Craig I've tried every day, several methods, and have yet to find a way. I will keep trying and will let you know when I find it. In the meantime folks can use the hyperlink or bookmark the site after their Ancestry invite let's them in. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Craig Kilby <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > I am on the MBW account for ancestry, and I cannot for the life of me find "Northern Neck of Virginia Families" under any search option for either public or private trees. Where am I going wrong? What are the exact steps one must take from the ancestry home page to get there? Please spell it out it detail, step by step. Many of did is (well, myself at least) did poorly in math because the text books skipped over from step #1 straight to step #7, leaving out steps #2-6. My Calc tutor in college (yes, I needed a tutor) simply said when I asked him why this was, "Well. You're just supposed to know that." Hence why I needed a tutor. Bless his heart, he had the patience of Job with me. > > Of course I know how to access it, but I want to show my fellow volunteers how to get there from the library's account (which is no different than any private user.) > > Craig > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jim, all, This is the sort of thing I wish DIck Eastman would write about. I've never had any luck with his announcing new things going on in the Northern Neck. He doesn't much care for me because every Thanksgiving he writes some soppy story about the "Pilgrims" and the "First Thanksgiving" in Plymouth, and I remind him that (1) the first Thanksgiving was in Jamestown, VA long before the so-called Pilgrims ever blew off shore and ended up in Massachusetts on a big fat rock and (2) they never were called "Pilgrims" until the 1880s in some poem. The group of "Pilgrims were two complete separate groups composed of (1) Anglicans and (2) Separatists. And they settled the Plymouth Bay Colony, not the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was settled ca 1630 by the "Puritans." The Puritans were Anglican with an Evangelical beat. They wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church. The Separatists, by contrast, simply wanted to -- well--separate. No happy talk about a city on a shining hill. There w! as nothing shiny about it. As I wrote above, their Separatist compatriots were of one stripe, and their financial backers and other "adventurers" were of the purest Anglican order. Well, not entirely pure. Of all the characters of the Plymouth Colony, Stephen Hopkins, a reprobate who had earlier been run out of Jamestown, stands out as my favorite. Perhaps reprobate is too strong, but he was always at odds with authorities, and and saved my own direct ancestor Jonathan Hatch who later founded Barnstable, MA out of deep do doo. All of this really is on topic, believe it or not, for there are many more England>New England>Virginia>New England>Virginia connections than most of us realize. We would all do better to pursue those. Craig On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > Craig > > I've tried every day, several methods, and have yet to find a way. I will keep trying and will let you know when I find it. In the meantime folks can use the hyperlink or bookmark the site after their Ancestry invite let's them in. > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Craig Kilby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> I am on the MBW account for ancestry, and I cannot for the life of me find "Northern Neck of Virginia Families" under any search option for either public or private trees. Where am I going wrong? What are the exact steps one must take from the ancestry home page to get there? Please spell it out it detail, step by step. Many of did is (well, myself at least) did poorly in math because the text books skipped over from step #1 straight to step #7, leaving out steps #2-6. My Calc tutor in college (yes, I needed a tutor) simply said when I asked him why this was, "Well. You're just supposed to know that." Hence why I needed a tutor. Bless his heart, he had the patience of Job with me. >> >> Of course I know how to access it, but I want to show my fellow volunteers how to get there from the library's account (which is no different than any private user.) >> >> Craig >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Let's get our own house (Tree) in order, and we can develop a summary note about this project. I think the concept (team effort) and process (peer review) is one that others may want to emulate. Let's see how it develops first... Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Craig Kilby <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, all, > > This is the sort of thing I wish DIck Eastman would write about. I've never had any luck with his announcing new things going on in the Northern Neck. He doesn't much care for me because every Thanksgiving he writes some soppy story about the "Pilgrims" and the "First Thanksgiving" in Plymouth, and I remind him that (1) the first Thanksgiving was in Jamestown, VA long before the so-called Pilgrims ever blew off shore and ended up in Massachusetts on a big fat rock and (2) they never were called "Pilgrims" until the 1880s in some poem. The group of "Pilgrims were two complete separate groups composed of (1) Anglicans and (2) Separatists. And they settled the Plymouth Bay Colony, not the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was settled ca 1630 by the "Puritans." The Puritans were Anglican with an Evangelical beat. They wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church. The Separatists, by contrast, simply wanted to -- well--separate. No happy talk about a city on a shining hill. There! w! > as nothing shiny about it. As I wrote above, their Separatist compatriots were of one stripe, and their financial backers and other "adventurers" were of the purest Anglican order. Well, not entirely pure. > > Of all the characters of the Plymouth Colony, Stephen Hopkins, a reprobate who had earlier been run out of Jamestown, stands out as my favorite. Perhaps reprobate is too strong, but he was always at odds with authorities, and and saved my own direct ancestor Jonathan Hatch who later founded Barnstable, MA out of deep do doo. > > All of this really is on topic, believe it or not, for there are many more England>New England>Virginia>New England>Virginia connections than most of us realize. We would all do better to pursue those. > > Craig > > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > >> Craig >> >> I've tried every day, several methods, and have yet to find a way. I will keep trying and will let you know when I find it. In the meantime folks can use the hyperlink or bookmark the site after their Ancestry invite let's them in. >> >> Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! >> >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Craig Kilby <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Jim, >>> >>> I am on the MBW account for ancestry, and I cannot for the life of me find "Northern Neck of Virginia Families" under any search option for either public or private trees. Where am I going wrong? What are the exact steps one must take from the ancestry home page to get there? Please spell it out it detail, step by step. Many of did is (well, myself at least) did poorly in math because the text books skipped over from step #1 straight to step #7, leaving out steps #2-6. My Calc tutor in college (yes, I needed a tutor) simply said when I asked him why this was, "Well. You're just supposed to know that." Hence why I needed a tutor. Bless his heart, he had the patience of Job with me. >>> >>> Of course I know how to access it, but I want to show my fellow volunteers how to get there from the library's account (which is no different than any private user.) >>> >>> Craig >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Craig I loved your comments about the "Pilgrims" "every Thanksgiving he writes some soppy story about the "Pilgrims" and the "First Thanksgiving" "Of all the characters of the Plymouth Colony, Stephen Hopkins, a reprobate who had earlier been run out of Jamestown, stands out as my favorite. Perhaps reprobate is too strong, but he was always at odds with authorities, and and saved my own direct ancestor Jonathan Hatch who later founded Barnstable, MA out of deep do doo." In researching and certifying my two Mayflower Lines Isaac Allerton and William Brewster I have found how very proud these people are of their heritage almost to the "creepiness factor" and in what high regard the hold them. And although I am so very proud of what they endured....... To get here...... What they did AFTER they got here is something different. And MY FAVORITE.... Is my Isaac Allerton who basically was embezzeling the colony. He began many business ventures on his own but relying on the Colony's credit to do so and of course these ventures failed....leaving the colony in debt. He was put in charge of going back to Europe and bringing over trade goods to sell with the natives...... However he brought back retail goods to sell to the colonists and the fisherman..... He also kind of forgot to marck which goods were his and which belonged to the colony.... When the ship's cargo was unloaded (of course it was all packed together) and the colonist started opening and unloading seeing what Isaac had returned with........ He was like....... NO, that's mine......... Yea, that's mine too....... NOPE mine....... Etc. Coincidentally enough all the goods that Allerton claimed to be HIS purchases....... were the most expensive items leaving the colonists with the cheaper goods. Although Junior learned his trade as a merchant from his father hopefully he learned by his father's mistakes and didn't continue the practice of ripping people off in Virginia. Janean