Conratulations Dave! What an incredible Thanksgiving Blessing! I would like to wish all of the Wells Families a Very Blessed Thanksgiving, Filled With Love, Joy, Laughter and of Course, Family and Other Loved Ones! Just in Case Any of You Are Interested, I Have Set Up a Little Yahoo Group to Help Myself Organize a Family Heritage Book I am working on for my children and siblings. The Home Page explains what it is I am doing: Family Heritage Scrapbooks<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/familyheritagescrapbooks/?yguid=159385822> Please feel to join and watch my progress if you wish... With Love, Laurie Ann Wells Phinney ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 8:41 AM Subject: [WELLS] Found Some Wells Family Well, I haven't found some folks I have been looking for, but a few weeks ago I finally connected with a Wells family member. My father, George Pennelton Wells, had a son in a prior marriage, before he married my mother. They divorced after a son had been born, Warner Pennelton Wells a/k/a Corky. My brothers and I never knew Corky. He was born around 1933-1935. When I was at a major genealogy conference in Orlando in September 2003 (I think it iwas), a Florida genealogist and private invvestigator sitting at my table asked me who I wanted to find that I couldn't fin. I told him I would like to find a half-brother that I had never met. I gave him the information that I had. About a half hour after our luncheon, he was looking for me as he had found my half-brother. However, the bad news was that he had died -- exactly 5 years to the day, September 5, 1998. He then provided me with some additional information on one of Corky's sons. However, I was never able to get a response from him. A few weeks ago, I was digging in again on this family because a first cousin I had never known was located, and she provided me information on Corky and some of his family, along with my first pictures of Corky as a youngster and Corky married with 4 children, and my Granmother and other family members. That was pretty exciting. However, that information got burried in two moves after that information was located. I decided to concentrate on the names of the two other sons. Bingo! I found several names in an online phone book and began calling on Sunday afternoon. I left several messages and while leavving the last one, all of a sudden the phone was answered. As I began explaining who I was and naming names, he said, yes, Corky was his father. Actually, Corky adopted him and his brother whenthey were very young - about 1 and 3 years of age, he being the youngest. We began talking about other information, that my father was Corky's father and he thought I had the wrong person; however, he couldn't deny that his youngest brother, Brad, had the same middle name as my father, Pennelton. That was the clincher. then, of course, I found out that much information that he had about Corky's father was not true. He proceeded to tell me that the story he knew was that his adopted father was an orphan, that his dad's father worked on a boat on the Mississippi River, and other things that I had never heard of. When Gary took this information to his mother, she could not believe that I was right. I had pictures that were sent to me by my father's niece (my first cousin). I scanned those pictures that were of Corky and his wife (Gary's mother), Gary's blood brother, and Corky's natural son, Brad and daughter Cheryl. Gary was thrilled to receive the pictures and told me that he had just in the last few years met his biological father, but that he had always known Corky as his father an he conwidered himself a Wells all of his life, so he was thrilled to meet me on the phone. We have now keep up communication between each other - my "new" nephew and his "aunt" (he is 3 years younger than me), and now we talk on the phone for an hour or two at a time. He says his mother doesn't recognize herself in the pictures I sent; but she is in her mid 70's now, so he thinks she just doesn't remember. When he pointed out to his mother, "well then, I'm wondering if that isn't you, Mom, who is that woman with your husban and your 4 kids when we were little?" So, this year has brought me a new family member. Gary has sent the pictures I scanned to his brothers and sister, and it doesn't seem to mean too much to them at this time; maybe eventually it will. But I feel fortunate and thankful to have found a new family member who does want to connect, so I just wanted to share that with the mail list, especially since my line of Wells have been very difficult to trace. On that note, I'll post once again, if anyone is related to: Hickman Pendleton Wells, b. September 1829, MS married to Martha Ann Scott, b. 1841 MO (descended from a line of a Scott family who is a Rev. War soldier) Please get in touch with me. thanks and have a happy holiday season. Denise Wells Southern Florida ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message