Volks, My dau. and I had a wonder drive today thru the mountains of southern WV. The area was the counties of McDowell and Wyoming. That is coal country. Very moutainous with few four lane roads. Many small villages with unique names. I can't get a true feel of the ethic origins. There are no Germans there. I think they are Welsh or Northern English. Some Scot-Irish but I do not think they are predominate. There are more Catholic churches than you would expect. That is from the Italians and Poles brought in at the turn of the 20th century to mine coal. There is a mix of Methodist, Baptist, Free Will and Regular, and Holiness. I did not see the large number of Primative and Missionary Baptist that I saw west of this area in E. KY. I did not get to see many surnames. There were Blankenship aplenty. Like I said, no German names. Here are some of the towns: Bluefield Keystone (anyone grow up hearing stories of wild Keystone?) Superior Welch Vivian North Fork Maybuery (This spelling is a clue, but I do not it. Welsh? N. England?) Coalwood Caretta Yukon War English Bartley Raysal Bradshaw Jolo Avondale Iaedale (can anyone phonetically spell this pronounciation? ) Ikes Fork Hanover (pure English) Baileyville Lilly Haven Oceana (Nice place but that name in WV? ) Jesse Steeles Pineville New Richmond (old English) Herndon Covel Matoaka (is this the place of the movie? ) Lashmeet Kegley (the only name that might be German) -eddie

VIRGINIA Researchers: You're invited to a ONE-TIME chat for genealogy in VIRGINIA! Please join us this Thursday night: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm 10-11 pm Eastern Time; 9-10 pm Central Time; 8-9 pm Mt. Time; 7-8 pm Pacific Bring a list of your surnames, any genealogy resources, and hints & tips to share. If you've never been to a chat, let me know and I'll send you step-by-step instructions. If you miss the chat, you can go to the forum and post your surname queries and research questions at: http://forums.about.com/ab-huntsville Hope to see you Thursday! Jean Brandau [email protected]

Hi Guys!! I have been cleaning up my saved bookmarks anyway so w/ the request for bookmarks sent to the list, I thought I would just send them along. Some of these are good GENERAL urls, several NC/KY urls and some specific to our research in SW_VA. I am going to use hyperlinks because it is easier for me, but if you can't receive these or you want a few of the urls typed out, just e-mail me directly and I will be glad to do so. Hope this is useful. NancyS <A HREF="http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html">A Barrel of Genealogy Links</A> general <A HREF="http://www.afrigeneas.com/">AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy</A> researching black ancestry <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/6445/">Alden Williamson Descendants</A> Alden was b. in New Kent Co.,VA, d. Martin Co.KY and lived near Tazewell, VA Lots of other surnames connected. He is my 4th ggrandfather. <A HREF="http://www.rootsquest.com/~amhisnet/topic/app.html">The American Local History Network - Appalachia</A> <A HREF="http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/">ANYDAY Today-in-History PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS.</A> Put in any date and you will receive a long list of things that happened on that date. I have done one for many members of my family and put them in the genealogy. Gives a neat perspective to their lives. <A HREF="http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/">Appalachian Center at Univ. of Kentucky</A> <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/BJ_Dillon/Appalachiack.htm">Appalachia Creek Family History & Research</A> <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/Appalachian/index.html">Appalachian Mt. Families/Collins</A> <A HREF="http://www.melungeons.org/mel_wchs2.htm">The Appalachian Quarterly, Wise Co. VA Histor...</A> <A HREF="http://www.ask.com/">Ask Jeeves!</A> an easy to use general search engine, just write the query as a question and Jeeves will answer you <A HREF="http://www.hypertext.com/blackirish/">the Black Irish Myth</A> we have talked abt this on our list before <A HREF="http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/blkysc82.html">Blue People of Kentucky</A> a very interesting site abt a group of KY families who skin color was BLUE. <A HREF="http://web.superb.net/boy/age1.html">Boy the Bear's Age Gauge</A> You input a birthday into this site and you will be given a list of well known people who are either younger or older than you, and a list of some important events that happened during your life and how old you were when these happened. Interesting for family and children to have in their memory books and for genealgy books. Am not sure how far back this goes. <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/rarebk/"> Cherokee Genealogy Books, Indian, Carter...</A> <A HREF="http://rosecity.net/cherokee/blackdutch.html">Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana...</A> <A HREF="http://www.gensource.com/common/">Common Threads</A> <A HREF="http://www.sanbachs.com/cdi.html">THE COMPUTERIZED ANCESTOR</A> <A HREF="http://www.costumes.org/">The Costumer's Manifesto, your one stop site ...</A> this site is made for theater use in designing period costumes, but if you go to the time period that one of your ancestors lived, you can find a picture of what your ancestor might have been wearing. I copy and paste the picture into the genealogy scrapbook. <A HREF="http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html">Current Value of Old Money</A> <A HREF="http://www.cyndislist.com/">Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet</A> <A HREF="http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process">dMarie Time Capsule </A> this site is similar to Boy's above, but gives you top headlines for the time period around the date, top songs that quarter, how much things cost around that time. One of my all time favorite songs is September Song. Through this site I found that it was a top hit in the time period surrounding my birth!! Important? No, but really neat and interesting.:-) <A HREF="http://dar.library.net/">DAR_LIB</A> <A HREF="http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html">Deciphering Old Handwriting</ A> <A HREF="http://www.dogpile.com/">Dogpile</A> General search engine - good <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/RoadTrails/roadtrai.html">Early American Roads and Trails</A> <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~rosters/index.html">EARLY NC - TN - SC- RECORDS - MILITARY- MARRI...</A> <A HREF="Familyhistory Online">Family History Online</A> <A HREF="http://familyhistory.flash.net/links.html">The Family History Show</A > <A HREF="http://www.martygrant.com/gen/origins.htm">Family Origins</A> <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/ifftop.html">Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Internet ...</A> <A HREF="http://32.96.111.13/default.asp">FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service/LDS</A> <A HREF="http://www.alltheweb.com/">FAST Search: All the Web, All the Time</A > <A HREF="http://mcrcr2.med.nyu.edu/murphp01/open4em.htm">The Gateway Kiosk: Open Topic Forum</A> <A HREF="http://www.gengateway.com/genalogy.htm">Genealogy Gateway To The Web by Steve Lacy</A> <A HREF="http://posom.com/hl/">Genealogy Helplist</A> <A HREF="http://genealogy.miningco.com/">Genealogy - Home Page</A> <A HREF="http://www.citynet.net/mostwanted/">Genealogy's Most Wanted - Help in locating yo...</A> <A HREF="http://genforum.genealogy.com/">GenForum</A> <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">Google</A> an excellent general search engine <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gowenrf">Gowen Research Foundation</A> searching many different variations of that surname including Goins/Goings/Goens etc. Also excellent history. Membership required for total access, but there are areas where you can read articles of general interest to SW_Va researchers. <A HREF="http://www.ls.net/~newriver/swva/swvahs.htm">Historical Sketches of Southwest Virginia</A> <A HREF="http://www.gensource.com/archives/">I Found It! Genealogy Archives Search Engine ...</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/1594/melungeon/melungeon.html ">I'm Homeward Bound</A> <A HREF="http://www2.privatei.com/~bartjean/mainpage.htm">"In Plain Sight"</A> an archeological site that discusses folks who were in America who weren't supposed to have been here but were. Absolutely fascinating drawings and topics <A HREF="http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/ky.html">Ky Census Documents</A> <A HREF="http://genweb.net/Kentucky-Roots/">East Kentucky Genealogy</A> <A HREF="http://moon.ouhsc.edu/rbonner/census/kycounty.htm">Kentucky County History</A> <A HREF="http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm">The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program</A> <A HREF="http://www.vsla.edu/">The Library of Virginia</A> More later if you'd like. NancyS THE MELUNGEON HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT NETWORK: http://www.melungeonhealth.org SPARKS Genealogy: http://SparksGenealogy.net

Hello to all you researchers: Recently had problems with my computer and lost all my address book and all my wonderful bookmarks. If you have corresponded with me or know of good web pages and URL's to go to for information please let me know. I am researching in Shendandoah Co., Rockingham Co., VA, Claiborne County, TN, Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley Co., KY, Chariton Co., MO, Rutherford Co., NC. my surnames are: Engle, Lee, Golden, Lawson, Longworth, Cupp, Ford, Meyers, Lynch, Martin, Benge, Breeding, Hurst, England, Drummonds, and many related surnames. Please send information directly to me as we do not want to clog up the lists. Thanks you! Patricia

Please put your surname in subject line for me, it will be easier for me to write you back with a reply. And no thank you e-mails, none necessary I thank you all for helping me.

I have purchased The Lost Children of Wythe County, Virginia 1790-1878 Poor School Children, Orphans And Apprentices From County Records. Compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 1995 and to try and pay back the kindness given to me will do look-ups for people. I hope to in the future purchase more books for myself and to share in look-ups. E-mail private with request so the list want be overwhelmed with request please. I thank Mrs. Kegley for permission to do this, and will try my best to follow her rules on how to do it, so as not to break copyright laws.

Hello. Help! I am searching for info on Elbert (R?) JACKSON, who is my great-grandfather. I cannot find access to the 1880 census for Russell County, VA. online. He married Willie Broyles in Union, Monroe County, West Virginia on August 8, 1902; the marriage record only lists his age as 23 and that his birthplace is Russell County, VA. I would Greatly appreciate any tips as to how to proceed or ANY info on this man. I sincerely thank you.

Good afternoon list: I have a question for you. There was a chemical plant either on highway 23 south or 58 in Scott county Va. near penington gap, what was the name of the company? Was the plant on Rt.23 or 58? thanks Roger Napier

Appraisal of the Estate of William G.White by E.H. Summers, J.H. Darst / Bill of sale of the Estate of William G.White, Dec. 27,1862, John S. Kyle, sole buyer. Presented Jan. 8,1863. Teste: Lynch A. Currin, Clerk. Bill of Sale of the Estate of Jacob S. Barger, Oct. 28,1862. Buyers: Phebe S. Barger, E.H. Summers, E. Trinkle, Harry S. Barger, John Cecil, Newton S. Barger, Jasper S. Barger, A. Bigbie, Presented March 5, 1863. Teste: Lynch A. Currin, clerk. Page 158-159. Iventory of the Estate of James Redaford, Sept. 12,1862 by James Summers, William J. Glendy, Crocket J. Jordan. Presented March 5,1863. Lynch A. Currin, Clerk. Bill of Sale of Estate of James Redaford / Buyers: H.G. Trollinger, John Jordan, J.C. Darst, Wm. M. Miller, J.K. Bentley, Geo. Webb, John Summers, John Caddall, Clayton Guinn, Jas. Ritter, Jacob Fink, C.P. Jordan, S. Brison, P.L. Woolwine, Wm. Barrow, John Sadler, J.K. Miller, H. Dunford, Jno. Dawson, E.S. Barger, Thos. King, F. Bell, J.H. Hoge, G. Gary, Amos King, Eliza A. Lorton, W. Munsey, Nancy S. Barger, Jas. Moring, A. Muirhead, A. Belworth, A. Bigbie, Henry King, Jas. K. Early, G.W. Wysor, S. Brockman, W.J. Glendy, John C. Darst, John Jameson, E. Lyon, Wm. Martin, Howard rusby, Eve Redaford, D.S. Painter. Presented March 5,1863. Teste: Lynch Currin, clerk. Settlement of the Estate of Wm. Trinkle by Daniel R. Cecil, Dec. 24, 1862/ page 165.

Any information on the Margaret (Peggy)Taylor and William Patton MARTIN family would be greatly appreciated. Their daughter Sarah Jane was my great grandmother. I have a copy of a marriage license dated Oct. 26, 1876 for her marriage to Philip M. Driver. It was performed at the home of Catherine Taylor in Russell County. I think Catherine may have been an aunt to Sarah Jane. There are photos at the Library of Virginia Site, one of which has the children of Patton Martin pictured including Jane Driver. There are also two photos of Patton and Peggy Taylor Martin cabin located at the end of Paint Lick Mountain. My grandmother, Mary Margaret Martin was born in 1968. Who was her father? 1850 and 1860 Russell County Census has Sarah Jane listed as a child. Also pictured in the photo is Fred Martin, son of Andrew and Mary Ferrell. The date of the photo is not listed but comparing the appearance of Sarah Jane with photos I have of her, I estimate the photo to have been taken 1920/30. Robert Crabtree [email protected]

Need lookup please,Would anyone have a 1910 Census WCVA Holston District, for William R WIDENER & Nancy. Thanks : C.H.

--WebTV-Mail-7159-5042 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --WebTV-Mail-7159-5042 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQZ9yAgIGRJUoiY1SP1+0abHXLUVgIUNzINfRyaLwHvBcw/k4uy8cZvprM= From: [email protected] (c.h. Widener) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:18:32 -0400 (EDT) To: [email protected] Subject: 1910 WCVA CENSUS Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Is there anyone who has a 1910 WCVA Census , HOLSTON District who would do a lookup for William R WIDENER & NANCY ? THANKS : C.H. --WebTV-Mail-7159-5042--

Catlover, the Melungeon, of NC please write me. I lost your address. -eddie

Appraisal of the Estate of George Painter by James D. Howard, Chas. J. Mathews, M. Croskett / page 183 Page 184-192 / Bill of Sale of the Estate of George Painter, April 24,1863. Buyers: Dr.( I.A.T.) Painter, Thomas Long, C.J.Mathew, J.A. Miller, Capt. Pratt, Isaac N. Naff, Capt. Thompson, Randall Crockett, William Crockett, Albert Oglesby, T.S. Robson, J.R. Painter, D.S. Painter, J.C. Howard, George Cowin, Jas. T. Crockett, J.D. Calfee, William L. Painter, Erskine Painter, L.D. Harcock, J.D. Sexton, G. W. Painter, J.T. Leftwick, J.F. Sayers, N.P. Oglesby, Stephen Kirby, C.M. Rain, F.L. Graham, Robert A. Crockett, James Collins. Presented July 9,1863 Teste: L.A. Currin Clerk. Page 192-193 / Settlement of John G. Cecil with Estates of : John C. Honaker, James W. Crowels, John D. Woolwine, William B. Darst, John B. Teaney, Winston B. Thomas, Hiram J. Saunders, James L. Pollack, Edwin W. Kelly, William B. Teaney, John Cofin. Presented July 8,1863. Currin/clerk Page 194 Settlement of the Estate of James Wall, by Robert M. Woolwine. Bonds held on Alexander F. Wall / Presented on Aug. 6,1863 Page 195 -197 Inventory of the Estate of Henry Honaker Feb. 15,1863 by Robert D. Martin, A. Owens, Jas. M. Crockett, Presented Aug. 6,1863. ( This is mine if anyone out there is related) Will of James Whittaker, March 12,1864. Son - in - law, Patrick O'Donald. Witnesses: William I. Martin, Robert D. Martin, Kenton Whittaker, Presented, Aug. 4,1864. Teste : J.B. Baskerville, Clerk ( Kenton Whittaker is new name to me) Will of Margaret Poage, Feb. 1, 1860. Sons: Robert, Celphas W. Poage Daughters: Agnes Eidson, Mary M. Woods, Elizabeth Patterson, Margaret Hanger, Sarah A. Walker ( Mrs. James A. Walker), Grandsons: Thomas P. Patterson, William P.Hanger Granddaughters: Margaret Poage, d/o Robert, Margaret A.Chaffin, Margaret H. Walker. Witness : N.J. Jordan, William J. Wall Presented Nov. 10, 1864, Teste: J.B. Baskerville, clerk.

These are not my names, so I have no other info. They were copied at library for my own family search, and I thought posting the other names may be helpful to someone out there. I guess if you find a name of interest you could say you won a name from genealogy lotto, Lol. Really, I hope someone sees something they can use. This is page 15 from book: PAGE 132/ Appraisal of the Estate of John Hodge, Sept. 2,1847 by John Caffee, John Allison, George Walton. Presented, Aug. 10,1848 Teste: L.A. Currin, DC Page 132-133 / Bill of sale of the estate of John Hodge, Buyers : David Collins, David Graham, Samuel Rickey, Richard Shinault, Isaac Baker, Adam Sanders, G. Caldwell, John Sanders, John Long, John Bedson, Charles Tate. Presented: Aug. 10,1848 / Teste: L.A. Currrin, DC Next is Inventory and Appraisal of Estate of Henry M. Bentley, April 3,1847 by William Miller Sr., William Miller Jr., and Sebastian Miller. Presented, Oct. 5,1848, Teste: L.A. Currin, DC / Page 133. Page 133-136 Settlement of the Estate of Spencer D. Baskerville as of Nov. 20, 1848. Presented Dec. 7,1848. Teste: L.A. Currin, DC Page 136-137 / Appraisal of the Estate of William Burkhalden on Oct.7,1848 by Matthew Aiken, Jas. Madison, Thos. J. Barnes. Presented Dec.7,1848. Teste: L.A. Currin,DC Page 137-139 Bill Of Sale of the Estate of William Burkhalden on Oct. 7,1848. Buyers: M. Aiken, Vincent Parsons, Stephen Odle, John Larman, And. Boyd, James HAley, And. J. Clark, Russell Patton, Sam'l Ingram, Thos. J. Barnes, Sam'l Walters, William Whittaker, ( my interest) , William Fortune, D. Mitchell. Presented Dec. 7,1848. Teste L.A. Currin, DC. Page 139-141 Appraisal of the Estate of James Allison on Nov. 21,1845 by Joseph Graham, Harvey Shepherd, Charles L.Fon. Presented, Oct. 7,1848. TESTE; L.A. Currin, DC. Page 141-143 / Bill of Sale of the Estate of James Allison on Nov. 21,1845 and March 7,1846, Presented Dec. 7,1848. Teste: L.A. Currin,DC.

I DO NOT OPEN any Attachments which do not have a related message in the body of the E-mail.. signed by the sender! I think everyone sending an attachment should have the courtesy to write a short note telling the receiver what it contains.. Maybe I miss some information, but that's my rule... G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va..

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That is a good policy, but the new breed of email worm does not need for you to do ANYTHING except to get your mail from the server. If there is no antivirus program which scans downloading email, it will be ready to go before you can do anything about it. Clark Rogers ................................... G. Lee Hearl wrote: > > I DO NOT OPEN any Attachments which do not have a related message in the > body of the E-mail.. signed by the sender! I think everyone sending an > attachment should have the courtesy to write a short note telling the > receiver what it contains.. Maybe I miss some information, but that's my > rule... > > G. Lee Hearl > Authentic Appalachian Storyteller > Abingdon, Va.. > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #9 As of 3/22/2000 we have 550 members. Traffic can get heavy so check your > mailbox often. We should regulate traffic so it don't get out of hand. > There is an average of ten members coming and going each week. > -sysop > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

The Norton Virus Protection is protecting against 47,638 viruses. There are an average of 15 to 30 new viruses each week added to the definition list. The KAK/WORM virus is the least of your worry. The Trojans are even more sneaky. Some once installed on your computer will allow a malicious operator take over your computer and do a lot of strange things. They can send e-mail to every one on your address book from your address. This is one way they can "spread" the virus. Go to http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/subseven.htm as one example. It will list all the things that these Backdoor type Trojans can cause. I do not intend to abuse the rules of this list by continuing this subject. This problem is not going to go away and we must learn all we can to protect ourselves. These hackers are not content with just playing high tech war games. As I mentioned before, we all have too much at stake to loose all our records and put up with crashes and other computer non-sense. My last comment on the subject but will clarify or answer questions. Robert Crabtree

The security of our valuable genealogy records are at stake. We all need to do what ever we can to prevent the spread of these viruses. Clark Rogers was right on the button in his advice. I would like to mention, discourage your friends and relatives from sending those attached "good humor, angels, and virtual greetings" which are "mass" mailed to all "addressees" on their "list". Patched from Symantec Anti Virus Research Center: http://www.sarc.com/ for more virus information Wscript.KakWorm VBS.KakWorm spreads using Microsoft Outlook Express. It attaches itself to all outgoing messages via the Signature feature of Outlook Express and Internet Explorer newsgroup reader. The worm utilizes a known Microsoft Outlook Express security hole so that a viral file is created on the system without having to run any attachment. Simply reading the received email message will cause the virus to be placed on the system. Microsoft has patched this security hole. The patch is available from Microsoft's WEB site. If you have a patched version of Outlook Express, this worm will not work automatically. Robert Crabtree