I am one of the guilty, but I was straying FAR off topic with conversation about how much land was needed to feed a family <G> I was thinking partly of the Irish who raised large families on less than half an acre and my 3X ggfather who managed to send his sons off to the US with enough money for each to buy a good sized farm in Ohio and he did this with 3 acres and some common ground, far away from Chester Co <G> But I would love to find out more about what it did take to not just raise a family but to gather assets. What could a family do with 39 acres back in the day? Eliz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> wrote: > A list member has emailed me that after she posted a question to the list, several people send info ONLY to her, and not to the list. To these people's especially and everyone in general,<snip>
To me the stories are just as interesting as the pedigrees, so I hope these will be included too. Eleanor ________________________________ From: Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> To: Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> Cc: PaOldCh <pa-old-chester-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [PaOldC] Sharing with everyone I am one of the guilty, but I was straying FAR off topic with conversation about how much land was needed to feed a family <G> I was thinking partly of the Irish who raised large families on less than half an acre and my 3X ggfather who managed to send his sons off to the US with enough money for each to buy a good sized farm in Ohio and he did this with 3 acres and some common ground, far away from Chester Co <G> But I would love to find out more about what it did take to not just raise a family but to gather assets. What could a family do with 39 acres back in the day? Eliz On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Sandra Ferguson <ferg@ntelos.net> wrote: > A list member has emailed me that after she posted a question to the list, several people send info ONLY to her, and not to the list. To these people's especially and everyone in general,<snip> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PA-OLD-CHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message