Hello Rebecca, You ask about my GIVENS line. They are in the PA> OHIO area. The WARE are so far in OK., LA.,TX., and MISS. I was born in Akron, Ohio. But I married in TX. :) Thanks, Emma Price Ayles Humble, TX. - - Transplanted from Ohio. Surnames; Price, Myers, Scott, Estep, VanCamp, Givens, McGarr, Wilson, Jenkins, Ferrell, Midkiff, Turley, Parsons, Griffith, Dailey, Newsome, Ayles, Hamlin, Kirkland.

Hello to all here !!! I have just started on my husbands surnames. CANGADA EUDORA WARE b-12-12-1888 ? d/o Elem Ware & Cangada Smith. She married John Comby Ayles in Miss. How about it? Do any of you have them in your files? Thanks, Emma Price Ayles Humble, TX. Transplanted from Ohio. Surnames; Price, Myers, Scott, Estep, VanCamp, Givens, McGarr, Wilson, Jenkins, Ferrell, Midkiff, Turley, Parsons, Griffith, Dailey, Newsome, Ayles, Hamlin, Kirkland.

Sorry about the last reply. Again I hit the "reply" key and it "replied all " If anyone knows how to keep this from happening please let me know. I did not intend to send a "private" message to all of you...Sorry.. Tate & Wear or Weir:Tn.Ks.Ok.Tx Givens: Tn.Ky.Ok.Tx.Denton,Burt,Huff,Clinding,Quattlebaum,Taylor in Hunt Co., Tx. Howard:Va.Ga.Tn.Ks.Ok. Davis: Mo.Ok. Stout: IL.Mo.Ok. Scholl and Edinger in Pa. IL.Neb.Tx.Hester: Mo.Tx. Other Tate connections: Simpson,Whiteside,McDonald,Reagan Cynthia ?, Nancy Jane Tate, James McDonald Tate, Eliza Jane, Mary, Dorcas, Vincent Benham, Alfred Carter Tate, Julia McDonald, David Tate, Martha Tate, Robert Hood Tate, William W. Tate.

Good morning ! Your check is in the mail..(Honest) <grin> When I went to the site and clicked on surnames it came up with something else. I have never really done any research from anywhere other than U.S. Is there a place on there that you think I should go to and read ? Thank you ! Tate & Wear or Weir:Tn.Ks.Ok.Tx Givens: Tn.Ky.Ok.Tx.Denton,Burt,Huff,Clinding,Quattlebaum,Taylor in Hunt Co., Tx. Howard:Va.Ga.Tn.Ks.Ok. Davis: Mo.Ok. Stout: IL.Mo.Ok. Scholl and Edinger in Pa. IL.Neb.Tx.Hester: Mo.Tx. Other Tate connections: Simpson,Whiteside,McDonald,Reagan Cynthia ?, Nancy Jane Tate, James McDonald Tate, Eliza Jane, Mary, Dorcas, Vincent Benham, Alfred Carter Tate, Julia McDonald, David Tate, Martha Tate, Robert Hood Tate, William W. Tate.

Hi All... Sherry Muller Here. I stumbled across this site while surfing the Web for one of my relations.... It has some great Marriage Infomation and Links to genealogy sites.... I haven't even made a dent in exploring it, but thought I'd go ahead and pass the URL along.... http://www.genuki.org.uk/mindex.html Happy Hunting... Sherry Muller [email protected] DOWLING, HANKS, JOHNS, JORDAN, STOREY MCMILLAN, WALLACE, WATSON, WEIR/WARE MULLER, PIAD S

Can anyone send me the Family Treemaker WFT file #2397, 2398 or 2399 from WFT CD #8 and file #1572 from WFT CD #21? I think I've found my ggrandfathers brother but I won't know until I see the file. I'm trying to find out who the brothers of Jesse Allen Ware were on any of these WFT files. Thanks Mike Troxell

I am forwarding to you a message posted on one of the other mail lists which is followed by a straightforward message from Dr Brian Leverich of Rootsweb. Please consider becoming a member or sponsor of Rootsweb. For more info, just click on: http://www.rootsweb.com Bill Utterback wrote: My friends - I generally do not bring you news about RootsWeb, whose servers house some 4000 mail lists, including this one, because I know you all get the RootsWeb Review about once a week, which pretty well covers what is going on within RootsWeb. However, on one of the lists which we list hosts use to discuss list problems and other items of mutual interest, a discussion was started by a few people concerning the tiny salaries paid to a few people who give practically all of their time to the RootsWeb Cooperative (they were complaining - if you can believe it - about them getting paid at all). As most of you know, RootsWeb was created by, and is "owned" by Dr. Brian Leverich and his wife Karen Isaacson, both superb computer people and genealogists. They created RootsWeb and they have funded 90% of it out of their own pockets since its creation. This means that they have a houseful of computer equipment, as well as other equipment in a hub elsewhere, that runs all of these lists, as well as web pages and other items for the USGenWeb - the effort is huge and growing by leaps and bounds. However, their corporate sponsor, Palladium, has disappeared into a merger with another company, and that funding has evaporated. It seems nclear whether any other corporation will step forward to help underwrite hese huge costs. In the message which Brian sent to the listowner list, he makes the first mention of danger to the whole RootsWeb concept. He is rarely pessimistic, and if he is concerned, then we all need to be concerned. He finds it particularly depressing that only a small percentage (2%-6%) are helping to support RootsWeb in any way, even though there are literally hundreds of thousands of people regularly using the mail lists and the other web pages and items which RootsWeb hosts. You can see that he has aken out a $25,000 loan just to try to keep the equipment growing with he needs of RootsWeb. The bottom line is that if we, as users of these RootsWeb services, can help with a few dollars (and it does not have to be much at all, if we all get involved) in support of this fine group, we are in very real danger of losing these mail lists and literally hundreds of web pages of genealogical material (including the JP Images Page and many, many others) that is today available. Please give this some thought, and see if you can find a few dollars that you could donate to RootsWeb to keep this effort alive. I have long said that Brian and Karen cannot forever continue to incure financial hits in the range of ten of thousands of dollars at a time, and still be able to keep RootsWeb alive. Take a look at: http://www.rootsweb.com and you can see how to donate if you wish to do so. I urge you to consider it. It is a great investment. Brian's message follows. Let's see if we can make it a merrier Christmas for Karen and him. My apologies for the lengthy message, but I think it needed to be said. ===================================================== Karen and I are in the hole on RootsWeb; not only have we not been paid anything, we've been paying out of our pockets for the privilege of working here night and day without weekends or holidays. (Just *today* Karen and I took out a $25,000 loan to cover the fact that the Palladium sponsorship has apparently died with their acquisition by TLC, and to pay for the hardware we're going to need to handle the new users we expect to have after Christmas.) Just so you fully understand what I've told you above, you should be aware that in terms of traffic RootsWeb is one of the *top 25* or so sites on the whole Internet. Folks who can run these sorts of facilities are absurdly rare (there are a few hundred of them in the whole world), and senior system administrators at the other "Top 25" sites generally have salary+benefits+option packages that run in the $200,000-500,000 per year and up range. ### Folks should be clear on the concept that the administration staff at RootsWeb is making a huge contribution to the genealogical community by essentially donating our time. The fact that each of us is personally donating services worth tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year is part of the reason we find it so depressing that only about 2-6% of our users are choosing to support RootsWeb at all, and that even among our supporters the average contribution is only one-third of what "tens of thousands of genealogists" (the Wall Street Journal) are spending at Ancestry.com. I don't think RootsWeb is going to fold anytime soon. But I'd be lying to you if I didn't tell you that the staff is seriously wondering whether the community values our efforts enough that continuing on with RootsWeb makes sense. The admin staff wants to give the genealogical community a great online genealogical library, but we can't do it if only 2-6% of our users will voluntarily choose to support us. Without more support, RootsWeb can't afford to buy the servers and bandwidth and scanners and such that we need to bring online the whole US Census and the British Birth/Marriage/Death records and all the other resources we'd like to make freely available to the entire community. Maybe Ancestry has it right. Lock up the resources and charge the users through the nose. Oh well. -B -- John E Cain; 4601 Concord Drive; Garland, TX 75042 http://www.rootsweb.com/~msamite/index.htm -----Amite County MS http://www.rootsweb.com/~jecain/index.htm ----Cain/Ware list and My Website.

John, Thanks for the closing! I think this is a really good thing. Paul -----Original Message----- From: John E. Cain <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 11:15 PM Subject: A Message from the Listowner >Following is a message from Tim Pierce of Rootsweb where these Mail lists are >hosted. "Closing" the list means that only persons subscribed to the list

Following is a message from Tim Pierce of Rootsweb where these Mail lists are hosted. "Closing" the list means that only persons subscribed to the list can post messages to it. This should cut down considerably on the SPAM that gets through the Rootsweb Filters. This option has always been available to each listowner but I did not choose to close our lists for a number of reasons - the most important of which is that I did not want to let these creeps who send out spam force us to deny the list to people who did not choose to subscribe. As the message below spells out, All lists have now been closed. What will this mean to you. Probably not much. If you are subscribed to the list, nothing will change except that you should see less SPAM. Non-subscribers can no longer post messages to the list. Thanks =========<snip>======================== Hi, listowners -- This announcement is to let you know that we've just finished "closing" all of the RootsWeb lists. This means that the list server will only let you post to a mailing list if you subscribe to it. I'm sorry that this had to be done so hastily, but we didn't really have any choice. The volume of spam that was being sent through our lists had reached a phenomenal level, and I was spending most of my time on that problem rather than improving the systems. Worse, some users had begun to send spam complaints to sites that were completely unrelated to RootsWeb, but could kill our network connection if they received too many complaints. Closing the lists to subscribers became a matter of self-preservation. However, in order to make it easier on you, we've changed things to make it a little more obvious when someone who isn't a subscriber posts to your list. The list server will add the words "{not a subscriber}" to the Subject heading of their message, like this: Subject: {not a subscriber} Ancestors of John BROWN? When this happens, you can use the "bounce" or "redirect" features of your e-mail program (if such things are available) to repost this message to your list, and it should be approved for everyone to see. Or you can write to the poster and invite them to subscribe. Important to remember: some folks will subscribe to a mailing list with one e-mail address, and then try to post with another e-mail address. They don't mean any harm by this. If you notice that someone keeps trying to post to the list from an address that isn't subscribed, and you *want* his posts to be approved, you can add his address to the "accept list." To do this, follow the "Customize Settings" link from the bottom of your listowner utility page, and then choose the option to "Edit the Accept File." If you have any other questions about managing a closed list, please feel free to subscribe to NEWBIE-LISTOWNER-L and ask away -- one of our more seasoned listowners will be glad to answer your questions. -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades -- John E Cain; 4601 Concord Drive; Garland, TX 75042 http://www.rootsweb.com/~msamite/index.htm -----Amite County MS http://www.rootsweb.com/~jecain/index.htm ----Cain/Ware list and My Website.

This sounds like my line: William Barnett WARE/Eliza T. FINLEY. We have William Barnett WARE Sr. and Jr. [email protected]

I don't know about the WARE book, but I ordered the FINLEY book by Carmen FINLEY and it is just wonderful. My family fits right into the Asa FINLEY line. Carmen listed my grandparents' names, but didn't go further. I want to send her my info. If you know how to order the WARE book, I'd appreciate your sharing the info. My gg grandparents were William Barnett WARE/Eliza T. FINLEY. Also, I have CARTER, KELLEY, WEBB, ROGERS, ROBERTS and others. Glenna [email protected]

Do you have Weir in Missouri and where. I had a Weir there around 1867. Russel Alex he was in civil war and was mustered out there. Can you help me? [email protected]

Thanks, Rosanne, for your reply. Ware has so many spellings. This is the first time I've seen Wair, but it could be the same family. Actually I'm looking for Weir. If you find the name of her parents, I might be able to find something since I have a few in MO.

My Great Grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Wair. She was born in Missouri in 1853 and she was married A.G. Starkey in Hunt County, Tx where she died in 1917. Her children were William, Caroline, Alexander, Mattie, Emma, and Andrew. Any information about her ancestors would be greatly appreciated.

Regina, Thanks for posting the will of Samuel Ware. The tax records confirm the information in The New West encyclopedia article on the family of John Crawford, which stated that he(Samuel Ware) moved to Arkansas Territory in 1814. Sharon

Reginia, I just received Civil War records for not only my Joseph Ware in Scott Co, MO but 2 other Joseph Wares in MO. Did by chance your Joseph serve from MO in the Civil War? You may be interested in these copies. Diane

Hi fellow WARE searchers... If your WARE family ended up in Lawrence County, Arkansas (or as early as when it was part of the Missouri Territory and then the Arkansas Territory!), you might want to read this will and see if perhaps it helps tie together any loose connections you might have. My line follows down through Joseph Ware, the first son listed in Samuel's will... >From "Lawrence County, Arkansas Will Book, 1817 - 1834", compiled by Dr. Marion Stark Craig: page 7 of the book listed above... Page 22-23 [of the Will Book]: (?) January 1817 - Last Will & Testament of Samuel Ware I, Samuel Ware, of the County of Lawrence and Territory of Missouri, being of sound mind and memory, have determined to make this my Last Will and Testament in manner following. That is to say, Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved son, Joseph Ware, and to my daughter Frances Ware, also my daughter, Polly Ware, my son, William Ware, also my son, Erastes Ware, and my daughter, Nancy Ware, also my son, Jefferson Ware, all my property real and personal of whatever kind, I will and devise to my above named children to be equally divided amongst them. Nevertheless, all those devises are not to be made until after my wife's death but to be kept together for the benefit of my said children. In case my wife, Sally Ware, should marry again, these devises are then to take place and my wife to have a child's part. I also appoint my son, Joseph Ware, executor of this my Last Will and Testament and do revoke all other wills heretofore made. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this (?) day of January 1817. (signed) Samuel Ware Witnesses: Moses Graham Natt Dickerson William Linn Proved in open court on 4 November 1818 by Moses Graham and William Linn. Richard Searcy, Clerk Recorded April 4, 1818 - Richard Searcy, Clerk. (Note by MSC: These are the exact dates as shown. However, there is clearly an error. I believe the recording year should be 1819 and not 1818.) Also, from "Early Arkansas Residents 1814 - 1816 Tax Lists of the Counties of Arkansas and Lawrence in the Territory of Missouri", compiled by Dr. Marion Stark Craig...page 28: Samuel Ware (spelled WEAR in 1815), is shown as paying taxes in 1815 and 1816 in Lawrence County. He was not in the area in the 1814 list. Also listed in this book are: Joseph Ware, paying taxes in Lawrence County in 1816 John Weir (also spelled Weare), paying taxes in Arkansas County in 1816. I hope that this will help someone out there...I know it did me! Now if we can just figure out when and why Samuel came to Arkansas in the early 1800's...! Happy Rooting! Regina Creekmore Weaver [email protected] from Arkansas' second oldest city....historic Batesville!! President, Batesville Genealogical Society: http://www.webkeeper.com/cato/BITBARK.html Searching for: BANDY...ENG>VA>NC>AR DUKE(S)...ENG>VA>NC>GA>AR>OK McKNIGHT...SC>AR MILLIGAN...IRE>VA>AR ROE...VA>NC>TN>AR SIMPSON...???>AR SMITH (William H. and John E.)???>AR>???>IT,OK?>AR SOFLEY (SAFLEY)...AR WARE...SC>AR WYCOUGH...NETH>NY>???>NC>AR

Hi Everyone, The Weird Family Tree database has had a major update. It has grown so much that I had to reduce the years covered from 1900 to 1850. Even though I dropped 50 years of info, it is larger now than before. This is the first update in 6 months in this OH / PA / WV database. The database has the following spellings covered: Waer, Ware, Warr, Wear, Weare, Wearr, Wears, Weer, Wehr, Weir, Weire, Weirs, Were, Weyer, Wiar, Wier, Wire, Wyer and Wyers. It contains 1175 individuals in 424 family groups. Do not forget to check my personal database, as it has individuals from across the country in my personal tree beyond 1850. There is also a history section which has information on the origin of our surname, Scottish clans, and local published histories. their is also a links page to other weird family sites. The Wolf's Den is located at <http://members.tripod.com/~jlwear/> If you would like additional source information on any information which you might find or would like to add to the database, please contact me at <[email protected]>. thanks for your time and have a Merry Christmas. Take care. Jerry ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has data on William D. Ware died in Kaufman, Texas in the 1880's. He served in the Civil War in the Texas Cavalry from Kaufman, but doesn't show up in the 1860 Census. He married Huldah Irwin (or Erwin), daughter of Jared Irwin of Georgia, Alabama and Texas. I believe William may have been a son of James Ware of Dallas, Texas. Any leads would be most appreciated. Sincerely, Robert Park [email protected]

Robert Ware immigrant to Mass early 1600's. Many of his descendents stayed in Mass for generations; my branch headed north to NH, Maine and Vermont, then some on to Ohio