..oooohhhhh now you've got my attention, Big Boy. Anything exciting?? An inch? A whole INCH!! Loo ----- Original Message ----- From: indi opie Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:09 AM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Santa Claus --- LOO COURTLAND <us_edildas_girl@msn.com> wrote: > ..have you been drinking a little too much egg nog > over the holidays???? Just wondering.... HO HO HO HO... You must have missed my previous response to alcohol, Lou... I do get pretty giddy, however, when an inch thick stack of papers from the early and mid 1900s shows up at my door, regarding early Rockwell research... John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-.

Not unlike many others before me, we are returning from the west to the east, from the North to the South. I know of many folks who went west, didn't like it or prefered back east or wherever it was they came from and went back. Others though sometimes went ahead, either sending for their families later or going back to get them to bring them to the new home. If you have relatives that did either option 2 or 3, those stories of the treks they made would make an interesting addition to the story of your family. Once again, here we are in Bloomington, IL - more or less half way. Today's adventures were 3 fold. 1 - seeing the beautiful hoar frost on the trees and grasses of the plains of Minnesota as ice particles fell from the sky in jagged strands 2 - seeing the car directly in front of me almost get smashed off the road by the trailer who didn't see the little blue car while trying to change lanes. Fortunately the driver of the blue car was able to steer onto the shoulder in time to not get squashed. 3 - driving 50 miles or so through a pea soup thick fog, getting right on top of stuff before seeing it. Not a fun time. - and so on - like sitting in the conference room doing Internet as the connection in my room isn't working. Ah technology - great when it works, frustration when it doesn't. Learned several things while on this trip regarding the area visited, picked up some new material with promises of more. Rain is forecast for about 1/2 of tomorrow's trip. We should get home sometime tomorrow evening. I doubt I'll get online tomorrow, so it will be either Friday or Saturday before I do, as I need to find an item before doing so (that I received about a year ago - lost in packrat land). For all those who've written, I will reply in due time - I have about 700 emails waiting to be downloaded as of now. If I don't get the chance, be safe and best wishes for the new year. ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net

Hi all, Thought I would share the latest with you from good old snowy Candor, NY. Even with the snow it is sure good to be home. Many of you might remember that I was sharing the index of names with the list that Aunt Catherine had included in her book. She has given us permission to put the book on CD and possibly do a hard cover later on if it is so deemed necessary. But right now we are getting it ready to be put on CD. The original printing of the book was only 250 copies of which all sold. So there are no more of them. But I am writing to let you all know that I am taking tentative orders now to see how many of you might be interested in getting the CD of the whole book. I can't give you a price yet. But can tell you that the original book cost $25.00 per copy. But if any of you are interested in the book or think you might be, please let me know. The name of the book is called "Grandpas and Grandmas of Yesteryear. It is mainly of the family's of Meddaugh, Legg, Jackson Lathrop, Edwards, Deming. But there are many other families also listed that the Meddaugh/Jackson line is related to. Including my family the Beebe line. It seem's that Larry's grandmother Ethel Jackson Meddaugh wife of Frank Legg Meddaugh had a sister Ziphila Jackson. This sister, married Horace Roe and they had one daughter Esther. That daughter married Ralph Smith who is related thru 10 generations back to the brother of my William Beebe son of Samuel and Mary Keeney Beebe. There are other connections as well that are related to the Lathrop line which is the same line that is related to the Meddaugh side of the family. Hope to hear from you in the near future about your interest in the book. And if you want to can check the archives for the list of names that I took from the index of Catherine's book. Joan Beebe Meddaugh finally home

--- LOO COURTLAND <us_edildas_girl@msn.com> wrote: > ..have you been drinking a little too much egg nog > over the holidays???? Just wondering.... HO HO HO HO... You must have missed my previous response to alcohol, Lou... I do get pretty giddy, however, when an inch thick stack of papers from the early and mid 1900s shows up at my door, regarding early Rockwell research... John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

..ja, ja, he's BUSY...... ----- Original Message ----- From: jopageri Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 7:26 AM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Santa Claus Well now . . . Santa Claus. In his "off time," Santa Claus dwells here in Getzville, NY. When I give my son's pal a lift home after school, Claus is always parked on a guard rail by a small creek in a housing development waving at the cars as they go by. He stills smokes that small curved pipe just like in the book but he's lost a few lbs. And he still has a way with animals because he is accompanied by a lovely little white dog. The little dog probably reminds him of snow. I haven't seen Santa for a couple of wks. now, but that makes sense, doesn't it? Herma ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-.

..have you been drinking a little too much egg nog over the holidays???? Just wondering.... ----- Original Message ----- From: indi opie Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 6:22 AM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Santa Claus Somebody has been canning bad sauerkraut in Albequerque, Loo. I went to RootsWeb AND to LDS and the information is conflicting. At RootsWeb, Santa Claus was born in West Virginia, in 1847, but that was an alias for a guy named Joseph Stepp, and when I went over to LDS, I learned that Santa Claus wasn't born until Jan 1944, which would have him at about ten and a half years old when I was born, and that happened in Illinois... I used to live in West Virginia and the closest I got to Santa Claus was that time I think I saw Charles Manson's father rolled up in a fetal position by the side of the road, singing Christmas carols in July. As for Illinois, all I can remember is two Scooby Doo types trying to run me off the road in a bread truck while I was motorcycling cross country... Come to think of it, I think I may have seen Santa Claus in person once, handing out incense at a Grateful Dead concert, chanting Harry Kirshner Harry Kirshner Harry Harry Kirshner... I'll be sure to send you some information right out, regarding your family... I'm sure I can get a very interesting overview together for you... Merry Christmas Loo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== Search the list archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put NYMADISO for the name of the list

Well now . . . Santa Claus. In his "off time," Santa Claus dwells here in Getzville, NY. When I give my son's pal a lift home after school, Claus is always parked on a guard rail by a small creek in a housing development waving at the cars as they go by. He stills smokes that small curved pipe just like in the book but he's lost a few lbs. And he still has a way with animals because he is accompanied by a lovely little white dog. The little dog probably reminds him of snow. I haven't seen Santa for a couple of wks. now, but that makes sense, doesn't it? Herma

Loo, there are listings for STIMSON and also STINSON Amelila GREEN (Caleb, Charles, Joseph, John, Benjamin, John 1) m Henry D, STIMSON They reside in Philadelphia, PA. Rosalia B. GREENE dau of Hall Jr. Greene m Barna James STINISON son of James and Cornelia STIMSON ********* I have dates and other children if you want more info, As far as STINSON goes Eva Cinderilla GREEN m Richard E. STINSON and had Richard E. Stinson, JR. ************* So far my interest is in the Hall Jr, line but I have more Greene/Green floating around as of now unattached in my file and at this point they may connect. Best, Nana ----- Original Message ----- From: "LOO COURTLAND" <us_edildas_girl@msn.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Lodowick GREENE > .to Nana, is STIMSON in the book, or STILSON? Stimson might be of interest > to me. Thanks. Loo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: nredell > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:34 AM > To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NYMADISO] Lodowick GREENE > > Pat, > I don't think I was fully awake before I answered your mail. I have found > Lodowick and Judah/Judith in the Descendents of Joseph GREENE. Stimson is > also in the book. > Nana > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <PNUTREG@cs.com> > To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:17 AM > Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Betsey Miller b 1787 in NY > > >> Hi Nana >> >> Which Green/Greene are you back with? Send me their names. Also note on >> your >> records that some of the Stilson Family moved from Madison to Oneida >> County >> with the Verona SDB Church Group. >> >> Would Betsey Miller"s (Elizabeth) father/brother possibly be Charles >> Miller? >> Do you know if she might of had a brother Wiliam? I do know that William >> was >> the son of Charles. >> >> Don Sanford at the Church Archives is elderly and of course they do not >> have >> a great deal of help (it is all Volunteer) and a great many requests are >> received, therefore it does take time to receive a reply. I doubt if >> they >> will be >> doing much research with the "Holidays" as much time will be taken up >> with >> Church Activities and Service's. Therefore you might have to wait longer >> than >> the first of the year. >> >> Have a Happy Holiday >> Pat R >> >> >> ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== >> To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - >> nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the >> body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same >> address but change the -L- to -D-. >> >> > > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - > nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the > body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same > address but change the -L- to -D-. > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > Search the list archives: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put NYMADISO for > the name of the list > >

Somebody has been canning bad sauerkraut in Albequerque, Loo. I went to RootsWeb AND to LDS and the information is conflicting. At RootsWeb, Santa Claus was born in West Virginia, in 1847, but that was an alias for a guy named Joseph Stepp, and when I went over to LDS, I learned that Santa Claus wasn't born until Jan 1944, which would have him at about ten and a half years old when I was born, and that happened in Illinois... I used to live in West Virginia and the closest I got to Santa Claus was that time I think I saw Charles Manson's father rolled up in a fetal position by the side of the road, singing Christmas carols in July. As for Illinois, all I can remember is two Scooby Doo types trying to run me off the road in a bread truck while I was motorcycling cross country... Come to think of it, I think I may have seen Santa Claus in person once, handing out incense at a Grateful Dead concert, chanting Harry Kirshner Harry Kirshner Harry Harry Kirshner... I'll be sure to send you some information right out, regarding your family... I'm sure I can get a very interesting overview together for you... Merry Christmas Loo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

.to Nana, is STIMSON in the book, or STILSON? Stimson might be of interest to me. Thanks. Loo ----- Original Message ----- From: nredell Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:34 AM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYMADISO] Lodowick GREENE Pat, I don't think I was fully awake before I answered your mail. I have found Lodowick and Judah/Judith in the Descendents of Joseph GREENE. Stimson is also in the book. Nana ----- Original Message ----- From: <PNUTREG@cs.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Betsey Miller b 1787 in NY > Hi Nana > > Which Green/Greene are you back with? Send me their names. Also note on > your > records that some of the Stilson Family moved from Madison to Oneida > County > with the Verona SDB Church Group. > > Would Betsey Miller"s (Elizabeth) father/brother possibly be Charles > Miller? > Do you know if she might of had a brother Wiliam? I do know that William > was > the son of Charles. > > Don Sanford at the Church Archives is elderly and of course they do not > have > a great deal of help (it is all Volunteer) and a great many requests are > received, therefore it does take time to receive a reply. I doubt if they > will be > doing much research with the "Holidays" as much time will be taken up with > Church Activities and Service's. Therefore you might have to wait longer > than > the first of the year. > > Have a Happy Holiday > Pat R > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - > nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the > body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same > address but change the -L- to -D-. > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To Unsubscribe from this list - send email to - nymadiso-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word - unsubscribe in the body of the email. If you are subscribed in Digest mode use the same address but change the -L- to -D-.

..are you, by any chance, descended from the Rockwell's of Clinton County, Michigan??? Loo. ----- Original Message ----- From: LoisBrownCombs@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:37 AM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYMADISO] Re: NYMADISO-D Digest V04 #250 >From 12/21/04 10:01:04 AM, NYMADISO-D-request@rootsweb.com: << May every one find an open door to a hidden ancestor under their Christmas tree and God bless everyone that has helped me or any one else. Sandy >> To which I would add my agreement and wishes as well. May you all have a safe and happy holiday, with snow, or no snow, as is your want. Thanks for all you've shared this year. Lois >From cold but sunny (today) SE Michigan ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== Search the list archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl - put NYMADISO for the name of the list

..we are the Michigan Rockwell's, descended from Charles Martin Rockwell His father was Thomas 'Tommy' B. Rockwell, of Madison County. I am really starting to think there may have been two Thomas Rockwell's in the same area about the same time. Ours lived in or near Munnsville. ..Charles Martin was one of the pioneers of Clinton County, Michigan, and had one of the very nicest farms there. ..I need to take the time to send you guys the research my mom has done, too busy too often, I guess. ..Thanks for the info, I forwarded it to my mom, in Michigan. Loo ----- Original Message ----- From: indi opie Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 10:39 PM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Thomas Rockwell < Hiram? Rockwell > 1855 Stockbridge Hi Don't take this as fact, but I think there may have been a Rev. Thomas Burr Rockwell who was acquainted with central New York, possibly in the 1830-40s. He was a missionary and married (of all names) a Polly Smith. His father, Thomas H. Rockwell, married abigail Hawley, and I do believe they may have lived in the Utica area. They are from the Thomas and Sarah (Rusco) Rockwell line too, but from their son, Thomas (not John). I don't know that line, but am quite sure Thomas Burr Rockwell migrated to Illinois. Unfortunately, this is a sketchy time period for Rockwell research and sorting out just the line I descend is trying. To complicate things, I am related to an altogether different line of Rockwells, through my 5g grandmother, Hannah (Rockwell) Smith, of Saratoga. (Incidentally <grinning> I refuse to do any "Smithing" of any kind for anyone - I am reaching new heights of senility.) Loo - I remember you writing about your Rockwells awhile back - a Wisconsin tie, I think. If you could reiterate, either here or offline, I could look up some things for you, regarding what you tell me. Just let me know what you want to know, specifically, and I will try to get you some answers. John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com

Do you believe there really is a Santa Claus? Well, you should. I'll tell you why. Santa and Mrs. Claus lived a long, long time ago, at the North Pole, as you know. They loved children very much, and had many, many children. And those children had many, many, many children. And those children had many, many, many children, and so on through the ages of time. And now, in our own time, we are all descended from Santa and Mrs. Claus, as you all well know from doing family history. So, if you want to see Santa Claus, just go look in the mirror. Loo Courtland....Happy Yule to you all.

...a DNA test would be nice.... ----- Original Message ----- From: indi opie Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:57 PM To: NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYMADISO] My Wife Had A Dream (true story) Well... this was just told to me: My wife dreamed that she had a heart attack and died (How festive is that for a start?) Anyway, apparently she was dead for about 5 minutes and, in that time, met my mother... My mother gave her a message to give to me, regarding my 4th great grandfather, Moses. It turns out that he was the illegitimate son of so-and-so and so-and-so. My mother did give my wife their names, but my wife did not have a pen while she was dead... When my wife came back to life, apparently I was there, and my question to her, upon hearing this new "development", was: "What am I going to use as a source?"... Merry Christmas John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com

Ok, well not the real end of the road, but almost. We're less than 10 miles from the North Dakota border, so nearly at the end of Minnesota. It was -8 when we got here last night about 630. Not that much ice on the roads and not much snow either. The car issue - well the folks at the dealership said not to worry about it, for had it been a major problem it would have croaked long ago. It was -12 last night, this evening the last I looked, when we came in from supper it was -14, a number I've not seen since I was in Chenango / Otsego counties, New York for Christmas of '68, when it was -18 at night, -14 when we got out and double bundled up, walked down the river road on the Otsego side of the Unadilla River to South New Berlin, and the local grocery store, about 3 miles away. (Hey, young and foolish). Gathering historical data while I'm here, as I host a site for Wilkin county, MN (where my wife is from), and from other places as well as material presents itself. Trusting you all have a happy and blessed holiday season. ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net

well the dictionary is out for sure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "indi opie" <indianopening@yahoo.com> To: <NYMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:56 PM Subject: [NYMADISO] My Wife Had A Dream (true story) > Well... this was just told to me: > My wife dreamed that she had a heart attack and died > (How festive is that for a start?) Anyway, apparently > she was dead for about 5 minutes and, in that time, > met my mother... My mother gave her a message to give > to me, regarding my 4th great grandfather, Moses. It > turns out that he was the illegitimate son of > so-and-so and so-and-so. My mother did give my wife > their names, but my wife did not have a pen while she > was dead... When my wife came back to life, > apparently I was there, and my question to her, upon > hearing this new "development", was: "What am I going > to use as a source?"... > Merry Christmas > John > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== > To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > >

indi opie <indianopening@yahoo.com> wrote: new "development", was: "What am I going >to use as a source?"... > >John > Jack Daniels? > >         >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. >http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com > > >==== NYMADISO Mailing List ==== >To post to this list - send email from the address you subsribed to the list with to this address - NYMadiso-L@rootsweb.com > >

and I thought I needed to get a life. (said in jest, of course) :) Happy Solstice and Merry Christmas. Deb and a cold, in Maine.

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Hi, Tim, I just checked through the Page family tree that you put on. I couldn't find any connection to my Pages. But was interesting to look through. As far as I know my Pages were never in Canada or Connecticut as my branch came into Mass about 1635. Hope you are having a good trip. Chas