Hello listers, I had been curious for years about connections from the town for Northampton, Massachusetts to the Tioga - Bradford - Steuben Co. areas. I knew that I had a lot of ancestors that travelled from Mass. to these counties. I recently started a new site called "Early Settlers of Northampton", on which I am attempting to post descendancies from as many of the early inhabitants as I can. In the process of doing these descendancies, I was amazed at the number with Tioga & Bradford. Besides the obvious CLARK surname, there were SHELDON, STRONG & POMEROY descendants who moved to these areas. The site is: http://sites.netscape.net/davec551/homepage Anyone with Northampton roots should check for their surnames. I am uploading a few each day & have 10 surnames online so far, with at least 5 generations for each. Dave Clark Belmont NC

Hello list, I am living near Bradford County temporarily, and would like to know if anybody is researching the Vought family. Godfrey Vought, one of the Rome pioneers, was an xG-uncle, and Henry Lent was either a cousin or uncle as well. I understand that Godfrey is buried in Rome. Does anybody know if his tombstone is still there? Also, I have heard that Godfrey's parents, Joseph and Christina, followed his son to Rome and died there. There is no mention of Joseph and Christina in the Bradford County histories I have read. There is another Joseph, of a later generation. Any clues? I'm planning a visit to Rome soon to check out the cemeteries. Regards, Jay DeKing List administrator for: DEKING-L@rootsweb.com FRANKENSTEIN-L@rootsweb.com GRESENS-L@rootsweb.com HILLMAN-L@rootsweb.com _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html

>From the Doylestown, Bucks Co, The Intelligencer/The Record Mildred A. Batterson Mildred A. Batterson of Delray Beach, Fla. passed away on Monday July 17, 2000. She was 76. Mrs. Batterson was born and raised in Mechanicsville, Pa. She is survived by five daughters, Bette Jean Koehler and family of Mansfield, Pa., Joyce Robison and family of Delray Beach, Fla., Hope Batterson of Delray Beach, Fla., Deborah McIntyre and family of Brooksville, Fla., Kathleen Deen and family of Brooksville, Fla.; three brothers, Newton L. Beck and family of Mechanicsville, William Beck and family of Warminster, and Joseph Beck and family of Mechanicsville; three sisters, Grace Kershaw and family of Orange City, Fla., Linda Eutemoser and family of Buckingham, Joanne Hall and family of Fort Meyers, Fla.; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be held on Monday, July 31, 2000 at 11 a.m. at the Mechanicsville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the ALS Association, 27001 Agoura Road, Suite 150, Calabasas Hills, Calif. 91301-5104, or by phone at 1-888-949-2577. Lorne & Sons Funeral Home, Delray Beach, Fla.

This looks like a great site! The home page noted the maps cover from 1544 to 1999. Hope you enjoy it. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Kathleen Barrett Port Angeles, WA

One source would be to try the Mansfield Advertiser newspapers since Mainesburg obits, marriages, etc., would be in that newspaper. Originals are at Mansfield University, but some (don't remember which dates) are in the Rhoda Ladd series and I have not checked to see which ones are on line. Hard copies are indexed. In 1880 he would have been 39 so I would suggest checking the 1880 PA soundex for this family which will list families with children under the age of ten. This will indicate if he had any of the presumed children, provided one or more was under the age of ten. Check the Tioga County, Pennsylvania marriage records at Wellsboro for a marriage of Kate Wells and also her children. Check the 1900 Pennsylvania soundex for Fred Wells. You could also go through all the Harveys in the 1900 Pennsylvania soundex and look for an Ida as the wife of ______ Harvey. Lots of other sources, but these are a few that come to mind. Hope that helps! J. Kelsey Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: <MargieBr@aol.com> To: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 10:05 AM Subject: [PABRADFO] Kate McCann Wells > Dear Friends at Tri County, > I need help locating what happened to the wife and children of Frederick H. > Wells of Tioga County. He worked in the coal mining field, lived 12/1/1841 to > 10/13/1891. Married a woman by the name of Kate mcCann and I don't have any > dates for her. My cousin (now dead) thought they had children named Ida, > Elizabeth and Fred Wells. Ida married a fellow with the last name of Harvey. > The elder Fred is buried with his parents at Mainesburg, Tioga Co., but no > evidence of his wife or children there. Maybe she remarried after 1891. > Thanks for any advice or help. Margie Bridges > >

Hi All, I had a note this evening form Jim Lampila who is on the Town Council for Town of VanEtten. He let me know about a new web site they have put up for that and also one mourning the loss of the VanEtten Hotel to "progress." I linked both of these to the VanEtten Township page so take a look at VanEtten now. I have added a few more flagholders, both as new pages and as additions to existing pages where a new pattern was found. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm ">Tri-Coun ties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

I am in search for a Victor P How (Howe) and a Bertha R. Vansickle in Towanda and Wysox area around 1874-1900. Vivtors father was Jonathon Howe (?) and Bertha's father was James Vansickle . Any info would be helpful Thanks. Tom in OHIO

A message arrived from Joyce M. Tice 7-30-00, to whitebear@harborside.com just as I was disconnected from the internet. When I regained the connection, this message was lost. Could Joyce M. Tice please resend the message? I have searched for years for this information and now it was snatched by an electronic glitch. Thank you, Leslie B. Freeman (whitebear@harboarside.com

Hi All, I have just added a few more pages of the Bradford County Veterans database which you can reach from Box 12C of the Online Research Library of < A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm ">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have also added some additional flagholders to the Moose page and a few others. Joyce M. Tice

Hi All, I am back from my New Jersey/Pennsylvania "expedition" with a whole new series of flagholder photos for the site. I am still sorting them out but have added a new mystery flagholder to the site in hopes some of you can identify it for me. I also received a new book from Amazon on Secret Societies and Fraternal orders just before I left on Friday so I'll be able to add more information as I have time. My friends in New Jersey have taken to flagholder hunting with a passion and I had trouble getting them to stop long after I was tired out. One good thing about having friends on the search is that someone can hold the flags out for photographing. It is a three handed job and requires some distance. When alone I have to hold the flag out by the corner with my left hand and my left arm crossing in front of me and try to get the camera back far enough to get the whole thing in the view finder and aim and click it with my right hand. It does help that a digital camera has an LCD screen and is not held up to the eye, but still it is quite a trick to do alone and does not always turn out perfect. I'll be adding some new ones later today as I get it all sorted out and catalogued. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF=" http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm ">Tri-Coun ties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Dear Friends at Tri County, I need help locating what happened to the wife and children of Frederick H. Wells of Tioga County. He worked in the coal mining field, lived 12/1/1841 to 10/13/1891. Married a woman by the name of Kate mcCann and I don't have any dates for her. My cousin (now dead) thought they had children named Ida, Elizabeth and Fred Wells. Ida married a fellow with the last name of Harvey. The elder Fred is buried with his parents at Mainesburg, Tioga Co., but no evidence of his wife or children there. Maybe she remarried after 1891. Thanks for any advice or help. Margie Bridges

--part1_e3.7ca1875.26b4e2e8_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would also be interested in seeing that information. As I am fairly new to the list, I didn't see the information before when it went around. Neva Babcock --part1_e3.7ca1875.26b4e2e8_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <PABRADFO-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (rly-yc04.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.36]) by air-yc03.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:14:32 -0400 Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:14:21 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e6TDDPb18338; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:13:25 -0700 Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:13:25 -0700 X-Original-Sender: hermanph@sosbbs.com Sat Jul 29 06:13:24 2000 Message-ID: <002d01bff95f$06a13220$53e725d8@c6j1y9> From: "Phil Herman" <hermanph@sosbbs.com> Old-To: "Bradford" <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Fw: [PABRADFO] Cleaning Old Tombstones Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:15:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Resent-Message-ID: <K-1U0C.A.UeE.0htg5@lists6.rootsweb.com> To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/9873 X-Loop: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: PABRADFO-L-request@rootsweb.com I would also be interested in seeing that information. Phil Herman hermanph@sosbbs.com > Dear Listers, > The subject of cleaning old tombstones was discussed extensively > on one of my mailing lists. I can't locate the information that was > given back and forth with pros and cons of various methods. > Would someone please e-mail me privately so it won't clutter up > the list, briefly describing ways of cleaning. I am especially > interested in the shaving cream methods. > Thanks in advance for any helpful hints. I need to know. > Lorraine Foltz > lfoltz@erie.net > --part1_e3.7ca1875.26b4e2e8_boundary--

I would also be interested in seeing that information. Phil Herman hermanph@sosbbs.com > Dear Listers, > The subject of cleaning old tombstones was discussed extensively > on one of my mailing lists. I can't locate the information that was > given back and forth with pros and cons of various methods. > Would someone please e-mail me privately so it won't clutter up > the list, briefly describing ways of cleaning. I am especially > interested in the shaving cream methods. > Thanks in advance for any helpful hints. I need to know. > Lorraine Foltz > lfoltz@erie.net >

Dear Listers, The subject of cleaning old tombstones was discussed extensively on one of my mailing lists. I can't locate the information that was given back and forth with pros and cons of various methods. Would someone please e-mail me privately so it won't clutter up the list, briefly describing ways of cleaning. I am especially interested in the shaving cream methods. Thanks in advance for any helpful hints. I need to know. Lorraine Foltz lfoltz@erie.net

Hi all, My grandmother died of breast cancer at home in Coryland in 1914 and is buried at Roseville. Would there necessarily have been a death record? Vitals at Tioga County Court House do not go back this far. Is there a Methodist church in Roseville? Sure wish there were some Waverly censuses and cemetery listings on line. 1865 Waverly census at Onondaga Library was unreadable. Thanks a lot for any advice. Pat Wilson

BBgenealogy@cs.com > Good for a laugh... > > In a message dated 07/25/2000 7:29:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > centans@tampabay.rr.com writes: > > << > As found in The Librarian's Genealogy Notebook by Dahrl Elizabeth Moore > ... > > Warning -- Genealogy Pox > Very Contagious to Adults > > Symptoms: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, and places. > Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has > no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records > at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at > mail carrier when he or she doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places > such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes > secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has > strange, faraway look in eyes. > > THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE! > > Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets > progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, > subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the > house when he or she can be alone. > > Remarks: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the > patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it. > > By An Anonymous Author >>> > > I

Tom Travis I got this one from ABCTV. Works with 8 languages and vise-versa. http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn George Van Riper Fair Lawn NJ

http://www.freetranslation.com/ http://translator.go.com/ http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn None are perfect, but give it a try. Lynn Tinsley Traviskeep@aol.com wrote: > Dear List, > > Some time ago I saw a site that translates English to Italian and vice versa. > Would someone with the address please repost it to the list. I have a friend > that needs to correspond with cousins in Italy. Thanks in advance > > Tom Travis > travisaf@aol.com

It appears that with a little help from a PAERIE list member, the PRESQUE ISLE COMMANERY flagholder that Joyce has had for several days as the mystery marker, is in fact representative of the KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. See the Latin motto in the symbol on this web page - http://www.yorkrite.com/KTlinks.htm - which matches the motto in the middle of the flagholder. The Order of Knights Templar is part of the Masons and is described at http://www.knightstemplar.org/freqaq.html if interested. Bill Klauk billklauk@worldnet.att.net ----- Original Message ----- From: [deleted] To: <billklauk@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:27 PM Subject: Marker > The marker pictured is probably from Presque Isle Commandery of the > Knights Templar.It's a Masonic unit of the York Rite of Freemasonry..If > needed,I have access to historical information on the Masons in Erie

I believe the disease is called Genealogy. BBgenealogy@cs.com > Good for a laugh... > > In a message dated 07/25/2000 7:29:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > centans@tampabay.rr.com writes: > > << > As found in The Librarian's Genealogy Notebook by Dahrl Elizabeth Moore > ... > > Warning -- Genealogy Pox > Very Contagious to Adults > > Symptoms: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates, and places. > Patient has blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has > no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records > at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at > mail carrier when he or she doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places > such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes > secret night calls. Hides phone bills from spouse. Mumbles to self. Has > strange, faraway look in eyes. > > THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE! > > Treatment: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal but gets > progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, > subscribe to genealogical magazines, and be given a quiet corner in the > house when he or she can be alone. > > Remarks: The unusual nature of this disease is that the sicker the > patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it. > > By An Anonymous Author >>> > >