Hi Bruce I see your emails came through. You may add that my father has passed away. He was born June 16 1922 in Roane Co and died December 25 2010 in Cannonsburg PA. He lived a long life and I hope I make it that long also. He was 88 years old. He was a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner...Not sure if they go together. He had a lot of descendants. I haven't gotten that far. They just keep coming .. I have a new great grandson born Dec 4 2010. My cousin had a great grandson born on Christmas Day. I guess my Dad left this world to make room for this baby... Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone

I am sorry for the passing of your Father.  I lost mine in 2005.  God Bless and Comfort your family.  Yes you can be a 32 degree Manson and a Shriner.  I have many in my family going back to the 1700's.  God Bless God Speed Sammie Jean Gregory Fairchild (Jeannie) Come and join a great group! Join Trails to the Past today! http://www.trailstothepast.org To subscribe to kymonroe@rootsweb.com please put subscribe in you subject line and body of text. To unsuscribe to kymonroe@rootsweb.com please put unsubscribe inyour subject line and body of text. --- On Wed, 12/29/10, MPiros1120@aol.com <MPiros1120@aol.com> wrote: From: MPiros1120@aol.com <MPiros1120@aol.com> Subject: [TNFENTRE] My father To: tnfentre@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 6:13 AM Hi Bruce I see your emails came through.  You may add that my father  has passed away. He was born June 16 1922 in Roane Co and died December 25 2010  in Cannonsburg PA. He lived a long life and I hope I make it that long also. He  was 88 years old. He was a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner...Not sure if they go  together. He had a lot of descendants. I haven't gotten that far. They just keep  coming .. I have a new great grandson born Dec 4 2010. My cousin had a great  grandson born on Christmas Day. I guess my Dad left this world to make room for  this baby... Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone  http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Milly, I'm sorry to hear you lost your father but delighted about your new grandson!   Dad died just short of three years ago and Mom 10 years ago.  I still find it hard to believe they are gone.  How I miss them! Judy   The May Sexton McGlothin Foundation is now online at maymcglothin.org!  Help us keep the dream alive! Laus Deo ----- Original Message ---- From: "MPiros1120@aol.com" <MPiros1120@aol.com> To: tnfentre@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 1:13:41 AM Subject: [TNFENTRE] My father Hi Bruce I see your emails came through.  You may add that my father  has passed away. He was born June 16 1922 in Roane Co and died December 25 2010  in Cannonsburg PA. He lived a long life and I hope I make it that long also. He  was 88 years old. He was a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner...Not sure if they go  together. He had a lot of descendants. I haven't gotten that far. They just keep  coming .. I have a new great grandson born Dec 4 2010. My cousin had a great  grandson born on Christmas Day. I guess my Dad left this world to make room for  this baby... Milly WARD Piros My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff It's gone  http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a Q? for all of you, about your genealogy research. When you began tracing your family surname, did you only concentrate on that surname, therefore only the men, who could carry on the family name? I will be honest, I have never taken a single course or workshop, on the hobby of genealogy.  I never had anyone, sit me down, and show me, step-by-step, just how to go about all of this, the correct way.  I know there is no perfect plan to research your family, but it would have been nice to have some pointers. How did I begin, I asked my paternal grandmother about our family, and she handed me a small sheet of paper with some names on it.  She also told me, I might want to write a distant cousin, whom she knew who was into genealogy, and see what he could tell me.  Well, he sent me a hand-drawn family tree, it wasn’t complete mind you, but it was a great start.  Hey, at least I wasn’t starting from scratch.   I knew my family was basically in Tennessee, so I began looking up some of the names in the US Federal Census microfilm rolls.  Wow, that was a joke, at first no one told me they had index books to check first, so I spent hours rolling through page after page of microfilm, and getting frustrated that a person, next to me, suggested looking in the index books, first. The problem with only using the US Federal Census, is it doesn’t give you the maiden names of any of the wife’s. I began my research back in the mid-1970’s, and I still have so much more to learn, and need to know.  “Brick walls”, as they are know by, in the genealogy community, are the most frustrating.  Especially, when you feel you are all alone, trying to solve that mystery. I only concentrated, on the men, the ones who carried on my family surname, from one generation to the next, disregarding the women, basically altogether. After all, they do not carry on the family surname, so why keep track of them, right? I have come to learn, as this year comes to a close, that my way of thinking, genealogy wise, has been way too narrow.  After all, if I want to know “where do I come from?”  I come from both a father and a mother.  I’m a mix of their blood.  My mother’s family blood is just as much a part of me, as my father’s family blood is.  So, that means my mother’s relatives, are (excuse the expression) relative to genealogy research.  After all, if my mother’s family has Native American blood in them, then so do I, or if my father’s family has Asian American blood in them, then so do I.   There is an added benefit to keeping an eye on, what I call “non-surname carriers” and that is they may lead you to information on a “surname carrier” that you haven’t been able to find. Has anyone else, made this same error of judgment, in their research? Stan ArneyWichita, KS

Milly, I am very sorry for your loss. Having had both of my parents pass on, I am well aware of the adjusment, even when they've had a long, full life & you know they're in a better place. Blessings, Gerri On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:13 AM, <MPiros1120@aol.com> wrote: > Hi Bruce > > I see your emails came through. You may add that my father has passed > away. He was born June 16 1922 in Roane Co and died December 25 2010 in > Cannonsburg PA. He lived a long life and I hope I make it that long also. > He was > 88 years old. He was a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner...Not sure if they go > together. He had a lot of descendants. I haven't gotten that far. They just > keep coming .. > > I have a new great grandson born Dec 4 2010. My cousin had a great > grandson born on Christmas Day. I guess my Dad left this world to make room > for > this baby... > > Milly WARD Piros > > My Mind is like Lightning.....One Brilliant flash and pooooooooofffffffff > It's gone > > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNFENTRE > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNFENTRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >