My neighbor down the street sends a newsletter every year for several years now. Made with this collage of pictures of folks I don't know except for her immediate family. She shares the good and not so good of the past year. I guess I don't really mind getting it. We're not as close as we once were, but at least she remembers me.........Donnie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeannine K Smith" <jks1@ra.msstate.edu> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 6:37 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Bad Christmas Letters > > Snip > I receive a couple of the other kind, my younger sister calls them "My > Life Is So Much Better Than Your Life Christmas Letters." > > > This is too funny! I've never heard them called that but it certainly > describes them! > > Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. > > Jeannine > > > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Srod46@aol.com wrote: > >> Do any of you receive those bad Christmas letters? Each year a friend of >> mine calls and reads me the latest from someone she knows through their >> kids' >> sports. >> >> I thought the woman was just being funny a couple of years, but it is >> still >> the same after three years. It is like a Jerry Springer show. Last year >> she >> had lots of fodder for the letter, on & on about nasty divorce of >> daughter, >> son jobless and not wanting to find a job. >> >> I asked how she was in person and my friend said "Well, when you see her >> at >> the highschool football games, that's pretty much how she is." >> >> I receive a couple of the other kind, my younger sister calls them "My >> Life >> Is So Much Better Than Your Life Christmas Letters." >> >> I also receive neat ones that I really enjoy. Nova >> **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, >> Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. >> (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025) >> ------------------------------- >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sean, So good to hear from a new cousin! I look forward to sharing information with you regarding your PALMERTREE and DOWNS family lines. So, who are your parents? If your surname is Rotkiske, then is Linda L. Palmertree your mother? If so, I only her have married once to an (Unknown) Cummings, with no further information. If you would be willing to fill in some gaps for us on your family line, we sure would appreciate it! Hope to hear from you again soon. Ken From: sean.r@comcast.net [mailto:sean.r@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:16 AM To: palmertree_tree@bellsouth.net Subject: CE Palmertree Greetings, I performed a random search today trying to verify a mailing address for my uncle Edward and came upon your rootsweb Palmertree web page! I can't begin to tell you how stunned I was to see the pictures of Floyd, James and Clarence. Clarence is my Grandfather. He met my grandmother Edna Kehs Palmertree while stationed at Fort Indian Town Gap. My family still lives in Reading and Philadelphia PA. I look forward to a more detailed review of the data in this website. I will also provide you with a detailed list of my grandfathers descendants. I look forward to learning more. I am especially interested in the possible existence of photos of my great grand parents especially Emma Downs Palmertree. Regards, Sean M. Rotkiske

Gang, I got this interesting email from a cousin who accidentally stumbled upon the Palmertree Family History Website. He is the grandson of Robert Lee and Emma Downs Palmertree. (Great-grandson of Thomas Newton and Roxie Gibson Palmertree). Did anyone here determine if we have a photo of Robert Lee Palmertree and/or Emma Downs, or other ancestors of Sean? If so, or if you can point him to another family member who can help him, please reply to him to: sean.r@comcast.net Thanks. Ken From: sean.r@comcast.net [mailto:sean.r@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:16 AM To: palmertree_tree@bellsouth.net Subject: CE Palmertree Greetings, I performed a random search today trying to verify a mailing address for my uncle Edward and came upon your rootsweb Palmertree web page! I can't begin to tell you how stunned I was to see the pictures of Floyd, James and Clarence. Clarence is my Grandfather. He met my grandmother Edna Kehs Palmertree while stationed at Fort Indian Town Gap. My family still lives in Reading and Philadelphia PA. I look forward to a more detailed review of the data in this website. I will also provide you with a detailed list of my grandfathers descendants. I look forward to learning more. I am especially interested in the possible existence of photos of my great grand parents especially Emma Downs Palmertree. Regards, Sean M. Rotkiske

Gang, I've sent this twice today (Dec 22nd), but have not seen it come through yet. So I'm sending it again. I realize it's late, now, but please call and wish them a belated Happy 50th Anniversary. Ken ----------------------------------------------- Gang, Kathy Allen Hall asked me to send this to the list for her. Everyone local that knows Barbara and Sidney, please give them a call and wish them a Happy 50th!! I know they would appreciate being remembered on their special day. Thanks!! Ken Hey Ken, Just wanted you to post this to the mailing list for me. Barbara Varner Allen and Sidney Thomas Allen will be celebrating their 50TH wedding anniversary on Monday, Dec 22nd. Her vision is too bad to use the web anymore so she will not see any messages. If any one of you guys know them and have a spare minute, they would love to have a phone call just to hear Happy Anniversary. Their number is 662-262-9264. Thanks a bunch and MERRY CHRISTMAS Kathy Hall

Do any of you receive those bad Christmas letters? Each year a friend of mine calls and reads me the latest from someone she knows through their kids' sports. I thought the woman was just being funny a couple of years, but it is still the same after three years. It is like a Jerry Springer show. Last year she had lots of fodder for the letter, on & on about nasty divorce of daughter, son jobless and not wanting to find a job. I asked how she was in person and my friend said "Well, when you see her at the highschool football games, that's pretty much how she is." I receive a couple of the other kind, my younger sister calls them "My Life Is So Much Better Than Your Life Christmas Letters." I also receive neat ones that I really enjoy. Nova **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)

While the greetings are going around, Merry Christmas from California. I've actually got 4 days off starting tomorrow, but no big plans. I'll cook as usual and then see who shows to help eat it. Have fun but remember, if you drink, don't drive. We don't want anybody getting banged up or worse. Have a happy and safe Christmas and New Year.........Donnie

Thank you Buckoo!! Being married to this P'tree will make you "Grinch". So you will see what is under tree for him. The same thing I got everyone else on line. It has took me 42 years but I finally done it. A big nothing or 0. If it had not been for the girls I would not have had nothing from him, but he fussed so much, I just told them to forget it. He has the first $ he ever earned. He tells me not to buy so many gro. but when I don't buy "treats" he complaines about that. He fussed at me for buying the "grands" a lot, but he sure enjoyed watching them open the presents from me. To me, Christmas isn't for grown ups, it for the small children. So I've watched Hadley & Bryson open their gifts but 2 from me, & my Christmas is over. I had a good one. Val is coming in Wed. with her 3 dogs, so that is Basil's 3 grands. MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone. Peggy Subject: Re: [PTREE] Merry Christmas from Oklahoma > Nova, > > Glad to have you back online with us, cuz! > > I had been wondering if you had gotten lots of snow yet. Been watching the > weather reports, and boy, are lots of places getting plenty already!! > > No, Peggy hasn't been too "rolicky" for the past several weeks. She's been > rather quiet. I'm about to rename her "the Grinch of Poplar Creek"..... > > Have a great week! > > Ken > > > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Ken, in my first email, my spell checker didn't recognize "rolicky" it offered to change it to all kinds of different things. I still love to use the funny old words my dad and my grandparents used, makes me feel closer to them and also gives my LaJolla, CA. twelve year old grandson something to tease me about. Sometimes I use them on purpose and sometimes they just pop out, he gets such a kick out of repeating them to me on the phone for months afterward. Later, Nova **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)

Nova, Glad to have you back online with us, cuz! I had been wondering if you had gotten lots of snow yet. Been watching the weather reports, and boy, are lots of places getting plenty already!! No, Peggy hasn't been too "rolicky" for the past several weeks. She's been rather quiet. I'm about to rename her "the Grinch of Poplar Creek"..... Have a great week! Ken

Gang, Peggy shared this update on Virginia with me today. She saw Virginia's brother, Carl William Overstreet at a family get-together today and asked him about Virginia, since we haven't heard a peep from her in ages. William said that Virginia has had two major surgeries this year, and is living in a rehabilitation care facility while she recuperates. She plans to go back home to live on her own again as soon as her rehabilitation is complete. I know we all wish her well with regaining her health. Ken

Hello Everyone, We finally found something that would work out here in no man's land. We signed up on Hughes.net and it is working!! Yea!! Our location is just not good for the ones that use signal towers or whatever, well, they would work part of the time but not all of the time and that was really frustrating. I've missed all the fun emails from you guys and hope everyone was doing great. I hope Ken and Peggy didn't get too rolicky. Don't know how to spell that but that's a word my Grandma Mary Ann would use when kids would get into a 'spirited discussion". I'm way behind this Christmas and don't know if I will get it all done. I'm now thinking about what I have to do and not everything I always just do. If that makes any sense to you. We've not had any snow at our place but there have been reports of scattered snow over the northern parts of the state. We saw on TV how bad it's been in some places. I feel for them. Later, Nova **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)

Gang, I have just uploaded a new photo to the Canon Family Photo Page, courtesy of O.D. McElroy. Thanks for sharing, O.D.! As always, to go to the Canon Photo Page, click here: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palmrtre/genphcan.htm Ken

The way my mind is working, I could have forgot her name. > > Yes, that is Jo Ann at French Camp. > > > > > Jeannine Kirkpatrick Smith > > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, peggy palmertree wrote: > > > Is that Jo Ann or anyway your sister that works at French Camp? > > > >> > >> Some of us haven't left work! > >> > >> I hope to try to do some research over the break and I'm trying to talk my > >> sister to go cemetery hunting with me over the holidays. Unfortunately, > >> she didn't get the gene that sees looking for abandonded cemeteries as > >> 'fun' > >> > >> Jeannine > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Don Grice wrote: > >> > >>> Hey, the line is so quiet today. Did everybody decide to get jobs and > > go > >>> back to work? > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >>> > >> ------------------------------- > >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Ken Jackson would like to recall the message, "Happy Anniversary!".

Gang, Join me in wishing Joseph and Christina Glisson happy anniversary on their 24th wedding anniversary! Hope you have many more happy years together! Ken and Gang

And also, a belated Happy Birthday to our own Christina Jean Gibson Glisson, born 11 December. Hope you had a great day, Christina! Ken and Gang

I haven't been keeping up with birthdays and anniversaries this month, so have to send some belated birthday greetings: Gloria Ann Overstreet Walden Cain 6 December Happy Birthday, Gloria. Even though you are not a part of our list, you do help us out with info occasionally. Ken and Gang

Well it sounds like you all had a great time there.. I have been thru there a couple of times but it was always on my way to Vietnam or the P.I. never got to stay except overnight one time, thanks to Pan Am, they had a lay over, got to walk the beach and see the sites... I played Golf today in Shorts, it was 82 here in Ga. 18 Dec 2008 another record for this week and this time of year.... Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Grice" <donald_grice@comcast.net> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha > Hey Ed............no real tan, maybe a little color. Didn't go in the > ocean > but Retha and Steve did. It's winter there too! The hot tub was nice! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Brown" <ebrown7137@bellsouth.net> > To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:47 AM > Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha > > >> Well are you all tan, and a surfing nut too!!! >> >> Ed >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Grice" <donald_grice@comcast.net> >> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:39 PM >> Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha >> >> >>> Aloha everybody...........I made it home from Hawaii late last night. >>> Had >>> 3 >>> nights on Oahu and 6 on Maui. Nice time over there. Went from 80s >>> there >>> to >>> 30s here...................Donnie >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >>> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, that is Jo Ann at French Camp. Jeannine Kirkpatrick Smith On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, peggy palmertree wrote: > Is that Jo Ann or anyway your sister that works at French Camp? > >> >> Some of us haven't left work! >> >> I hope to try to do some research over the break and I'm trying to talk my >> sister to go cemetery hunting with me over the holidays. Unfortunately, >> she didn't get the gene that sees looking for abandonded cemeteries as >> 'fun' >> >> Jeannine >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Don Grice wrote: >> >>> Hey, the line is so quiet today. Did everybody decide to get jobs and > go >>> back to work? >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> ------------------------------- >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

It got warm here in Miss. today. It was nice to sit on the back porch. But Sat. night or Sun. night it is go get down in the upper 20's. Hope no one gets sick from all the weather chancing. PP > Well it sounds like you all had a great time there.. I have been thru there > a couple of times but it was always on my way to Vietnam or the P.I. never > got to stay except overnight one time, thanks to Pan Am, they had a lay > over, got to walk the beach and see the sites... > > I played Golf today in Shorts, it was 82 here in Ga. 18 Dec 2008 another > record for this week and this time of year.... > > Ed > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Grice" <donald_grice@comcast.net> > To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:19 AM > Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha > > > > Hey Ed............no real tan, maybe a little color. Didn't go in the > > ocean > > but Retha and Steve did. It's winter there too! The hot tub was nice! > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ed Brown" <ebrown7137@bellsouth.net> > > To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:47 AM > > Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha > > > > > >> Well are you all tan, and a surfing nut too!!! > >> > >> Ed > >> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Don Grice" <donald_grice@comcast.net> > >> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:39 PM > >> Subject: Re: [PTREE] Aloha > >> > >> > >>> Aloha everybody...........I made it home from Hawaii late last night. > >>> Had > >>> 3 > >>> nights on Oahu and 6 on Maui. Nice time over there. Went from 80s > >>> there > >>> to > >>> 30s here...................Donnie > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > >>> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message