Hi All, A very good question and also answers. In addition to waht has already been said, I use the historical society newsletters if the county in which I'm researching has them. Gerri On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Brenda K. <bcorby51@yahoo.ca> wrote: > I love the input from everyone! I also descend from the Rolf/Pocahantas > line. My brick wall is my maternal greatmother who was said to be Cherokee > indian. She was married to Joshua Oliver from Hazzard KY. My grandfather Joe > Oliver lived in Jamestown TN. He was was married to Vera Delk. Vera's mother > was a Patton. Actually, Milly and I are related. > > My other brcik wall is my paternal grandfather. My grandfather was James > Arthur Eldridge from Cookeville TN. Any help would be appreciated! > > > Ciao, > Brenda Kaye Corbett (nee Eldridge) > > --- On Thu, 12/30/10, Susie Lemin <slemin46@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From: Susie Lemin <slemin46@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [TNFENTRE] A question about your research > To: tnfentre@rootsweb.com > Received: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 5:18 PM > > > I understand about the fusteration about brickwalls. I was butting my head > on a > few until a very nice person by the name of Bruce York helped me along. > > Also I was devastated to find out that DNA only showed the male > connections. > > My most rewarding find was by pure luck. I was working on my husbands > Cabell > line I see the name Rebecca Pocahantas Bolling. I thought to myself OH > Bother > why would some name a child that. Well I went back and found that she was > the > great grand daughter of John Rolfe and POCAHANTAS Rebecca Powhanttan. > So never skip any names even if they are female. > > This clued me into not ignoring any female names and that lead me back to > Augustin Hermann in Maryland who was not only my husband's ancestor but > mine > also. > > The only regrett I have is that Carroll Co. TN doesn't have as good of > database > that Overton/Fentress Co. have. My maternal line springs from there > > Susie McFarland Lemin, Back Home in Texas, > > "LOVE: is when the happiness of another is essential to your own" > Robert Anson Heinlein from the book "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Stan Arney <arney9thgeneration@yahoo.com> > To: tnfentre@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 5:00:45 PM > Subject: [TNFENTRE] A question about your research > > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > > 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 > > 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 >