----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherri Hall" <ldrbelties@earthlink.net> To: <KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: [KY] Kentucky Vital Records Project > The KYGenWeb Project is very proud to announce the latest addition to our > "Special Collections" of research references for those with Kentucky roots, > the Kentucky Vital Records Project. > (http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kvrp) > > What began as a "dream" of 3 of us involved with the KYGenWeb Project and > the KYGenWeb Archives, a centralized collection of Kentucky birth, marriage > and death records, is now available in the first stages for Kentucky > researchers. Currently, the browsable index lists all of the deaths in the > KY Death Index (1911-1999). > > We are in the process of adding digital images and transcriptions of actual > death certificates. These digital images and transcriptions will be linked > to the browsable index as they are added to the collection. Records for > this project will be a combination of researcher-contributed records and a > coordinated extraction program so we can get them up as quickly as possible. > We will begin adding birth records about 15 April 2004 and marriage records > about 1 June 2004. As these records are added, they will also be linked to > the index. (NOTE: Birth records will only be added for persons born before > the year 1854, unless proof of death is provided. We want to ensure that > the privacy and safety of living individuals is not compromised.) > > The browsable index will be a great help to KY researchers by itself, as > you'll be able to search for those "creative" spellings that all of us have > been blessed (or cursed) with. Tens of thousands of corrections have > already been made to the original index. Corrections from site visitors are > encouraged. As corrected or additional information is received on any of > the records, it will be incorporated into the index for the benefit of > future site visitors. In addition to the browsable index, be sure to check > out the site search engine, as it will pick up additional information in the > transcriptions (most importantly, parents' and spouse's names, if given). > > We invite everyone to stop in and check out this newest addition. Our hope > is that you'll find some "treasures" here and that you'll then share your > collections so that others can find theirs too. > > Feel free to forward this message to other mail lists. > > > > > > ==== KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== > The Registry -- NEW -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/ > The easy way to keep your email address updated > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/597 Message Board Post: If you need copies of Tennessee death certificates for Lake County, check out this website: www.tndeathcertificates.com I've been using them for over a month and get very prompt turnaround compared to the TN State Archives and they offer several services not available through the archives

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/596 Message Board Post: If anybody needs copies of Lake County death certificates check out www.tndeathcertificates.com I've been using them for over a month and the turnaround is a lot faster than the state archives and they offer several services you can't get through the archives.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Permenter, Jones, Hawkins, Yarbro, Rhodes, Short, Cunningham Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/595 Message Board Post: I found the following marriage announcement in the publication: Davis, Dr. Emily. Lake County Memories: History in Newsprint and Pictures. Humboldt, TN, Rose Publishing Co., p. 44. October 17, 1924 Esq. C.B. Rhodes Marries Three Couples Mr. Ed Jones and Miss Eva Permento, and Mr. H.D. Hawkins and Miss Franzie Yarbro, all of Push, Tenn., were married by Esquire C.B. Rhodes at his home in Wynnburg last Saturday. He also married Mr. Paul Short and Miss Bernice Cunningham of Hornbeak, on Tuesday of last week. Does anyone know who Ed Jones and Eva Permento/Permenter were? I am trying to fit Eva into the Permenter family. Any help appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alexander, Haskins, Hart, Morehead, & etc Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/594 Message Board Post: Lake Co, TN Banner--Week of February 17th, 2004 Wanda Louise Alexander Hart Wanda Louise Alexander Hart, Ridgely 83, retired teacher, died Monday, Feb. 16, 2004, at Ridgely Care and Rehabilitation Center after a long illness. She was the widow of James Harlan Hart. Visitation was Tuesday evening at First United Methodist Church in Ridgely. Services are at 11 a.m. today, Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the church, with the pastor, the Rev. Dean Emerson, and the Rev. David Gray, pastor of Abundant Life Church, officiating. Pallbearers will be Jackie Flowers, Johnny Barnes, Jonathan Bartlett, Larry White, Gary White, and Tony White. Burial will be at New Haven Cemetery of Ridgely, with Curry Funeral Home in charge. She was born March 15, 1920, in Ridgely to the late Verla Haskins Alexander and Dr. Willis Socrates Alexander. She was a Ridgely High School graduate, and received her college degree from Bethel College. She married James Harlan Hart Oct. 19, 1941, and he preceded her in death in 1968. She was a teacher in Lake County Schools for over 30 years, most of which was in Ridgely. She was a member of Ridgely First United Methodist Church. She leaves a daughter, Nina Jane "Janie" Morehead, of Obion; a sister, Frances Geneva Alexander of Ridgely; a grandson, James Andrew Morehead; a great-grandson, Montana Morehead. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, and a brother, Joseph Chrisler Alexander. Memorials are suggested to First United Methodist Church of Ridgely.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAY--SAMPSON--SMITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/593 Message Board Post: Matilda was my G-G Grandfather (Jefferson K. Smith b: 1842 in TN.) 3rd wife. Matilda Ray married John Sampson in Dyer Co.,TN. in 1889. Matilda & John Sampson are found in Dist. 12 Obion Co.,TN.in 1900.---Matilda age 39 & Jefferson K. Smith age 68 found in 1910 Lake Co.,TN. Dist.3 census. Here is where I need HELP-------I cannot find where & when Jefferson K. Smith died & his burial place. Matilda had several children by John Sampson. A 7 year old Sampson was living with Jefferson & Matilda in 1910. George RAY (brother in law)age 44 also with them. If you have any info. on This RAY-SAMPSON-SMITH FAMILIES please e-mail. Any info. will be appreciated. COY BOND

I am looking for help and information about my 2nd Great Grandfather James Henry Carothers. He was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1832 and was said to have lived in Tennessee from 1850 to 1873. He was married to Mary Susan Neal in Arkansas sometime after that, and his children were Lemuel Carothers, Joseph Roberta Carothers and Lucille Carothers-Jameson. Elderly family members have told me that he owned property in Nashville or that his family did possibly before Nashville became a city. I would like to find land records. He was said to also have lived in Western Tennessee across the river from Caruthersville, Missouri on a plantation. He was a schoolteacher and a carpenter and may have been educated at a University in Tennessee. I would like to verify this information with school records, land records, newspaper articles, etc. Also marriage records as I suspect he was married in Tennessee before marrying Mary Susan Neal in Arkansas. Any help or information about James Henry Carothers would be greatly appreciated. _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/56.1 Message Board Post: I may have some information for you. Edward Box was born 1754 in Laurens County, SC. he died May 17, 1857 in decatur county, Tennessee. he married Nancy on March 07, 1842 in Perry county, Tennessee, she was born in 1803

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Richardson, Donahue, & etc Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/592 Message Board Post: Lake Co, TN Banner Week of 2/3/2004 Grace Louise Williams Richardson Grace Louise Williams Richardson, 88, of Memphis, died Monday, Feb. 2, 2004, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. Formerly of Ridgely, she was the widow of Francis H. Richardson. Services were at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Poplar Chapel of Memphis Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, Feb. 4, at New Haven Cemetery of Ridgely. She was born in Ridgely to the late Clara Donahue Williams and Artie Williams. She was schooled in Ridgely schools. She married Francis H. Richardson May 2, 1911. He preceded her in death in June, 1981. She was a member of Leawood Baptist Church in Memphis. She leaves a daughter, Debbie Cannady of Millington; three grandchildren; and two caregivers, Grace Bothel and Betty Chapman, both of Memphis.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/589.1 Message Board Post: Check out Rootsweb's WorldConnect site (lgmathis) database. Etna Smith married Bruce C. Clayton 7 Sep 1897. She died 2 Sep 1903 Lake Co., TN and is buried in Crockett Chapel Cemetery. Bruce's 2nd wife was Sarah J. Barker. The two daughters you refer to were Osie Lee Clayton and Alma Clayton. Osie is buried under Osie Haynes and is buried in New Haven Cemetery, Lake Co., TN. Alma is listed as Alma Clayton and buried in Burras Chapel Cemetery. My Grandfather, Fred Jordan Thompson was Osie's first marriage. They divorced after she had a child with him. The child is as follows: Etna Uzola Thompson b. 10 Sep 1915 d. 23 Nov 1918. She is buried at Burras Chapel Cemetery. It only lists her mother's name. Let me know If you need more info. Sherry

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/456.458.462.1 Message Board Post: If you run across any MOORINGS from Florida, let me know. Looking for a Charles Mooring. Find him in Pensacola, Leon & Franklin Counties. He married abt. 1882 to a GASKIN(S).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moore, McKnight, Joseph, Sheridan, Reynolds & Robinson Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GgB.2ACE/591 Message Board Post: I would appreciate it if someone could do some obituary look ups for me, please. Joseph B. Moore b 12.14.1872 to d 06.26.1949 Velmar M. Moore b 06.06.1901 to d 02.19.1905 Bill (William) Moore b 2.10.1910 to d 9.10.1993 Ray Moore b 08.14.1921 to d 06.12.1978 Effie L. Moore Edmondson or Carr b 02.26.1925 to d 04.03.1994 James T. Moore b 04.10.1926 to d 05.23.1993 Martha E. H. Morrow Moore b 9.4.1929 to d 10.15.1970 Pamela Moore b 06.03.1950 to d 09.25.1997 Hassell McKnight b 06.21.1932 to d 03.25.1934 If someone can help me please email me at josephdelawder@aol.com Thank you in advance. Angel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crockett-Pickard-Hayner/Haynes/Hoyner-Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/505.2 Message Board Post: Try International Soundex Reunion Registry. P.O. Box 2312 Carson City Nevada 89702 This is a free registry. I found my birth son on the AOL adoption boards, but was registered through this address for years. They also have a web site, so do keyword ISSR or the whole thing. Good luck. Linda Beveridge (my son was found in 1997, given up in 68)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crockett-Pickard-Hoyner-Hayner-Haynes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/590 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on John (Jack) Hayner/Haynes/Hoyner in Tiptonville. He raised my great grandmother Allie Crockett (spelled Crockit on the 1870 census). Jack/John married a woman by the name of Margaret, in 1870 she was 19 years of age. I believe her last name was Wright or possibly Crockett. I am trying to find Allie's mother, listed as MaryCrockett on her death certificate. Allie had the last name of Crockett, so either Mary had her out of marriage or Mary had a different last name and married a Crockett. Belief is that Allie's parents died between 1862 (her birth year) and 1869. Anyone have any information?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAYTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/589 Message Board Post: Searchin g for any informatin on the Bruce Clayton family from Lake Co. Bruce first married Aetna (etna). Wanting to find her death and burial. She is listed in the 1900 census but Bruce was remarried to a lady named Sarah E. in 1910/ Bruce and second wife are buried in the Burrus Cem. Also would like info. on Bruce and Aetna (Etna) children: Not sure of names but daughtr b. July 1898 and daug. b. 1901. Thanks, Shirley DuPont shirley_dupont@hotmail.com

Was there any financial or relocation help for those who lost their land which is now under the Reelfoot Lake, due to the New Madrid earthquake. Kathleen Burnett

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Jacob Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GgB.2ACE/588 Message Board Post: Born 6 July 1884, Indiana, wife Fannie O'Neal Smith (possibly 2nd), supposedly a brother Guy and sister Mable who died young. Is rumored to have had a first wife and children and to have changed name. Died 19 Dec. 1950, Fresno, CA. Possible first surname Jacob.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brantley, McClain, Downing, Spicer, Wilson, Roper Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/587 Message Board Post: Lake Co, TN Banner Week of 1/21/2004 Claudia McClain Downing, 93, of Highway 22, Hornbeak, formerly of Tiptonville, died Friday, Jan. 16, 2004, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City, where she was a patient. She was the widow of Joe D. Downing of Tiptonville. Visitation was Monday evening at Tiptonville Chapel of Curry Funeral Home. Services were at 1 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Tiptonville, with the pastor, the Rev. Andy Martin, officiating. Pallbearers were Jerry Fuller, Jay Fowler, Bobby Spicer, George Gray Jr., Chad Phipps and Glen Rogers. Honorary pallbearers were Mark Spicer, Lance Osteen, Scott Salmon, Brent Rogers, William Preslar, Gary Spicer, Maurice McClain, Robert Lynn Spicer, Ross Bradley and Wes Bradley. Burial was in Tiptonville City Cemetery. She was born March 18, 1910, in the Owl City community of Lake County to the late Carrie Brantley McClain and John McClain. She married Joe D. Downing, who preceded her in death Jan. 16, 1947. She was a member of Lakeview Baptist Church near Tiptonville. She leaves a son, J.D. Downing of Tiptonville; two daughters, Melba Downing Spicer of Hornbeak and Juanita Downing Wilson of Belleville, Mich.; nine grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Joe D. Downing; two brothers, Tom McClain and Willie McClain; two stepsons, Cecil Downing and Jewett Downing; a stepdaughter, Bessie Mae Roper

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Osborne, Lovins, Wood, Hunnicutt, Haynes, Wiley, Blanton & etc Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GgB.2ACE/586 Message Board Post: UC Messenger--1/19/2004 Mildred Osborne Mildred M. Osborne, 96, of Ridgely died Jan. 14, 2004, at Ridgely Care and Rehabilitation. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Dyersburg Funeral Home's Ridgely chapel, with burial following there in New Haven Cemetery. The Rev. Dean Emerson will officiate and pallbearers will be Brian Osborne, Jim Turner, Jody Adams, Dave St. Pierce, Steve Reaves and Ken Beatty. Friends may call at the chapel in Ridgely from 6-8 this evening. She was a retired employee of Sears in Detroit and was a member of Ridgely First United Methodist Church. Survivors include three daughters, Martha Sue Lovins of Tiptonville, Barbara Wood of Ridgely and Sylvia Hunnicutt of Ormond Beach, Fla.; her son, Bubba Osborne of Samburg; four nieces, Helen Haynes of Tiptonville, Brenda Wiley and Barbara Blanton, both of Dyer, and Anita Wilson of Bradford; and 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Newt Osborne; and two sisters, Lucille Cannon and Juanita Jackson.

Voices From The Days of Slavery Recordings Online Website links: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/vfshome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ **************************** http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2004/04-01.html Former Slaves Tell Their Stories in New Library of Congress Audio Presentation Recordings Offer Firsthand Accounts Online The Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center will soon make available audio recordings of nearly two dozen former slaves who were interviewed between 1932 and 1975. “Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories” will be available on the American Memory collections Web site on Jan. 16, 2004, at http://www.loc.gov/memory This is the Library’s first online collection featuring audio recordings made of people who experienced slavery firsthand, providing the unique opportunity to listen to them describe their lives in their own voices. These interviews capture the recollections of 23 identifiable ex-slaves born between 1823 and the early 1860s. Several of those interviewed were centenarians. The nearly seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern states and provide an important look at what life was like for slaves and newly freed people. The former slaves discuss how they felt about slavery and slaveholders; how they were coerced; their families; and, of course, freedom. As part of their testimony, several of the ex-slaves sing songs, many of which were learned during their enslavement. This presentation complements other American Memory collections, most notably “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938,” which contains transcripts of more than 2,300 interviews with ex-slaves. However, unlike the transcripts, which sometimes represent the collectors’ interpretations rather than verbatim reproductions, these recordings present the actual interview and offer the unique experience of hearing the ex-slaves’ voices with their various inflections and regional dialects. In addition to the recordings and transcripts, “Voices from the Days of Slavery” also includes biographies of many of the interviewers, including such notables and playwright Zora Neale Hurston and folklorists John and Ruby Lomax and their son Alan. A special presentation called “Faces and Voices from the Collection” and a related resources section are also available. The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at the Library of Congress to “preserve and present American folklife” through programs of research, documentation, archival presentation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, public programs and training. The center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in 1928 and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the United States and around the world. American Memory is a project of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. Its more than 120 collections, which range from papers of the U.S. presidents, Civil War photographs and early films of Thomas Edison to papers documenting the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, Jazz Age photographs and the first baseball cards, include more than 8.5 million items from the Library of Congress and other major repositories. The latest Web site from the Library is the monthly “Wise Guide” http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide magazine which demonstrates that “It’s Fun to Know History.” ***************** Gay Mathis