This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917735960_boundary Content-ID: <0_917735960@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_917735960_boundary Content-ID: <0_917735960@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <> Received: from rly-ya02.mx.aol.com (rly-ya02.mail.aol.com [172.18.144.194]) by air-ya03.mx.aol.com (v56.24) with SMTP; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:57 -0500 Received: from imo27.mx.aol.com (imo27.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.71]) by rly-ya02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA01312 for <SPENCETOP@aol.com>; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost) by imo27.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) with internal id PAA28259; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: rootsweb: host not found) Message-Id: <199901302017.PAA28259@imo27.mx.aol.com> To: SPENCETOP@aol.com Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit The original message was received at Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:28 -0500 (EST) from root@localhost *** ATTENTION *** An e-mail you sent to an Internet destination could not be delivered. The Internet address is listed in the section labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----". The reason your e-mail could not be delivered is listed in the section labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----". The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a general translation for other e-mail servers. Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail administrator or Postmaster at that destination. ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <S.comPENCE-BLUFORD-L@rootsweb> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 <S.comPENCE-BLUFORD-L@rootsweb>... Host unknown (Name server: rootsweb: host not found) ----- Original message follows ----- Received: from SPENCETOP@aol.com by imo27.mx.aol.com (IMOv18.1) id FLWNa26231 for <S.comPENCE-BLUFORD-L@rootsweb>; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:27 -0500 (EST) From: SPENCETOP@aol.com Return-path: <SPENCETOP@aol.com> Message-ID: <9322bb9a.36b368d7@aol.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:17:27 EST To: S.comPENCE-BLUFORD-L@rootsweb Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Insel Spence Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 205 Hi gang, I noticed the mention of Insel Spence and wouldn't you know that we don't have any descendants of his that I know of, but there was a Insel Spence in Dobbs county NC for many years. I think he came out of the Pasquotank NC line, so that might be a clue as to where the GA Insel came from. I enjoyed Duke's posting. I like the way that research was logically defined. I also think that the name Green will mean nothing, because most all families had a Green. I think by 1800 family given names had pretty much started to die out. Bluford does seem a strange name though. I can't imagine that being a "popular" name for young boys. But then again I have Buford's in my family. ( How about Buford Pusser ? Remember him ? ) HA I don't see any point in ordering Dar applications ( changed my mind) because whatever is in them has already been passed around for years. In the late 1800's and early 1900's there was a big interest in genealogy and many books were written which people still use as a source. I don't trust them because from the information available at that time, people grabbed anyone in the vicinity with the same surname and drafted it into their tree, and unfortunately these trees are still being repeated as true when they aren't. Mary Green for instance is reported to have been married to a William Spence and in another Thomas Spence, however both trees state James Spence ( 1748) as the son born of that union. Both of these trees are on Barbara's SPENCE list if anyone wants to look. As to the children of James & Jane Bluford Spence, I'm still wondering about the dates children could have been born. Given a normal childbearing life of a child born about every 18 months, how many could she have bore ? And when ? Just rambling, enough for now, Carolyn --part0_917735960_boundary--