Donna, Do you have a " Gertrude B. Shifflett " in your family tree ? OR, a Blanche Lee Shifflett ? Any help on their families would be appreciated. Kindly Bea ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Garland" <medlar@umbc.edu> To: <VAROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: [VAROCKIN] Picture > Hello everyone, > > I have inherited a large old picture in an awesome frame with the bowed > glass of a woman of whom I have no idea who it may be. My lines are all > of the Shiflet spellings, the Bruce line, the Collier line, and the Shaw > line. > > I come from the following lines of which I will list below. > > Edward Shiflet/Joice Herring > Martin Collier/Mary Williams > Betty Bruce/? her son..Loudon Bruce/Millie Estes > Plus many others....... > > But this picture comes from my great aunt who was Carrie Shifflett Shaw. > She was born in Berrytown, VA, Rockingham County. > > Now my cousin just died and his wife said it was not from her line which > leaves our lines. I would appreciate any help I can get in identifying > this picture. I will be happy to email it to anyone interested. Also, > if I do send you a copy, I would appreciate you passing it around to any > of the elders that are left to see if they can identify it, or even pass > it to anyone who isn't related but may have an idea who this may be. > > Now my direct line back to the early to mid 1800's lived in Rockingham > county. Elkton, Berrytown, McGaheysville, Beldor Holler, Island Ford, > and some from Shifflett Holler, Greene County, and Orange County(mostly > Colliers). > > My best guess on this is she is either a Shiflet, Bruce or Collier. I > believe those are the only lines that Aunt Carrie would have had, but I > could be wrong. > > Bob, If I could send this to you ... would you post it on the Rockingham > website as an unknown and list that it could be a Shiflet, Bruce or > Collier? My home email address has changed so I would prefer to use my > work email since that one never changes. > > Janis, Would you print it out and ask all the elders that we have > contact with down there who it may be? > > I appreciate any help what so ever on solving this puzzell. Thanks > everyone! > > Donna Garland > medlar@umbc.edu > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Bea, I just checked my data file and there is no Gertrude or Blanche.... do you know who their parents are? Donna Bea and Stan Rutherford wrote: >Donna, >Do you have a " Gertrude B. Shifflett " in your family tree ? OR, a Blanche >Lee Shifflett ? Any help on their families would be appreciated. >Kindly >Bea > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Donna Garland" <medlar@umbc.edu> >To: <VAROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:09 AM >Subject: [VAROCKIN] Picture > > > > >>Hello everyone, >> >>I have inherited a large old picture in an awesome frame with the bowed >>glass of a woman of whom I have no idea who it may be. My lines are all >>of the Shiflet spellings, the Bruce line, the Collier line, and the Shaw >>line. >> >>I come from the following lines of which I will list below. >> >>Edward Shiflet/Joice Herring >>Martin Collier/Mary Williams >>Betty Bruce/? her son..Loudon Bruce/Millie Estes >>Plus many others....... >> >>But this picture comes from my great aunt who was Carrie Shifflett Shaw. >>She was born in Berrytown, VA, Rockingham County. >> >>Now my cousin just died and his wife said it was not from her line which >>leaves our lines. I would appreciate any help I can get in identifying >>this picture. I will be happy to email it to anyone interested. Also, >>if I do send you a copy, I would appreciate you passing it around to any >>of the elders that are left to see if they can identify it, or even pass >>it to anyone who isn't related but may have an idea who this may be. >> >>Now my direct line back to the early to mid 1800's lived in Rockingham >>county. Elkton, Berrytown, McGaheysville, Beldor Holler, Island Ford, >>and some from Shifflett Holler, Greene County, and Orange County(mostly >>Colliers). >> >>My best guess on this is she is either a Shiflet, Bruce or Collier. I >>believe those are the only lines that Aunt Carrie would have had, but I >>could be wrong. >> >>Bob, If I could send this to you ... would you post it on the Rockingham >>website as an unknown and list that it could be a Shiflet, Bruce or >>Collier? My home email address has changed so I would prefer to use my >>work email since that one never changes. >> >>Janis, Would you print it out and ask all the elders that we have >>contact with down there who it may be? >> >>I appreciate any help what so ever on solving this puzzell. Thanks >>everyone! >> >>Donna Garland >>medlar@umbc.edu >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>VAROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com 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 VAROCKIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >