Very good.You should have been a politician.You know how to get peoples attention and interested. LotusC wrote: > > 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. > > ==== TARVER Mailing List ==== > Transcribed records online: http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/ > List FAQ: http://www.tarver-genealogy.net/DataShare/TarverList.html > Please check the FAQ first if you are having trouble unsubscribing.