A friend mentioned this to me & I thought the below appeal would be of interest to some of you who may have had ancestors who were early settlers in east Georgia. Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com) and Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) have been working hard the last few years editing, researching, and indexing 150+ family sketches that have been sent in for publication in "East Georgia Settlers." They need more articles. Each sketch/article should be regarding one family group who moved to one of the EGGS counties from some other area. If you have any questions, or want to see a sample sketch/article, email either of these ladies with EGGS: Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) or Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com) EGGS counties are: Banks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Hart, Jackson, Jasper, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Rockdale, Stephens, Taliaferro, Walton, Warren and Wilkes. The EGGS has a website you may wish to see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaeggs/ One does not have to be a member of EGGS (East Georgia Genealogical Society) to enter a sketch/article. Again, for more info, or questions, or if you want to see a sample sketch/article, email either of these ladies with EGGS: Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) or Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com)

Interesting that "their ground" is really NORTH-East Georgia inasmuch as it excludes Screven & Burke, both of which are dead in the middle of Georgia latitude and about as far east as you can get....if one swims the next 150 yards east from Burke or Screven (the Savannah R. in theory belongs to GA) he or she is then out of GA and I'm reckoning that's about as far east as one can get. <g> Whatever, they're paying the dues, they can call their tune. I will be following their webpage though....they include Greene County to which (I'm trying to convince myself) a Francis Poythress immigrated independent of (and likely before)the Thomas crowd that went to Burke. I'm also inclined to think that the Hardiman Poythress fellow who shows up only once witnessing a Greene deed or something is his brother or perhaps son. And George himself fiddled around with some real estate in Wilkes County when he got his hands on his rich new wife's money. Thanks for keeping us posted, Barb. Maynard -----Original Message----- From: Barbara P. Neal [mailto:bp_neal@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:24 PM To: POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Write-ups sought for East Georgia settlers A friend mentioned this to me & I thought the below appeal would be of interest to some of you who may have had ancestors who were early settlers in east Georgia. Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com) and Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) have been working hard the last few years editing, researching, and indexing 150+ family sketches that have been sent in for publication in "East Georgia Settlers." They need more articles. Each sketch/article should be regarding one family group who moved to one of the EGGS counties from some other area. If you have any questions, or want to see a sample sketch/article, email either of these ladies with EGGS: Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) or Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com) EGGS counties are: Banks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Glascock, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Hart, Jackson, Jasper, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Rockdale, Stephens, Taliaferro, Walton, Warren and Wilkes. The EGGS has a website you may wish to see: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaeggs/ One does not have to be a member of EGGS (East Georgia Genealogical Society) to enter a sketch/article. Again, for more info, or questions, or if you want to see a sample sketch/article, email either of these ladies with EGGS: Patsy Harris (patsydudney@yahoo.com) or Faye Poss (fayeposs@aol.com) ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Visit www.poythress.net o learn more about Rootsweb please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/