This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_915941927_boundary Content-ID: <0_915941927@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Gang, I wanted to forward this posting from Gloria. Looks like we have another branch of the Bluford line. With children named Thorpe and Bluford, they have got to fit in the puzzle somewhere, don't you think ???? Gloria, the difference in mail mode and digest is that in mail mode you get each message as it is posted. In the digest mode you get one message once a week, with all the week's messages in one e-mail. Either way, it's a great bargain ! HA Carolyn --part0_915941927_boundary Content-ID: <0_915941927@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: Taosbg@aol.com Return-path: <Taosbg@aol.com> To: SPENCETOP@aol.com Subject: Re: Spence Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:13:50 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Carolyn, Thank you for putting me on the "mail"mode. I tried to do it myself, but I am not very computer literate, so I wasn't successful. What is the difference in mail and digest mode? Now about Isaac. there are a lot of Spence folks down in the Florida panhandle and in Texas that are related to Isaac. There were also a lot of Isaac Spences. Mary Ann Spence (a very popular Spence name) was my GG-Gram. She went by the name of Median and was born in Thomas Co. Ga. about 1824. She married David Butts and they moved to Walton Co. Fl. about 1850. My grandmother, Tabitha, was their first child and was born in Thomas Co. 1839. In the S/W part of Ga. there is a town named Spence and that was named for my Isaac. It was called Spence Community in the old days. Isaac named some of his children Thorpe, Bluford, Winford,Joshua, Jackson, Isaac R. etc. All good Spence names. It is the thought of most of the Spence family I have come in contact with that James and Jane Bluford were the parents of Isaac, but that is only theory. As I mentioned, there are quite a few folks from this line that are anxiously doing research and contacting. I may be the newest one on the block as I didn't know anything about my fathers family 4 years ago. I love this Spence family and look forward to being in contact with folks that are "really" looking. Isaac married Hannah Taylor (who might have been related to Zachary Taylor) but my GGG-grandmother, whoever she was, was his first wife. Gloria --part0_915941927_boundary--