Can anyone suggest a bookstore, new or used, that specializes in genealogical books. At one time there was a Goodspeed's in Boston but I can't find them now. I love this genealogy. Cookie, in Florida

I would like information on Alexander Sander McKenzie and Elizabeth Burton Arnett (or Arnold) in Rowan County. Thanks, Virginia McKenzie

To be honest, my idea was similar to what Barney proposed, i.e., I would get a couple of dozen requests which would allow me to format a database, then send the surnames, years, and requestors to the list. As all of you may have noticed, there were more than a couple of dozen...my apologies for that, I should have had the requests sent directly to me...live and learn. Anyway, this gotten to be too large a project with just answering the queries and doing some snooping on the side regarding relationships to be able to duplicate my efforts by establishing a database. Again, though, I urge all who can to purchase something from GPC (Holcomb or maybe a Maryland-Talbot or Prince George County book?, hint, hint!) to show appreciation for their allowing these responses to be put on the list (I am not trying to be a shill). I will emphasize though that the secondary source quoted is nothing but a tripwire that information is there! For posterity, primary sources should be the goal for thorough research. I am really enjoying communicating with the descendents of my ancestor's neighbors. Billy P.S. I haven't gotten a bit better at typing, 4 letters forward, 2 back except on the words "bondsman" and "wit." LOL!

Marjorie, I did not find anything regarding the families and the spellings mentioned in the subject. Not to say that the marriage did not occur in Rowan or Surry Counties, they just are not listed in Holcomb's list of marriage bonds. Billy P.S. In case anyone is wondering, when I read this the Rowan book was already turned to the "B" section, that is why I jumped this request up.

Barbara, from what I have seen in doing MY look-ups, is that BOULWARE is the name you are looking for. Each of the variants including BOYER can be traced to the BOULWARE family. GENFORUM even has a BOULWARE list if you wish to read over it. Any questions regarding what I know and the MARKLAND relationship (Joanna, my grandmother 6 times ago roughly) may be sent to me or preferably to the list (greater benefit for the greater good, etc). Billy

I would like to request a look-up for my Craiglow ancestors: William Craiglow, before 1800 Leonard Craiglow, before 1800 Christian Craiglow, around 1800 Peter Miller, married Hannah, before 1800 Thanks very much, Betty Craiglow

Above subject White: Please contact us, we are NOLAND researchers of Rowan Cty NC. John Carr

John Carr is closely tied to ERVIN family later in KY and IN> John Carr

No, No, No, Barney. I read each and every answer looking for surnames of my husband's family. If the replies were private, I would never know about them. Many surnames are in the witnesses and bondsmen. Audrey Barney Barnhardt wrote:Now a suggestion!! How about posting the actual response to the look up to > the requestor privately with just a tally of the names looked up along with > the requestor's name and email address posted as a periodic posting. That > way, that would only be one or two messages a day to look over instead of > the quantity that are here now. Then if someone was interested in a > particular name, the person could contact the requestor directly since both > have the interest in the name. I know the first thing someone is going to > say is 'the person doing the looking up has enough to do already. Folks, if > that person is willing to expend the time and energy that he is now, a > little bit more isn't going to make all that much difference and it sure > would help. > > Thanks to all for your time!!! > > Barney > > >If people aren't posting lookups and other information to the list, but > >doing it privately, then what is the purpose of the list? > > > >Jean K. > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > Please consider joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > Cooperative? > http://www.rootsweb.com/

If you do have college graduates in your family, check with the colleges they graduated from. Many colleges, especially older ones, have archives. All colleges have alumni offices. The only problem I've run into so far -- and this is the first time I've contacted a college about a (deceased) family member -- is that this particular college doesn't have an archives, but the alumni office, to whom my request was referred, isn't interested in answering a mailed-in request. I do know Wofford (Spartanburg, SC) and UNC-Greensboro have archives, but I haven't requested anything from either yet on my people who are graduates. Elizabeth Whitaker

Am searching for any info. on my great-great grandparents. Vinecy or Vincy Morrow, b. 1815 in Rowan County. John (no initial) Davis, b. 1809 in No. Carolina, town or county unknown. Path: No. Carolina, Illinois, Iowa.

Fortunately for me, I have access to Holcomb's *Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina* and I have copied pages pertinent to my family lines. I don't have to read any of the generous look-ups because I have my information. However: Just now, I saw a single response to a look-up which included my McKnight family, and I sent out two e-mails to possible McKnight cousins. Not only that, in looking at the Jarvis homepage, I discovered a shot in the dark possible connection to my elusive Bouger/Boyer/Boughher family. My pointer stays on the Delete button. But I look at every message because I never know when I will find something in the look-ups that might help me in my family research, no matter how far-fetched. It's like "I shot an arrow in the sky. . . ." Ever positive, Barbara Scott Wyche robertw@worldnet.att.net

Another thing that everyone is forgetting is that all of these messages are archived. If the response was sent privately it wouldn't help someone a year from now looking thru the archives of this list for information on their lines. So lets be grateful that someone takes the time to help us on the list today and the researchers in the further who will be looking the information that many of you are tired of getting. If any one has any thing to say about this please e-mail me NOT THE LIST because it will take up valuable space in the archives.......Becky

>Now a suggestion!! How about posting the actual response to the look up to >the requestor privately with just a tally of the names looked up along with >the requestor's name and email address posted as a periodic posting. That >way, that would only be one or two messages a day to look over instead of >the quantity that are here now. Then if someone was interested in a I would prefer to see the whole response posted to the list, for the reason that this list is archived by RootsWeb. Someone who isn't subscribed to ROWANROOTS now will still be able to find these entries in the future, through a very easy search of the archives. If we only list the names that were checked, without the full entry, that future researcher is going to come up dry, and by that time might not be able to contact the original submitters if e-mail addresses change. We have a wonderful situation here - Billy Markland has permission from Brent Holcomb and GPC to put these on the list for us and has been *very* generous in volunteering the time to do the lookups. Let's make them available for now and for the future as well. Elizabeth Harris state coordinator, NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/

Hi Russell, I have Boone, Bradley then Gibson...... Margie ----- Original Message ----- From: Russell D. James <neri@dmea.net> To: <ROWANROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 9:35 PM Subject: My surnames. Anyone related? > Ok, I'm going to attach a little Word document I've created that lists > those in the James family I know about so far. I've only been at this > genealogy thing for a month and only actively for a week and a half. So I > still am not sure what a gedcom or gencom or whatever it is called is or > how to make one. But I have succeeded in downloading a genealogy program > that I think I will like (I did not like the others)--Brother's Keeper. > > I also want to ask if anyone on this list has anyone in their families THIS > century with the following last names: > > James, Davis, Wild, Boone, Gibson. > > If so, please let me know. Also, does anyone have a George James that was > NOT married to a woman with the last name Davis--that would help me > eliminate George James' from the list of over 100 I have that were born in > NC, SC, or TN, in the last quarter of the 19th century. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Russell D. James > Delta, CO > neri@dmea.net > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To contact the owner, send email to jdcoates@aa.net (John Coates) >

I have already commented on this, and just would like to add one more thing: About two weeks ago I offered to do look-ups (on another list), and I sent the results privately for one day...then I realized I was getting requests for the same names from other subscribers than the first look-up was for. I could have saved myself some time and perhaps helped others by putting them on the list. After the first day I posted them on the list, and several (actually 5, I think) people wrote to comment that they had benefitted from them even though they didn't request it, and they had made contact with fellow researchers they had not found before. I did the look-ups for three more days while I had the material at home, and posted on the list. I believe it better served a greater number of subscribers. I can't believe any of us subscribe thinking we will benefit from every posting. I get about 300 e-mails per day, and I have never thought it took too much time to delete the 90-95% that are not my interests. It's so easy to wish the best for others---as we sow..... Doris MoonsWish2@aol.com wrote: > > <<If on the other hand, success is figured as making pertinent family > contacts, etc. then I have to have some doubt if all this traffic has > brought about all that much success.>> > Why can't you simply delete any of the emails involving looks-ups unless you, > yourself have requested information. Can't possibly take more than a couple > of seconds at the most, and I believe that sharing the look ups publicly can > be valuable to many people on the list. > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > Please do not post WARNINGs of any kind on this list. There are no exceptions!

This was addressed by the list manager several days ago. It is genealogy, it is helpful to many. Doris Barney Barnhardt wrote: > > Making the contact in the first place is a pretty good purpose. I'm kind of > on the fence on this "look up thing" that's been going on. While on the one > hand information is nice to get, I question whether or not the majority of > subscribers to the list have the time to "sift through" such a large > quantity of messages as this "looking up" has brought about to "maybe" find > "someone". There has to be a "happy medium" to this situation. Do I think > the person doing all of these look ups has expended a lot of time and energy > doing it??? Most certainly!! Is he being helpful?? Absolutely!! Has the > greatly increased traffic gotten to be a bit much to some people??? I > expect so!! If one counts their genealogical success from the number of > messages they read, then a lot of people on this list have really been > successful lately for the number of messages has really skyrocketed lately. > If on the other hand, success is figured as making pertinent family > contacts, etc. then I have to have some doubt if all this traffic has > brought about all that much success. > > Now a suggestion!! How about posting the actual response to the look up to > the requestor privately with just a tally of the names looked up along with > the requestor's name and email address posted as a periodic posting. That > way, that would only be one or two messages a day to look over instead of > the quantity that are here now. Then if someone was interested in a > particular name, the person could contact the requestor directly since both > have the interest in the name. I know the first thing someone is going to > say is 'the person doing the looking up has enough to do already. Folks, if > that person is willing to expend the time and energy that he is now, a > little bit more isn't going to make all that much difference and it sure > would help. > > Thanks to all for your time!!! > > Barney > > >If people aren't posting lookups and other information to the list, but > >doing it privately, then what is the purpose of the list? > > > >Jean K. > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > Please consider joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > Cooperative? > ������ http://www.rootsweb.com/

We have several tens of thousands of Davidson, Rowan, Forsyth, Iredell, Guilford, Gaston, Catawba, and Lincoln county names in our database such as Clodfelter, Leonard, Rhyne, Sprecher, Shoaf, Sink, Hinkle, Meyer, Myers, Troutman, Berrier, Koontz, Stroup, Hoyle, Cloninger, Best, Carpenter, Rudisill, Pasour, Hoffman, Hovis, Lineberger, Froneberger, Livengood, Wagoner, Grimes, Harmon, Nifong, McCrary, Bowers, and more. The database is online at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~padutch/familyhart/ Thanks! Don & Jeanine

>From another researcher, GenFoster@aol.com I received this. Roger Lee McKnight, b. November 8, 1767, Rowan County, d. September 26, 1851, Orleans, Orange County, Indiana, m. Lydia Elrod, August 26, 1790, Rowan County, m. Sarah Haynes, January 15, 1845, Orange County, Indiana Virginia wtsongwriter@geocities.com MT PLEASANT CEMETERY AT TANGLEWOOD, Forsyth Co NC http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/1166/mtplea/mtplea.htm GRANNY'S GENEALOGY PAGE http://www.geocities.com/nashville/opry/1166/ FLESHER HOMEPAGE http://www.public.usit.net/gflesher SONGWRITING http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Opry/7077/

Making the contact in the first place is a pretty good purpose. I'm kind of on the fence on this "look up thing" that's been going on. While on the one hand information is nice to get, I question whether or not the majority of subscribers to the list have the time to "sift through" such a large quantity of messages as this "looking up" has brought about to "maybe" find "someone". There has to be a "happy medium" to this situation. Do I think the person doing all of these look ups has expended a lot of time and energy doing it??? Most certainly!! Is he being helpful?? Absolutely!! Has the greatly increased traffic gotten to be a bit much to some people??? I expect so!! If one counts their genealogical success from the number of messages they read, then a lot of people on this list have really been successful lately for the number of messages has really skyrocketed lately. If on the other hand, success is figured as making pertinent family contacts, etc. then I have to have some doubt if all this traffic has brought about all that much success. Now a suggestion!! How about posting the actual response to the look up to the requestor privately with just a tally of the names looked up along with the requestor's name and email address posted as a periodic posting. That way, that would only be one or two messages a day to look over instead of the quantity that are here now. Then if someone was interested in a particular name, the person could contact the requestor directly since both have the interest in the name. I know the first thing someone is going to say is 'the person doing the looking up has enough to do already. Folks, if that person is willing to expend the time and energy that he is now, a little bit more isn't going to make all that much difference and it sure would help. Thanks to all for your time!!! Barney >If people aren't posting lookups and other information to the list, but >doing it privately, then what is the purpose of the list? > >Jean K.