It is fun -- and helps to keep me out of Walmart and off the streets! Just wish I had started this stuff many years ago, before everyone died. You know, we are still naming children the same names. In my family, there are half a dozen Amanda Bryants, Josephs, James, John, Mary, etc. -- guess it will never end! Have a good weekend. Mary Bryant Park

HI, You're probably right and down the road we just might come across a connection. It sure doesn't help when everyone uses the same names for their children, especially when they are born close to each other and then the census takers mess up on ages. WHEW!!!! ;-)) But isn't it fun!!! Diane. Crosstitch Grandma wrote: > > Hi, Diane. I'm sure your Combses and mine are connected, because mine > were in Russell County, also -- but I don't know just how -- there were > so many and they all named their children the same names!!! > > I am still looking for a marriage date of James Combs and Nancy Hobbs, > about 1832; probably Lee or Russell Co, as well as the death date & > place of their son, Solomon Combs about 1890. > > Thanks a bunch! Mary Bryant Park > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield

Hi, Diane. I'm sure your Combses and mine are connected, because mine were in Russell County, also -- but I don't know just how -- there were so many and they all named their children the same names!!! I am still looking for a marriage date of James Combs and Nancy Hobbs, about 1832; probably Lee or Russell Co, as well as the death date & place of their son, Solomon Combs about 1890. Thanks a bunch! Mary Bryant Park

I would certainly be interested. Thanks for all the work!

HI Mary, Saw your below message and knowing that we have some Combs in our genealogy thought I would send this along, hoping it will be a help. >From our Sergent Family (Harlan Co. to Letcher Co., KY) Minerva Stallard b 2-26-1880 d 10-30-1941 d/o James Marion & Louise (Sergent) Stallard married James "Jim" Combs b 4-8-1877 d 1-18-1967 s/o Russell & Dicy (Polly) Combs. Minerva & James buried: Stallard Cemetery, Letcher Co., KY. Minerva's sisters also married Combs. Susan m Joseph Combs s/o Russell & Dicy (Polly) Combs Mary Elizabeth m George Combs s/o Russell & Dicy (Polly) Combs. Have a good day, [email protected] Crosstitch Grandma wrote: > > I'd be interested in seeing the census, still looking for Solomon > and/or James Combs. > > thanks -- Mary Bryant Park

Cheryl, That would be wonderful! Maybe the Wise Co Web Page would be interested in having that information online. Sharon ---------- > From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:42 PM > > Hello All, > > I recently downloaded the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census's from the > History Department, University of Minnesota. (They were HUGE!) I am in the > process of deciphering them and plan to post parts of them when completed. > > Is anyone interested? Is there already postings of the Census for Wise and > surrounding counties? > > Cheryl > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > Remember: All posts go back to the list. If you wish to contact someone privately you will have to change the address > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield >

I am Intrested in GRAHAM & HALL Also SOUTHERN/ LAWSON/SHEPHARD If thats not pushing my luck. Thanks Rena ---------- From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [VAWISE-L] Census Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 9:49 PM Hello Rena, You need an Ftp client in order to access this site. Ftp is a program different from the Internet browsers. What are you interested in? I could cut parts of it out and e-mail it to you. Cheryl > -----Original Message----- > From: RENA WORTHEN [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VAWISE-L] Census > > > Can you give the address i cannot access it. Thanks Rena > > ---------- > From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 5:40 AM > > Hello All, > > I found the census information at ftp.ipums.umn.edu. They are in the > /ipums/data directory and stored as a compressed UNIX file. Documentation > is > stored in the /ipums/user_guide directory. A PC program to decompress the > files are in /pub/gzip. > > The census information is huge: The 1850 census is in ip18501.Z > and is 6874 > KB, 1860 is ip18601.Z and is 2060kb, 1870 is ip18701.Z and is > 3337 KB, 1880 > is ip18801.Z and is 21,235KB. Downloading took several hours. The files > decompress to 76,782KB, 22,412KB, 34,948KB and 199,534KB respectively. I > have a Pentium 400 MHz and even it takes several minutes to search through > any of the files. > > I was glad to hear that these would be a good addition, and that I haven't > been wasting time!!! I'll go through the files this weekend and search for > Wise County (and surrounding counties) and post the results. > > Cheryl > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== Please post your family lines to the list perodically, so that newcomers know who is on the list. [email protected] Phyllis Morefield

I'd be interested in seeing the census, still looking for Solomon and/or James Combs. thanks -- Mary Bryant Park

Hello Rena, You need an Ftp client in order to access this site. Ftp is a program different from the Internet browsers. What are you interested in? I could cut parts of it out and e-mail it to you. Cheryl > -----Original Message----- > From: RENA WORTHEN [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 6:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VAWISE-L] Census > > > Can you give the address i cannot access it. Thanks Rena > > ---------- > From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 5:40 AM > > Hello All, > > I found the census information at ftp.ipums.umn.edu. They are in the > /ipums/data directory and stored as a compressed UNIX file. Documentation > is > stored in the /ipums/user_guide directory. A PC program to decompress the > files are in /pub/gzip. > > The census information is huge: The 1850 census is in ip18501.Z > and is 6874 > KB, 1860 is ip18601.Z and is 2060kb, 1870 is ip18701.Z and is > 3337 KB, 1880 > is ip18801.Z and is 21,235KB. Downloading took several hours. The files > decompress to 76,782KB, 22,412KB, 34,948KB and 199,534KB respectively. I > have a Pentium 400 MHz and even it takes several minutes to search through > any of the files. > > I was glad to hear that these would be a good addition, and that I haven't > been wasting time!!! I'll go through the files this weekend and search for > Wise County (and surrounding counties) and post the results. > > Cheryl > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > >

I need help in finding who CYNTHIA BAYS was and who was the BAYS that she married? We have great grandfather George W. R. Bays b. 1842 in Russell County. When he married Emma W. Shepherd in Washington County October 17, 1867, he listed as his parents only Cynthia Bays. In the Russell County 1850 census, we find: Ruth Bays 48, TN. Cynthia 29, VA, George A.(?) 7, James 5, John 3. In 1860 Russell County census, we find: Cynthia Bays 39, (seamstress), George B.(?) 17, James K. P. 14, John T. 13, Edward 9, Ruth Bays 73 TN. Does anyone recognize this family? Whoever the husband was, he must have died before the 1850 census, leaving Cynthia pregnant with Edward 9 by the 1860 census. Please help. I can't get past this wall! Thanks, Anne Hudson Bays

Thanks for your offer. I am looking for John Madison McFall(s). In 1850, he was in Yancey Co NC. His parents moved here into Russell and what later bacame Wise and Dickenson County. At 12:49 PM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hello everyone: > >While Cheryl is figuring out how to post the census information that she >found, I thought I would offer to do look-ups from the 1860 Wise County >Census. I recently bought a copy of the transcription that Rhonda >Roberson did. Since this is copyrighted material, it cannot be posted >wholesale, however, I don't mind helping cousins out with specific >searches. If you want a look-up please send a message to me at >mailto:[email protected] not the list. Include the complete name of the >person you are looking for and any additional information which would >make it easier to look-up i.e. wife's name, children, etc. Please don't >send a message asking for all entries for a specific surname (for >example, Mullins would include 37 households!) >Thanks, >Martha > > >==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== >Please post your family lines to the list perodically, so that newcomers know who is on the list. >[email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > > > > >

ABSOLUTELY!!!!At 07:42 PM 8/25/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hello All, > >I recently downloaded the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census's from the >History Department, University of Minnesota. (They were HUGE!) I am in the >process of deciphering them and plan to post parts of them when completed. > >Is anyone interested? Is there already postings of the Census for Wise and >surrounding counties? > >Cheryl > > >==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== >Remember: All posts go back to the list. If you wish to contact someone privately you will have to change the address >[email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > > >

Hello everyone: While Cheryl is figuring out how to post the census information that she found, I thought I would offer to do look-ups from the 1860 Wise County Census. I recently bought a copy of the transcription that Rhonda Roberson did. Since this is copyrighted material, it cannot be posted wholesale, however, I don't mind helping cousins out with specific searches. If you want a look-up please send a message to me at mailto:[email protected] not the list. Include the complete name of the person you are looking for and any additional information which would make it easier to look-up i.e. wife's name, children, etc. Please don't send a message asking for all entries for a specific surname (for example, Mullins would include 37 households!) Thanks, Martha

Hi Cheryl, I'm Interest in the cenus especially around 1880 or if you have in info on the 1890's Thanks Adrain Peters Elizabeth Carden wrote: > --WebTV-Mail-999956548-24 > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > Cheryl, I am very interested on anything on Wise co. Especially the > censes. Elizabeth Wade Carden > > --WebTV-Mail-999956548-24 > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Message/RFC822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > Received: from mailsorter-102.bryant.webtv.net (mailsorter-102.iap.bryant.webtv.net > [207.79.35.92]) by postoffice-199.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/po.gso.24Feb98) > with ESMTP id QAA08276; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:38:39 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by > mailsorter-102.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.5/ms.graham.14Aug97) with > ESMTP id QAA08580; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:38:38 -0700 (PDT) > Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id > QAA14362; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:34:04 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 16:34:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: "Cheryl Strange-Laetsch" <[email protected]> > Old-To: "[email protected] com" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:42:48 -0400 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 > Importance: Normal > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Resent-Message-ID: <"4SkhnB.A.HgD.qn041"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> > To: [email protected] > Resent-From: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/221 > X-Loop: [email protected] > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > Hello All, > > I recently downloaded the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census's from the > History Department, University of Minnesota. (They were HUGE!) I am in the > process of deciphering them and plan to post parts of them when completed. > > Is anyone interested? Is there already postings of the Census for Wise and > surrounding counties? > > Cheryl > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > Remember: All posts go back to the list. If you wish to contact someone privately you will have to change the address > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield > > --WebTV-Mail-999956548-24-- > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: > [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield

Im seeking info on George Witts(Whitts) McConnell b.1873 and Vesta Pendergraft married 11-8-1894 . Had 11 children: Omer,Leona,Laura,Loraine Sarah-Aldona,Hattie,Ray,Ira,Inez,Junior,Ethel. Sarah-Aldona Married Henry Clyburn in the 1920's had 2 children: son Clyburn died at birth or shortley after and Clara Evelynn Clyburn b.8-31-1929 d.9-30-1987. not sure if Aldona and Henry divorced or he died. Sometime later My grandmother Sarah Aldona married again to Milford Collier If any info on please contact me I would really appreciate Adrain

Can you give the address i cannot access it. Thanks Rena ---------- From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 5:40 AM Hello All, I found the census information at ftp.ipums.umn.edu. They are in the /ipums/data directory and stored as a compressed UNIX file. Documentation is stored in the /ipums/user_guide directory. A PC program to decompress the files are in /pub/gzip. The census information is huge: The 1850 census is in ip18501.Z and is 6874 KB, 1860 is ip18601.Z and is 2060kb, 1870 is ip18701.Z and is 3337 KB, 1880 is ip18801.Z and is 21,235KB. Downloading took several hours. The files decompress to 76,782KB, 22,412KB, 34,948KB and 199,534KB respectively. I have a Pentium 400 MHz and even it takes several minutes to search through any of the files. I was glad to hear that these would be a good addition, and that I haven't been wasting time!!! I'll go through the files this weekend and search for Wise County (and surrounding counties) and post the results. Cheryl ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the Wise County list please send your request to: [email protected] (if you are in list mode) or to [email protected] (if you are in digest mode). [email protected] Phyllis Morefield

Hello All, I found the census information at ftp.ipums.umn.edu. They are in the /ipums/data directory and stored as a compressed UNIX file. Documentation is stored in the /ipums/user_guide directory. A PC program to decompress the files are in /pub/gzip. The census information is huge: The 1850 census is in ip18501.Z and is 6874 KB, 1860 is ip18601.Z and is 2060kb, 1870 is ip18701.Z and is 3337 KB, 1880 is ip18801.Z and is 21,235KB. Downloading took several hours. The files decompress to 76,782KB, 22,412KB, 34,948KB and 199,534KB respectively. I have a Pentium 400 MHz and even it takes several minutes to search through any of the files. I was glad to hear that these would be a good addition, and that I haven't been wasting time!!! I'll go through the files this weekend and search for Wise County (and surrounding counties) and post the results. Cheryl

Hi I'm new to this list. I am looking for the husband's maternal grandfather W. E. Sargent and his family. He was born approx. 1874 in Wise County. I know he married Lydia Clevinger in 1897 in Pike Co. Kentucky. He's on the census for Pike County in 1910. I haven't come across him in another census but I just found out he was from Virginia. I appreciate any information you may have. Thanks

I am interested also. Louise Vanover Vore ---------- > From: Cheryl Strange-Laetsch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VAWISE-L] Census > Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 4:42 PM > > Hello All, > > I recently downloaded the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census's from the > History Department, University of Minnesota. (They were HUGE!) I am in the > process of deciphering them and plan to post parts of them when completed. > > Is anyone interested? Is there already postings of the Census for Wise and > surrounding counties? > > Cheryl > > > ==== VAWISE Mailing List ==== > Remember: All posts go back to the list. If you wish to contact someone privately you will have to change the address > [email protected] Phyllis Morefield >

Hi, I am also very interested in the WISE CO. census's. I have never seen them posted on the net. Thank you for being willing to help us with them. Tammy PS. If this is posted more than once, it is because the earlier ones did not make it to the list. I have also tried to post other messages but they did not make it to the list. I hope I'm not posting them wrong.