This note is to welcome all of you to our new TARVER-L and TARVER-D RootsWeb mailing list and to thank those of you who have visited our new Tarver-Gen website during the past week. The queries in our Tarver-Gen Forum at http://tarver-genealogy.net/DataShare/Forum/index.html seem to be growing almost daily and I know that will become a great resource to all of us. This mailing list is an attempt to facilitate communication between all of us ... I know we have a lot of questions and a lot of information we can share. Please take a few moments to introduce yourselves and to post your family info over the next few days. I guess I can start. My name is Lotus Dale Cirilo and I am the coordinator of this mailing list as well as the webmaster for the related website Tarver-Gen at http://www.tarver-genealogy.net. Many of you have met me, via email, through correspondence initiated by my original website, "genealogy by lotus dale" on butterfly.net. My line is out of the Amite Co., Ms area. My grandfather was Rev. John Wesley Tarver, the s/o James Wilson Tarver and Permelia Ann nee Tarver. James Wilson was the s/o Samuel Wilson Tarver who was the s/o Wilson Tarver who was the s/o [Thomas?] Tarver and Judith Cockerham who came to Amite County, Ms from Barnwell, SC. Permelia Ann Tarver was the d/o John Edward J. Tarver who also was the s/o Wilson Tarver. As you can see, Permelia Ann and James Wilson were cousins. So we descend on both sides from the same family <g>. My uncle, Carroll C. Tarver, is co-host of the Tarver-Gen website. Our goal at Tarver-Gen is not only to trace our own line, but to help link all of the Tarver lines, through cooperative research. The Tarver-Gen website, and this mailing list, both provide a forum where you can post your data and ask your questions, receiving full credit and retaining copyright to your own efforts. I encourage you to invite everyone you've been in correspondence with privately to join us. Again, please take a few moments to introduce yourselves and to post your family info over the next few days. And a BIG WELCOME to all of you. To send questions or your lineage to the list, send your email to TARVER-L@rootsweb.com ... Thank you for joining us. My best, Lotus Dale Cirilo #Lotus D. Cirilo, Executive Director <lotusc@tyler.net> #Tyler Independent School District Foundation #PO Box 2035 Tyler TX 75710 Ph.(903) 531-3543 #******************************************************** #Tarver-Gen <http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/> #Genealogy. Collaborative family research. Tarver Welch #Lee Cockerham Rogers Reeves others. Searchable gedcom, #queries, transcribed records, message forum, mail list.