=============================================================== To: ALL Strong Mail List Subscribers As announced in a message from Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative, the Strong Mail List is likely to be offline for several more days. In the meantime, if you have data that is of general interest to Strong-L subscribers and you wish to distribute the information as soon as possible, send the message addressed to me, ATTENTION: Strong-L, and I will distribute it to all subscribers. I will include a copy to Strong-L to get the message into the archived messages. =================== A search for the surname "Strong" on the Surname Helper Surname Search of U.S. and Canadian GenWeb sites yielded 258 links to Strong information, queries, and contacts. Your time spent browsing these links might prove productive. I noted a few subscribers to the Strong Mail List among the many persons who have posted information on GenWeb sites about the Strong surname, but I also saw many names of persons who have never subscribed to the Strong Mail LIst. There should be additional links for allied surnames. Here is the URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp/srchall.html Here are just a couple of examples of my gleamings about Southern Strongs. A year or two ago we had a discussion about the possible ancestry of Noah Strong of a Southwestern Missouri county, possibly Douglas County. [I cannot check the archives with the server offline.] I suggested Noah Strong could be N. L. Strong, apparent son of David Strong of Giles County, TN, formerly of Campbell and Charlottte Counties, VA. Posted on the GenWeb site for any unknown county in North Carolina are a couple of messages from Evelyn Earhart <[email protected]> and Monifa Porter <[email protected]> regarding Strongs. Evelyn mentions "Noua" Leo Strong, 1923-1981, of Douglas Co., MO, near Ava, and she appears to have some detailed informaton about this family. Her "Noua" is obviously from a later generation than the Noah Strong and/or N. L. Strong, born about 1830 in TN, previously discussed. The similarity in names and proximity in place are quite suggestive of a familial relationship, however. Monifa is researching Strongs of Pitt County, NC, a line that is not familiar to Strong-L subscribers. More recently I have received correspondence from Jean Sullivan <[email protected]> about Strongs of Upshur County, Texas, who are descended from William Strong of Troup County, Georgia, which I forwarded to the Strong Mail List. Fran Deen <[email protected]>, a Strong-L subscriber, has posted messages about this line on GenWeb sites, as has Donna Thompson <[email protected]>. Another reseacher of this line is Lydia Pyle <[email protected]>. ==================== The GEDCOM database and the "Cousin Finder" searches at Traveller Informaton Services (TIS) have been terminated. The reason given was that there were too many compaints being made to TIS about erroneous information in the databases. TIS recommended that you search at Ancestry Hometown's GEDCOM database, instead. I am uncertain whether this means that TIS turned over its GEDCOMs to Ancestry Hometown. LESSON LEARNED: If you find erroneous information in a database on the Internet, do NOT complain to the Server, that is, the Internet Service Provider. Instead, direct your complaints to the person who submitted the database. ================================================================= To Recipients Who Do Not Subscribe to the Strong Mail List: Instructions for subscribing are posted on The Strong Quest Web Site: http://ro.com/~rts2/quest Please do no attempt to subscribe before 17 SEP. If your message bounces, try again in a couple of days. The Mail List should be back in operation later in the week. ================================================================== Robert T. Strong, Jr. 119 Mystic Way Madison, Al 35757-8801