Yea sounds familiar. I'm Leona Savage from Belleville. Stoodly's run a funeral home and I think that's his family. The lanes I know are from Henderson. I'm cruising your pages now. :-) Leona ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Wentling <mwentlin@ngs.org> To: <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER-L] NEW WEBSITE!: From Devon & Dorset, England, to Jefferson County, New York > > > Leona, > > I'm not sure about Belleville, but I am a descendant of the Stoodleys and Lanes > and we all came from Hounsfield. My grandmother was Beulah (Washburn) Jenkins, > daughter of Wm. Washburn & Ada Stokes -- rings a bell? Your name sounds > familiar to me . . . . . > > Try looking at my website http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/welcome.html > where there is *lots* more on these families. > > Mark > > > > > "Leona MacDonald" <leona@solaseireann.com> on 01/04/2000 04:47:03 PM > > Please respond to NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > > To: NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com > cc: (bcc: Mark Wentling/HQ/NGS) > Subject: Re: [NYJEFFER-L] NEW WEBSITE!: From Devon & Dorset, England, to > Jefferson County, New York > > > > > hey that wouldn't be the stoodly, harris, lane families from the belleville > area would it?? > > Leona > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Wentling <mwentlin@ngs.org> > To: <NYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:39 AM > Subject: [NYJEFFER-L] NEW WEBSITE!: From Devon & Dorset, England, to > Jefferson County, New York > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > As many of you may know, there were a lot 19th-century emigrants from > Devon & > > Dorset, England, to Jefferson County, New York. Today, I created a site I > call > > "ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE" which is a place where the origins of these > families > > as well as their intermarriages are made clear. Currently, I have posted > > information about the following families: > > > > -- Eveleigh > > -- Harris > > -- Lane > > -- Membery > > -- Orchard > > -- Reader > > -- Russell > > -- Stokes > > -- Stoodley > > > > The website address is: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/greatdivide.html > > > > I hope to hear from lots of folks with information to submit -- I hope > that > > eventually the site will serve as a means for reconnecting us descendants > of > > those Jefferson County pioneers with our British cousins, and vice versa. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Sincerley, > > Mark A. Wentling > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > > > > > > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > 12.8 million individuals and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >