Here is another one. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmason/mason.htm Erin T. Crowe IBSSG Let my kisses fall, Upon your starry eyes, The windows of your soul, Where all true beauty lies. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:56 PM Subject: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA > Thank you Erin. > I got a reply also from someone who suggested my original question was not > clear enough. In that case I try again... > > I am looking for the family and birthplace of a man who came to Australia > in the gold rush years of 1850. Now being wary of treading on any > listowners toes I perhaps did not express myself clearly in the first > email. For that, if it was so, I apologise. > > This man William LindsEy claimed in various birth death Obituary marriage > documents in Australia to have come from - > > 1. Virginia United States > 2. Mason C > 3. Minois - this has been used a couple of times in different sources. > > and on his death certificate the informant (not the deceased of course ) > said > 4. Illinois America. > > His father's name was Robert LindsEy and the mother - her name is hard to > read but Punbr? formerly Russell. > Since posting my first email I requested a look up from SKS for a census > in Minois Mason County Virginia and the reply was that this man did not > appear there. > > In order to go further in our research we are trying to establish just > where he did come from, Virginia, Mason C, Minois or Illinois. The first > thing to find was if Minois was a town, Mason C perhaps County, and which > state, Virginia or Illinois. Because the Illinois came from information > the man himself could not have provided (death certificate) I started with > this list, the most obvious. > > to me Minois looks a bit like Illinois, hence my concern about stepping on > toes. So the aim is to eliminate one of these states, and we started > with Virginia. > > Thanks everyone > Denise > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erin T. Crowe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:37 AM > Subject: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA > > >> Denise, >> >> What is your question, I will try to answer as best as possible. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Erin T. Crowe IBSSG >> Let my kisses fall, >> Upon your starry eyes, >> The windows of your soul, >> Where all true beauty lies. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Denise" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:17 PM >> Subject: Re: Re: [VIRGINIA] Well, I Am Sorry I Didn't Snip, But... - >> Admin >> >> >>>I asked a simple question on this list as a newbie a day or two ago and >>>haven't seen an answer. Whilst I understand not everyone can answer a >>>question about a county or a town and whether they exist in Virginia, all >>>I've seen is this rubbish. >>> >>> Denise >>> Subject: Re: Re: [VIRGINIA] Well, I Am Sorry I Didn't Snip, But... - >>> Admin >>> >>> >>>>I agree. Enough's enough. Where's the list manager? >>>> >>>> Joanne >>>> >>>> JACINDA ANDRE <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I thought this was about Virginia genealogy, please remove me from >>>> this board. I'm trying to do genealogy and this is very distracting. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Take Care, >>>> Cindy >>>> >>>> >>>> If God couldn't do it in one what makes me think I can.... >>>> >>>> >>>> ============================== >>>> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >>>> New content added every business day. Learn more: >>>> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------- >>>> Yahoo! Photos - Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover >>>> Photo Books. You design it and we'll bind it! >>>> >>>> >>>> ============================== >>>> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >>>> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >>>> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >>> >>> >>> ============================== >>> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >>> New content added every business day. Learn more: >>> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >>> >> >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

I composed a nice reply to this post for the members' interest. I shall attempt again as I lost it after my computer closed down.. I hope the members will bear with me while I explain a few things. It may not be specific at the moment entirely to Va, but we have a way to go and I could be back with information on old inhabitants.. Thanks Erin, I actually managed to do a bit of surfing between reading all the members' lovely emails this afternoon and found this one link you sent me. I am researching William Lindsey helping his great-granddaughter in Australia. I am also with another, researching the lives of Americans and Canadians who came to northeast Victoria Australia in the gold rush era of the 1850s+. We have 300 names, have finished about 100. We track them from birth, try for details on family, education, siblings parents in North America. We follow them to Australia. We follow them to their deaths, wherever. Back in US, Canada, or wherever they may else have gone to (two instances in a Victorian jail).. Erin mentioned Maine and Kennebec. We have 3 dozen from Somerset Co Maine and Kennebec. Most came together, stuck together and 6 friends died within 5 weeks and are buried in one small cemetery, together. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find William came with someone, it happens all the time in our research. He lived in a part of the Northeast of Victoria where there were many Americans - several yet we haven't done work on. One of our subjects went back to the US, and to Virginia to farm. I shall have to dig his name out and hopefully someone may connect to his family. Happy to share what we have. Excuse me for explaining all this but we are both so passionate about our quest to put these forgotten men into the history books of the northeast of Victoria - they helped develop what was a raw and strange land to them, they came to only Kangaroos, Koalas, Kookaburras and Gumtrees and millions of tents dotting the mullock heaps. thank you all, I'm delighted to have received so much help from you. I'm going to send the information to the great-granddaughter and make her day! We often work with descendants we find, giving them everything we have on their ancestors - we have access to data many don't. regards Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erin T. Crowe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA] To Denise re question on VA