Are these people related to you or are you collecting data? -----Original Message-- From: Tammy Kocienski [mailto:tammyk18@yahoo.com] August 08, 2006 9:49 PM To: NYOSWEGO-L@rootsweb.com Re: Oswego families Hello Ed: I am interested in the Castle surname. My Castle line settled in northern NY and branched out over upstate NY and beyond. You can contact me directly at tammyk18@yahoo.com. Thanks! Tammy Edward Hutchison <ehutchison@jam.rr.com> wrote: It would be appreciated if anyone with knowledge of the following would contact me: Edgar Manning Christopher Manning Alford Manning J. W. Manning Phillip and Libbie Groat Jim Castle Will and Jane Segar J. Parrish Hattie Widrick Perry Miller Jim Rockey Lizza Gardner Ed Spicer These people are believed to have lived in upstate NY circa 1870. Some lived in the Town of Victor in Ontario County, and others possibly in the villages of Oswego and Camden. Thanks very much. Edward Hutchison Madison, MS www.ERHutchison.com ==== NYOSWEGO Mailing List ==== List Administrator Bonita Shafer Northern New York Genealogy - http://www.nnygenealogy.com sagemarie98@earthlink.net

What does it matter if people ask for data on people who may or may not be related to them. Good researchers MUST NOT have tunnel vision. One frequently needs to study neighbors, family of the spouses of a sibling, etc. to make progress. One never knows when clues will turn up. Then there are those families with similar names to one's own family that may connect down the road. Frequently one might want to add some of these families unlinked to their database and later they should not be surprised if a few years down the road they turn out to be related. Our modern genealogy programs have the capacity to hold a million or more names. Anyone who wants to make progress should branch out from their own direct line. I routinely work on typing entire books into my database for specific locations or containing surnames of people that have a direction to a direct or collateral line. I then share this at WorldConnect. Interestingly enough out of a database of 140,000+ hand entered names (not a collection of names from gedcom files) about 132,000 of them are linked to everyone else in the database. Some of us do every name research for a particular time and place. That can be very helpful to the wider genealogical community. Good research is worthwhile to do and good to share no matter whether or not what one researches is their own line. The fun of this hobby is in the chase no matter whose family it is and where it leads. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "rolaruen" <rolauren@verizon.net> To: <NYOSWEGO-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: RE: [NYOSWEGO] Oswego families > Are these people related to you or are you collecting data? > -----Original Message-- From: Tammy Kocienski [mailto:tammyk18@yahoo.com] > August 08, 2006 9:49 PM > To: NYOSWEGO-L@rootsweb.com Re: Oswego families > I am interested in the Castle surname. My Castle line settled in > northern > NY and branched out over upstate NY and beyond. You can contact me > directly > at tammyk18@yahoo.com. Thanks! Tammy