Hello Deborah, If you cannot get this document, let me know and we'll see what we can do for you. Thanks for being part of the ROOTWALKER family. Sincerely, Stan Magnesen ~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 5/2/01 5:15:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, debjorg@juno.com writes: > Subj: [ROOTWALKER] Re: Overton County; Jesse Chism > Date: 5/2/01 5:15:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From: debjorg@juno.com (Deborah L Jorgensen) > Reply-to: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > To: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > > I need some advice here. Per Tn-Rootwalker help I got to the Overton > Co. website. > After fiddling around there for a while I got to the Overton County Court > Minutes 1844-1849---for the "C's" ---and actually found a Jessee (sic) > Chism there. I have never, ever found a Jesse Chism (name of my great > great grandfather) in Overton Co. before, even though his obit and other > info lists him as going from Overton Co. Tenn to McLean Co. Illinois > after his mother died around the end of the 1840s. > There was a "URL" > -----http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnoverto/docs/1844countycourtc.htm > I clicked on that but couldn't get anywhere. Or I got somewhere but > couldn't understand what they were trying to tell me. > I need a better computer with lots more megabytes or gigabytes or > whatever and had almost given up genealogy until I can get one. > But now I am so excited that I may have found that doggone Tennessee > Jesse Chism that I wonder what I should do now? Do I write somewhere for > a document? Do I run over to Nashville? (I live in Knoxville) Is there > somewhere I can get to on the internet, even with an inferior computer, > to find whatever court document I need to find out more about that Jesse > Chism that is listed and see if he must be mine? Help! Deborah > Jorgensen > >