Dear Joan (and all list members): Thanks so much for your enthusiasm. As of this moment, we have 52 members on this list....wait, make that 53...we just received a new subscriber. Soon, we will also have a RAYNOR Family Web Site to which we can submit & exchange information. The web sit will have, among many other features, a "biographical" section where people can send biographical information as well as photos (this is very much encouraged) and they will be displayed on the web site. I will send this URL soon :-) so you can all see what we have in mind. If any of you would like to submit biographical information and/or photos of the RAYNOR family or places where they have lived, please contact me and we will discuss the best way to display your information on the web site. In the meantime, thanks to all of you who are contributing to our search for information about this most distinguished family. Karima RAYNOR-L List Administrator crystalwoman wrote: > > We are so excited to see a RAYNOR/RAYNER list.....I found the most help on > the rootsweb. com maillists. I have found many good connections on other > surnames through the sharing of data online like this, even just through the > state, county lists. So, best to luck to us all on this new surname > list....I know there will be many successes through it. > > My husband is Harold Paul RAYNER, and to this day, people always write > RAYNOR on records or checks we get for him. > > His line, as I had said earlier, came from Eng ca.1850 and the 4 bros came > to US looking for gold. His direct line did get to CA by ship going around > the Cape Horn, according to years of oral history told. > I did find 4 bros had been in Philadelphia for their citizenship, so just > wonder if it were them, and they moved on from there to their determine > destinations. As they would have had to take a ship to an East Coast city > like NYC or Philadelphia, then they could have applied there, and then went > on. And maybe the 2 bros who ended up in Canada even just left from there, > or took a wagon west, etc. But the other 2 I do find some data on in CA. > It is a matter now to figure out what my husbands g g grandfathers name was. > His g grandfather was Jonathan Lambert RAYNER, b.ca.1861 Eng. who m.ca.1886 > CA to Sara Emma LOCKART whose family had come from PA to MO and got on a > wagon train to CA in 1850+. They live and have their family, including my > husband's grandfather in the Sonoma Co area of CA. Then going to AZ to > homestead in 1914. > > Happy Trails, Joan in MT > > Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: > http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Sug4725@aol.com> > To: <RAYNOR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 6:33 AM > Subject: Re: [RAYNOR] Researching Rayner from Cambridge England > > > Interesting and I am a Rayner. So happy to see a Rayner on the Raynor > list. > > Where did your Rayner's settle in the US? Thank you, Elaine Rayner. > > > > > > ==== RAYNOR Mailing List ==== > > For information on subscribing, unsubscribing, rules, etc. Please visit > the following URL: > > http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/RaynorListWelcome.htm > > > > ============================== > > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > ==== RAYNOR Mailing List ==== > For information on subscribing, unsubscribing, rules, etc. Please visit the following URL: > http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/RaynorListWelcome.htm > > ============================== > FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! > Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi