The James Sellers you mention is my 4th great grandfather. What do you know of his parents or his wife? Eldon J. Edgin 14908 Woodbriar Drive Dallas, Texas 75248 Phone: (972) 991-4891 eedgin@sbcglobal.net or eldon@edgin.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorelee" <flden@crestviewcable.com> To: <sellers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:36 PM Subject: [SELLERS] Ancestry search engine I have also been so darn frustrated with this issue too and then I discovered that on the home page on the top click on search and then where you scroll down, to where you put in the name of the person you are researching, there is a box that says exact matches only and when I clicked that it sure takes care of not getting a Clark when searching a Cellers. Some times I just use a first name or just a last name. I hope this helps. Lorelee, descendant of Rev War James Sellers b.1759 -------Original Message------- From: sellers-request@rootsweb.com Date: 4/9/2009 12:19:37 AM To: sellers@rootsweb.com Subject: SELLERS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 75 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 2. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 3. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 4. FW: Sellers FAmily Reunion Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24, & 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama (Marie sellers hollinger) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:28:28 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239200910.496999@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: charernst Surnames: Sellers Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Linda: I think you did write me a while back about the Tom Kryssbek website (anyway you posted it to the Sellers-L with me as one of the ones you were addressing the post too.) I think it was back in January. Sorry I didn't reply back at the time. I remember when I was helping you with James Sellers too. I know I think he belongs to the Robert Sellers Sr line, but once the two different Sellers groups, the German ones out of Lincoln and Rutherford Co., NC and the Sellers lines out of Burke, via Mecklenburg, via Where?, both ended up in Haywood/Macon and those other far western NC counties before taking off to new frontiers, I still have a hard time definitively identifying who's who. But I do think your James is a grandson of Robert Sellers, Sr, but still not sure of the exact connection. One day, I tell myself, if I keep working on researching... And I do agree with you on Ancestry.com's search engine capabilities. Totally frustrating. It use to be much better. Last year when I renewed I did complain to the sales rep who called. He told me that happens with all the new information they keep adding. Perhaps they need to spend a little money and upgrade the search engine so it doesn't keep giving you such a broad array of useless information. Such as do a search for Cellars and you get Clark!! Not to mention the bizarre misspelling on the indexing that when you look at the actual census couldn't possibly have been read that way. Such as, how could a bunch of men on one census with the given name Andrew have really been written as Amanadrew, etc? I went through the whole 1870 Mitchell Co NC census last night (whoa, lengthy!) and can say the Sellers group wasn't there in 1870. Maybe I'll have the energy to tackle Yancey. I know Winny is back in McDowell living with Adin, and her daughter, Elvira Sellers English, but we're looking for Joseph "Joe" and his wife M. Elvira and their family in 1870. I think the son Josiah "Joe" is in McDowell living with Eleson and Margaret Wiseman,and there is a Lucy and Mary, both age 45, but where are the rest of them? I am just hoping this search doesn't expand into those east Tennessee counties too. That might take some time...Yikes! Charmaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:04:48 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239203089.321059@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: charernst Surnames: Sellers Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you look back at my first post here you'll see my hypothesis about Winifred "Winnie" Freeman Sellars/Sellers as the mother of Joseph "Joe", daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Elvira, and my speculation on the possible husband of Winnie as an Eldridge Sellers who is on the earlier Burke Co., NC censuses (which does need some work to be proved!) This group of Sellers appear to be the only one's that remained in the Burke/McDowell, etc area, which helps with sorting this all out. If I get lucky and find Joseph "Joe' and M. Elvira ? Sellers with family in 1870, then I'll try to do a post with the family in a chart. I know that both Pinckney "Pink" H.Sellers and his brother Josiah "Joe" Sellers are on the 1880 Mitchell Co., NC census. Their Mother, Elvira, is in McDowell with Louisa and her son Charles. (Joseph Sellers must have died prior to this) Daughter Sarah Ann is in McDowelll married to Joseph Tarpley McKinney. I don't know where Elizabeth, William or Mary are. And,, of course where is Judge? Winnie's daughter Elizabeth appears to be living with Abagail McGee. It's a challenge trying to sort all of this out! I know that when Avery was formed in 1911 it was created from a large portion of Mitchell (1861) and a smaller portion of Watauga (1849)So we'll have to explore that as a possibility where some of the Sellers ended up. The net widens. Charmaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:28:35 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239204517.553407@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lindapeacock400 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Charmaine, Gee, I hope you don´t have to search through TN! I wonder if the Soundex is even turned on at Ancestry. The other day I triesd changing to an international" version, for fun and got the same results. Well, making progress at any rate, as to my Sellers line in that the Thompson bible does refer to Jane Thompson marrying James Sellers. And the family does appear to have moved to TN as stated in the list of Robert Sellers, Sr.´s descendants provided by Georgia (and origianlly listed in the mimeographed Sellers letters). Plus, there were Roberts in later generations and no Conrads. Furthermore, though the Black´s were in Lincoln County, as were my Bonhams, I haven´t found any Sellers´s from my line that were there. They all seem to have been from the Rutherford, Macon, etc. area. Jane´s mother´s father (Thomas Black) appears to have been of Scottish descent via Y-DNA tests but my mt-DNA is quite universal, European (no Cherokee Indians so far, which was a family story (and still is) from some of the branches who tried to claim Federal compensation for "lands lost , "Indian money" and claims denied, rightfully it looks like). There is the association to the Killian grou! p, but I have British Bonhams who also associated with Germans, due to their religious beliefs and Nathan Thompson is reported to have been a minister. Oh, well, another mess to sort out. Maybe if I could ever find a Sellers of James´s line to take the Y-DNA test, it would clear up the ma Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:32:44 -0500 From: "marie sellers hollinger" <mari@netins.net> Subject: [SELLERS] FW: Sellers FAmily Reunion Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24, & 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama To: "SELLERS@rootsweb. com" <SELLERS@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <5C1450A248C74D2C9ED25ACCA29C8A9B@moms> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am writing to tell you about a Sellers Family Reunion that will take place over the Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24,& 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama. I have been trying to reach as many Sellers as possible to let them know about the Reunion. Some of our DNA matches will be able to attend. The reunion will be held at the Holiday Inn in Troy, Pike County, Alabama. Saturday evening, May 23, there will be a dinner, and the cost of attending the dinner will be $ 16.50 per person. I need to know how many people would want to attend and their preference of chicken or beef as a meat dish. I want to invite you, and any and all other Sellers Family members who might be interested in attending. Please help me spread the word about the reunion. Thanks so much! Margie Clayton Klein _____ Save money by eating out! Find <http://www.when.com/search?st=restaurant&has_gift_cert=1&ncid=emlcntusw hen00000001> great dining coupons in your area. ------------------------------ To contact the SELLERS list administrator, send an email to SELLERS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SELLERS mailing list, send an email to SELLERS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SELLERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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I guess I missed something here. Which James Sellers are we talking about? Also, one can switch back to the "old version" of searching on ancestry which I think is much,much easier and more to the point. Lynda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eldon J. Edgin" <eedgin@sbcglobal.net> To: sellers@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 1:38:58 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Ancestry search engine The James Sellers you mention is my 4th great grandfather. What do you know of his parents or his wife? Eldon J. Edgin 14908 Woodbriar Drive Dallas, Texas 75248 Phone: (972) 991-4891 eedgin@sbcglobal.net or eldon@edgin.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorelee" <flden@crestviewcable.com> To: <sellers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:36 PM Subject: [SELLERS] Ancestry search engine I have also been so darn frustrated with this issue too and then I discovered that on the home page on the top click on search and then where you scroll down, to where you put in the name of the person you are researching, there is a box that says exact matches only and when I clicked that it sure takes care of not getting a Clark when searching a Cellers. Some times I just use a first name or just a last name. I hope this helps. Lorelee, descendant of Rev War James Sellers b.1759 -------Original Message------- From: sellers-request@rootsweb.com Date: 4/9/2009 12:19:37 AM To: sellers@rootsweb.com Subject: SELLERS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 75 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 2. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 3. Re: Louisa Sellers (gc-gateway@rootsweb.com) 4. FW: Sellers FAmily Reunion Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24, & 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama (Marie sellers hollinger) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:28:28 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239200910.496999@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: charernst Surnames: Sellers Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Linda: I think you did write me a while back about the Tom Kryssbek website (anyway you posted it to the Sellers-L with me as one of the ones you were addressing the post too.) I think it was back in January. Sorry I didn't reply back at the time. I remember when I was helping you with James Sellers too. I know I think he belongs to the Robert Sellers Sr line, but once the two different Sellers groups, the German ones out of Lincoln and Rutherford Co., NC and the Sellers lines out of Burke, via Mecklenburg, via Where?, both ended up in Haywood/Macon and those other far western NC counties before taking off to new frontiers, I still have a hard time definitively identifying who's who. But I do think your James is a grandson of Robert Sellers, Sr, but still not sure of the exact connection. One day, I tell myself, if I keep working on researching... And I do agree with you on Ancestry.com's search engine capabilities. Totally frustrating. It use to be much better. Last year when I renewed I did complain to the sales rep who called. He told me that happens with all the new information they keep adding. Perhaps they need to spend a little money and upgrade the search engine so it doesn't keep giving you such a broad array of useless information. Such as do a search for Cellars and you get Clark!! Not to mention the bizarre misspelling on the indexing that when you look at the actual census couldn't possibly have been read that way. Such as, how could a bunch of men on one census with the given name Andrew have really been written as Amanadrew, etc? I went through the whole 1870 Mitchell Co NC census last night (whoa, lengthy!) and can say the Sellers group wasn't there in 1870. Maybe I'll have the energy to tackle Yancey. I know Winny is back in McDowell living with Adin, and her daughter, Elvira Sellers English, but we're looking for Joseph "Joe" and his wife M. Elvira and their family in 1870. I think the son Josiah "Joe" is in McDowell living with Eleson and Margaret Wiseman,and there is a Lucy and Mary, both age 45, but where are the rest of them? I am just hoping this search doesn't expand into those east Tennessee counties too. That might take some time...Yikes! Charmaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:04:48 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239203089.321059@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: charernst Surnames: Sellers Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you look back at my first post here you'll see my hypothesis about Winifred "Winnie" Freeman Sellars/Sellers as the mother of Joseph "Joe", daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Elvira, and my speculation on the possible husband of Winnie as an Eldridge Sellers who is on the earlier Burke Co., NC censuses (which does need some work to be proved!) This group of Sellers appear to be the only one's that remained in the Burke/McDowell, etc area, which helps with sorting this all out. If I get lucky and find Joseph "Joe' and M. Elvira ? Sellers with family in 1870, then I'll try to do a post with the family in a chart. I know that both Pinckney "Pink" H.Sellers and his brother Josiah "Joe" Sellers are on the 1880 Mitchell Co., NC census. Their Mother, Elvira, is in McDowell with Louisa and her son Charles. (Joseph Sellers must have died prior to this) Daughter Sarah Ann is in McDowelll married to Joseph Tarpley McKinney. I don't know where Elizabeth, William or Mary are. And,, of course where is Judge? Winnie's daughter Elizabeth appears to be living with Abagail McGee. It's a challenge trying to sort all of this out! I know that when Avery was formed in 1911 it was created from a large portion of Mitchell (1861) and a smaller portion of Watauga (1849)So we'll have to explore that as a possibility where some of the Sellers ended up. The net widens. Charmaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:28:35 -0000 From: "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Louisa Sellers To: <SELLERS-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1239204517.553407@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lindapeacock400 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sellers/2306.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.2.2.3.2.1.1 1.2.2.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Charmaine, Gee, I hope you don´t have to search through TN! I wonder if the Soundex is even turned on at Ancestry. The other day I triesd changing to an international" version, for fun and got the same results. Well, making progress at any rate, as to my Sellers line in that the Thompson bible does refer to Jane Thompson marrying James Sellers. And the family does appear to have moved to TN as stated in the list of Robert Sellers, Sr.´s descendants provided by Georgia (and origianlly listed in the mimeographed Sellers letters). Plus, there were Roberts in later generations and no Conrads. Furthermore, though the Black´s were in Lincoln County, as were my Bonhams, I haven´t found any Sellers´s from my line that were there. They all seem to have been from the Rutherford, Macon, etc. area. Jane´s mother´s father (Thomas Black) appears to have been of Scottish descent via Y-DNA tests but my mt-DNA is quite universal, European (no Cherokee Indians so far, which was a family story (and still is) from some of the branches who tried to claim Federal compensation for "lands lost , "Indian money" and claims denied, rightfully it looks like). There is the association to the Killian grou! p, but I have British Bonhams who also associated with Germans, due to their religious beliefs and Nathan Thompson is reported to have been a minister. Oh, well, another mess to sort out. Maybe if I could ever find a Sellers of James´s line to take the Y-DNA test, it would clear up the ma Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:32:44 -0500 From: "marie sellers hollinger" <mari@netins.net> Subject: [SELLERS] FW: Sellers FAmily Reunion Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24, & 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama To: "SELLERS@rootsweb. com" <SELLERS@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <5C1450A248C74D2C9ED25ACCA29C8A9B@moms> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am writing to tell you about a Sellers Family Reunion that will take place over the Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 24,& 25 2009, in Troy, Alabama. I have been trying to reach as many Sellers as possible to let them know about the Reunion. Some of our DNA matches will be able to attend. The reunion will be held at the Holiday Inn in Troy, Pike County, Alabama. Saturday evening, May 23, there will be a dinner, and the cost of attending the dinner will be $ 16.50 per person. I need to know how many people would want to attend and their preference of chicken or beef as a meat dish. I want to invite you, and any and all other Sellers Family members who might be interested in attending. Please help me spread the word about the reunion. Thanks so much! Margie Clayton Klein _____ Save money by eating out! Find <http://www.when.com/search?st=restaurant&has_gift_cert=1&ncid=emlcntusw hen00000001> great dining coupons in your area. ------------------------------ To contact the SELLERS list administrator, send an email to SELLERS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SELLERS mailing list, send an email to SELLERS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SELLERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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