Hello listers, please excuse this email to everyone, I seemed to have lost Cheri's email address. Cheri wrote>>>>>>Have you had any contact with Norma, who runs the GenWeb page for Wasco Co? *******snip******* Hi Cheri! Well I'm going through my files of over 300 emails, & printing what I want to keep from it............... finally bought a new ink cartridge ; ),when I noticed that Norma has been in touch with me.......lol! She has given me wonderful advise as to go about my maternal root digging, & the learning of history through Biographies, now if I only knew where some were......lol! Norma has given me her web address, & told me of another woman that has undertaken the Olney research. I'm thrilled to learn the good along with the bad, as I'm sure, any family who has documented their history so thoroughly as they have, would have at least some incidents. She told me she hasn't finished as yet, & is going to contact the libary in Toppenish to try & obtain a copy of the Who Are You Who Am I book, by Daniel Hoptowit Olney. My family is registered with the Yakama Nation, & Daniel is an Uncle, his GrandFather being Franklin Peirce Olney, & mine Nathan Hale Olney. Cheri wrote>>>>>Well, until you started talking scorpions & Bull snakes, I was all ready to suggest that you & I go clean up that cemetery in Yakima next spring. I think I'll pass on that now. Bugs & snakes just give me the heebie jeebies. I admit it -- I'm a woosie that way. I'm happy to walk a cemetery to get data, but I don't think I'm cut out for clearing brush like that! :-) *******snip******* ROFL!!! Okay Cheri, I won't blame you or have any hard feelings while I'm up there on the reservation in White Swan, cleaning away, & thinking of you all safe, taking your notes from the tombstones.........LOL!!! Just teasing ; ) Cheri wrote>>>>>>I remember very clearly that not too many years ago, there was an Olney business in Pendleton, and I think it was a funeral home. What a coup that would be to be related to an undertaker *******snip******* I heard from someone in our family years ago, that an Olney donated 155. some odd acres to a town in Oregon for cemetery purposes, & if I remember right, there's not one Olney interred there? Ick! an undertaker...*shudder*...lol. Cheri wrote>>>>>>Take care, and let me know when you plan a trip to the main Spokane library. Maybe we can meet in the lobby & have a cup o' joe. *****snip***** Hopefully soon I'll have a little time to do something like that, would be great to meet you! I'm pretyy green to all this research, so everything I've learned so far has really stacked in notes & records, so I'm very busy for now, at least until I don't feel the drive to have to do this....lol! I'm sure I'll have a few days off soon, almost finished with entering info from my records into Family Tree Maker software. Then I'll need to search their data-bases. Take Care! & All my best to all! Teresa (Spokane, Wa) ; ) Kapoonis59@aol.com