To subscribers of the OK- mail lists. I am the administrator for the lists and need to give up some of my activities as administrator. If any one is interested in adopting please write me and I will see about your adopting the list. Priority will be given to persons who have been active in posting in the past. These are the lists I'm putting up for adoption. All have been very quiet for the past year or two. OK-CHURCHES / OK-CITY-DIRECTORIES / OK-DISASTERS / OK-LANDRUNS / OK-MIGRATION / OK-MURDERS / OK-MYSTERIES / OK-NEWSPAPERS / OK-OILMEN / OK-ORPHANAGES / OK-POLITICAL-HISTORY / OK-RAILROADS / OK-RECORDS / OKBECKHA Thank you for being such a great group of subscribers over the years. Fred Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 Member -Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net List Administrator for 56 mail lists. 5 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 3 Miscellaneous / 1 Canadian & 12 Province & Territories Ghost Towns lists.

OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM > We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at : http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. You might need to go to http://java.com/en/ and right below the big red button that says "Free Java Download" there's a tag that reads "Do I Have Java?". If you click on that tag it will test your computer to make sure you have the latest and greatest version. It's perfectly safe so no worries. [ If you don't have a good office suite of programs you might want to look into Open Office while your hanging out around there. - standard disclaimers apply ] Or if you have an IRC client you can go to irc.rootsweb.com and enter the OKgenWeb chat room. You may have to do a "/list" command to find the room in your IRC client.

OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM > We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at : http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. You might need to go to http://java.com/en/ and right below the big red button that says "Free Java Download" there's a tag that reads "Do I Have Java?". If you click on that tag it will test your computer to make sure you have the latest and greatest version. It's perfectly safe so no worries. [ If you don't have a good office suite of programs you might want to look into Open Office while your hanging out around there. - standard disclaimers apply ] Or if you have an IRC client you can go to irc.rootsweb.com and enter the OKgenWeb chat room. You may have to do a "/list" command to find the room in your IRC client

COME AS YOU ARE - GROUP THERAPY OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM Saturday Night 9:00 P.M. We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at: http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/><http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/%3chttp:/www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/%3e>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org<http://www.frederick.dittmar.org/> List Administrator for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

COME AS YOU ARE - GROUP THERAPY OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM Saturday Night 9:00 P.M. We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at: http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org List Administrator for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM > We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at : http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. You might need to go to http://java.com/en/ and right below the big red button that says "Free Java Download" there's a tag that reads "Do I Have Java?". If you click on that tag it will test your computer to make sure you have the latest and greatest version. It's perfectly safe so no worries. [ If you don't have a good office suite of programs you might want to look into Open Office while your hanging out around there. - standard disclaimers apply ] Or if you have an IRC client you can go to irc.rootsweb.com and enter the OKgenWeb chat room. You may have to do a "/list" command to find the room in your IRC client

Oklahoma Train Wrecks recently added at gendisasters.com Pond Creek, OK Train Wreck, Jan 1907 Hydro, OK Train Wreck, Jan 1907 View these at http://www.gendisasters.com Or go directly to the Oklahoma page to view these - and other Oklahoma disasters http://www3.gendisasters.com/category/united-states/oklahoma

New - Oklahoma Train Wrecks added to the database at http://www.gendisasters.com Events That Touched Our Ancestors Lives: Guthrie, OK Train Wreck, May 1936 Weatherford, OK Fatal Auto Wreck, May 1936 To view these and other train wrecks- click on "Browse by State" and then "Oklahoma" or just go to http://www3.gendisasters.com/category/united-states/oklahoma

Oklahoma Train Wrecks added to the database at http://www.gendisasters.com Events That Touched Our Ancestors Lives: Shattuck, OK Train Accident, Jul 1909 Wewoka, OK Train Accident, Oct 1912 To view these or other Oklahoma train wrecks - click on "Browse by State" and then "Oklahoma" or visit http://www3.gendisasters.com/mainlist/oklahoma/Train+Wrecks+and+Accidents

Hi, By 1927 Shawnee was on both the Rock Island and the Santa Fe Railroads. According to their website, the Santa Fe depot there was built in 1904. http://www.santafedepotmuseum.org/ You may also find information on the county Gen Society site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpcgc/ According to the article about Shawnee on Wikipedia, you might want to research the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company. They were building through there at the time you are looking for, and were absorbed into the Rock Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawnee,_Oklahoma Hopefully some of this helps! Chandra ----- Original Message ----- From: JNWatson@aol.com To: ok-railroads@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 07:52 AM Subject: [OK-RAILROADS] Info please I would like to know if there is a website where I can find out what railroads were serving the Shawnee Oklahoma area from about 1895 to 1910. I am trying to find a James Robert Powell b 1857 in Al who supposedly worked for a railroad in the Shawnee Ok area until his unsubstantiated death in 1906. I am led to believe his wife died in shawnee in 1898. I have documentation that their 3 sons (born in Dallas Co Tx0 were in Alabama with James' sister in 1910. Any help will be appreciated. **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-RAILROADS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I would like to know if there is a website where I can find out what railroads were serving the Shawnee Oklahoma area from about 1895 to 1910. I am trying to find a James Robert Powell b 1857 in Al who supposedly worked for a railroad in the Shawnee Ok area until his unsubstantiated death in 1906. I am led to believe his wife died in shawnee in 1898. I have documentation that their 3 sons (born in Dallas Co Tx0 were in Alabama with James' sister in 1910. Any help will be appreciated. **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)

The link below may help shed some light as to where to look but I am stuck with my Theodore Franklin Thassler who was the youngest Railroad Engineer during the same time frame you are looking. He was in OK and TX. Leona http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/KSCOLL/lochist/rosedale/App4.htm JNWatson@aol.com wrote: >I would like to know if there is a website where I can find out what >railroads were serving the Shawnee Oklahoma area from about 1895 to 1910. I am >trying to find a James Robert Powell b 1857 in Al who supposedly worked for a >railroad in the Shawnee Ok area until his unsubstantiated death in 1906. I am >led to believe his wife died in shawnee in 1898. I have documentation that >their 3 sons (born in Dallas Co Tx0 were in Alabama with James' sister in >1910. Any help will be appreciated. > > > >**************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. >(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ >2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-RAILROADS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

I am networking with a team who is making a study of the All Nations baseball team of the 19-teens into the twenties. They traveled by private rail car, almost certainly not the luxury car of rich and famous, but utilitarian. The team rarely lost a game; perhaps it could be said All Nations was to baseball what the Harlem Globetrotters have more recently been to basketball. This list is the only one that seems to come close, among Rootsweb's lists, to being able to answer our questions. I feel able to justify writing to this query because the team played at Geary, Apache and Cushing Oklahoma in 1915, perhaps other times that we have not yet documented. We are trying to find out how messages were sent to people on the move, how scheduling was coordinated so that a private car could be connected to the right train--the technical information. Does anyone know of a book that details such coordinating and scheduling? We would be grateful for being pointed in the right direction for research. Lila Niemann Garner LNiemannG@navix.net

Having problems? Up against a brick wall? Don't know which direction to go now? Need a suggestion or some assistance? Come join us on Saturday night and let's see if we can help. This is where some County Coordinators meet and chat. Some times the weather, our aches and pains and we have even been known to talk genealogy and do lookups for others. We had a good meeting last week with 6-8 Guests visiting and asking questions. >>>>>>>> OKGenWeb Chat <<<<<<<< ......... Mark your calendars........ WHEN: Every Saturday at 9pm-10pm Oklahoma time www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta/chat/ Or IRC at irc.rootsweb.com /join #okgenweb Fred - List Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://frederick.dittmar.org Member: Association of Professional Genealogy - http://www.apgen.org Board Member - Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://rootsweb.com/~okgs Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net

Having problems? Up against a brick wall? Don't know which direction to go now? Need a suggestion or some assistance? Come join us on Saturday night and let's see if we can help. This is where some County Coordinators meet and chat. Some times the weather, our aches and pains and we have even been known to talk genealogy and do lookups for others. >>>>>>>> OKGenWeb Chat <<<<<<<< ......... Mark your calendars........ WHEN: Every Saturday at 9pm-10pm Oklahoma time www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta/chat/ Or IRC at irc.rootsweb.com /join #okgenweb Fred - List Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://frederick.dittmar.org Member: Association of Professional Genealogy - http://www.apgen.org Board Member - Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://rootsweb.com/~okgs Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net

Dover, Oklahoma Train Wreck Sept 1906 http://www.gendisasters.com/data1/ok/trains/dover-trainwrecksept1906.htm Killed: Hank Littlefield Injured: George L. Wright, Mrs. Robinson, C. W. Brown, Mrs. W. E. Schusser, C. W. Baker, Child of Mrs. Kate Sells, Simon W. Byron, Engineer Iles, W. H. Spitz http://www.gendisasters.com Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives

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Please advise on how to get information regarding Rock Island employment during the 1950's Best Regards Robin Smith

Can anyone point me to sites that offer stories and articles about Bryan County's Railroad Tramps, Vagrant, Transients... from c1905-1914? I am specifically interested in Durant, OK--but all will do. Thanks, Melody Melody Amsel-Arieli Maaleh Adumim, Israel goldenjerusalem@yahoo.com http://amselbird.tripod.com/ home: 972-2-5354423, mobile: 972-50-6888223 Author, Between Galicia and Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Hello, If anyone has one, or knows the whereabouts of one I would surely appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Michael