Thought you all would be interested in these two sites for researching your surnames as they were supplied to me from another mailing list: 1. This site is: "LOOKUP FROM PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICATIONS" http://genweb.net/~gen-cds/private.html 2. Calendar: http://calendarhome.com/tyc

Cornell University Making of America Collection This is a set of primary documents (magazines and other texts) that have been scanned in for your use. One of the wonderful pieces for me is the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, which is a multivolume work compiling both Union and Confederate records from the civil war. This site is worth bookmarking and checking from time to time. There is no search engine yet, but even so, it's still worth investigating. http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/Browsej.html Sue [email protected] [email protected]

In a message dated 5/18/99 12:51:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << It is an interesting concept, however and I would love to hear more about it. >> Me, too, Eilene. Thanks for responding and joining in. Karen

Karla, thanks for the reply and you have a way with words! Marry and then fight, eh? The Owens were Welsh I believe . . . have no idea about the origin of Bird and Larkin. Karen in FL <<Somewhere on Rootsweb in the past couple of years I have read that Scottish, if these are Scottish names... were sent, or needed, because of their hard working tenacity and fierce battle hardy spirit, to tangle with the very wily Native Americans who had been pushed, during that same time period farther and farther south along the colonial coastline into Georgia and Florida... The Scottish were the toughest and the best for "the job" or something to that effect... Seems that they may have wouned up marrying a few instead of killing them off!

Does anyone have information on a wagon train party that included Rolen Box came from Ala.To TX. arriving Jan.1835.There were about 50 people on this party.

If the person who posted an inquiry about Lilly Cemeteries still needs info, please let me know the family you are researching and I can check for them in a book our library has--Amite County Mississippi Cemeteries. Virginia

Dear KLee, Somewhere on Rootsweb in the past couple of years I have read that Scottish, if these are Scottish names... were sent, or needed, because of their hard working tenacity and fierce battle hardy spirit, to tangle with the very wily Native Americans who had been pushed, during that same time period farther and farther south along the colonial coastline into Georgia and Florida... The Scottish were the toughest and the best for "the job" or something to that effect... Seems that they may have wouned up marrying a few instead of killing them off! On Mon, 17 May 1999 12:31:10 EDT [email protected] writes: >BIRD, LARKIN, and OWEN families are in MA in 1600s. Same names are in >my >Owen family which I have traced to 1790/1800 Fairfield District, SC. >Am >woefully ignorant about migration patterns; learning is one reason I >subscribe to this list. Was there a migration patter from MA to SC >over the >150 or so years I am studying? >Did families go from MA to VA to NC to SC???? Any information would >be >appreciated. >Karen Grubaugh [email protected] >Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, Florida >Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm > > >==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== >Please remember that real people read the messages you post. >Got a problem? Got a gripe? Don't take it to the list! >Send me a message, and I'll try to take care of it: >mailto:[email protected] >

In a message dated 5/17/99 12:59:10 PM, [email protected] writes: << Somewhere on Rootsweb in the past couple of years I have read that Scottish, if these are Scottish names... were sent, or needed, because of their hard working tenacity and fierce battle hardy spirit, to tangle with the very wily Native Americans who had been pushed, during that same time period farther and farther south along the colonial coastline into Georgia and Florida... The Scottish were the toughest and the best for "the job" or something to that effect... Seems that they may have wouned up marrying a few instead of killing them off! >> This may have been true, but I wouldn't count on it. My Scottish, Murray line came to Canada and then on down to Southern Illinois. They were farmers and I always believed they went south for the fertile farmland.....some also worked for the RR-(MKT). It is an interesting concept, however and I would love to hear more about it. Eileen

BIRD, LARKIN, and OWEN families are in MA in 1600s. Same names are in my Owen family which I have traced to 1790/1800 Fairfield District, SC. Am woefully ignorant about migration patterns; learning is one reason I subscribe to this list. Was there a migration patter from MA to SC over the 150 or so years I am studying? Did families go from MA to VA to NC to SC???? Any information would be appreciated. Karen Grubaugh [email protected] Hillsborough and Pasco Counties, Florida Volunteer for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm

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At the end of the Civil War, my ancestor was released from the union prison of Ft. Delaware to walk home to Drew County (south central Arkansas, now Lincoln County). Ft. Delaware Prison was located on Pea Patch Island between Delaware and New Jersey. Any ideas about the route he may have walked? I assume he had vitually no money, so don't know how much he could use waterways. Thanks for your help and interest, Anne Gray

This is for all of you "TEXANS" out there. If you are on Texas mailing lists, please forward so we can cover all of Texas. (I am on Cole, Leonard, LACALCAS (La.), TXJEFFER, TXORANGE, EAST TEXAS, SOUTHERN TRAILS ) This information is our government officials, i.e., US Senators, US Representatives, State Officials, State Senators, State Representatives. With everything that is going on with NARA and what they are trying to do, and the things in our local government, here is our protest avenues. E-mail is the fastest way of communication. (This is copied exactly as is on the paperwork) Protocol is that these people should be addressed as: The Honorable their name US SENATORS KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON www.senate.gov/~hutchinson PHIL GRAMM www.senate.gov/~gramm US STATE REPRESENTATIVES Dist 7 BILL ARCHER www.house.gov/archer Dist 8 KEVIN BRADY [email protected] Dist 18 SHELIA JACKSON www.house.gov/jacksonlee STATE OFFICIALS GOVERNOR GEORGE W. BUSH www.governor.state.tx.us LT. GOVERNOR RICK PERRY www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/ltgov/ltgov.htm ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN CORNYN [email protected] STATE SENATORS ALL THESE ADDESSE ARE: www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members Dist 6 MARIO GALLEGOS Dist 7 JON LINDSAY Dist 11 MIKE JACKSON Dist 13 RODNEY ELLIS Dist 15 JOHN WHITMIRE Dist 17 J. E."BUSTER" BROWN STATE REPRESENTATIVES Dist 126 PEGGY HAMRIC [email protected] Dist 127 JOE CRABB [email protected] Dist 128 FRED BOSSE [email protected] Dist 129 JOHN DAVIS [email protected] Dist 130 JOHN CULBERSON [email protected] Dist 131 RON WILSON [email protected] Dist 132 SCOTT HOCHBERG [email protected] Dist 133 JOE NIXON [email protected] Dist 134 KYLE JANEK [email protected] Dist 135 GARY ELKINS [email protected] Dist 137 DEBRA DANBURG [email protected] Dist 138 KEN YARBROUGH [email protected] Dist 139 SYLVESTER TURNER [email protected] Dist 140 KEVIN BAILEY [email protected] Dist 141 SENFRONIA THOMSPON [email protected] Dist 142 HAROLD V. DUTTON, Jr. [email protected] Dist 143 JOE MORENO [email protected] Dist 144 ROBERT TALTON [email protected] Dist 145 RICH NORIEGA [email protected] Dist 146 AL EDWARDS [email protected] Dist 147 GARNET COLEMAN [email protected] Dist 148 JESSICA FARRAR [email protected] Dist 149 TALMADE HEFLIN [email protected] Dist 150 PAUL J. HILBERT [email protected] To access Texas State Representative District Map: www.house.state.tx.us./house/county/c201.htm Locally, I have all the City of Houston officials. Hope this will help you! Gwen Leonard ([email protected])

This is a "JUST IN CASE" - FYI: Free database search on http://www.Ancestry.com or www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3751.htm (please don't suggest I use the "blue line" of info so all one has to do it "click" on it - I do not prefer that route myself. Should this bother you, please delete the message - that is all you have to do) Woodland Cemetery, Kitchener, Ontario, German War Graves In the rear of the Woodland Cemetery in the City of Kitchener lies a special memorial section devoted to German prisoners of war who died during the First and Second World Wars. Those interred here were brought from 35 different locations throughout Canada to rest with other fallen comrades. This database is a collection of burial records for these men and includes the names of nearly 200. Researchers will find birth, death, and rank information. For researchers of German prisoners of war in Canada, this can be an illuminating collection of records.

I know it has been mentioned before, but the American Memory page is a great place to explore. It contains manuscripts done from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1940. People were sent out thru WPA to interview people, so there are a lot of pioneer stories. you can find in on Barrel of Genealogy Links page - number 8 or... http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html For example: (will not print all of it, four pages long) 17 February 1939 - Pioneer Story - source was Mollie Grove Smith of White Oaks, New Mexico. She tells her life story, and talks about the wagon train she was on at age 6. The went from Brown County Texas to New Mexico in 1884. Her family name was Grove, and a family named Willis was with them. Willis family stayed at Pecos, Texas. So at Pecos, Texas the Grove family was joined by two other families for the rest of the trip. They were F. M. Evans, his wife, and ten children with about 100 head of cattle. Also George Castleberry, his wife and severn children. All three families settled in James Canyon in New Mexico, and her story goes on about the 3 groups living beside each other, after about 3 years they were joined by two families - the Hunter and the Holden families. First teacher was Elvira Kinney. They had a post office then called Pine Springs. And it goes on from there. Mentions going to Roswell to get Christmas things if that is any help in location. So there is a lot of good info in these stories. You can search by state, surname, topic, etc. Mary [email protected]

Tracy and all, I recently received a homestead application for my great-great grandfather from the 1840's in Arkansas and also one for my great-grandfather in the 18990's in Louisiana. If the homestead in in the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) for Eastern States, you can find the preliminary information and also be able to order copies of the form you will need to order this. The one from Arkansas is very interesting as the land was originally intended for settlement of Indian claims and there is an affidavit from the Indian whose land it was giving the land up for my ancestor and accepting land elsewhere for himself. It also includes correspondence and notations where someone else claimed the land but eventually the surveying found that the land was indeed where my ancestor claimed and the claim was given to him. The one from Louisiana tells of the buildings and dwellings on the land. It also tells that there were 7 children and the parents living in a cabin 14 x 18 feet. Talk about crowding. These records are very interesting. If you cannot find the BLM GLO Records site, let me know and I will look it up in my records. Ruth Stout [email protected] wrote: > Does anyone know whether or not applications had to be completed for > homesteads back around 1870s? Where would I write to get a copy? Found my > ggg grandmother's legal land description in the county courthouse records but > no mention of an application. Thanks for any pointers. > > Tracy > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb is Free! But Rootsweb is supported by volunteers and > contributions. Show your support and become a member. Click here > for more information: > http://www.rootsweb.com

Thought you might like to search out this web site......numerous different areas: surnames, states, etc. http://www.distantcousin.com Gwen

This web site may be of interest to someone out there................"Unclaimed Persons" is a web site of deceased loved ones for whom the next of kin has never been located. These people are either buried or cremated. Since I am a Texan, I noticed there are several listed as well as a few in Louisiana. Gwen ([email protected]) http://www.unclaimedpersons.com

Does anyone know whether or not applications had to be completed for homesteads back around 1870s? Where would I write to get a copy? Found my ggg grandmother's legal land description in the county courthouse records but no mention of an application. Thanks for any pointers. Tracy

Hello Folks, Is there anyone who knows the route Daniel Boone took (opened?) when he moved from Boonesborough to Missouri? Thanks, Jean Hancock

The message about Boone going from KY to Mo got me to thinking. Thought I would share some of my research with you, many of you will already know all this. Strange how things work, I have just been working this morning on the TN end of that trail into KY. You could probably find it on KY Genweb, or something on Ft Boonesborough, but I was just looking at Sullivan Co Tennessee Genweb page - map is there. Go to TN Genweb, then Sullivan Co, then click on Map section, then State of Franklin - Cumberland Settlements and State of Franklin 1779-1796. It will be the Wilderness section, maybe someone knows of better map. my ancestor lived along the trail, as did 2 of his siblings, while 2 more used it to get to KY.....so here is what I have found. Daniel Boone and a group - Transylvania Company - wanted to get settlers into what would become KY, so they blazed a road - the Wilderness Road. This went from the Cumberland Gap into KY, was roughly done by 1775. Begin at Cumberland Gap, it went north west and branched. One branch to Boonesborough which was just south of present day Lexington. The other branch went to Harrodsburg, just follow the KY River. There are several names for the trails, but begin in VA in Shenandoah Valley and the Great Valley Road that went from Harper's Ferry to Big Lick Va (Roanoke). This connected to the roads on the VA coast, and eastern coast all the way up to Boston. Other roads to PA. Anyway, it was like the major highway of the time for migration. Most of the early KY settlers used at least part of this Valley Road. Even some of the NC people found it easier to go north into Valley and go from there cause of the mountains. But some from NC did come in - maybe from Salem NC to Jonesboro TN, but not sure what that was called. Look at your rivers. The place they were headed was around present day Bristol, Sullivan Co TN. That area - I call it the Golden Triangle - Bristol, Johnson's City, and Kingsport TN - that was the frontier before the Rev War. My ancestors were there in 1774, it had various names, and was thought at times to be in VA, then claimed by NC. It was just kind of out there at the ends of the earth. Now to get from Bristol VA/TN (it is in both states) to Cumberland Gap, you have to go around the Cinch Mountains. So the trail was not a straight line. I would say on present day map go out of Kingsport TN on highway 11 southwest (follow Holston River), then back northwest to Cumberland Gap on 32. I think that was about the route, I know early settlers were going for the Holston and Cinch Rivers and their creeks. Carters Valley was around there, etc. Knoxville I think was White's Fort, Bristol was Shelby's Station or Fort, etc. Once thru the Gap, take 25E to Corbin, then I75 to Lexington. Dont forget there was a "fork in the road" and one road went to Harrodsburg. Now in 1787-1789 remember that the war was over, Indian raids had settled down.....people were selling land in Shenandaoh Valley and taking off for KY. Many of their relatives in 1770s had already settled along that trail from Bristol to Cumberland Gap. So they would have passed right by where their old friends and relatives were living. I know ca 1787 Turney, Summers, and Matheny from Shenandoah Co, Va and the Turner/Murphy from Hampshire Co all were headed for KY....as were a lot of their neighbors. 1784 that southern part of what would be KY was Lincoln County, by 1785 Madison and Bourbon had been taken out of it. So those are where you want to look for records, before that....Fincastle I think? Another little tip, watch for your family to settle along the first trails of KY. The first road thru KY (1790s?) was the Zanesville - Nashville Pike (present day US68). Start at the Ohio River, it crossed the river at Limestone (present day Maysville KY) went down thru Paris, Lexington, Harrodsburg, Cambellsville, Bowling Green, Russellville to Nashville Tennessee. this was a very important route - it connected people going to Ohio valley from the east like PA, NJ, etc. with people coming out of VA and NC also headed for KY and the Ohio river. One of my ancestor's siblings who moved to KY in 1787 eventually ended up at Paris KY, his two brothers down near Nashville. Families were spread along this route. There was a lot of travel back and forth, at least for the men. Also remember that after Rev War - Davidson Co NC which would later be Nashville, TN was where soldiers were being given land. so men from all over - MD, PA, etc - were pouring into that Nashville area, usually by going thru the Shenandoah Valley of VA. Nashville and Knoxville were booming places. Nashvill had all the major trails coming in - Natchez Trace, etc. So you could go from LA to Paris KY and on to Ohio River by going thru Nashville TN. The route between Nashville and Knoxville was Avery Trace and my ancestor and his brother settled along that around 1809. So they could could visit their relatives in KY - I have land records where 3 of them - 2 in TN and 1 in KY - all signed a land deed for land right on border of TN and KY. Another early road thru Logan County KY. Henderson (on Ohio) south through Russellville to Nashville TN. Also remember that when you hear mention "the falls of the Ohio" they mean Louisville, KY. People north and south and east - wanted to get to the Ohio River which became the main route of our ancestors to everywhere - MO, AR, LA, IN, etc. the Ohio valley was rich, and they could follow rivers off of the Ohio or go on into the Mississippi, or even later up the Missouri. I am not sure when river boats began using the Missouri, but that ended with the Civil War I think. Dont be surprized to find an ancestor born in Maryland, married in Tennessee, died in Illinois. That was very common. the only place where there was a problem with the Ohio - besides getting around the falls at Louisville, was that section around Wheeling, once past that you could travel all the way to LA by flatboat. All of your old towns - old Hannastown and Greensburg in PA where people from the east headed, Pittsburgh which was so important in the French and Indian wars with Fort Pitt, this was the way people from the east got to the Ohio. The Battle of Point Pleasant was fought for control of the Ohio. Gallipolis, Ohio was an old town, entry way into Ohio. Limestone where the trail went to TN. Cincinnati where so many of the German speaking people from PA moved, Louisville, Cairo, all the old towns that were so important to early settlement. I would think Boone traveled to one of the river towns and then used the Ohio. Mary [email protected]