Candace Thank you for the website, I will check it out. My local LDS Center is almost non existent. I went there a few years ago and they barely had anything. Maybe it's time to go back again. When I was in Oregon once I was able to find the census records for a different family, started the process of getting some other records and got sidetracked on another family. It is never ending. Thanks again for the site. Jan In a message dated 7/21/2007 12:26:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tealtree@comcast.net writes: Jan, I too live across the country in the state of Oregon, and have obtained the old newspapers on microfilm through the University of South Carolina (in Columbia, S.C.) for the Abbeville Co. SC area. Any other old records for this area, I have to order on microfilm through the local LDS family history center. This website which has online record transcriptions might be helpful to you, if you have not already found and looked at it: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/archives/search/default.asp Otherwise, I know what you mean, our libraries here on the west coast have very little, generally, on the southern states. Best wishes and luck in further research on your southern families. Candace in Oregon From: <Janabears@aol.com> To: <scabbevi@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [SCABBEVI] old newspapers > > Thank you so much Candace for posting the old newspapers. It is > fascinating > to read them. Great job! Hope maybe one of them might connect with my > search. > > I would love to find something on Benjamin West, b. 1759, Baltimore Co., > MD, > who married Nancy Hawkins 12 June 1788 and lived in Abberville District, > SC > for thirty-five years. He enlisted NC Rev War and served as a substitute > for > his father, but the father's name is not listed in Rev War Pension files. > Some say his father's name was also Benjamin and he came over on a ship > as a > very young teen, fought Rev War and was killed at the Battle of Sullivan. > I > have not found proof of this. Others say his father's name was William > and > that the Benjamin West was a brother and was related to the famous > painter. > His children were born Abberville District, SC James, 13 Jul 1785 > Mary, b. 24 Mar 1789 > John, b. 16 Oct 1790 > William, b. 17 Apr 1792 > Benjamin, Jr., 10 Feb 1794 > Elezebeth, b. 20 Aug 1796 > Rebeccah, b. 20 Aug 1798 > Nancy, b. 11 Mar 1801 > > I would love to find anything to document, including Benjamin's parents, > his > enlistment papers, marriage license or birth records of the children, > especially Benjamin West, Jr. If you can point me in the right direction, > I would > appreciate it. I am not familiar with SC research and am on opposite > side of > country. > Thanks again. > Jan > > > In a message dated 7/21/2007 11:10:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > tealtree@comcast.net writes: > > Thank you to all for the kind and encouraging words about the old > newspaper > articles, and glad that there is something in the old articles about your > ancestors! > No, I am not going to "publish" a book of the old newspaper articles, > will > just post them in the genweb archives for all to see and enjoy. > > Candace > > > > > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.12/910 - Release Date: 7/21/2007 > 3:52 PM > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCABBEVI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour