Terry, I'm off on a genealogy trip this week, but that is a good idea and I'll do that when I get home. Thank you for the idea. Bobbi -------------- Original message -------------- From: Gregory Bingham <bingham3@pacbell.net> > Hi Bobby > My husband descends from the Speake line in Charles County, Maryland. I no > longer get the bulletin, but maybe if you post the info of the generations we > might be able to help. I have a lot of will's and guardian papers and land > deeds. I also found records in D.C.on some Speake's that moved there and had to > register their slave's This way I was able to see from the will of the father > who his son was. > Terry Bingham > bingham3@pacbell.net > > SPEAKS-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > SPEAKS-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 2 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Call for Genealogy Assistance ["Roberta J. Estes" #2 Re: [Speak(e)s] Call for > Genealogy [LyndaCGKyCol@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from SPEAKS-D, send a message to > > SPEAKS-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the SPEAKS-D list administrator, send mail to > SPEAKS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:02:35 -0400 > From: "Roberta J. Estes" > To: SPEAKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Call for Genealogy Assistance > > Hi Cousins, > > I'm in a bit of a pickle trying to figure out these early Speakes lines. I > need help in one of two ways from someone or different people. > > As you know, I started the DNA project a couple years ago now. We only have > 7 participants so far, and given the genealogy that they think they have, > they should all match, but they don't. So we have a 20th century mystery on > our hands. Not only do they not match, we have 4 different results out of 7 > people. This is not only confusing, it's very frustrating. We can't even > tell which of the lines really does go back to Thomas at this point, because > someone's genealogy is not correct, or there was an undocumented adoption > along the way someplace. Maybe some minister took in every orphan neighbor > kid and raised them. Wouldn't surprise me any. > > For anyone who gets the Speak(e)s Family Association Bulletin, the recent > edition, vol 27 number 2 has a wonderful genealogy chart beginning with Col. > Thomas Speake on page 16. It takes his lines (as much as are known) through > the 5th generation. > > Here is where I need your help with one of two things. > > 1. If you are a Speaks male (last name Speaks) or know of one, and you have > not tested, please, PLEASE consider testing at this time. We really really > need you and it will help sort this mess out. If you have questions or > concerns, please let me know and I'll be glad to help you. > > 2. For the genealogists among you, I desperately need to compile some > original records for these early generations. I feel like a DAR lady asking > now for proofs in each generation, but in my other lines I've found too many > "early genealogies" to be wrong. I don't know if that is the case here or > not, but someplace there is a problem. So what I'm asking for now is for > the first three or four generations downstream from Thomas, if you have any > original documents or extracts, please send them my way. I'm looking for > things that connect people, like wills, like deeds, like Rev. War pension > applications, like court suits, and of course, Bibles. I need to answer the > question of how we know that Thomas Speake who died in 1781 had 2 sons, John > (Innkeeper) and Bowling, and how we know that the particular John was really > the John that was the son of Thomas and not another John, for example. If > you have any of these kinds of records in your files, please take pity on me > and send them. If the info is in the genealogy section of this latest > newsletter, you don't need to send it, but I would surely like to know on > the wills and documents mentioned there, if they are signed with a name or > an X. Sometimes two men in an area by the same name sign their names > differently. Also, if anyone has compiled primary research in a particular > area, that would be wonderful too. In some of my other lines, I have > compiled all info about a particular family by county. > > I hate to beg in public, but if you can help with one or the other of these > things, please do. This is your family too and we all need to work together > to sort this out. I really need your help!!! > > Thanks, > > Bobbi Estes > > ______________________________Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:43:20 EDT > From: LyndaCGKyCol@aol.com > To: SPEAKS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Speak(e)s] Call for Genealogy Assistance > > Hi Bobbi, > > Unfortunately I am a female Speaks descendant so I'm no help to the DNA > project. > > But I would like to know more about Col Thomas Speake. > > My earliest Speaks ancestor is John Speake who married Elizabeth Wade. I > don't get the Speak(e)s Family Association Bulletin, so any help to see if my > line (might link up with Col Thomas Speake would be very interesting. > > My DAR ancestor is Hezekiah Speake b. 1757 and died in 1837 in Bourbon Co. > Ky. who married Eleanor P. Tucker. > > Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. > > Lynda Combs Gipson > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >