Thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten those balogna sandwiches. Must have eaten a million of them. And for those purists--this has to do with the genealogical progress of pioneer balogna up to the present supermarket generation...

I think that many of our ancestors probably enjoyed a good joke from time to time. They may have even told one and laughed. Mark Caldwell

AMEN to all that's been said. East TN is the best. How about a baloney sandwich with that RC Cola and Moon Pie, and some good country/blue grass music, Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe. Like Barbara sings, "I was country when country wan't cool. And they say we ain't got culture!

Hear Hear!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:14 PM Subject: Re: Election thoughts (was Laugh Time) > Gail, I just read your election thoughts and had to crack up. I'm from > Florida and I can't begin to tell you how disturbing this whole thing is. I > am a Republican, but if Al Gore had won Florida in the beginning, I would > have cried for a minute and then gone on being an American and supporting him > for the next 4 years (albeit somewhat grudgingly). I am constantly amazed at > how the Democrats are hell bent on winning this election. Unfortunately, I > have lost all respect for Al Gore and his gang of "win at anyone's expense." > For any of you out there who are loyal Democrats, and who voted for Al Gore, > please don't take this as my beating up on you. Just sick of the entire > fiasco. Nina >

In a message dated 11/15/00 12:54:26 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Every time I find a new ancestor in my hunt, I can see them in my mind, even though I have never seen a photo of them. I imagine how they looked, how many hardships they must have suffered, see them struggling to raise a family of 12 or more. I feel the pain they went through when they had to bury a child. It's more than names......it's my roots!!!!!!!! >> I feel the same way, Bobbi. And just this week I got mail from TN from two recently found cousins. Info and pictures on my WHITTEDS and I can't tell you just how it makes me feel. WOW! It is so special to see a face and put it with those names in the family charts. I am very grateful for those who share. Brenda who is on this list is one who shared much. She has been so helpful to me and we have become friends in the process. Thanks to all of you generous and helpful people who make this list so great. Mary Lou Indianapolis, IN

At 01:58 PM 11/15/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Joyce, >I'll say a prayer for her. >Bobbie > > We will be praying for her also and put her on the prayer list at church. Rae

Joyce, I'll say a prayer for her. Bobbie

Well said, Tom. Ruth

Hey all, My cousin, Shirley, is scheduled for open heart surgery in Cincinnati Fri., Nov 17. I'd sure appreciate a few prayers sent up for her. She has the same Union Co. roots as I do - gg grandparents, gg uncles/aunts, and many, many cousins. Thanks loads. Joyce

>>>>By the way, if you're all interested, you can read my election thoughts at: >http://www.maynardville.com/article/f3.htm>>> This is great Chip. Maybe you should run for president. Your list members would vote for you!! Rae

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Laugh Time Resent-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 04:08:31 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:08:15 EST From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Dear Chip and List: I hardly ever write in, but I am an addicted and devoted READER of the list. Since I moved to NE England a year ago tomorrow, I have read every letter to the list-genealogy requests, look up requests, prayer requests, trips down Moon Pie Memory Lane. Every message feels like a letter from Home to me. There are days when I feel like I've been here forever and that I will eventually lose all my American Southern Culture and then someone mentions ARA-C cola and Moon Pies and there I am again, sitting on my grandma's front porch listening to all the aint's and uncles in the house playing another game of poker with matchsticks and hooting and hollering having a grand old time! I've disengaged myself from all my other lists because they are bone dry and borrrrrrrring. Thank you everyone for keeping me company from 6000 miles away whether you even know it or not!!! Send me the Moon Pie Co's. address- Maybe if I plead British Insanity and surplus of Haggis and Yorkshire Puddings they'll take pity on an Ex-Pat and send a box over here to me...as for the Ara-C?? I'll just settle for a Dr.Pepper.. 10-2 and 4!!! Love to you all-especially my Morton Cuzzes. Cynde Johnston Newcastle England

Hi Folks, I just wanted all of you to know how rewarding the posting of the little spoof of Palm Beach was on yesterdays list. I sent it to one other list, Union County Tennessee, where the community is more than consumed with living and enjoying life. They also do a lot of genealogy work. The response was unbelieveable. Two people complained about the spoof. The other responses have been overwhelming and I think most of the list members have commented. I've appended one so you can enjoy. I suggest if any of you had ancestors who came through E. Tennessee this is a good place to hang out. Bill Hunter -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Laugh Time Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:48:25 -0800 Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:46:57 -0500 From: "Bobbie Ivey-Lewallen" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> Well, I just have to put my 2 cents worth in! LOL I belong to several lists. Some of the others just go nuts when someone makes a mistake & sends a joke. Then you have to see email after email of others putting that person down. Chip is right when it comes to Genealogy. It is way more than tracking down names. Every time I find a new ancestor in my hunt, I can see them in my mind, even though I have never seen a photo of them. I imagine how they looked, how many hardships they must have suffered, see them struggling to raise a family of 12 or more. I feel the pain they went through when they had to bury a child. It's more than names......it's my roots!!!!!!!! You wanna know why people get more help here? It's because they care!!!!! They care when someone is sick & needs prayer! I've found that when a person is caring, they are also a sharing person who is willing to do a lookup for you. And to Gale from Colorado: If you'll send me your mailing address by private email, I'll send you out a box of The Original Moon Pie!! No one should be deprived of eating one!!! :o) Bobbie from the great state of TN! http://www.geocities.com/grannys_world/ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Gail, I just read your election thoughts and had to crack up. I'm from Florida and I can't begin to tell you how disturbing this whole thing is. I am a Republican, but if Al Gore had won Florida in the beginning, I would have cried for a minute and then gone on being an American and supporting him for the next 4 years (albeit somewhat grudgingly). I am constantly amazed at how the Democrats are hell bent on winning this election. Unfortunately, I have lost all respect for Al Gore and his gang of "win at anyone's expense." For any of you out there who are loyal Democrats, and who voted for Al Gore, please don't take this as my beating up on you. Just sick of the entire fiasco. Nina

In a message dated 11/15/00 1:17:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << My cousin, Shirley, is scheduled for open heart surgery in Cincinnati Fri., Nov 17. I'd sure appreciate a few prayers sent up for her. She has the same Union Co. roots as I do - gg grandparents, gg uncles/aunts, and many, many cousins. Thanks loads. Joyce >> No problem consider it done. Chip

Hello to everyone on the list who sent messages of goodwill and prayers for my sister-in-law in Arizona. I just heard from my brother and he says her vital signs are improving, she has no pain in her abdomen. The pneumonia she got from a mistake they did in the recovery room, that gave her the pneumonia is still delaying her recovery. They still have her on a respirator, so she can't speak, and keep giving her versed, which is an anthethetic which makes you forget everything. She's mouthing words to the nurse, since she can't speak with the tube in her throat. So a little progress has been made, but she's a tiny woman barely weighing 100 lbs.and 5 feet tall, so I don't know how much endurance she has, after being on the respirator for over a week. I guess they still need it because of the aspiration pneumonia, but it seems like a long time to me. I sent copies of the letters to them that you all had so kindly written. I and they really appreciate them. But I do think we need another round to get her off the respirator, and get her up walking. I know prayer works, for when I was 27, I came down with Guillame Barre syndrome. I was paralyzed for four months, and all the ladies in my mother's neighborhood all sent a prayer circle around their various churches. They sent me prayers from all denominations, and I believe they cured me, so I could live and raise our three children. And see our ghandchildren and great- grandchild. Thank you all again for your best wishes and prayers. Love to you all. Earlene Hutsell

Hi, I have been looking for B eelers and Monroe's for 25 years and still can't get them all. Since you didn't mention dates or definity places, I can't help, but I can suggest you join the Beeler family list. I don't have the URL, but the man who runs it is Mark Asbell ...... [email protected] Th eMonroe list is quite active too. That address is : [email protected] To join, don't forget to type in [email protected] Maybe those two can help you. My Beelers go back Switzerland in 1705, to Lancaster, PA, to Shenandoah, VA, to Grainger Co., TN. Then to Oregon in the early 1900. The Monroe (those that I have proven) start with Robert MONROE, 1763 in Lunenberg, Va., Mark MONROE 1793 in Knox Co., TN, Wm Geo 1836, Minnie 1774 who married Joseph Peter BEELER. They also migrated to Oregon in the early 1900. Some of those in the group claim to go back to William MONROE B 1730 and then to John MONROE B 1710, but I have never proved it myself. You have to either prove it yourself or take someone else's word for it. I recommend doing it yourself. That way you're sure. If you find you connect with either of these families of mine, please write again and I will gladly share what I have. Earlene Hutsell [email protected]

In a message dated 11/14/2000 11:10:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > By the way, if you're all interested, you can read my election thoughts at: > http://www.maynardville.com/article/f3.htm > > Chip, et al. Greetings from idiot filled Florida. When I first voted, after my move to this rural Florida county, I wondered why they use the old style optical scan ballots whereby you use a black marking pen to darken the little circles and then cross the room to run it through the counting machine. Now I know. This system tosses out the idiot ballots on the spot. They tell you that you're an idiot right there in front of everyone. Before going out to vote this year I heard some city slicker on TV talking about our "more sophisticated electorate" in the year 2000. Yeah, right! I then went to the polls and heard some joker tell a poll worker on his third try to have his ballot accepted that he had every right to vote for more than one candidate for President if he wanted to but if it didn't go through this time, "Just put me down for all the Democrats". Another said the reason Gore was now the VP was because he came in second to Clinton in the last election and he wanted Buchanan to be the Vice President to "keep Gore straight". The eyeballs of the workers were spinning around in their heads like steel balls in a pinball machine. One poor lady told me it was her last year to work -- she has had enough of this type of thing and that it is getting worse each year. One voting machine company person was quoted yesterday as saying that each time they improve their machine they try to make it more idiot proof but then someone comes up with a better idiot. What was it Pogo said? Something like "we has met the enemy and it is us"? We don't need Motor Voter down here, we need IQ tests. Gail

Dear Chip and List: I hardly ever write in, but I am an addicted and devoted READER of the list. Since I moved to NE England a year ago tomorrow, I have read every letter to the list-genealogy requests, look up requests, prayer requests, trips down Moon Pie Memory Lane. Every message feels like a letter from Home to me. There are days when I feel like I've been here forever and that I will eventually lose all my American Southern Culture and then someone mentions ARA-C cola and Moon Pies and there I am again, sitting on my grandma's front porch listening to all the aint's and uncles in the house playing another game of poker with matchsticks and hooting and hollering having a grand old time! I've disengaged myself from all my other lists because they are bone dry and borrrrrrrring. Thank you everyone for keeping me company from 6000 miles away whether you even know it or not!!! Send me the Moon Pie Co's. address- Maybe if I plead British Insanity and surplus of Haggis and Yorkshire Puddings they'll take pity on an Ex-Pat and send a box over here to me...as for the Ara-C?? I'll just settle for a Dr.Pepper.. 10-2 and 4!!! Love to you all-especially my Morton Cuzzes. Cynde Johnston Newcastle England

Well, I just have to put my 2 cents worth in! LOL I belong to several lists. Some of the others just go nuts when someone makes a mistake & sends a joke. Then you have to see email after email of others putting that person down. Chip is right when it comes to Genealogy. It is way more than tracking down names. Every time I find a new ancestor in my hunt, I can see them in my mind, even though I have never seen a photo of them. I imagine how they looked, how many hardships they must have suffered, see them struggling to raise a family of 12 or more. I feel the pain they went through when they had to bury a child. It's more than names......it's my roots!!!!!!!! You wanna know why people get more help here? It's because they care!!!!! They care when someone is sick & needs prayer! I've found that when a person is caring, they are also a sharing person who is willing to do a lookup for you. And to Gale from Colorado: If you'll send me your mailing address by private email, I'll send you out a box of The Original Moon Pie!! No one should be deprived of eating one!!! :o) Bobbie from the great state of TN! http://www.geocities.com/grannys_world/ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~