Hi everyone, My name is Eva Dayle Zippay and I've lived in Tallahassee Florida for the past 20 years. I was born in Charleroi (Charleroi-Monessen Hospital to be exact), graduated from CAHS, then moved all the way to Pittsburgh to go to nursing school. (My first nursing job as an R.N. was at Charleroi-Monessen Hospital, as a matter of fact.) We lived in the Mon Valley area until 1973 when we moved to Wheeling, W.Va.--but I could still see a river daily :) Then, as I said, we moved to Florida in 1980--no rivers :( I took early, early, early retirement from nursing (Obstetrics) nearly 3 years ago, and now I stay busy by keeping 2 grandchildren--14 months and 17 1/2 months--during the day while their parents work. (Good thing I quit working!) That doesn't give me as much time as I would like to work on genealogy, and most of my postings are done late at night when I am very tired, so excuse the obvious mistakes, please. I'm so happy that Mike has started this list, as I had begun thinking recently that there was a real need for it. It just seems that the people who settled on the river were "different" somehow. In my family they settled on the river at about 1810--maybe earlier--and didn't move away. Some of my line are still there. I guess you can say I'm a real "Valley Girl"--excuse the bad joke, I couldn't resist. The main lines I'm researching are Hamilton, Hagerty, Cope, Parker, Conaway, Gardner, Geho, Gamble/Gamielle, Call, Minor, Sisley, Kobala, Deeb, and Nedrash. I also have an interest in Crow, McCormick, Hall, Shepherd, Foster, Furlong, Spengler, Zippay, Thiry, and Flesch. I hope this list takes off and flies! I have lots to post also--just waiting for some directions from Mike about posting to the rootsweb site as well as to the list. Nice to meet you all. Eva ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com