I just came across a web site that people who have New England ancestors might want to check. I don't see any of my surnames but recognize some that are being resesearched by people on this list. http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/fraud/fraud223.htm John Bauer Mendham, NJ GRAY, SEELYE (SEELEY, SEELY), RUMSEY, SHAW

HI All, I have just checked my WCNY PBS monthly listing for June ( I am a member) and I do not see Ancestors listed. Does anyone else in Central NY have specific info on whether we are to have this program or not?? I have sent email to WCNY just now and will update you if I get a reply. Joyce M. Tice JoyceTice@aol.com

1896 CABINET CARD OF " JOHN F. NELSON" COVINGTON PA> HIS FAMILY IN THE LOCAL HISTORY>THIS BUST VIEW WAS TAKEN BY BAILEY&McCCAUSLAND OF MANSFIELD Just saw this item for sale on ebay http://cgi.ebay.aol.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=348054136 Wish he were my ancestor. Charmaine Riley Holley arkivemom@aol.com "May you ask the right question of the right person at the right time. " rootsweb sponsor

Shelly from Alaska, please contact me. Your address came back as undeliverable. Wendy Snyder snyder@youu-net.com

Hi It is my understanding that this will air June 6 - I am in touch with WILL-TV- Ellis Bromberg, Station Manager - because I have just learned this station will not carry the series. To my knowledge the only station in this area (Illinois) who will carry it is outof chicago at 8 A.M. --- Ifeel WILL should carry it because they are the only station i this area with such a large coverage. There was an article in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago but dumbie that I am I didn't keep it -- When I learned yesterday that WILL was not going to carry it I decided to see if I could get some interest started in writing them. So far I haven't been able to get thru to Ellis - he's too busy tryingto raise money for next year's budget - Like political election years it might be a good time - What's your thought on getting this on as many lists as possible cause I sure haven't seen much on it. Best you call the PBS station that covers your area. Good luck --- Harriet in Decatur

Hi All, I have just uploaded a whole kit and caboodle of wills and other legal documents to the Legal Documents page of the <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> You can reach the Legal Document section from Box 6A of the Online Research Library of the site. There are ELEVEN new documents there. I am trying to clean out my download directories, so expect to have some more to upload today. Good luck, Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Hi All, We now have 1840 census pages for Brookfield, Jackson, Middlebury and Westfield townships. Check them out from the township pages of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> Joyce M. Tice

Hi All Friends and Guests of <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A> I have added the Spalding Cemetery of Canton to the site. You can reach this from the Canton Township page of the site I have also added the 1888 Diary of Emerson Smith to the Diary page which you can access from Box 31B of the Online Research Library of the site. My thanks to Robin and Cheryl for reading Spalding and my apologies for taking so long to get it online. NOW, I really do believe that all submitted cemetery listings that have been hiding in obscure corners of the house have been routed out and formatted and uploaded. There is just one more that was submitted this week that I'll have up sometime this weekend. If anyone knows of any other listings they have submitted to me that I do not have online yet, please let me know. That's all for now. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Does anyone know when this show will be aired? I think it's soon. Thanks. Laura

Hello, Does anyone on the list know the geographic newspaper distribution in the mid 1800s? I know that one should look through all papers when researching, but I am wondering which paper my ancestors would be most likely to have read living on the Potter Co/Tioga Co. border - in the 1850s and 60s in Clymer and Westfield Twnshps. Thanks, Charmaine Charmaine Riley Holley arkivemom@aol.com "May you ask the right question of the right person at the right time. " rootsweb sponsor

Hi all.. It has been awhile since I have been on this list and am anxious to be on once again. Grandpa was born in Tioga Co. in 1917 and so I still have lots of kin in the tri county area I imagine. Just thot I would relist my surnames. I am anxious to know more about the history and the people of the area. By the way..kudos on the tri county web page once again! Susan Thomas Portland, OR Surnames: LANDON, REYNOLDS, SECHRIST, REIGERT,KINLEY SPENCER, STEWART. Also many associated families. I have a book on the descendents of Labon Landon and will do a look in if anyone needs something.:)

Hi All. I have added one more diary from my collection today. It is the 1887 Diary of Emerson Smith. I have quite a few diaries that I transcribed some years back which I will try to get online sometime soon. I encourage all of you who have diaries of our three counties to transcribe them for the site - MS Word preferred. I have to believe that anyone making a similar effort to mine could collect just as many diaries form any other area in our counties as I have for Sullivan and Rutland Townships, and even then I know I have barely scratched the surface. You can reach this from Box 31B 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> Joyce M. Tice

Hi All, I have added still another diary from my collection to the site. This is the 1876 diary of Mary J. WILSON "Squires" niece of the Daniel BURTON whose 1873 diary I uploaded earlier in the week. In fact, in this diary Mary both visits her Uncle Daniel and a few days later attends his funeral after his death being hit by one of the trains he so frequently used for travel. My collection of area diaries is extensive enough that if you get into them it is like a soap opera, or serial. You just have to read the next one to se how everybody is doing. In all of the diaries, people not only record their work activities, but also the visits form neighbors far and near and I often have the experience of suddenly finding one of my ancestors wandering in for a visit and then leaving. It is almost like a personal encounter. The Diary Collection opens from Box 31 B 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> Have fun on your little visit to the past. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Hi listers, Has anyone done research on the Forrest family of East Smithfield? I'm interested in the wife of Daniel Forrest who was Achsa ???? Forrest. Achsa and Daniel are both buried in the Thomas Cemetary in East Smithfield. He was born Nov 15,1806 and died July 30,1887. Achsa was born Jan 25, 1810 no death date given. I can safely assume she died before the turn of the century. On a family history quilt that I wrote about awhile ago I had one name "Achza Sept, 20 1861" we could not identify. I don't know if this date was a birth or death. Achsa _____ Forrest could be that person. The difference in spelling could be misunderstanding of the embroidered letter as an "s" could come out looking like a "z". The date on our quilt could be a death date, but I need to check further for confirmation. For those of you who missed my earlier request for help, I'll tell it briefly again. My first cousin has a family history quilt made by our great grandmother Mary Araminta (Mintie Williams Kelly). Mintie was born in 1850 and died in 1914. She made a quilt with 42 squares on it and each one had a name/initials and date/dates on it. There are three people we could not identify, Achza being one. Mintie started with herself and husband three daughters, all grandchildren born before 1914. She had her sister, brother and three of his children, parents and both sets of grandparents and various cousins. I will be checking the Historical Society in Towanda for a family folder on the Forrest family when I come in late July this year. I will also check for wills and obituaries. I know a lot of people on the list do their research from a long distance and I'm making this request in the hope someone out there is researching the Forrest line. This website is the greatest and my thanks to all who make it possible!! Claudetta W. Harding Silver Spring, Md

In a message dated 6/2/00 9:56:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LWA101@aol.com writes: << Someone asked for info on National Archives. Here are my tips, >> Hi all, If I might I would ask that you add medicine for motion sickness. I got so sick to my stomach and so lightheaded when I spent a few hours at LDS looking at microfilm that I promised I would be sure to get and take something for this before I go again. I really had to wait 30-40 minutes before I felt well enough to drive home. Maybe you won't be affected by the motion of the film going by your eyes but I sure did. Happy Hunting to all Leona Freary

Hi I saw this poem in my mail box this morning and sent it along to some other lists I am on; Here is one response I recieved; Hi Dee, Since finding my family (I was adopted and found my birthfamily about 3 years ago)...I have been struck by the genealogy bug and have also put together several family albums. The most frustrating part was getting family relatives, who are still among the living, to identify the much earlier photos. One of the photos was of my mother and my cousin didn't know who that person was in that particular photo...I knew her right away. My mother died in 1975 long before I got the chance to meet her. This poem is very good. I hope it gets passed along to all the lists and people start identifying the pictures in their photo albums. When I first met my cousin, Nancy, she showed me her albums and, of course, there were no names below the pics. She had trouble telling me who some of these people were and had to get her step-mom to help out. Even she wasn't sure about some of them. Thanks for posting that poem. Linda > Listers, > thought this might be fitting since I am doing family photo's right now > > > "Notes on a Family Album" > > I sit before some photographs > of people I don't know. > Mom said, "They are your relatives," > But that was long ago. > > She used to get the album out > And put me on her knee: > Then pointing, with a story line > Tell family history. > > The captions used were all her own, > Each time developed new. > We never thought to write them down > Before her life was through. > > I see some family features now: > I have begun to care. > Since Mom is gone, I cannot ask, > "Whose picture is that there?" > > If you have photo's in a book > Without a caption, too. > Go get a pen and label them, > Or you may wonder, "Who?" > > by Mary F. Heisey > > I have found a cousin with an album of family photos which include about > 100 tintypes and we have no idea who these people are. So there is truth > in this poem. > Harold Hooper

Someone asked for info on National Archives. Here are my tips, I'm sure Ross can expand on them. 1-Take plenty of change in $1 bills to buy your photocopying card. Even if you hae $20 on your card at the end of the day, they won't cash out any remainder, so you probably want to be conservative. 2-Take a bag lunch so you don't have to go find somewhere to eat, or eat in the cafeteria. Saves time & money. 3-Take a clear blue sheet of plastic (Ross, where do you get this?) to put over microfilm images and make them easier to read. 4-If you requested any files by mail, then they probably will have been pulled by this group, which means you can't all of a sudden request that they be sent to the research room for you to look through. IF YOU PLAN TO GO IN PERSON TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES, BE SURE NOT TO SEND IN A MAIL-ORDER REQUEST FOR THE SAME FILES. THEY ARE EXTREMELY SHORT STAFFED (WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN) AND IT CAN BE MONTHS BEFORE MATERIAL IS REFILED. 5-If you call ahead, be sure you speak to someone in the Research Room. 6-No files are pulled on Saturdays. You have to be there on a weekday to request files. 7-Go early in the day, just as they open. 8-Take the metro if you can to avoid having to find parking. 9-Allow an extra day if you find you might want to look up just one more thing (you will). 10-Take plenty of patience. It's a big place. Be resourceful. Your best tips will come from the people sitting around you. Cheers from a steamy NC. Laura

Hi All, I have just added another diary from my collection to the site. You can reach the Diary collection from Box 31B 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> This is the 1875 Diary of Sarah Monroe "Sadie", as she finishes her education, takes a test, and goes on to teach. This is the third diary I have uploaded from my collection this week. I am not seeing the counter on the Diary page increase as I would expect, and I can only tell you that you are missing a treasure to overlook these diaries. You can not do genealogy just as a name chasing exercise. The substance comes from understanding the world and the lifestyle your ancestors experienced. Genealogy at its best is about a community and the families in it, not just names. Have fun, Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm"> Tri-Counties Genealogy & History Sites of Joyce M. Tice</A>

Yep!! Both my parents are gone and I have some photos - tintypes etc and who they are ????? ---------- >From: hhooper <hhooper@wa-net.com> >To: PABRADFO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PABRADFO] Poem >Date: Thu, Jun 1, 2000, 7:28 PM > > Listers, > thought this might be fitting since I am doing family photo's right now > and even sent Joyce some. > > "Notes on a Family Album" > > I sit before some photographs > of people I don't know. > Mom said, "They are your relatives," > But that was long ago. > > She used to get the album out > And put me on her knee: > Then pointing, with a story line > Tell family history. > > The captions used were all her own, > Each time developed new. > We never thought to write them down > Before her life was through. > > I see some family features now: > I have begun to care. > Since Mom is gone, I cannot ask, > "Whose picture is that there?" > > If you have photo's in a book > Without a caption, too. > Go get a pen and label them, > Or you may wonder, "Who?" > > by Mary F. Heisey > > I have found a cousin with an album of family photos which include about > 100 tintypes and we have no idea who these people are. So there is truth > in this poem. > Harold Hooper > >

Listers, thought this might be fitting since I am doing family photo's right now and even sent Joyce some. "Notes on a Family Album" I sit before some photographs of people I don't know. Mom said, "They are your relatives," But that was long ago. She used to get the album out And put me on her knee: Then pointing, with a story line Tell family history. The captions used were all her own, Each time developed new. We never thought to write them down Before her life was through. I see some family features now: I have begun to care. Since Mom is gone, I cannot ask, "Whose picture is that there?" If you have photo's in a book Without a caption, too. Go get a pen and label them, Or you may wonder, "Who?" by Mary F. Heisey I have found a cousin with an album of family photos which include about 100 tintypes and we have no idea who these people are. So there is truth in this poem. Harold Hooper