Could someone give me the Yeaar of the Oklahoma Land Rush. THanks in Advance.

Oh that was good! That IS genealogy related - as far as some of my ancestors go!! Becky **~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~* my personal site: York & Baer http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouryorks York: the Url of York ~*~ for all York's http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allyorks ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~ [email protected] *listowner* *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^^*^*^*^*^*^^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ -----Original Message----- From: David Hale <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 9:25 PM Subject: Re: [OKROOTS] AN UNUSUAL SITE >this good site is http://www.vanished.com/pages/unusual.html > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:05 PM >Subject: Re: [OKROOTS] AN UNUSUAL SITE > > >>In a message dated 04/10/2000 7:10:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, >>[email protected] writes: >> >><< Someone sent me this unusual site that seems to have a little something >>about >> everything under the sun related to genealogy. >> >> >> >>Will you please give us the URL for the unusual site? Thanks. >>Lorene >> >> >

this good site is http://www.vanished.com/pages/unusual.html -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:05 PM Subject: Re: [OKROOTS] AN UNUSUAL SITE >In a message dated 04/10/2000 7:10:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< Someone sent me this unusual site that seems to have a little something >about > everything under the sun related to genealogy. >> > > >Will you please give us the URL for the unusual site? Thanks. >Lorene > >

Jack, Does this great site happen to have an url address? <G> Becky **~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~* my personal site: York & Baer http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouryorks York: the Url of York ~*~ for all York's http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allyorks ~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~ [email protected] *listowner* *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^^*^*^*^*^*^^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ ^i^ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 7:09 PM Subject: [OKROOTS] AN UNUSUAL SITE >Someone sent me this unusual site that seems to have a little something about >everything under the sun related to genealogy. > >Jack Childers in OKC >

In a message dated 04/10/2000 7:10:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Someone sent me this unusual site that seems to have a little something about everything under the sun related to genealogy. >> Will you please give us the URL for the unusual site? Thanks. Lorene

Well, goofy me, I forgot to send the hyperlink !!! Must have been a senior moment. <A HREF="http://www.vanished.com/pages/unusual.html">unusual</A> Jack Childers in OKC

Someone sent me this unusual site that seems to have a little something about everything under the sun related to genealogy. Jack Childers in OKC

During WW2, mills were used in Oklahoma to pay sales tax. Each one mill coin was worth one tenth of one cent. I believe the sales tax on a dollar was about two or three mills. I didn't make enough to pay income tax in those days. Haven't we come a long, long way since then?

Researching the surname GUNNING. My great grandmother Jennie Safronia GUNNING married Charles Sylvester MCCOLPIN. I have several obits for GUNNING family members but have yet to put them with my great grandmother. Some obits I have are of Melvin Honn GUNNING, Captain Ross GUNNING and his wife Leora.Grace Wick BREAZEALE, she was a sister of Eugene, Alfred, Captain Ross GUNNING, and Melvin GUNNING. She must have been married before as her obit lists a Glen and Carl Wick as her sons. Would appreciate any help connecting these people to my great grandmother. Thank you, Angie in La [email protected]

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I am trying to locate decendants of J. Lee Young and his wife Martha E. Frazier who were from DeKalb Co. Tn. They moved out there in the late 1800 and raised a family. These were my great aunt and uncle. I am also trying to locate decendants of John Frazier who's parents were Robert Ganaway Frazier and Mary James who was also from DeKalb Co. Tn. Robert is a brother to Martha E. Frazier, If you are a decendant of J. Lee Young and Martha E. Frazier or a decendant of John Frazier or know something about them, please contactr me. Thanks, Doris [email protected]

Bev, my mother in law and my mother has WW2 stamps also. They told me you had to have those stamps or you could not get , gas, food, cigarettes .nothing. my husband was several months old at that time. She has his stamps. They are red & blue.She also had war bonds . kam

Hi Again, I need to make a correction for the date of death of Arthur WILLIAMS. It should have been 1984 not 1884.. Thanks again, Nancy [email protected]

Hi Everyone I am new to the list and would like to request info on the following family: WILLIAMS, Cyrus b. 6 Apr 1881 Ozark, Arkansas d. May 1966 OKLAHOMA, married to WILLIAMS, Mary Ellen (SMITH) b.13 Apr 1882 Missouri d.1952 OKLAHOMA Children: WILLIAMS, Selmer b. 1909 AR d. Jun 1972 OKLAHOMA WILLIAMS, Arthur Odel b. 1813 Ozark, Ar. d. Jul 1884 OKLAHOMA FENNELL, Bonnie (WILLIAMS) All the above are buried in GREENLAWN CEMETERY, Checotah, McIntosh Co, OK I am looking for information on parents of Cyrus Williams and any descendants of Arthur WIlliams, Selmer Williams or Bonnie Williams Fennell. Thanks so much, Nancy [email protected]

I hope that the OKbits I have posted to the CC site have been seen by you. Four or five, so far, from Solano Co. Robert, Fairfield, CA.

As I was only two or three years old during the times when rations were used, I cannot add to what each was used for, but I can share a story that my mother told over and over as I was growing up... We lived in Jackson County, Oklahoma...at Victory....and I was a very spindly toddler....(their first child)....and they were very concerned that I was not healthy....so they saved their gasoline rations...which I gathered from the way she used to tell the story....was a big sacrifice....to be able to take me to a pediatrican in Ok City.....after finally making the trip....the Dr. told my mother...."Oh..Mom...quit worrying .....just go home...and have another child...." My mother's outrage at such a comment...was the spark to tell this story of "sacrifice....and indignation" for many years.... By the way....he was right....after years of being very thin....I managed to fill out quite well!! ha ha..... and they did not take his advice...until Daddy was home after the War..several years later...

Hi everyone, I have just made the following update the the Kern County, CA section to the OKObits Out of State Okies page: James David TURNER, 64, native of Ada, Pontotoc Co., OK, died in Bakersfield, CA. You can visit the main Out of State Okies Page here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbits/native.html (And hopefully I have spelled the URL right this time. ;) Analee, IBSSG Analee's Cardboard Castle http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~lineaje/index.html My mind works like lightning: One brilliant flash and it's gone. ;)

I think that the red stamps were for meat, and the blue stamps were for canned vegatables. Our family converted our back yard into a Victory Garden and we raised vegatables. Our next door neighbor converted his garage into a chicken coop so we traded vegetables for Chickens > I have three World War 2 ration books, two of which still contain > "stamps." These were in my mothers "things." As I was a 12-14 yr. old > at the time I do not remember which stamps were for what. I would like > to put what information I can with these and include them in my > personal/family history collection. I remember that canned goods, meat, > sugar and shoes were rationed using stamps. > WAR RATION BOOK TWO does not have a date nor does it designate what > type of goods it allows to be purchased. There are two partial pages of > stamps, one blue and one red There would have been 24 stamps to a page. > On the blue page the top row was printed across with 8. The 2nd row > down was printed with 5. The 3rd row down with 2, and the bottom row > with 1. Each stamp also has a letter, vertically on the rows from right > to left they are U V W X Y Z. > The two vertical rows remaining of the red stamps are numbered the > same as the blue stamps. The letter on what would have been the left > edge of the page have the letters M and the one the to the right of it > has a L.

Since this is a fairly recent post, I will try to answer from my memory. First, for gas, there were stickers for the cars. As I recall, they were A/B & C stickers and the A was normal and the C got the most stamps for gas. My Dad worked for the govt. and his job entailed quite a bit of travel. He had a C sticker for the govt. car that he drove. As I recall, there were separate books for sugar. Then there were books for meat, canned vegatables, I think also for dairy products and eggs. OK and a lot of other states used mills.I'm not sure but I think that was for taxes (in those days, the state taxes weren't as high, but then nothing else was either). I think there was a brass colored mill that reprsented five of the other silver--or tinny mills. That's my two bits worth. Keith Lowrey , [email protected] > In a message dated 4/7/00 1:16:29 PM, [email protected] writes: > > << I have three World War 2 ration books, two of which still contain > "stamps." These were in my mothers "things." As I was a 12-14 yr. old > at the time I do not remember which stamps were for what. I would like > to put what information I can with these and include them in my > personal/family history collection. I remember that canned goods, meat, > sugar and shoes were rationed using stamps. >> > > I was only 2-6 at the time but remember them being used for gasoline and > groceries. I recall that each member in the household got their own book. My > father ran a gas station and I couldn't understand why we couldn't have all > the gasoline we wanted! I also remember that in OK mills were used. Was that > just a state thing or was it nation wide??? > > sbd >

Hi -- I am looking for a Mary Brents McDaniel. I believe she lived in Muskogee, OK at one time. She is the only connection I know to the OK Brents'. I would like to make a connection to my AR Brents' if possible. I also believe that the OK Brents' hold a Family Reunion somewhere in OK. If someone has any information on these OK Brents' please contact me. Thanks, yvonne _______________________________________________ Yvonne Henson WK: 265-0087 HM: 597-0298 "Be Prepared, It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."