1918 Death list (Altoona Mirror) This is a partial list, to be continued. (No obits for these) WICKER, Pearl, 1 Feb. 5, pneu. 709 20th St. WICKER, Christopher, 62, Mar. 3, uremia, 2915 Walnut Ave., Alt. hosp. WEISS, Mrs. Lillian, 31, Mar. 4, comp., 438 5th Ave., Mercy hosp. WILT, Samuel, 2 wks., Mar. 19, Alt. hosp. WILLS, Mrs. Effa C., 47, Mar. 23, comp., 314 22nd. Ave. WILSON, Amelia, 10 da., March 26. pneu., 13th Ave., 18th St. WALKER, Mrs. Julia, 79, Mar. 26, comp., 410 7th St. WILLIAMS, Mrs. Lillian K. 34, April 12, influenza, 408 5th St. WILLIAMS, James, 7, April 15, meningitis, South Altoona WALKER, Mrs. Nannie, 72, April 18, comp., 113 18th St. WOODS, Thomas, 38, June 1, heart trouble, 1320 18th Ave., Alt. hosp. WILSON, Mrs. Henry R., 83, old age, 305 5th. Ave. WHITESEL, Mrs. Margaret, 28, June 15, comp., 923 1st. Ave., Alt. hosp. WOOD, Solomon, 62, June 22, comp., 1912 Margaret Ave., Alto. hosp. WINTERS, Mrs. Edna, 27, June 25, pneu., 314 Bell Ave. WINTERS, Cora, 3 wks., July 2, 319 Bell Ave. WINEBRENNER, Daisy, 18, Aug. 1, bronchitis, 1109 18th St. WAREHAM, Mrs. Hannah, 71, Aug. 3, comp., 920 5th Ave. WALKER, Fred W., 22, Aug. 7, 704 Logan Ave., drowned at Toledo. WHITEMAN, Kathleen, 6. Aug. 16, 3216 5th Ave., Mercy hosp. Annie Whiteman PABlair List administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>

Thank you, Leah : ) Nancy Myrtle Beach ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:16 PM Subject: Re: PABlair What happened to the obits? You can go into Rootsweb, click on index to look up old messages that have been entered. Once in a while you can find answers to your own questions this way. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Cramer <[email protected]> To: My Belle <[email protected]>; PABLAIR <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 1:17 pm Subject: Re: PABlair What happened to the obits? I'm replying to the email message from Michele Pierson. I just joined the PABlair website hoping to read about people searching for ancestors and history and I have been extremely disappointed in the amount of emails that there are being exchanged. I am not a professional researcher but am extremely interested in finding more information on some of my ancestors from the Blair County area. I have exhausted the information that I could gather from Ancestry.com and was hoping that PABlair would be the answer to my research. I have found my Great Great Grandparents, William and Margaret McKinney in the 1850 census, but have been unable to find what happened to most of their children (other than Henry). I am also searching for the birth parents of Charles Ager who was born about 1887, but I know for a fact that his mother's name was Sara/Sarah Neff. I do not know if this was a married name or a given name. I do know that at age 13, Charles Ager took the name of his stepfather, Henry McKinney (my Great Grandfather). These people lived in Blair County and were usually found in the Antis Township area. I have been told that Charles Ager (my grandfather) was born in Bellwood, PA. Is there anyone out there that can direct me as to where I can find marriage records or additional information on my ancestors? Thank you, Nancy Cramer Myrtle Beach, SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "My Belle" <[email protected]> To: "PABLAIR" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:45 PM Subject: PABlair What happened to the obits? > The Blair list used to post obits every day, there used to be lots of information exchanged by posters and list members, and it used to be one of the most active boards I'd subscribed to. What happened to kill off the exchange of info here? It now seems the Centre Co. board (thank you, Justin Kirk Houser!) is the most active list remaining of those I subscribe to, and I rarely get mail from the Blair list at all anymore. For those of us who live out of state, it has been a major blow to lose this flow of info, especially those obits we'd all come to expect in our mailboxes on a daily basis. I, for one, miss Annie Whiteman's helpfulness and generosity in posting them daily for those of us still trying to break down the brick walls our ancestors built around themselves. > > Michele Gibson Pierson > > still researching Gibson, Weir, Calhoun, Frederick, as well as many side branches > > ________________________________________ > PeoplePC Online > A better way to Internet > http://www.peoplepc.com > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----------------------------------- No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

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I have a reference to an Orphans Court record. It appears on a 1889 deed for land in Greenfield Township. I does not give a volume number but does give page number. The deed reads: "See proceedings in the Orphans Court of Blair County vol ___ page 250." Is there an index for the Orphans Court records? If not can anyone point me in the right direction to find this reference. Are Orphans Court records kept at Blair County Gen. Library? Thank you, Carol in Baltimore

Hello, RAOGK is Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness and if you haven't used it you may be in for a treat! As a volunteer in my NY county, I go to the library and find obits and go to the records center and do cemetery lookups and naturalization lookups. - all free. I have obtained obits from volunteers from many states, death certificates from California, and digital pictures from cemeteries - most free or just a small fee. Go to http://www.raogk.org/ If you like what you see, consider becoming a volunteer. You can do as little or as much as you like. Happy hunting! Tomi >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: PABlair Blair County research help >Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:20:27 EDT > >WHAT IS RAOGK? > >AM NOT TO SAVY ON ALL THIS. > > > >************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL >at >http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _________________________________________________________________ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspx&ocid=T001MSN25A07001

Duke Clark's WorldConnect link to: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dukefirst&id=I13030 ID: I13030 Name: Ritner Ernest SWARTZWELDER Surname: Swartzwelder Given Name: Ritner Ernest Sex: M Birth: ABT 1874 Death: 9 Apr 1933 M. 70816. 4:59pm ET ................ At 02:33 PM 8/16/2007, you wrote: > trying now to trace my side mainly Swarzwelder, Ritner for Breezewood.

Trying to connect Samuel McGee, born in Ore Hill, Bloomfield Twp, Bedford Co., Pa aug 2 1825, married Margaret Lear, died Jan 13, 1893. to his parents, supposedly James McGee, Born probably in Albemarle, Va 4/18/1781, married Mary? Moved to ore hill and died there. Does anyone have any info, or can you help me get started on this search? betty

Annie. I was born and raised in Hollidaysburg 8o plus years ago. Been away at least 60 years. the info you put out has kept me in touch, in a strange way. But my husband is very much into genealogy. Has goten info from you. He is trying now to trace my side mainly Swarzwelder, Ritner for Breezewood. Just wanted to say thanks for all you have done. Take care. Jean Peterman ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:01 AM Subject: PABLAIR Digest, Vol 2, Issue 117 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. (no subject) ([email protected]) > 2. Blair County research help (Tomi Larson) > 3. Re: Altoona Obits (Judy Banja) > 4. Re: Problem with new computer - no floppy drive > ([email protected]) > 5. floppy drive external thingy ([email protected]) > 6. Re: BCGS ([email protected]) > 7. Re: where do I find old obits? ([email protected]) > 8. Re: Annie's mistake (Nancy Cramer) > 9. Re: What happened to the obits? ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:17:02 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: PABlair (no subject) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > My new computer doesn't have a floppy disk either, but I bought an > external > one you just plug in to one of the ports. It works fine. I hope we are > talking about the same thing? Thanks Sharon Miller > > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:31:49 -0400 > From: "Tomi Larson" <[email protected]> > Subject: PABlair Blair County research help > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > > Hello, > I think it's too bad that there aren't a few more volunteers on the > RAOGK - > Blair County site. This is a wonderful resource for genealogists. The > volunteers currently listed for Blair are very helpful, but it must be a > lot > of work for only two people! There is so much information to be had from > the > BCGS and local papers, but it's hard for those of us not in the area to > get > at it! So, think about volunteering if you've ever had obit or other > research help yourself from a RAOGK volunteer or some other kind soul. > > Tomi Larson > RAOGK Volunteer > Oswego, NY > > _________________________________________________________________ > A new home for Mom, no cleanup required. All starts here. > http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:44:50 -0400 > From: "Judy Banja" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PABlair Altoona Obits > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Those Tyrone Daily Herald obits Sharon's contributing are here > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/obits.htm > > And for anybody who doesn't know or who has forgotten, the current ones > are at > http://www.tyronepa.com/herald/ > > The Altoona Mirror is here > http://altoonamirror.com/index.asp > > And the Tribune Democrat also has Blair county obits. They're here > http://www.tribune-democrat.com/ > > The Altoona Library has a wonderful index to the Altoona Mirror obits here > http://www.altoonalibrary.org/obit/default.htm > > I've never been able to decide whether I like obits or wills best. Both > usually > give you the names of parents, children and relatives, and whoever made > that > earlier comment about finding cousins through them is right on the money. > I > recently found a Rogers cousin I didn't even know I had, when I found an > obit > online, and it turns out she lives four miles from me. <GRIN> > > Annie: go for the external floppy drive that plugs into your USB port, > rather > than buying an older computer. Switching from one computer to another is a > royal > pain, and the older ones have a nasty habit of dying in the middle of a > big > project. Head for Best Buy when you get over your fall off the porch. > > Judy Banja > Blair County PA USGenWeb Archives > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:13 PM > Subject: PABlair Altoona Obits > > > When the Altoona Mirror went online, I contacted Neil Rudel. and he would > not > give me permission to put their obits put into pagen archives. I > explained > to him that it's all done on a voluntary basis, and anybody can do > lookups > for free His answer was NO. I've never contacted this pablair site > before, > but I read where one gentleman asked where the obits were. Maybe he was > referring to other obits. By the way, Tyrone Daily Herald does allow use > of > their obits. Thanks for listening. Sharon Miller > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:42:29 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PABlair Problem with new computer - no floppy drive > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > Hi Annie > > After my MAC computer breathed it's last, and my husband insisted that I > switch to a PC and Windows. > > To my dismay it didn't have a floppy drive, and I had tons of stuff on > floppies. > > The problem was solved by going to Fry's Electronics store and purchasing > an > external floppy drive. Most are priced under Forty Dollars and simply > plug > into my USB port. > > Problem solved. > > Barb > CA > > In a message dated 8/15/2007 10:15:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > The obit problem is mine, I had bought a new computer, and did not > realize > that there is no way to use floppies on it, so now I am debating with > myself > if > I should buy another older computer, try to get the floppies put on CD's, > or > give up totally. I have decided to get an older computer for the > floppies. I > have thousands of obits on the floppies, and boxes of obits waiting to be > scanned, I am not going to let the obits go away. > > > > > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:19:43 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: PABlair floppy drive external thingy > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Did I not just write today and say how wonderful you all are? Well, it > seems > everyone in the world knew about the floppy drive thingy, except me and > possibly the old lady that lives next door. I would ask her, but she would > turn out > knowing, and then I would feel really stupid. As soon as I can get a pair > of > shoes on, I will trot off to Best Buy or Target (I didn't even know Target > had > a computer department) and ask for one. I just picture you all sitting out > there thinking 'oh the poor thing, she is clumsy and stupid' however I do > plan on > trying to educate myself on these computer things, but I really don't see > much hope in becoming less clumsy. I have fallen on the person walking > down the > stairs in front of me at the hospital, I have fell on the boardwalk and > knocked > down a surrey driver, I have tripped Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, and a > waitress at Dave's Dream. There is no hope for me in that department, but > I will > definitely be working on my computer skills. > > > Annie Whiteman > PABlair List administrator > Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz > Blair County Coordinators > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair > <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:08:01 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PABlair BCGS > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: > <081520[email protected]comcast.net> > > > I am one of the many out-of-state genealogists > who has benefitted from Annie's generosity in sharing > time, resources, advice....I am grateful for, and in awe > of, her tireless "genealogical kindnesses". > > It's a shame if there are people who chose to repay > that kindness by "stirring things up" and forwarding > an obviously private communication. > > The classy and respectful thing... the KIND thing, > would have been to hit "delete" and forget about it. > > I am simply expressing my opinion here, not trying to > clutter up the list or provoke any further debate! > If anyone is compelled to respond, you can email me off-list. > Luann > > > > > > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: [email protected] >> Hello listers, >> I recently received an email telling me that several listers forwarded >> the >> email I sent to the list re; BCGS to various board members with >> complaints about >> the email. If I have offended any on the list, please feel free to email >> me >> personally, and I will be honest and open about any feelings I have on >> the >> subject. As you all should know, I am always honest in my remarks and >> postings, >> and if some of you are in disagreement with me, I understand that. I do >> wish >> that I could have the courtesy of hearing or reading your complaints >> firsthand. >> As I wrote before, I apologize for sending the email to the list, it was >> not >> meant for the list, and I welcome any off list complaints for sending it. >> Please try to understand that when complaints about me are sent to >> others, I >> cannot respond. >> Once again, I apologize to the list members for this misunderstanding. >> >> >> Annie Whiteman >> PABlair List administrator >> Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz >> Blair County Coordinators >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair >> <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of >> the >> all-new AOL at >> http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------- >> No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out >> rule. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:56:13 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PABlair where do I find old obits? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I'm looking for an old obit for Blair Co, ancestor died in 1852 and is > buried in town of Roaring Spring, but also had offspring who lived in > Altoona > area, so he may have lived there as well. He was also in No.Woodbury Twp > during > his lifetime, so maybe something there? Not sure where the obit may have > been published? Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. Terri > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:14:00 -0500 > From: "Nancy Cramer" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PABlair Annie's mistake > To: <[email protected]>, "Blair County List" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To Annie and Everyone: > I just joined this PABlair website and at first I was disappointed because > I did not see > hardly any exhanges of information----well, I just want you all to know > that since I posted > my request, I have received so many replies and have been given so much > valuable information > that I am just overwhelmed and I am now going through everything and I > just wanted to make > sure that I properly thank everyone who has already tried to help me and I > am here to stay. > Now, I just hope that I can be of help to others who may be my distant > relatives!! > Nancy (McKinney) Cramer > Myrtle Beach, SC > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Bobak" <[email protected]> > To: "Blair County List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:50 AM > Subject: PABlair Annie's mistake > > >> Wow, this has been the most activity on the list in a long time, it's a >> shame it's because of a simple mistake. >> >> >> >> I have to totally agree with Sharon, Barbara, and Michele, Annie has done >> so >> much for me in my research. Most of my brick walls happen to be in Blair >> County and when I first subscribed to the list I didn't find it all that >> friendly. Annie changed that! Isn't it amazing that one person can and >> does make a difference? There are always individuals out there that are >> offended by the simplest things. Hey, get over it and move on. Annie I >> miss the obit postings!!!! I looked at them all the time because I was >> afraid that I would miss something important. >> >> >> >> I haven't had the pleasure of working with the BCGS yet, I'm trying to >> decide how to write my request, but it is my understanding they are >> volunteers and if like any typical nonprofit probably overworked. For >> those >> of us the live out of the area we need to rely sometimes on the goodness >> of >> others to do our research. I would wish they would have more information >> available on the web though. >> >> >> >> Thanks for listening. >> >> >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------- >> No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out >> rule. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:16:13 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PABlair What happened to the obits? > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > You can go into Rootsweb, click on index to look up old messages that have > been entered. Once in a while you can find answers to your own questions > this way. > > Leah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nancy Cramer <[email protected]> > To: My Belle <[email protected]>; PABLAIR <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 1:17 pm > Subject: Re: PABlair What happened to the obits? > > > > I'm replying to the email message from Michele Pierson. I just joined > the > PABlair website hoping to read about people searching for ancestors and > history > and I have been extremely disappointed in the amount of emails that there > are > being exchanged. I am not a professional researcher but am extremely > interested in finding more information on some of my ancestors from the > Blair > County area. I have exhausted the information that I could gather from > Ancestry.com and was hoping that PABlair would be the answer to my > research. > > I have found my Great Great Grandparents, William and Margaret McKinney in > the > 1850 census, but have been unable to find what happened to most of their > children (other than Henry). I am also searching for the birth parents > of > Charles Ager who was born about 1887, but I know for a fact that his > mother's > name was Sara/Sarah Neff. I do not know if this was a married name or a > given > name. I do know that at age 13, Charles Ager took the name of his > stepfather, > Henry McKinney (my Great Grandfather). > > These people lived in Blair County and were usually found in the Antis > Township > area. I have been told that Charles Ager (my grandfather) was born in > Bellwood, PA. > > Is there anyone out there that can direct me as to where I can find > marriage > records or additional information > on my ancestors? > > Thank you, > > Nancy Cramer > Myrtle Beach, SC > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "My Belle" <[email protected]> > To: "PABLAIR" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:45 PM > Subject: PABlair What happened to the obits? > > >> The Blair list used to post obits every day, there used to be lots of > information exchanged by posters and list members, and it used to be one > of the > most active boards I'd subscribed to. What happened to kill off the > exchange of > info here? It now seems the Centre Co. board (thank you, Justin Kirk > Houser!) > is the most active list remaining of those I subscribe to, and I rarely > get mail > from the Blair list at all anymore. For those of us who live out of > state, it > has been a major blow to lose this flow of info, especially those obits > we'd all > come to expect in our mailboxes on a daily basis. I, for one, miss Annie > Whiteman's helpfulness and generosity in posting them daily for those of > us > still trying to break down the brick walls our ancestors built around > themselves. >> >> Michele Gibson Pierson >> >> still researching Gibson, Weir, Calhoun, Frederick, as well as many side > branches >> >> ________________________________________ >> PeoplePC Online >> A better way to Internet >> http://www.peoplepc.com >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------- >> No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out >> rule. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message >> > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out > rule. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. 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I am one of the many out-of-state genealogists who has benefitted from Annie's generosity in sharing time, resources, advice....I am grateful for, and in awe of, her tireless "genealogical kindnesses". It's a shame if there are people who chose to repay that kindness by "stirring things up" and forwarding an obviously private communication. The classy and respectful thing... the KIND thing, would have been to hit "delete" and forget about it. I am simply expressing my opinion here, not trying to clutter up the list or provoke any further debate! If anyone is compelled to respond, you can email me off-list. Luann -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: [email protected] > Hello listers, > I recently received an email telling me that several listers forwarded the > email I sent to the list re; BCGS to various board members with complaints about > the email. If I have offended any on the list, please feel free to email me > personally, and I will be honest and open about any feelings I have on the > subject. As you all should know, I am always honest in my remarks and postings, > and if some of you are in disagreement with me, I understand that. I do wish > that I could have the courtesy of hearing or reading your complaints firsthand. > As I wrote before, I apologize for sending the email to the list, it was not > meant for the list, and I welcome any off list complaints for sending it. > Please try to understand that when complaints about me are sent to others, I > cannot respond. > Once again, I apologize to the list members for this misunderstanding. > > > Annie Whiteman > PABlair List administrator > Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz > Blair County Coordinators > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair > <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML> > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

You can go into Rootsweb, click on index to look up old messages that have been entered. Once in a while you can find answers to your own questions this way. Leah -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Cramer <[email protected]> To: My Belle <[email protected]>; PABLAIR <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 1:17 pm Subject: Re: PABlair What happened to the obits? I'm replying to the email message from Michele Pierson. I just joined the PABlair website hoping to read about people searching for ancestors and history and I have been extremely disappointed in the amount of emails that there are being exchanged. I am not a professional researcher but am extremely interested in finding more information on some of my ancestors from the Blair County area. I have exhausted the information that I could gather from Ancestry.com and was hoping that PABlair would be the answer to my research. I have found my Great Great Grandparents, William and Margaret McKinney in the 1850 census, but have been unable to find what happened to most of their children (other than Henry). I am also searching for the birth parents of Charles Ager who was born about 1887, but I know for a fact that his mother's name was Sara/Sarah Neff. I do not know if this was a married name or a given name. I do know that at age 13, Charles Ager took the name of his stepfather, Henry McKinney (my Great Grandfather). These people lived in Blair County and were usually found in the Antis Township area. I have been told that Charles Ager (my grandfather) was born in Bellwood, PA. Is there anyone out there that can direct me as to where I can find marriage records or additional information on my ancestors? Thank you, Nancy Cramer Myrtle Beach, SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "My Belle" <[email protected]> To: "PABLAIR" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:45 PM Subject: PABlair What happened to the obits? > The Blair list used to post obits every day, there used to be lots of information exchanged by posters and list members, and it used to be one of the most active boards I'd subscribed to. What happened to kill off the exchange of info here? It now seems the Centre Co. board (thank you, Justin Kirk Houser!) is the most active list remaining of those I subscribe to, and I rarely get mail from the Blair list at all anymore. For those of us who live out of state, it has been a major blow to lose this flow of info, especially those obits we'd all come to expect in our mailboxes on a daily basis. I, for one, miss Annie Whiteman's helpfulness and generosity in posting them daily for those of us still trying to break down the brick walls our ancestors built around themselves. > > Michele Gibson Pierson > > still researching Gibson, Weir, Calhoun, Frederick, as well as many side branches > > ________________________________________ > PeoplePC Online > A better way to Internet > http://www.peoplepc.com > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----------------------------------- No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

To Annie and Everyone: I just joined this PABlair website and at first I was disappointed because I did not see hardly any exhanges of information----well, I just want you all to know that since I posted my request, I have received so many replies and have been given so much valuable information that I am just overwhelmed and I am now going through everything and I just wanted to make sure that I properly thank everyone who has already tried to help me and I am here to stay. Now, I just hope that I can be of help to others who may be my distant relatives!! Nancy (McKinney) Cramer Myrtle Beach, SC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Bobak" <[email protected]> To: "Blair County List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:50 AM Subject: PABlair Annie's mistake > Wow, this has been the most activity on the list in a long time, it's a > shame it's because of a simple mistake. > > > > I have to totally agree with Sharon, Barbara, and Michele, Annie has done so > much for me in my research. Most of my brick walls happen to be in Blair > County and when I first subscribed to the list I didn't find it all that > friendly. Annie changed that! Isn't it amazing that one person can and > does make a difference? There are always individuals out there that are > offended by the simplest things. Hey, get over it and move on. Annie I > miss the obit postings!!!! I looked at them all the time because I was > afraid that I would miss something important. > > > > I haven't had the pleasure of working with the BCGS yet, I'm trying to > decide how to write my request, but it is my understanding they are > volunteers and if like any typical nonprofit probably overworked. For those > of us the live out of the area we need to rely sometimes on the goodness of > others to do our research. I would wish they would have more information > available on the web though. > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > > Frank > > > > > ----------------------------------- > No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I'm looking for an old obit for Blair Co, ancestor died in 1852 and is buried in town of Roaring Spring, but also had offspring who lived in Altoona area, so he may have lived there as well. He was also in No.Woodbury Twp during his lifetime, so maybe something there? Not sure where the obit may have been published? Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Terri ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Did I not just write today and say how wonderful you all are? Well, it seems everyone in the world knew about the floppy drive thingy, except me and possibly the old lady that lives next door. I would ask her, but she would turn out knowing, and then I would feel really stupid. As soon as I can get a pair of shoes on, I will trot off to Best Buy or Target (I didn't even know Target had a computer department) and ask for one. I just picture you all sitting out there thinking 'oh the poor thing, she is clumsy and stupid' however I do plan on trying to educate myself on these computer things, but I really don't see much hope in becoming less clumsy. I have fallen on the person walking down the stairs in front of me at the hospital, I have fell on the boardwalk and knocked down a surrey driver, I have tripped Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, and a waitress at Dave's Dream. There is no hope for me in that department, but I will definitely be working on my computer skills. Annie Whiteman PABlair List administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>

Hi Annie After my MAC computer breathed it's last, and my husband insisted that I switch to a PC and Windows. To my dismay it didn't have a floppy drive, and I had tons of stuff on floppies. The problem was solved by going to Fry's Electronics store and purchasing an external floppy drive. Most are priced under Forty Dollars and simply plug into my USB port. Problem solved. Barb CA In a message dated 8/15/2007 10:15:34 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: The obit problem is mine, I had bought a new computer, and did not realize that there is no way to use floppies on it, so now I am debating with myself if I should buy another older computer, try to get the floppies put on CD's, or give up totally. I have decided to get an older computer for the floppies. I have thousands of obits on the floppies, and boxes of obits waiting to be scanned, I am not going to let the obits go away. ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Those Tyrone Daily Herald obits Sharon's contributing are here http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/obits.htm And for anybody who doesn't know or who has forgotten, the current ones are at http://www.tyronepa.com/herald/ The Altoona Mirror is here http://altoonamirror.com/index.asp And the Tribune Democrat also has Blair county obits. They're here http://www.tribune-democrat.com/ The Altoona Library has a wonderful index to the Altoona Mirror obits here http://www.altoonalibrary.org/obit/default.htm I've never been able to decide whether I like obits or wills best. Both usually give you the names of parents, children and relatives, and whoever made that earlier comment about finding cousins through them is right on the money. I recently found a Rogers cousin I didn't even know I had, when I found an obit online, and it turns out she lives four miles from me. <GRIN> Annie: go for the external floppy drive that plugs into your USB port, rather than buying an older computer. Switching from one computer to another is a royal pain, and the older ones have a nasty habit of dying in the middle of a big project. Head for Best Buy when you get over your fall off the porch. Judy Banja Blair County PA USGenWeb Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:13 PM Subject: PABlair Altoona Obits When the Altoona Mirror went online, I contacted Neil Rudel. and he would not give me permission to put their obits put into pagen archives. I explained to him that it's all done on a voluntary basis, and anybody can do lookups for free His answer was NO. I've never contacted this pablair site before, but I read where one gentleman asked where the obits were. Maybe he was referring to other obits. By the way, Tyrone Daily Herald does allow use of their obits. Thanks for listening. Sharon Miller

Hello, I think it's too bad that there aren't a few more volunteers on the RAOGK - Blair County site. This is a wonderful resource for genealogists. The volunteers currently listed for Blair are very helpful, but it must be a lot of work for only two people! There is so much information to be had from the BCGS and local papers, but it's hard for those of us not in the area to get at it! So, think about volunteering if you've ever had obit or other research help yourself from a RAOGK volunteer or some other kind soul. Tomi Larson RAOGK Volunteer Oswego, NY _________________________________________________________________ A new home for Mom, no cleanup required. All starts here. http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us

My new computer doesn't have a floppy disk either, but I bought an external one you just plug in to one of the ports. It works fine. I hope we are talking about the same thing? Thanks Sharon Miller ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

When the Altoona Mirror went online, I contacted Neil Rudel. and he would not give me permission to put their obits put into pagen archives. I explained to him that it's all done on a voluntary basis, and anybody can do lookups for free His answer was NO. I've never contacted this pablair site before, but I read where one gentleman asked where the obits were. Maybe he was referring to other obits. By the way, Tyrone Daily Herald does allow use of their obits. Thanks for listening. Sharon Miller ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Hello List, Recently there was a posting about the BCGS: "I haven't had the pleasure of working with the BCGS yet, I'm trying to decide how to write my request, but it is my understanding they are volunteers and if like any typical nonprofit probably overworked. For those of us the live out of the area we need to rely sometimes on the goodness of others to do our research. I would wish they would have more information available on the web though." I am out of state and have had a volunteer from the BCGS help me quite a bit in the past, so give it a try. I was very happy with the research he did for me via email and snail mail. But, it was quite expensive for the time and copies. I also agree that we need people in the area to help out with research. I volunteer to get obits and naturalization papers for anyone in my NY county. We all need to help each other to keep costs down. Also, local knowledge is a GREAT thing! Thanks to all the Blair folks who help us out. Tomi Larson Oswego, NY _________________________________________________________________ Learn.Laugh.Share. Reallivemoms is right place! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us

In a message dated 8/15/07 12:19:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > I just joined the PABlair website hoping to read about people searching for > ancestors and history and I have been extremely disappointed in the amount > of emails that there are being exchanged The obit problem is mine, I had bought a new computer, and did not realize that there is no way to use floppies on it, so now I am debating with myself if I should buy another older computer, try to get the floppies put on CD's, or give up totally. I have decided to get an older computer for the floppies. I have thousands of obits on the floppies, and boxes of obits waiting to be scanned, I am not going to let the obits go away. I am sorry you are disappointed with the list, but--McKinney is definitely a name from Bellwood and Tyrone. I will check what I have for that area, and email you. Don't allow yourself to get discouraged, just keep plugging. I remember what a woman told me a few years ago, when she first started she thought she would research her husband's family, have that all done in at most six months, and here it was 20 years later, and she was still working on it. I have met some members of the list, and some I have never seen, but feel as though I know them very well. I have always believed that this list is perfect, no complainers (except me) everyone generous and giving. I think you will be happily surprised with the response you will get from listers trying to help you. Don't give up. I am feeling very mellow today, not at all my usual prickly self. My youngest dog pulled me off the front porch yesterday, causing me to fall over two planters and landing on my face. Thank God my daughter was here, because she helped me up, checked me for broken bones (none) bruises, (lots) cuts (three) and a very sore toe on my right foot. This morning she brought something over that my grandson was prescribed when he pulled a tendon at football practice. I don't remember the name, it is a blue pill, and I love it. It seems to me that everything still hurts, but I don't really care. ; ) Annie Whiteman PABlair List administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML>