looking for anybody that is researching the Van Amber family and willing to share the info. ANn Johnson

To all of you who have asked, suggested and otherwise, Gord Hines and Mark Wentling in particular, but there were others... It's there. Not perfect, and this is a trial run, but the search engine is up on the first page of http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer and we're both still alive! Thanks to you guys who nagged. Unfortunately, sometimes it's necessary. Also thanks to Vicki Titus, who helped out AGAIN. Suggestions, comments, criticism welcome. I don't like the answer page either; it will be changed as soon as I figure out how. Nan Dixon -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/

He who posts is still uploading Harold Sanderson's master list of Civil War soldiers from Jefferson County. The latest include H, I, J, and K. The K names can be accessed from the click below. Take a look and see if any are familiar to you. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/smastk.htm By the way, we have noticed a lot of typos, but cannot correct them without Mr. Sanderson's approval. If you see any, contact him directly, and he'll get back to us. Nan Dixon -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/