I am lost. I have gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait. Bill Roberts

My family coat of arms ties at the back....is that normal? My family tree is a few branches short! All help appreciated My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! My hobby is genealogy, I raise dust bunnies as pets. How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?? I looked into my family tree and found out I was a sap.. I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me? If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help... Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem, leads to two more! It's 1998... Do you know where your-Great-G. Grandparents are? A family reunion is an effective form of birth control A family tree can wither if nobody tends it's roots A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? FLOOR: The place for storing your priceless genealogy records. Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but I love it Genealogists are time unravelers Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... I seek! Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people "Crazy" is a relative term in my family A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand I SHOULD have asked them BEFORE they died! I think my ancestors had several "Bad heir" days I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNEflower Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards, as progress Share your knowledge, it is a way to achieve immortality Heredity: Everyone believes in it until their children act like fools! It's an unusual family that hath neither a lady of the evening or a thief. Many a family tree needs pruning Shh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears. Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN! I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes Genealogists live in the past lane Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots! Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree Alright! Everybody out of the gene pool! Always willing to share my ignorance.... Documentation...The hardest part of genealogy Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! Genealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? That's the problem with the gene pool: NO Lifeguards I researched my family tree... and apparently I don't exist! SO MANY ANCESTORS...........................SO LITTLE TIME!

Is anyone researching Alexander? Andrew Alexander, b. 18 Nov 1795 in NC, married Leah Faris, b. 21 Aug 1801 in SC, in Maury County, TN, 29 Apr 1819. They had six children while they lived in Maury County: Eli Farris, Elizabeth Jane, Mary Ann, Obediah Oliver, John M. F. and Elizabeth Malone. The family moved to Calloway County, KY between 1833 and 1837 where two more children were born. Who were Andrew's parents? Did any others of his family go to Calloway County about the same time? (There is a mysterious Baxter Alexander.) How was Leah Faris related to the more commonly known Fariss family of Maury County? Willing to share info. Susan Hurt >thurt@redrock.net > >

Hi Chuck, I have a Nancy RANSOM PERKINS who married my Randal CHAPMAN May 30 1833 in Greene CoGA. In 1834 Randal was appointed guardian of the 5 PERKINS ch. In 1835 Randal received $289.50 from Estate of John J PERKINS for orphans of same. However, in 1836 Randal died & guardian ship of 5 PERKINS ch. was returned to Nancy. His will left the plantation to wife Nancy, son Marion & other ch?? Don't know if this was her ch or his 2, Thomas D b 1829 & Mary A. CHAPMAN (by Elizabeth TALLEY) or theirs. Hope you know something about this Nancy. Anna Lee Demastus@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 12/4/98 12:43:09 PM Central Standard Time, CarBurCo@aol.com > writes: > > << I am looking for people with connections with my families: > BURNETT,JORDAN, > FARIS, RANSOM, ROUNDTREE, BEASLEY,MATTHEWS,BAUGH >> > > I have BURNETT ancestors in Maury Co (Sarah m. John MACK) and JORDAN & BAUGH > ancestors, but not in Maury Co. > > Chuck Demastus > > ==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== > Visit the Maury County, Tennessee web site at http://www.tngenweb.usit.com/maury/index.html

Hello, Maury County List. I need the name of a Historical Researcher in Maury CO TN. Would appreciate any help. Happy Hunting. Denise PRINCE Wilson

I am looking for information on any of the children born to Andrew Harvey MCCARTY and Ruth REESE. All were born in Maury County. Minerva B. 6/23/1809 David Franklin B. 7/1/1810 (my g-g-grandfather) William Riley B. 1/6/1811 D. 3/4/1813 in Maury Co. James Reese B. 12/12/1812 Andrew Harvey B. 3/9/1814 Ruth Lavenia B. 12/7/1815 John Leroy B. 1/18/1817 Elizabeth Lucretia B. 9/29/1818 Sarah Susanna B. 4/24/1820 Nancy Caroline B. 8/3/1821 Jane Mariah B. 9/4/1823 Thanks for any help. Sue Ellis Ware

Hello Reeds (by any spelling) My name is Helen (aka) Nell Logue and I am researching the Reeds. My family line is the Reeds of Mississippi and Texas mainly. A few went to California, and a few somewhere else. What I propose to do is get all of these Reeds into one large database and see if we can make any connections. That is where I will need your help. I need every Reed (by any spelling) to send me a GEDCOM or whatever information you have on the Reeds. I will call them "unattached Reeds" or something of the order. When I do make a connection then that bunch of Reeds will be put in my Reed Database. Until then they will be kept separate. As I add to the database I will make sure you are aware of the change. I hope everyone who reads this will participate. It is going to take a lot of hard work and I will need all the help I can get. What I want is Reeds from Alabama, Arkansas, NY, Michigan, Kentucky, any state in the United States. Any questions? If you are ready, I am. Let's get the Reeds rolling. Start sending your information any way you know how. GEDCOM is really a good way to send lots of information at one time. But if you have a better system, use it. Hope to hear from you Reeds soon. Helen (aka) Nell Logue

I have a new screen name and I need to know how to change my mail my new name will be GostSeeker Thanks BoneChaser

Subj: RootsWeb and Recent Hotmail Problems Date: 12/4/98 12:53:43 PM Central Standard Time From: twp@rootsweb.com (Tim Pierce) To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com Hi Listowners -- A couple of nights ago, Hotmail's servers went crazy and started sending us duplicate and triplicate copies of everything they sent us. We were receiving dozens of extra copies of their mail every second. That much mail can kill a mail server. In order to protect RootsWeb, we were forced to reject all mail coming from Hotmail for about fifteen hours. That means that between 1am and 6pm on December 3, anything sent from a Hotmail user to rootsweb.com was just discarded. Even with this protective measure in place, the mail server crashed twice overnight trying to deal with the barrage of Hotmail messages. This message is just to let you know in case your subscribers ask about disappearing mail, or in case any listowners are Hotmail users themselves and are wondering. Next week's RootsWeb Review will mention this problem, so there's no need to forward this message to your lists. -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades

In a message dated 12/4/98 12:43:09 PM Central Standard Time, CarBurCo@aol.com writes: << I am looking for people with connections with my families: BURNETT,JORDAN, FARIS, RANSOM, ROUNDTREE, BEASLEY,MATTHEWS,BAUGH >> I have BURNETT ancestors in Maury Co (Sarah m. John MACK) and JORDAN & BAUGH ancestors, but not in Maury Co. Chuck Demastus

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

Subj: Some Naming Patterns Date: 12/3/98 4:09:46 PM Central Standard Time From: JWick@compuserve.com (Judy Wick) Sender: JWick@compuserve.com (Judy Wick) To: VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com I thought I would pass on some information recently given to me from friends on the Internet that may prove useful when researching your ancestors. It has proved very helpful to me, although it is not always a guarantee that your ancestor followed the patterns, it does give you a possible clue to a name. This is why you may find two people with the same names living in the same time period but with different birthdates---they may be cousins and not the same person afterall. If anyone has some additional naming patterns, please pass them on to us. Judy Clark-Wick JWick@compuserve.com OLD NAMING PATTERNS The first son was named after the father's father. The second son was named after the mother's father. The third son was named after the father. The fourth son was named after the fathers eldest brother. The first daughter was named after the mother's mother. The second daughter was named after the father's mother. The third daughter was named after the mother. The fourth daughter was named after the mothers eldest sister. SWEDISH NAMING PATTERNS If Olaf had a daughter that he named Inga. Inga would be named: Inga Olafsdaur (or Olaf's daughter) If Olaf had a son that he named Sven, his son would be called: Sven Olafson. When Sven has a daughter that he names Olga, Olga's name would be Olga Svensdaur. Her brother Lars would be: Lars Svenson. SCOTS PATTERN OF NAMING Our Dunn family was really stuck in the pattern. William begot James, James Begot William, William begot James etc., etc., etc., down through the generations. It was the traditional Scots way of naming. This was also apparent in the women of our family. You will also find that middle names are quite significant if your ancestors are from Scotland. Often the middle name reflects a previous generation Sur-name. For instance, William Abercromie Dunn, was the son of James Dunn and Mary Birnie. James parents were William Dun (notice spelling change in descendants) and Margaret Abercrombie. William Abercrombie Dunn and his wife, Annie Young, named their children, in my grandfather's generation, with the same pattern as described first. His children were: James Dunn no middle name (named for William's father) Robert Young Dunn (named for wife's father: First and middle name) William Birnie Dunn (named for father and middle name is that of William's mother.) Lillie Haddow Young Dunn (named for Annie's mother: Lillias Haddow and her father's surname: Young) My Grandfather: Andrew Carnegie Dunn, was a broken part of the pattern. William didn't have an older brother. The name, Andrew Carnegie, came from his employer and friend. The Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate. Mary Birnie Dunn, named for William's mother, Mary Birnie. This continues through the remaining 12 children. Sylvia was the first to discover the naming pattern when she did the initial research. She found alternating William and James and found it more than a coincidence. It didn't take long to discover that it was a common practice amongst the Scots. 19th CENTURY GERMAN NAMING PATTERNS: At baptism, if two given names were given to the child, the first given name was a spiritual, saint's name, originally developed from Roman Catholic tradition and continued by the Protestants in their baptismal naming customs. The second given name as the secular or call name, which is the name the person was known by, both within the family and to this rest of the world. The spiritual name, usually to honor a favorite saint, was usually repeatedly given to all the children of that family of the same sex. thus the boys would be Johan Adam Kerchner, Johan George Kerchner, etc., or Philip Peter Kerchner, Philip Jacob Kerchner, etc. Girls would be named Anna Barbara Kerchner, Anna Margaret Kerchner, etc., or Maria Elizabeth Kerchner, Maria Katherine Kerchner, etc. But after baptism, these people would not be known as John, Philip, Anna, or Maria, respectively. they would instead be known by what we would think of now as their middle name, which was their secular name. Thus these people would be known respectively as Adam, George, Peter, Jacob, Barbara, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Catherine in legal and secular records. For males, the saint's name Johan or John was particularly heavily used by many German families. The child's secular name was really John, if and only if, at baptism he was named only John, usually Johannes, with no second given name. Many researchers, new to German names, who find a baptism of an individual with a name such as Johan Adam Kerchner, thus mistakenly spend a lot of time looking for a John Kerchner, in legal and census records, when he was known after baptism, to the secular world, as Adam Kerchner. Also when reading county histories, etc., especially those written by individuals in the 20th century, and the author is referring to someone as John Kerchner, and you are not looking for a John Kerchner, but the history sounds otherwise familiar, further research may turn up that this person was really not a John Kerchner, but instead was someone else such as a Johan George Kerchner. You would thus find all his 18th century records recorded under the name George Kerchner and not John Kerchner and therefore after checking the data and correlating the facts you may find this is really a story about your missing George Kerchner.

In a message dated 12/2/98 8:29:57 PM Central Standard Time, CackyCline@aol.com writes: << Regional culture IS a part of genealogy! It tells a lot about the lives of the ancestors and where they lived, what they ate, what they wore, how they spoke, what they believed in... all a part of who we ARE! >> Thanks for giving me an out. I was worried someone would complain to the list owner. Merry Christmas, Chuck

Phew! Right! Correct!

The dictionary also describes a ferrett as being a domesticated variety of the pole cat. Sounds like those pets are nothing more than skunks. Bobbye

Hi Tonya, Yes, I have a few Reeds from LA at this time. I may have more that I have not had time to look at, as I have been having Re?ds coming in all morning. All I have had time to do is download them. If you have any more information it would help, but I will do the best I can with what you sent. It may be quite a while, as I am just starting this project and it is going to take quite a bit of time to get everything in order, but when I find out anything I will let you know. Thanks, Nell -----Original Message----- From: EvnNMatMom@aol.com <EvnNMatMom@aol.com> To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com <TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [TNMAURY-L] Reed Genealogy >Do you have any Reed's from Louisiana in your file? My gg grandmother was a >Reed from Avoyelles Parish. I haven't found much on her at this time. > > >Thanks >Tonya Salter > > >==== 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Do you have any Reed's from Louisiana in your file? My gg grandmother was a Reed from Avoyelles Parish. I haven't found much on her at this time. Thanks Tonya Salter

Thanks Eugene, I am going to need all the help I can get. Nell -----Original Message----- From: Eugene L. Atkin <genea2@juno.com> To: TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com <TNMAURY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [TNMAURY-L] Reed Genealogy >Hi, > >I've a JANE REID (November 18, 1778, Augusta (Rockbridge) Co, VA - July >28, 1851, Virginia Settlement, Wayne Co., MO). She is an ancestor, we >know that line, and would to know her ancestry. I know that there are >both Scots-Irish and German REID/REED families, and ours in in the >Scot-Irish category. She married John FULTON, Sr (1769-1845) on January >19, 1804. Hpe it is useful to someone else. Am glad to hear from others >doing the REID family. > >Gene ATKIN <genea2@juno.com> >Forty Surnames, etc.: ><http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/t/k/Eugene-L-Atkin> > > >On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:01:21 -0600 "Helen J. Logue" <nelllogue@texoma.net> >writes: >>My name is Helen (aka) Nell Logue and I am researching the Reeds. My >>family >>line is the Reeds of Mississippi and Texas mainly. A few went to >>California, >>and a few somewhere else. >> >>What I propose to do is get all of these Reeds into one large database >>and >>see if we can make any connections. That is where I will need your >>help. I >>need every Reed (by any spelling) to send me a GEDCOM or whatever >>information you have on the Reeds. I will call them "unattached Reeds" >>or >>something of the order. When I do make a connection then that bunch of >>Reeds >>will be put in my Reed Database. Until then they will be kept >>separate. As I >>add to the database I will make sure you are aware of the change. >> >>I hope everyone who reads this will participate. It is going to take a >>lot >>of hard work and I will need all the help I can get. >> >>What I want is Reeds from Alabama, Arkansas, NY, Michigan, Kentucky, >>any >>state in the United States. >> >>Any questions? If you are ready, I am. Let's get the Reeds rolling. >>Start >>sending your information any way you know how. GEDCOM is really a good >>way >>to send lots of information at one time. >>But if you have a better system, use it. >> >>Hope to hear from you Reeds soon. >> >>Helen (aka) Nell Logue >> >> >> >>P.S. Should you get more than one of these letters, please forgive me. >>It is >>going to take some doing to find all of you Reeds and even more doing >>to >>keep you separated, but I will do my best. >> >> >>==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== >>Please remember to include your SURNAMES in the SUBJECT Line. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > >==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== >MAURY CO, TN CEMETERIES covers the 450 cemeteries in the >county, plus a lot of biographical and genealogical tidbits that many >have found useful. The price is $45.00, including postage. You can >order it, if you wish, from Fred L. Hawkins, 509 Pawnee Trail, Columbia, >TN. 38401. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Hi, I've a JANE REID (November 18, 1778, Augusta (Rockbridge) Co, VA - July 28, 1851, Virginia Settlement, Wayne Co., MO). She is an ancestor, we know that line, and would to know her ancestry. I know that there are both Scots-Irish and German REID/REED families, and ours in in the Scot-Irish category. She married John FULTON, Sr (1769-1845) on January 19, 1804. Hpe it is useful to someone else. Am glad to hear from others doing the REID family. Gene ATKIN <genea2@juno.com> Forty Surnames, etc.: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/t/k/Eugene-L-Atkin> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:01:21 -0600 "Helen J. Logue" <nelllogue@texoma.net> writes: >My name is Helen (aka) Nell Logue and I am researching the Reeds. My >family >line is the Reeds of Mississippi and Texas mainly. A few went to >California, >and a few somewhere else. > >What I propose to do is get all of these Reeds into one large database >and >see if we can make any connections. That is where I will need your >help. I >need every Reed (by any spelling) to send me a GEDCOM or whatever >information you have on the Reeds. I will call them "unattached Reeds" >or >something of the order. When I do make a connection then that bunch of >Reeds >will be put in my Reed Database. Until then they will be kept >separate. As I >add to the database I will make sure you are aware of the change. > >I hope everyone who reads this will participate. It is going to take a >lot >of hard work and I will need all the help I can get. > >What I want is Reeds from Alabama, Arkansas, NY, Michigan, Kentucky, >any >state in the United States. > >Any questions? If you are ready, I am. Let's get the Reeds rolling. >Start >sending your information any way you know how. GEDCOM is really a good >way >to send lots of information at one time. >But if you have a better system, use it. > >Hope to hear from you Reeds soon. > >Helen (aka) Nell Logue > > > >P.S. Should you get more than one of these letters, please forgive me. >It is >going to take some doing to find all of you Reeds and even more doing >to >keep you separated, but I will do my best. > > >==== TNMAURY Mailing List ==== >Please remember to include your SURNAMES in the SUBJECT Line. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

My name is Helen (aka) Nell Logue and I am researching the Reeds. My family line is the Reeds of Mississippi and Texas mainly. A few went to California, and a few somewhere else. What I propose to do is get all of these Reeds into one large database and see if we can make any connections. That is where I will need your help. I need every Reed (by any spelling) to send me a GEDCOM or whatever information you have on the Reeds. I will call them "unattached Reeds" or something of the order. When I do make a connection then that bunch of Reeds will be put in my Reed Database. Until then they will be kept separate. As I add to the database I will make sure you are aware of the change. I hope everyone who reads this will participate. It is going to take a lot of hard work and I will need all the help I can get. What I want is Reeds from Alabama, Arkansas, NY, Michigan, Kentucky, any state in the United States. Any questions? If you are ready, I am. Let's get the Reeds rolling. Start sending your information any way you know how. GEDCOM is really a good way to send lots of information at one time. But if you have a better system, use it. Hope to hear from you Reeds soon. Helen (aka) Nell Logue P.S. Should you get more than one of these letters, please forgive me. It is going to take some doing to find all of you Reeds and even more doing to keep you separated, but I will do my best.