At 12:45 AM 11/19/1999 -0500, Cynthia wrote, and I reply as inserted: [snip preliminaries] Hi, Cynthia and the list: > .....many of the >folks do not know where to contact for information in NH as it's a difficult >state to do genealogy due to lack of sources or knowing where to find >sources. And don't I know it. I have several ancestors who just sit there in New Hampshire grinning at me, but they won't talk. > SNIP>>>unless the information is related to Windsor >County>>>>>>>SNIP >I dont know if you are aware that many folks of Sullivan and Cheshire >County New Hampshire intermingled with the folks of Windsor and Windham >counties in Vermont and many did NOT remain in >Windsor County in Vermont, in fact many went to NY and west and many moved >to NH as well. Of course. If everybody who was ever born in Vermont had stayed there, and so had their children, the state would be one big city. Everybody had to come FROM somewhere, and most went TO somewhere, or we wouldn't have so much "fun" tracking them down! Any history of Springfield, for example, starts with old Fort Number Four, and I have ancestry in Westmoreland, Charlestown, and Lyme, in NH but on the Connecticut River; plus more further east. > This is the type of information many folks can use and file for >references when they need the information as many are just beginning >genealogy or have traced back to New England and not familiar with the area. >This is just what the mailing list are all about........information and >references, and helping one another along........ Understood and agreed. The only issue is trying to keep that elusive balance between the general and the specific, and thus finding WHERE is the best place to make such resources available. > I understand where you are coming from and that you don't need NH >information. It appears that you have many years of genealogy research >under your belt ......so do I as I have been doing it for over 25+ years No, I *do* need NH information, a LOT, even though I started this obsession with dead people in Eisenhower's first term. I'm just not looking for NH on the VTWINDSO list. >...however.... you are outnumbered . ( my message will have in the subject >line " Research in NH"......if you see it just delete it. I've been outnumbered before, it's not a new sensation. And maybe I will delete it, and maybe I won't; maybe, just to be ornery and contrary, I'll save it for future reference <grin>. >Cynthia >moderator: VtWindso-L@rootsweb.com > Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com > CtHartfo-L@rootsweb.com [snip copy of my original message] Having stated my opinion, I have to note that an intolerance for irrelevancies is NOT a good trait in genealogists. Furthermore, if the posting of a list of NH resources is the worst I can expect from VTWINDSO-L, it should be nominated for, and win, a whole host of awards. Robert Frost wrote a poem titled "New Hampshire," by the way. It's a long one. It was published in 1923, in a book also titled, "New Hampshire." If he may be quoted as an authority, I guess I am stuck with the idea that the Twin States are not that easily kept separate: "She's one of the two best states in the Union. Vermont's the other. And the two have been Yokefellows in the sap yoke from of old In many Marches. And they lie like wedges, Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end, And are a figure of the way the strong Of mind and strong of arm should fit together, One thick where one is thin and vice versa." lines 175-182 "Anything I can say about New Hampshire Will serve almost as well about Vermont . . ." lines 210-211 "When I left Massachusetts years ago Between two days, the reason why I sought New Hampshire, not Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, or Vermont was this: Where I was living then, New Hampshire offered The nearest boundary to escape across." lines 248-253 "I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer . . . It's restful to arrive at a decision, And restful just to think about New Hampshire. At present I am living in Vermont." lines 407, 411-413, and the end of the poem Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com