The Sellers I am talking about is James Sellers born about 1759 who was a Revolutionary Soldier and died December 20, 1843 in Grainger County, Tennessee. He lived in Burk County, North Carolina and Bradley and Grainger Counties in Tennessee. Eldon J. Edgin 14908 Woodbriar Drive Dallas, Texas 75248 Phone: (972) 991-4891 eedgin@sbcglobal.net or eldon@edgin.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "JAG" <jaglg@embarqmail.com> To: <sellers@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [SELLERS] Ancestry search engine >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! 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