Mary, Good grief! I never knew I had that. Don't know how to use it, but I can experiment. Sharon

I don't know about the rest of you, but I already have a magnifier on my computer... I have Win98... go to start>programs>accessories>accessibility>magnifier and you should be in business... Mary At 02:44 PM 5/7/03 -0500, jcreechok wrote: >Tried to download . Got this message >"Downloaded file can not be saved. error: The parameter is incorrect" > > >==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >HOW TO CONTACT THE LIST ADMIN: >please click here and send: >mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi, I cannot get to the 'accessibility' part on either win98 or XP. Any help there? Thanks. Maxine Yayanb@aol.com wrote: >Well, guess what! I do have a magnifier - following Mary's instructions - >Start, Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Magnifier. I have Windows ME- - >- - BUT - - - the magnifier window appears on my desktop, and a one-inch >magnified strip of the magnifier window appears all the way across the top of > my desktop!!! I'll need to work on that to see if I can find out how to >use it. > >Noelie > > >==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: >please click here and send: >mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Lillian, We live in Wabash Co. and are about ten miles North of the county seat ,Wabash. This makes us about 60 miles south east of South Bend. Are you from there? Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "lillian chastain" <willow358@cox.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Hello Dorothy > Dorothy, do you happen to be from anywhere near South Bend?,,,,,,,,,,,lillian > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > To find SURNAME LISTS: > http://lists.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

In a message dated 5/7/03 7:04:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > ldgaff@kconline.com I am in the same boat and isn't it horribly frustrating!!!! EHeinmil@AOL.com

Tried to download . Got this message "Downloaded file can not be saved. error: The parameter is incorrect"

{ SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1}I just posted some segments of problems I've encountered while researching my Dad's side of the family and thought perhaps the following might be of interest. This happened while working on my Mom's side of the family. My Mom's only sister lived until she was 90 yrs. old. A no. of yrs. ago she told me about a strange happening. My mother and she were born in Iowa and one time in the 1960's my aunt went back to visit. They were talking with some people who were then living in the home where both my mother and aunt were born. The couple in the home told them about a weird thing that had recently happened. They said one evening, for no apparent reason, a rafter in the ceiling in their living room gave away and out toppled a tombstone. It was complete and intact and looked as though it'd never been put on a gravesite. If it had, it hadn't been there long as it was not weathered. The engraving was clear and clean. No one seemed to know who's grave marker it was, nor why it was in the attic. It was the gravestone of a young child. My aunt, after telling me this, asked if I had ever heard of such a thing in my research. I hadn't. Several years later, I read an article in an Iowa publication about a family living on this same farm. They were preparing to build a shed and were tearing down an old building. When they tore out the floor boards, they found a grave stone half embedded in the dirt. They contacted authorities and were told it was probably a gravesite of someone who had died along the Mormon trail, which traversed the area years ago. Engraved on the stone was the name John B. son of D. B. and M. Anderson, died July 15, 1864, aged one year, 10 months, six days. Also included was the inscription, "Sweet little innocent that never transgressed has gone to everlasting rest". The authorities said that many of the solitary graves were those of early pioneers. It was not uncommon for individuals traveling through Iowa to bury other individuals along the trail when they died. When we were in Iowa we found a lady who's uncle had owned my mom and aunt's former home. We were visiting her one day, telling her about the tombstone and to my surprise, she said she had it. She said her uncle and a neighbor had had cattle and they let them run in the wooded area of the farm. One day her uncle brought the gravestone to one of the sheds for safekeeping as he was afraid the cattle would trample it where it was located in the woods. She said she thought probably the old stone had laid on the rotting floorboards of the shed and had slipped thru to the earth, where it eventually became covered with a layer of dirt. After the lady's uncle died, she came into possession of the tombstone. How the gravestone ever came to be put in the attic, or how or why it ended up under the floor of the old shed is a mystery. Even more so, who was the Anderson child? Was he a member of a Mormon family migrating westward in the 1860's and perhaps stopped for awhile on my grandfather's farm? No one living today has come up with a clue. The gravestone was remarkably clear and clean, giving no appearance that it had ever been set on a grave. juanita

Accessability is one of the components that you can add or remove -- double click on the add/remove programs section of the control panel and then the add/remove windows components section. Place a checkmark in the accessability option and go from there -- be aware that you may have to have the Windows CD to make the installation. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: maxine [mailto:genbug@olypen.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:11 PM To: ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] RE:Magnifier Hi, I cannot get to the 'accessibility' part on either win98 or XP. Any help there? Thanks. Maxine Yayanb@aol.com wrote: >Well, guess what! I do have a magnifier - following Mary's instructions - >Start, Programs, Accessories, Accessibility, Magnifier. I have Windows ME- - >- - BUT - - - the magnifier window appears on my desktop, and a one-inch >magnified strip of the magnifier window appears all the way across the top of > my desktop!!! I'll need to work on that to see if I can find out how to >use it. > >Noelie > > >==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: >please click here and send: >mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== To post your SURNAMES ON MESSAGE BOARDS: http://boards.ancestry.com/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have found valuable information from S.S. records. They are not cheap to order, but sometimes the information is priceless. Helen- Hudson River Valley, N.Y.

I downloaded the magnifying glass, and when I clicked on it to open it, all I got was a bunch of garbled words. I use an iMac. Could it be that it is only for pc's? Thanks, Lola in Iowa

Dear List, I am another lurker and am enjoying the list. I have a big brick wall and would like to see if anyone can help. My grandmother was Ruby Margaret Young, born abt. 1898. At around 8 or 9 she was left in an orphanage in Texas along with a brother Dewey Young and possibly another brother John Young. She always said that her father was a full blooded Paiute Indian that went by the name of Paiute Young. I believe her mother's name was Margaret Bailey. According to my Grandmother they were headed west from possibly North Carolina and ran on hard times and the children were placed in an orphanage with the promise that the parents would return for them. Of course they didn't. We believe the orphanage was the Juliet Fowler Orphanage in Dallas, TX and all of the records were destroyed in a fire. We also believe that John Young may have been adopted. Dewey Young lived in Dallas and Houston and my grandmother was in contact with him until her death in 1977. I believe Dewey died on July 3, 1980. I know the Paiute tribe was in Utah and have wondered if the name Young came from the LDS church and Brigham Young. Next question would be why did Paiute Young go east, if family stories are true, marry and then head back to the West? I do know that when my Grandmother applied for her social security she received a birth certificate from Texas stating that her birth date was December 8, 1898 although we had always celebrated her birthday as March 2. Not sure where birth certificate came from or where it is today. I am sending for my Great Uncle Dewey Young's Social Security information but I am wondering if anyone out there has any other suggestions. All help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Linda Braden Gray Mishawaka, IN. PS: Also researching Braden, Self, Gray, Rogers, Rector, Brennan, Aldesperger, Fox, Kiefer, Schlarb surnames in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.

Hello, Rosemary where do u write for the records in Illinois? Hazel

Rosemary, how wonderful of you to do this for me ! I am so grateful to you ! I will follow up on all your suggestions. Opal ----- Original Message ----- From: <RTooey@aol.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:05 AM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] VA for vets > Dear Opal, I searched ancestry.com for Anthony Finch and found him on two > census records 1850 and 1860. Couldn't read the imagine but am copying the > 1850 census: > FINCH, ANTHONY > State: VA Year: 1850 > County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > Township: No Township Listed Page: 091 > Database: VA 1850 Federal Census Index > FINCH, ANTHONY > State: VA Year: 1860 > County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > Township: Rocky Mount P.O. Page: 277 > Database: VA 1860 Federal Census Index > > Found a record of his marriage to Elizabeth F. Jenkins, Aug 1, 1842, sur > Henry Jenkins in the Franklin ,Co. marriages 1786-1890 page 87 . > You should write to the VA Archives and request a copy of his war record > which should give his date of birth, records of his service, etc. Couldn't > find a record of a penion paid to his widow,, but if a pension was requested > there should be a record of it in the Virginia Ac=rchives. > > Also found an Anthony Finch listed in 1827,8,9,&30 in the Boston Directories > but no other information. I am not sure if this your ancestor but it came up > in the search at Ancestry.com. You might want to do some research in > Franklin Co. at Rocky Mount for occupation, no.of children in the household , > etc. You have the page number on the census so should be able to get a copy > of the full census page and then you could check out newspapers or churches > that he might have attended. > > Hope this helps a little > > Rosemary. > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > To post your SURNAMES ON MESSAGE BOARDS: > http://boards.ancestry.com/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Isn't wonderful to see this site becoming so active- hope many more lurkers come out of hiding! Ruth

Thank you, Rosemary, for your kind remarks. I have looked for some of my family in the St. Louis area also. My gr grandmother, Clara Hampton, was a daughter of a George Stidger of Ohio. They lived in Meigs Co. OH where George died in 1875. I found a Roland Stidger in this same place and lost him after about 1850 in the Ohio records. I suspect Roland and George were probably brothers - they were born 1818 and 1823. I've not found who their parents were, but according to census records, they were all born in Ohio. Browsing the St. Louis records one day I came across a Lucinda Stidger living there. The 1890 Missouri census said she was the widow of a Roland Stidger. I know Roland married Lucinda Hysell in 1844 in OH. I'm pretty sure this is the same Roland Stidger who was in Ohio. Cemetery records of Belle Fontaine Cemetery indicate he died in St. Louis in Dec 1862. Do you happen to know of any obituaries or places in St. Louis records I might check to see if I can find anything further on the Stidger name there? I've tried to follow up on any Stidger as my Clara Hampton may have lived with one of them after she became a widow. Thanks. juanita > Juanita, have read your saga of your search for your family and I > am impressed. I have been working on my family history for about > 18 years and know how much work goes into research, especially > before the computer and online resourses. You will find your > Clara Hampton I am sure and wish you all the luck in the world. > > Rosemary in St. Louis > > ______________________________

Opal, when I said VA archives, I meant Virginia State Archives for both the military records and pension records. I have had no trouble getting Missouri and Illinois war records for members of my family from World 1 and !! and Civil war service records and pension records. Our records are online now but have received them by mail in the past. Also in researching in some communities found that most churches have bi-centennial brochures and list members and events of the past. Rosemary

Dear Opal, I searched ancestry.com for Anthony Finch and found him on two census records 1850 and 1860. Couldn't read the imagine but am copying the 1850 census: FINCH, ANTHONY   State: VA Year: 1850   County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule   Township: No Township Listed Page: 091   Database: VA 1850 Federal Census Index FINCH, ANTHONY   State: VA Year: 1860   County: Franklin County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule   Township: Rocky Mount P.O. Page: 277   Database: VA 1860 Federal Census Index Found a record of his marriage to Elizabeth F. Jenkins, Aug 1, 1842, sur Henry Jenkins in the Franklin ,Co. marriages 1786-1890 page 87 . You should write to the VA Archives and request a copy of his war record which should give his date of birth, records of his service, etc. Couldn't find a record of a penion paid to his widow,, but if a pension was requested there should be a record of it in the Virginia Ac=rchives. Also found an Anthony Finch listed in 1827,8,9,&30 in the Boston Directories but no other information. I am not sure if this your ancestor but it came up in the search at Ancestry.com. You might want to do some research in Franklin Co. at Rocky Mount for occupation, no.of children in the household , etc. You have the page number on the census so should be able to get a copy of the full census page and then you could check out newspapers or churches that he might have attended. Hope this helps a little Rosemary.

Lois, Thank you for your suggestions on the Franklin County records. Ancestry.com is good for marriages up to 1876 in St. Louis but will have to visit the library for early Franklin Conty records. Rosemary in St. Louis.

Juanita, have read your saga of your search for your family and I am impressed. I have been working on my family history for about 18 years and know how much work goes into research, especially before the computer and online resourses. You will find your Clara Hampton I am sure and wish you all the luck in the world. Rosemary in St. Louis