Denisha, I saw your post and was interested because of the Texarkana and Louisiana connection. My Pace family is mostly from Texarkana and my father Robert Harold Pace is buried there. What little info you have supplied I don't see a connection, but might be able to fill in some when you get the Bible Record. I don't know who the Aunt Vera is, but will watch your posts and try to help you out. A few years ago I believe there was a Wayne Pace who contacted me, but I had a computer crash and lost contact with him. He seemed to be a member of this Pace family, but had a sketchy past and never did find his connection and never heard from him again. Roger M. Pace Shamrock, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denisha" <msmountain@yahoo.com> To: <pace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:19 PM Subject: [PACE] My Pace Family This information is so encouraging! I am going to work on this tonight, but I have a four month old, I work full time and I go to school, but genealogy is my passion. It is hard when you are adopted, even if its your own family. I have always felt a void in my life because I didnt know who my father was, but now that I have met two of his sisters, I am beginning to have a lot of hope. On my mother's side, I know those family members and was able to get information from my grandmother before she passed away but this new information about my father is blowing me away. I also would love to participate in this DNA program. I am in the medical field, so I am very familiar with the different ways DNA works. So I am going to give you the basics on my family history, I don't know how to post it to everyone's email, so if you could do it for me that would be great. Thanks Starting with me, I was born in Los Angeles, CA 1/1/75 to mother Joann Wright and father Wayne (Ellis) Pace. My father apparently did not know he was a pace until right before he died when his father Edwin on his death bed, admitted that he and his sister Edwina (she knew she was a pace, and she is the one that I found last year after never knowing her that provided me all the information, she lives in California and has the bible with all the ancestry in it). So Wayne Pace 9/25/52-4/82, I have his ssn death index and California Birth Index from Ancestry.com. It states he was born in Los Angeles. His father was Edwin Pace 9/21/16-3/12/74, I found his death index and Edwina has a ancestry.com family tree and it shows he was born in Louisiana. She told me that he was born in Texarkana, Arkansas and here is where it gets confusing. I do not know who Aunt Vera is but apparently when the Pace's would not except Edwin as their child, Lottie shortly after his birth and Aunt Vera took Edwin to Louisiana and from there they moved to Los Angeles, where he had my father and then me. Last summer I was only able to spend a few hours with my aunt Edwina who I met for the first time, and when I came she had a lot of things packed in her house because she was painting. One of those things was the bible that she recieved from Aunt Vera about our family history. She is a older woman and has a computer and scanner but does not know how to use it, so my next step is to ask her to go to Kinko's with the bible and have them scan it and fax or send to me in a email. I know the bible is the key, but she possesses it. We talk from time to time and her memory is not all that great, but she keeps documents and even had my father's original license from the 80's when he was alive. That was my first time seeing him and I look just like him and my sister looks just like my mother, he only had us two kids. I know this is A LOT of information, but I am totally willing to give it to find my family history. Since I was a teenager I have always wanted to know my past and when she told me that my great grandfather was irish it threw me for a loop and just created more questions and I just want to know the difference between truth and fiction. Thanks so much for your help! Denisha ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wow Roger, thanks for your input. I did speak to someone who found my grandfather in the 1930 census in Louisiana. I am going to see if I can find that information, but this seems promising. Thanks for the info! Denisha --- On Sat, 3/13/10, Roger M Pace <irishfan@classicnet.net> wrote: From: Roger M Pace <irishfan@classicnet.net> Subject: Re: [PACE] My Pace Family To: pace@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 5:52 PM Denisha,     I saw your post and was interested because of the Texarkana and Louisiana connection. My Pace family is mostly from Texarkana and my father Robert Harold Pace is buried there. What little info you have supplied I don't see a connection, but might be able to fill in some when you get the Bible Record. I don't know who the Aunt Vera is, but will watch your posts and try to help you out. A few years ago I believe there was a Wayne Pace who contacted me, but I had a computer crash and lost contact with him. He seemed to be a member of this Pace family, but had a sketchy past and never did find his connection and never heard from him again. Roger M. Pace Shamrock, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denisha" <msmountain@yahoo.com> To: <pace@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:19 PM Subject: [PACE] My Pace Family This information is so encouraging! I am going to work on this tonight, but I have a four month old, I work full time and I go to school, but genealogy is my passion. It is hard when you are adopted, even if its your own family. I have always felt a void in my life because I didnt know who my father was, but now that I have met two of his sisters, I am beginning to have a lot of hope. On my mother's side, I know those family members and was able to get information from my grandmother before she passed away but this new information about my father is blowing me away. I also would love to participate in this DNA program. I am in the medical field, so I am very familiar with the different ways DNA works. So I am going to give you the basics on my family history, I don't know how to post it to everyone's email, so if you could do it for me that would be great. Thanks Starting with me, I was born in Los Angeles, CA 1/1/75 to mother Joann Wright and father Wayne (Ellis) Pace. My father apparently did not know he was a pace until right before he died when his father Edwin on his death bed, admitted that he and his sister Edwina (she knew she was a pace, and she is the one that I found last year after never knowing her that provided me all the information, she lives in California and has the bible with all the ancestry in it). So Wayne Pace 9/25/52-4/82, I have his ssn death index and California Birth Index from Ancestry.com. It states he was born in Los Angeles. His father was Edwin Pace 9/21/16-3/12/74, I found his death index and Edwina has a ancestry.com family tree and it shows he was born in Louisiana. She told me that he was born in Texarkana, Arkansas and here is where it gets confusing. I do not know who Aunt Vera is but apparently when the Pace's would not except Edwin as their child, Lottie shortly after his birth and Aunt Vera took Edwin to Louisiana and from there they moved to Los Angeles, where he had my father and then me. Last summer I was only able to spend a few hours with my aunt Edwina who I met for the first time, and when I came she had a lot of things packed in her house because she was painting. One of those things was the bible that she recieved from Aunt Vera about our family history. She is a older woman and has a computer and scanner but does not know how to use it, so my next step is to ask her to go to Kinko's with the bible and have them scan it and fax or send to me in a email. I know the bible is the key, but she possesses it. We talk from time to time and her memory is not all that great, but she keeps documents and even had my father's original license from the 80's when he was alive. That was my first time seeing him and I look just like him and my sister looks just like my mother, he only had us two kids. I know this is A LOT of information, but I am totally willing to give it to find my family history. Since I was a teenager I have always wanted to know my past and when she told me that my great grandfather was irish it threw me for a loop and just created more questions and I just want to know the difference between truth and fiction. Thanks so much for your help! Denisha ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message