--part1_a6.3dbb167d.2cb5f009_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I received this message but did not receive the one by Jas. Smith. Is there a problem? I went to the archives and Octobers messages are not posted. Mary June --part1_a6.3dbb167d.2cb5f009_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xh03.mx.aol.com (rly-xh03.mail.aol.com [172.20.115.232]) by air-xh02.mail.aol.com (v96.8) with ESMTP id MAILINXH21-49a3f8483df22c; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:39:36 -0400 Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists7.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.39]) by rly-xh03.mx.aol.com (v96.8) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXH38-49a3f8483df22c; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:38:46 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h98LcEHF019330; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:38:14 -0600 Resent-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:38:14 -0600 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Oct 8 15:38:14 2003 X-Originating-IP: [68.86.10.32] Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:36:31 GMT Old-To: [email protected] Old-Cc: [email protected] X-Mailer: WebMail Version 2.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: [Tngibson] Re: Lowerey/Coley Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2675 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-AOL-IP: 207.40.200.39 Dyersburg is in Dyer Co., TN. You might have better luck on the Dyer Co list than this one, if you need lookups in Dyer Co. records. Are your parents still living, and if not, do you know where they died and were buried? If you don't know, you can probably still find them because their names are not the most common. Dyersburg may be big enough to have a city directory. You can check to see when their names disappeared from the city directory. You can check the addresses where they lived and if they moved a lot, they probably rented their home, rather than owned. But if they stayed in one place, you can ask for a check of the deed records to see when they bought and sold their home. Do you know when and where your parents were married, and when and where they were divorced (assuming they were divorced). Do you have birth dates or approximate years of birth for them? If you think they were married in Dyersburg, you can ask on the mailing list for that county if someone could look up their marriage license. On the off chance that they were married in Gibson Co. (not too far from Dyersburg), the marriages up to 1950 have been published, and many of them posted on the Gibson Co. genweb page. Have you talked to all of your parents, parents' living siblings, and their children, and your siblings? It's easier to get information from the living than to find it after they're dead. You can check the Social Security Death Index if they died after about 1963, and you know your mother's last married name. The index I use the most is at www.rootsweb.com. If you enter the name there, one of the options is the SSDI. You need an approximate date of death to check the TN Death Index because it is indexed a single year at a time. I think indices are available for up to about 1945. The index is in the state library in Nashville, and probably some other libraries. Each of your parents should be listed as children in the 1920 census. They should be a minimum of 1-5 years old then (to have a child in 1935). They may be listed in the 1930 census as children with their parents, or they could be on their own or even married by then. The censuses would give you a year of birth, which could help with finding them in the SSDI. You didn't say where your mother moved to and whether you had checked for a record of her death there. If you don't get a volunteer to look for Dyer Co. records, you can call the courthouse there and ask what they charge to look up a record. Some courthouses in TN charge as little as $2, which includes the copy if they find something. The address and phone number for the courthouse is usually on the County genweb page. Sue -- Jas L Smith <[email protected]> wrote: I was born in Dyersburg,TN in 1935 and mt parents names are Mother: Zula Anna Bell Lowerey and Father: William Thomas Coley, They were separated before I was born and my Mother moved from Dyersburg when I was about six years old. f I am trying to find information about them and hope some one can help me. Thanks Martha Sue Smith ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ==== TNGIBSON Mailing List ==== Gibson Co TN Genealogy Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngibson/ --part1_a6.3dbb167d.2cb5f009_boundary--