--=======256A4097======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-3CB2649F; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From the Oklahoma Land Openings page I received this query.... My name is L____ L____ I'm from Dayton, Ohio. I'm interested in relocating & would like to optain some land in your state.. If you can be of some assistance to me I would appreciate it.. Name blanked out. It's a HISTORY page! Susan Greer Co OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgreer/okgreer.htm Old Greer County, I.T./O.T. GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgreer/okgreer.htm Day Co OKGenWeb http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swokla/day/daycounty.html Dewey Co OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okdewey/okdewey.htm OKGenWeb Marriages http://marti.rootsweb.com/okmarr/marriage.htm OKGenWeb Land Openings http://marti.rootsweb.com/land/oklands.html At 05:17 PM 4/9/02, you wrote: >Ron, >I had that one also and told them the town didn't exist when the map was >made. They don't bother to validate anything. Just fire from the lip. > >BUT, here is the strangest one I have had yet. I have registered 48 >cemeteries personally. I have done 38 cemeteries in Murray County alone. I >am not related to a singe one of these people, so I just write the names and >info down. After 38 cemeteries and 30,000 names I get rum-dum. But not as >rum-dum as this person. She sent me an email telling me that I had her >entire family in one cemetery totally screwed up. The first names were >right but the middle names were wrong - the first names were wrong but the >middle names were right. > >And to add insult to injury I had misspelled the family name. It was MOGG >and not MOSS. I apologized to her for my slovenly work and told her I would >correct it ASAP. About 2 minutes later I get an email from another person >telling me that the names WERE correct and that the names are MOSS, and that >it was his grandparents, don't change anything. The person sent an email >back and said "sorry". If she didn't know who her own family was, how in >the devil was I supposed to know? After that episode, I don't change >nuthin' until I get a second conformation. > >Seems that many are fast on the trigger but slow on the draw. > >Dennis > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ron" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:42 PM >Subject: [OK-Coordinators] No Clue > > > > Dennis, > > Had one fellow lamblast me for not having a particular town on any of my > > maps. I replied that his town was shown on multiple maps and gave him a >list > > of 8 different urls clearly showing the town he was fussing about. I don't > > believe he even bothered to thank me. :) > > > > -------------------- > > Ron Henson > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta > > Yahoo IM okchocta > > > > --=======256A4097=======--
I LOVE IT! Sheridan Susan Bradford wrote: > > --=======256A4097======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-3CB2649F; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > From the Oklahoma Land Openings page I received this query.... > > My name is L____ L____ I'm from Dayton, Ohio. I'm interested in relocating & > would like to optain some land in your state.. If you can be of some > assistance to me I would appreciate it.. > > Name blanked out. It's a HISTORY page! > > Susan > > Greer Co OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgreer/okgreer.htm > Old Greer County, I.T./O.T. GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgreer/okgreer.htm > Day Co OKGenWeb > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~swokla/day/daycounty.html > Dewey Co OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okdewey/okdewey.htm > OKGenWeb Marriages http://marti.rootsweb.com/okmarr/marriage.htm > OKGenWeb Land Openings http://marti.rootsweb.com/land/oklands.html > > At 05:17 PM 4/9/02, you wrote: > > >Ron, > >I had that one also and told them the town didn't exist when the map was > >made. They don't bother to validate anything. Just fire from the lip. > > > >BUT, here is the strangest one I have had yet. I have registered 48 > >cemeteries personally. I have done 38 cemeteries in Murray County alone. I > >am not related to a singe one of these people, so I just write the names and > >info down. After 38 cemeteries and 30,000 names I get rum-dum. But not as > >rum-dum as this person. She sent me an email telling me that I had her > >entire family in one cemetery totally screwed up. The first names were > >right but the middle names were wrong - the first names were wrong but the > >middle names were right. > > > >And to add insult to injury I had misspelled the family name. It was MOGG > >and not MOSS. I apologized to her for my slovenly work and told her I would > >correct it ASAP. About 2 minutes later I get an email from another person > >telling me that the names WERE correct and that the names are MOSS, and that > >it was his grandparents, don't change anything. The person sent an email > >back and said "sorry". If she didn't know who her own family was, how in > >the devil was I supposed to know? After that episode, I don't change > >nuthin' until I get a second conformation. > > > >Seems that many are fast on the trigger but slow on the draw. > > > >Dennis > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Ron" <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:42 PM > >Subject: [OK-Coordinators] No Clue > > > > > > > Dennis, > > > Had one fellow lamblast me for not having a particular town on any of my > > > maps. I replied that his town was shown on multiple maps and gave him a > >list > > > of 8 different urls clearly showing the town he was fussing about. I don't > > > believe he even bothered to thank me. :) > > > > > > -------------------- > > > Ron Henson > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta > > > Yahoo IM okchocta > > > > > > > > --=======256A4097=======--