list, hello all I have been a member of the SUMNER list for a long time now. I am a true GENEALOGIST and Family historian. True a lot of people are more interested in names and dates than how our families lived, I agree whole heartedly that we should know how our ancestors lived. most of our lives parraleled theirs, we get up in the morning and go to work as they did, we eat our breakfast, lunch & dinner's, we spend time with family and neighbors as they did. we go to school as they did, talk and vote politics as they did, etc. the differences are we get up by 7 a.m., when that was sleeping in to our ancestors, we drive our cars to work, while our ancestors walked or rode horses, we work 8 hour days, they worked sun upto sun down, while we visit our family and friends via telephone, they would go to each others homes. we drive our kids to schoolor they catch the bus, our ancestors walked or again rode horses, and while we read up on the news of the day, it may be weeks before our ancestors heard any news. the hardships our ancestors endured were well beyond what many of us could handle in todays world. if we tried living as they did we would surely have much more appreciation of their accomplishments. I teach a beginning course on GENEALOGY at our local College and I always make it clear to get all information you can on our ancestors lives, bring them to LIFE. let us see what it was like to walk at least one day in their lives. as far as miss thang, if it is above we people of this list what is she doing on here? she (it) is a TENNESSEE want-a-be, or indeed looking for e-mail addresses, just delete and move on. my ancestors went to SUMNER county, about 1796, they left that area by 1807, but I am still very interested in these people. looking for SILAS RAWLS, SR., ELIZABETH BASS RAWLS, JOB BASS, who lived in SUMNER & SMITH counties from 1796-1807. many thanks BOBBY RAWLS BIG SPRING, TEXAS brrawls@crcom.net