Debra - You didn't ask me - but I'd start with the 1790 reconstructed census to see where the Hurts were living. That might give you some counties to try without starting with Accomack and working your way down to York. Another source might be the Torrence book on Wills and Administrations. Again - you probably won't find your man but it may give you some clues about where the Hurts were living. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA Date: 1/4/2004 11:17:05 PM Eastern Standard Time From: dcrowell@tvn.net Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Paul what sound advice & very true! Now can you help answer this question for me? I have some ancesters that were from Va. originally but never stayed there and moved south to Tennessee & elsewhere...now the question is since I have exhusted the counties and state to which they moved to and need to go back into Va. but can't due to the long distance & not knowing where to start with & not having alot of $$$$s what do you suggest since I have gotten NOWHERE from Va. county sites... My biggest brick wall is Albert Hurt b.1804 Va. was married in 1828 Tn....... Debra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Drake" <pauldrake@charter.net> To: <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA > Bev, Erin and all you good people: Genealogy, like politics, is LOCAL. Dead ends are most often solved in the records and materials to be found in the counties where the ancestor lived through life. So, where, where, where is your avenue to leads. Start with the county websites of that ancestor and see what they have provided there, spend the $10-$12 to join the little genealogical society at that place, pose queries, and gain their help, all the while exhausting your other sources. Those people, of all other strangers, are most likely to have info about your family. To do otherwise and set yourself adrift in the vast internet ocean hoping for answers is akin to taking a shot at the woods in the hope of bagging breakfast. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erin T. Crowe > To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 8:47 PM > Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA > > > Bev, > I have tried the newspapers, but I will be at it again as so many ppl have > responded & found my great grandfather & my great great grandfather on the > Census for Rockingham Co, VA. Now I have many more names which means many > more leads....More detective work. Woo Hoo. > Thank you so much for taking the time, > Erin T. Crowe > > > > Try the newspapers for that area. A story like that should have been > fairly > > prominent. > > > > Bev > > > > ========Original Message======== > > Subj: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA > > Date: 1/4/2004 3:19:50 PM Eastern Standard Time > > From: Poetrywaif@comcast.net > > Reply-to: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > > Sent from the Internet (Details) > > > > > > > > Dear Listers, > > My biggest brickwall is with my own last name. LOL. Not a living relative > > exists besides my father. So here is my quandry. My great grandfather > was > > Harry Edward Crowe, (maybe his real first name, maybe not) born in > Virginia abt > > 1890. He had a brother (maybe a cousin) Joseph. He and Joseph moved to > Ohio > > and Harry married my great grandmother Emma C. Ahlers b abt 1889. There > was a > > story that he was head of the Ohio numbers racket for the Detroit mob & > that he > > got killed/commited suicide somewhere around 1949. This is told to me by > my > > father, however, I cannot find a single death for him, I have tried every > > variation of Harry & have even tried using the name of Edward as a > possible first > > name. My father also doesn't know if he really died at that time because > he > > didn't go to a funeral. He was just told that he died and was found in > the > > house. The only place I can find him existing, is on the census' for 1920 > & 1930 > > in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio. "Harry" had two step ! > > children Leona & Elmer (Ahlers) Crowe, and two biological children Ralph > > Edward Crowe & Thelma Crowe. I can find information on Joseph, I have his > death > > record, it shows his parents as being Samuel Crowe & Ida Gardner. Though > on > > the 1900 census they show up in Rockingham County, VA w/Joseph but not > Harry. > > Ancestry doesn't let you view this census as a picture, just as the names > that > > appear on there (one by one). The "e" is not present on their name at this > > time. I know they are from the same family because of the page, roll, & > line > > numbers given for the individual. If any of this sounds familiar to > anyone, I > > would greatly appreciate the help. My father thinks they might have been > from > > the Roanoke/Rockingham areas of Virginia as he did go to visit relatives > there > > often. > > Thank you kindly, > > Erin T. Crowe > > > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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