Prayers for our men in Iraq. Pat

In a message dated 12/14/98 7:01:42 AM Central Standard Time, loseew@oasas.state.ny.us writes: << When FTW asks if you want to submit and you hit yes, you will be asked to put it on disk so in a word, there is a confirmation of which you have control. Changes or corrections can always be sent to FTW on disk just like the original. I am not sure how World Tree works, but I thought or understood corrections or changes could be made. >> When FTW asks if you want to submit and you hit yes, your family file is sent to World Family Tree via e-mail. There is plenty of time to cancel if you accidently hit the wrong button, though. Then it is published and sold on discs and can never be changed. Chuck

We have friends whose name is Pitts. I do not think they do genealogy, but many of the older ones are still alive. Do you want to U. S. Mail?Nell

If there are alot of Warren's, would you look for Robert Newton Warren? Stark S. Warren? Thank you, Jayne jkelleyh@aol.com

Now you have me wondering which I am---the Sap or the Nut....ha ha ha Thanks for your reply, Lee Bob hooverdo@juno.com wrote: > Thank you, Bob for saying what some of us are thinking..I just wish I > could get an answer to my queries, shared or otherwise...... > . > .Always remember "In every family tree there is a little sap" and "the > nut doesn't fall far from the tree". Lee > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > Researching the following Maury County surnames: HARDISON - JETER - KENNON - LEWIS - MACK - MAYSE - MILES - MITCHELL - MURPHY - OLIVER - PARK - PARRISH - RIEVES - ROOK - WELLS - demastus@aol.com >

Paddi, There are listings for both of your Surnames. Do you have any first names? There are quite a bit of Warrens in the list, it would be eaiser to get you some information if you know their first names. Mary Davis

Herald Democrat 15 Dec 1998 Denison, Grayson, TX Veta Vincent Thomas DOD 13 Dec 1998 DOB 28 Mar 1914 Burial Cedarlawn Memorial Park ___________________________________ Gordonville, Grayson, TX Frank Denton DOD 12 Dec 1998 DOB 15 Jul 1916 Burial Liberty Cemetery ___________________________________ Princeton, Collin, TX Merril Simpson DOD 13, Dec 1998 DOB 72 yrs. old Burial Ridgeview Memorial Park ___________________________________ Honey Grove, Fannin, TX Mildred Wright DOD 12 Dec 1998 DOB 80 yrs old Burial Grace Care Cemetery ___________________________________ Sherman, Grayson, TX Max Boydston DOD 66 yrs old DOB 22 Jan 1932 Burial Memorial Park Cemetery ___________________________________ Durant, Bryan, OK R. L. Williams DOD 12 Dec 1998 DOB 64 yrs old Burial Highland Cemetery ___________________________________ Denison, Grayson, TX Verna Lee Burnett DOD 13 Dec 1998 DOB 15 Oct 1920 Burial Carson Cemetery Denison, Grayson, TX Thelma Edwards DOD 7 Dec 1998 DOB 77 yrs old Burial Seaside Memorial Park ____________________________________ _ Van Alstyne, Grayson, TX Nelda J. Carney DOD 12 Dec 1998 DOB 73 yrs old Burial Van Alstyne Cemetery

Thank you, Bob for saying what some of us are thinking..I just wish I could get an answer to my queries, shared or otherwise...... ..Always remember "In every family tree there is a little sap" and "the nut doesn't fall far from the tree". Lee

Gosh, I haven't read my E-mail for 2 days and now I have 59 letters to read. But, everyone is talking about sharing or not sharing information and I'm sitting here "WISHING" I had something to share.....sob,sob Bob Kena159@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/14/98, 9:15:35 AM, TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com writes: > <<I am always very willing to share my information, because, > with many people working on the same or similar lines, more > information is found. That I feel, is of importance in doing > genealogical research.>> > > And sometimes one researcher will have access to information that no one else > could ever find. This recently happened to me. Having hit what seemed like a > dead end on my maternal grandfather's line, I found a descendant of his > brother online, the only member of this family I have ever found. I had a > sister of my grandfather in my files that she had never heard of. This child > has no documentation--no birth certificate, no death certificate, no census > record because she was born and died between censuses. I knew about her > because my mother's oldest sister is named for her. > > My sources are not on my Web, but I make it clear that anyone is welcome to e- > mail me for sources, and I am scrupulous about documenting where I get > information. I also make clear that my information came from many sources and > that some of it I have not personally verified. It would be very difficult to > put only research that I have personally done into tree format because there > would be gaps. If I didn't enter data received from others in my Family Tree > Maker, there would not be much point in seeking the data, some of which it is > geographically possible for me to personally confirm. Before I post my files > on my page, I run them through Gedclean to eliminate personal information > about living individuals. > > I love to share information and will even volunteer to do lookups for people > if I don't have the person they are looking for in my data. If I add data to > my files that I get from a Web page, I try to e-mail the person and ask their > permission. When I first started, I did not know anyone expected me to do > that, however. I think it would be ridiculous to go back and remove all that > data from my files. It is my impression that most people's pages contain > substantial amounts of data that they obtained from other people, and I have > never had anyone tell me that I could not use theirs. Most people who post > data on the Internet do so in order to share it, I believe. > > Now, it is one thing to add names, dates, and personal information about > ancestors to one's page. Presumably this is public information available to > everyone. It is another thing to appropriate more creative uses of this data. > I wrote a brief sketch of my fourth great-grandfather for my page and was a > little disgruntled to find it posted verbatim and with no source on the page > of someone I had shared data with. I pondered what to do and decided, for the > sake of good will, to say nothing, particularly since he had put a link to my > page on his. And, it's not as though I am going to publish this sketch or win > any literary awards for it. > > I think we need to keep a perspective about why we are doing this research. > As someone else said, most of us are doing it for fun; and I know that many of > us enjoy finding distant cousins online almost as much as we enjoy finding > another piece of our ancestral puzzle. Also, I think that since online > genealogy is so new, the rules are still in a state of development and it is > not clear to most of us exactly what they are. > > Sara Binkley Tarpley > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > Maury County Historical Society > Contact: Mrs. Alice Algood, President > Address: 804 Athenaeum St., Columbia, TN 38401 > Phone: (931) 388-5373 > > MCHS, founded in 1964, meets every odd month on the third Sunday. A quarterly publication is issued. Membership dues are $10 per year. > > Visit the Maury County Historical Society Web Site at: > http://www.maurywebpages.com/mchs/index.htm

I'm doing research in SC on my Coats line that went to TN and I've seen the Pitts name there...not sure that will be of any big help...but the land records are great for tracing people...Charlotte ----Original Message Follows---- From: MPitts1108@aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:13:34 EST Subject: [TNMAURY-L] PITTS Research To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com Is anyone out there doing research on the PITTS family? This would be the line of Jim B. PITTS > Vancey Wales PITTS > William "Billy" PITTS > John PITTS. I'm stuck at John Pitts. Monty Pitts MPitts1108@aol.com ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== Researching the following Maury County surnames: BINKLEY - BOOKER - CASKEY - CRAIG - CRAWFORD - CREWS - DABBS - DANIELS - DEMASTUS - DIAL - DILLEHAY - DODSON - DOOLEY - DUGGER - demastus@aol.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Barbara Stancliff wrote: > > My mother-in-law, who was a semi-professional genealogist, > refused to share information with any other members of her > family. She felt that if they wanted the info, they had to > go dig for it. This was in the days when searching involved > trips to distant courthouses, and long hours at the large > libraries. I can somewhat see her point, since her searches > involved a lot of travel, time and expense. But I do not > agree with it. > > I am always very willing to share my information, because, > with many people working on the same or similar lines, more > information is found. That I feel, is of importance in doing > genealogical research. > > Similarly, when checking out someone's gedcom file online, I > am always dismayed when no dates or places are included. How > can I tell then if this might be the people I am looking > for? Names recur many times down through the generations and > among cousins of the same generation. It is a great help if > a place and date are given to allow me to narrow my search. > Then, if the names fit, I can contact the submitter and > share information, double check references, etc. > > Barbara Stancliff > Maury Co names: Love, Johnston, Blake, Goodman, Jernigan, > Skipper > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > Visit the Maury County, Tennessee web site at http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/maury/index.html > Dear Barbara, That is just about like I feel. I have been at this for some years, have published two family histories and have never once had a person compliain because I included their dates and other information about them. But, as the saying goes, "Everybody to his own taste, said the old lady as she kissed her cow." Take care. Fred Hawkins

Do you have any Dickerson's or Warren's in the cemetery? Thanks Paddi Paddioo@aol.com

Is anyone out there doing research on the PITTS family? This would be the line of Jim B. PITTS > Vancey Wales PITTS > William "Billy" PITTS > John PITTS. I'm stuck at John Pitts. Monty Pitts MPitts1108@aol.com

I guess some of you have mis interpreted what I said about sharing information. Didn't mean to stir up a hornets nest. I was complaining because of putting living individuals on line, when they were specifically asked not to pass on any living information, and was assured he would not. I totally agree about sharing information. After all, our ancestors belong to all of us, and that can't be copyrighted. I will continue to share anything I have with anyone who needs it. Mary Lou

Joyce, No, I don't have Horatio. Have you tried the BTRVETC list? It stands for Burnett, Turner, Ross,Via ETC. JUNE BALDWIN BORK is on that list and frequently answers BURNETT questions. She is the author of the HUGE, BURNETTS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS. In order to join the list, you will have to go to the webpage where the archives are, because (feebleminded me) I have been on it so long I have forgotten how to join this indepependant list. The address to POST a msg is BTRVETC-L@genealogy.com. The Website search page is: http://www~personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/index.html. This list (and JUNES Books, include probably every Burnett Line who went west and south from Virginia.) There is a BURNETT list on rootsweb, too but for my Va>Tn>Al Burnetts I have found the BTRVETC list much better. I subscribe to both. June Bork also has a page where you can see what her books entail. I am not trying to sell you books, but they are well researched. http://www.JuneBaldwinBork.com; June's e-mail address is jbbork@ix.netcom.com Good luck, and if you find a tie with my family, let me know, Carole Caroline Burnett Cook dtr of CHARLES ARCHER BURNETT & CAROLINE BEASLEY NORTON son of JOSEPH LEE BURNETT & FANNIE ELIZABETH JORDAN son of CAPT. WILLIAM WILTSHIRE (BUCK) BURNETT, CSA & MARGARET ROUNDTREE (Carter's Creek near Columbia, Tn) son of COL. JOSEPH BOLLING BURNETT (Mex War)& ANNA BEASLEY son of TALIAFERRO BURNETT (b.Dinwiddie Co Va, d1822 Willliamson County, Tn.)& MARY BAUGH son of RICHARD BURNETT(Essex Co Va 1732-1796)& MARY BOUGHAN son of JOSEPH BURNETT & CLARA GATEWOOD AND SO ON back to Aberdeen Scotland... In a message dated 12/15/98 4:27:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, TNMAURY-D- request@rootsweb.com writes: << davisjc" <davisjc@traveller.com> To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199812141645.KAA73334@zephyr.traveller.com> Subject: Re: [TNMAURY-L] Burnetts and related families??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Do you have a S. Horatio Barnett/Burnett whose wife was Amanda in your Burnett lineage? Horatio was born in TN, lived in TX, fought in CW, moved to ARK where he died. Would love to find out more about this family. Joyce at davisjc@traveller.com >>

Hello: I guess I am allways so happy to find someone searching my ancestors, never even thought about anything. I provide everyone who writes me with anything I have to help connect to them. I even try to look up things in my area that relate to another person, many people have helped me. Even in my genealogy periodicals I do the same. I try to ask a person if I can include my cousins in our E-mail, because I have worked on mine for 30 years off and on. The thing is I have found info that we can share and lo and behold there comes the whole family together. We have all spent thousands on genealogy and I personally think it is a great investment. Who are we, if we don't know who and where we came from. Happy Haunting, Marian

In a message dated 12/14/98 4:52:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, CackyCline@aol.com writes: << I am with you, Barbara, about sharing. What goes around DOES come around...and maybe not right then or from the same source; but invariably, I will send off a bunch of info, and soon, get a regular wind-fall... maybe not on the same line. Often I find someone who has enough overlapping information to know it is the same person, and sharing and swapping opens all sorts of new doors, for both of us! Catherine ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== Visit the Maury County, Tennessee web site at http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/maury/index.html >> Catherine - Well put! Karma always has a way of evening things out and I have never found this to not be true. I too have been most fortunate in my research and 99% of it has come through sharing and comparing research with others. Some will have and give more and some will have and give less but all are valuable assets to the individual researcher. I respond to this and notice that your screen name is ClackyCline. Cline is one of my collateral lines to a major branch of HARDIN from Portland, Sumner Co., TN. My Great Grandfather, Timothy Clinton HARDIN b. 1879 and Great Grandmother, Leona AnnaTilda WENDT HARDIN b. 8-7-1889 had 10 children, 8 of which survived to adulthood and of whom, Ruth HARDIN CLINE was born 9th in abt. 1928 -1930. Ruth married Noble CLINE and had at least one son, Kenneth and possibly a daughter. She currently resides in Portland and is my mother's maternal Aunt. Are you connected to this Cline line? Anything you could share with a related researcher? I would have some rather Big and interesting news on the HARDIN line in exchange if this the case and would be happy to do just that if you contact me at BULL4FISH2@aol.com. Thanks, Stella BULL4FISH2@aol.com or PooleHardinHunter@netscape.net and some related names are: HARDIN~WHITEHOUSE~MINER~JONES~SPARROW~SHIPLEY~HANKS~LINCOLN~KING~BOREN~DICKENS ~RICKEL~RUSSELL~STREET~WENDT~BRILEY~CLINE~DEMASE~DYCE~POOL(E)~ABERNATHY~HORN~R EBELLO~ELLIOTT~PATTERSON~CORNETT~ANKER~BRUNDRETT~BOGDA~STENGER~BARTON~MILLER~M CCARY~COLLUM~POPE and numerous others.........currently over 750 individuals in my database with the bulk originating from this line above.

I am with you, Barbara, about sharing. What goes around DOES come around...and maybe not right then or from the same source; but invariably, I will send off a bunch of info, and soon, get a regular wind-fall... maybe not on the same line. Often I find someone who has enough overlapping information to know it is the same person, and sharing and swapping opens all sorts of new doors, for both of us! Catherine

Do you have a S. Horatio Barnett/Burnett whose wife was Amanda in your Burnett lineage? Horatio was born in TN, lived in TX, fought in CW, moved to ARK where he died. Would love to find out more about this family. Joyce at davisjc@traveller.com ---------- > From: CarBurCo@aol.com > To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TNMAURY-L] Burnetts and related families??? > Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 12:39 PM > > Hello, Maury County! > > I am looking for people with connections with my families: BURNETT,JORDAN, > FARIS, RANSOM, ROUNDTREE, BEASLEY,MATTHEWS,BAUGH....ETC. (Bet a lot of you > have the Etc family....they can be found in books everywhere <G>. > > > Thanks, > > Carole > Caroline Burnett Cook > > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > If you hit reply to an e-mail posted to the list, it automatically replies to the list. To send to individual, be sure to change adressee in TO: section. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Promise this is last time this year(grin) I will bother anyone here. Would appreciate very much if someone is looking in records if they would check to see if there is listed a Frances Duren Graham(Grimes) or a Thomas, who is her son. Need to know if Thomas' wife is named Rosannah and if maiden name given. Was told they were on 1840 census in Maury Co. Thomas and Rosannah Graham were my gggrandparents and have come to blank on his parents. Much thanks in advance!! Merry Christmas to all on list. Carlene Graham