Hi woods all I have a strange dead end problemmy gg grand mother Roberta Woods left the south east states ? VA,W VA, N, S CA,? right after ter cival war. reportedly leaving first husband , fate unknown" Ferd Burtcher"in the middle of the night, endind up in the texas, newnexico area.Mr wood married roberta and adopted twin sons James and John. John is my g grandfarter.help. john bagwell Sheryl melody@aros.net or sjbagwell81@cs.com or johnsher@juno.com ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Music To Heal The Soul: http://www.geocities.com/sjbagwell81/music.html LDS Music Corner: http://www.geocities.com/sjbagwell81/index.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

A great question, and again history many refute tradition and myth. During the Battle of Culloden (Wednesday, 16 April 1746) the Highland clansmen wore kilts of tartan, but neither the garments nor the patterns we know today would have been generally familiar in the Highlands at the time. The traditional dress was a belted plaid (plaide is Gaelic for blanket). This was a rectangle of cloth about six feet wide and six yards long. The lower part, pleated, formed a skirt, and was held in place by a belt around the waist; the upper part could be arranged in a variety of ways and, the belt having been loosened, it could serve to wrap the wearers as protection during the cold of night. The modern kilt is simply the lower half of this garment with its pleats stitched. Credit for its invention is usually given to an Englishman, Thomas Rawlinson, who ran an iron works in Glengarry and Lochaber about 1725. It is not acceptable to all Scots however, and Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, a former Lord Lyon, in his "Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland" calls it "a wretched story" and claims a much longer history. Highland regiments wore both forms of the kilt after 1746, but soon the modern version became the accepted dress. There were no clan tartans at the Battle of Culloden. The distinguishing mark of the Jacobites (Highland Scots) was the white cockade flower worn on the bonnet. A wounded Highlander whose bonnet had been lost had to be asked for which side he had fought. A famous painting of the battle owned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II shows eight clansmen between them wearing garments in over 20 tartans, none of which corresponds to any modern pattern. The painter, David Morier, used prisoners from English jails as models for the painting which was done for the Dule of Cumberland. After the Scots lost the battle to the English, an English law was passed forbidding the wearing of Highland dress; and the clan system, which was changing, was disbanded. The great upsurge of interest in Highland dress came in 1822, after King George IV's celebrated visit to Edinburgh, master-minded by Sir Walter Scott whose novels had seized public imagination. Not only the King but the Lord Mayor of London, appeared in the kilt, as did Scott himself. Soon every well known family in Scotland (Highland and Lowland alike) had its own tartan. [Source: Phil Sked, "Culloden" (The National Trust: John Barththolomew and Son, Ltd., 1984), p. 34. "A person has the right to wear a modern tartan associated with his or her surname. Persons with a surname associated with several clans, families or districts should select one rather than to acquire and wear items of differing tartans." [Philip D. Smith, "Tartan For Me!" (West Chester, PA: Philip D. Smith, 1986), p, 3.] There is no WOODS clan or family tartan identified in the listing in the last source cited. The WOOD family is listed as being from the Galloway District of Scotland. George W. Page ___________________ At 08:40 AM 4/15/2001 -0400, Irvin &Chris wrote: >George...Thank you for the information you provided for us. I found it very >informative and often wondered the authenticity of different Coat of Arms. >Now , seeing as you know a lot of history about the Coat of Arms do you also >have knowledge on the Clan Plaids? I would love to know more about the >originality of the different plaids and the meaning they displayed for each >clan. Can you help us with this info? Thanks Kindly....Chris > >----- Original Message ----- >From: George W. Page <gwpage@erols.com> >To: <WOODS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:38 PM >Subject: Re: [WOODS-L] Coat of Arms > > > > At 01:53 PM 4/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > > I was wondering if any WOODS on this list has a copy or knows where I >can > > >get a copy of the WOODS Coat of Arms? > > >Any help with this would be WONDERFUL! > > >Thanks in Advance. > > >Marie > > > > I'm sorry to disappoint you most of you, but Coats of Arms are granted by > > proper authority only to individuals of the gentry class. > > No two are alike in color, tint, or cadency markings; but some of a family > > may be similar. > > The idea of copying someone's coat of arms and using it as their own is a > > form of forgery! > > > > The Woods surname was found in Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales, and > > England. > > I can assure you that coats of arms for Woods of these diverse areas were > > not even similar. > > You should know that coats of arms were never granted by American > > authorities in the American colonies, before or after the Revolution. > > There were very few immigrants to the colonies that had a coat of arms > > properly granted to them or to their ancestor. > > > > If one visits certain cemeteries, especially in Virginia in such places as > > Williamsburg, it is possible to find coat of arms on the tombstones. > > There were several among the Cavaliers, but they were mostly second (or > > younger) sons with cadency marks denoting their position in the family. > > > > Family crests are three-dimensional devices mounted on the helmet and so > > depicted in a coat of arms at the top, together with the wreath (or crest > > cornet) and mantling, both of which are now considered to be components of > > the crest in British armory. Crests are only granted in conjunction with a > > coat of arms or to a person who has inherited arms and no crest. Women are > > not granted crests, neither may they inherit them. > > > > > > > > ==== WOODS Mailing List ==== > > The purpose of this list is the WOOD... family. If your message does > > not contain a reference to the WOOD... family, it does not belong on > > this list and may be the reason for your removal from the list. > > > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.231 / Virus Database: 112 - Release Date: 12/02/01 > > >==== WOODS Mailing List ==== >Do NOT send messages to the WOODS list that are also sent "TO" or "CC"ed >to others. If you must send messages to multiple private or list addresses >do it using "BC" so the addresses cannot be harvested by spammers. I will >permanently remove anyone who does not follow this rule.

George...Thank you for the information you provided for us. I found it very informative and often wondered the authenticity of different Coat of Arms. Now , seeing as you know a lot of history about the Coat of Arms do you also have knowledge on the Clan Plaids? I would love to know more about the originality of the different plaids and the meaning they displayed for each clan. Can you help us with this info? Thanks Kindly....Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: George W. Page <gwpage@erols.com> To: <WOODS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [WOODS-L] Coat of Arms > At 01:53 PM 4/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > I was wondering if any WOODS on this list has a copy or knows where I can > >get a copy of the WOODS Coat of Arms? > >Any help with this would be WONDERFUL! > >Thanks in Advance. > >Marie > > I'm sorry to disappoint you most of you, but Coats of Arms are granted by > proper authority only to individuals of the gentry class. > No two are alike in color, tint, or cadency markings; but some of a family > may be similar. > The idea of copying someone's coat of arms and using it as their own is a > form of forgery! > > The Woods surname was found in Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales, and > England. > I can assure you that coats of arms for Woods of these diverse areas were > not even similar. > You should know that coats of arms were never granted by American > authorities in the American colonies, before or after the Revolution. > There were very few immigrants to the colonies that had a coat of arms > properly granted to them or to their ancestor. > > If one visits certain cemeteries, especially in Virginia in such places as > Williamsburg, it is possible to find coat of arms on the tombstones. > There were several among the Cavaliers, but they were mostly second (or > younger) sons with cadency marks denoting their position in the family. > > Family crests are three-dimensional devices mounted on the helmet and so > depicted in a coat of arms at the top, together with the wreath (or crest > cornet) and mantling, both of which are now considered to be components of > the crest in British armory. Crests are only granted in conjunction with a > coat of arms or to a person who has inherited arms and no crest. Women are > not granted crests, neither may they inherit them. > > > > ==== WOODS Mailing List ==== > The purpose of this list is the WOOD... family. If your message does > not contain a reference to the WOOD... family, it does not belong on > this list and may be the reason for your removal from the list. > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.231 / Virus Database: 112 - Release Date: 12/02/01

At 01:53 PM 4/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: > I was wondering if any WOODS on this list has a copy or knows where I can >get a copy of the WOODS Coat of Arms? >Any help with this would be WONDERFUL! >Thanks in Advance. >Marie I'm sorry to disappoint you most of you, but Coats of Arms are granted by proper authority only to individuals of the gentry class. No two are alike in color, tint, or cadency markings; but some of a family may be similar. The idea of copying someone's coat of arms and using it as their own is a form of forgery! The Woods surname was found in Scotland, Northern Ireland , Wales, and England. I can assure you that coats of arms for Woods of these diverse areas were not even similar. You should know that coats of arms were never granted by American authorities in the American colonies, before or after the Revolution. There were very few immigrants to the colonies that had a coat of arms properly granted to them or to their ancestor. If one visits certain cemeteries, especially in Virginia in such places as Williamsburg, it is possible to find coat of arms on the tombstones. There were several among the Cavaliers, but they were mostly second (or younger) sons with cadency marks denoting their position in the family. Family crests are three-dimensional devices mounted on the helmet and so depicted in a coat of arms at the top, together with the wreath (or crest cornet) and mantling, both of which are now considered to be components of the crest in British armory. Crests are only granted in conjunction with a coat of arms or to a person who has inherited arms and no crest. Women are not granted crests, neither may they inherit them.

In a message dated 4/14/01 12:57:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Oaks5@aol.com writes: > Try this web site for Woods from England if you are interested in purchasing > http://www.genealogyweb.com/coatofarms.htm There are a ton of sites. Use any search engine with "Coat of Arms" and the surname of your choice. Many of these sites allow you to copy the image. Good Luck. Sincerely, Kate Surname Index Abbot, Archer, Arden, Aslebe or Aslett, Baskerville, Beamsley, Benjamin, Benjamis, Blaney, Bowman, Bragg(e), Bray, Brazier, Brooks, Brown, Van Brugh, Burrill, Chenery, Clap(p), Clark, Colburn(e), Dever(e)au(x), Dolling, Dummer Ellis, Eveleth or EVELEIGH, Fairebanke Fairbank, Fairbanks, ffrie Frie, Frye, Fisher, Fisk(e), Flower, Flynt or Flint, French, Fuller Gamblin, Gamlin or Gamlyn, Garnish, Gawroger, Good(e)now, Gookin, Grant, Graves, Grazebrook, Guillims or Duglim, Guy Hamant, Hanlon, Harding, Haynes, Henchman, Hinkesman, Hoar(e) Hogenson, Holmes, Holt, Hull, Hunt, Hunting Jasper, Jochemse, de Kay, Keene, King, Knightly Lewis Marriott, Metcalf(e), Moller, Morgenroth, Morse Norcross, Nubury or NUBERY Palmer, Pares, Parker, Peters, Phillips, Potts Quincy, Randolph, Rebelle, Reynolds, Richards, Robbins, Roehm, Roeloff Roundy Sewall, Sewell or Shewell, Shattuck, Sherman, Silvester or Sylvester, Smith, Staats, Stancliffe, Stanley, Stone, Storer Tainter, Taynter, Tiemroth, de Trieux Waide, Walley, Wendell, Whitehead, Whitney, Wight, Willet, Woods

I was wondering if any WOODS on this list has a copy or knows where I can get a copy of the WOODS Coat of Arms? Any help with this would be WONDERFUL! Thanks in Advance. Marie

In a message dated 4/13/01 3:20:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, hccjwoods@alltel.net writes: > JAMES M. WOODS IS MY GG GRANDPA. > If you can give any more information it would help us help you. Do you know where and when any events happened in his life. (birth, marriage, death, children's birth, children's names, etc.) Sincerely, Kate Surname Index Abbot, Archer, Arden, Aslebe or Aslett, Baskerville, Beamsley, Benjamin, Benjamis, Blaney, Bowman, Bragg(e), Bray, Brazier, Brooks, Brown, Van Brugh, Burrill, Chenery, Clap(p), Clark, Colburn(e), Dever(e)au(x), Dolling, Dummer Ellis, Eveleth or EVELEIGH, Fairebanke Fairbank, Fairbanks, ffrie Frie, Frye, Fisher, Fisk(e), Flower, Flynt or Flint, French, Fuller Gamblin, Gamlin or Gamlyn, Garnish, Gawroger, Good(e)now, Gookin, Grant, Graves, Grazebrook, Guillims or Duglim, Guy Hamant, Hanlon, Harding, Haynes, Henchman, Hinkesman, Hoar(e) Hogenson, Holmes, Holt, Hull, Hunt, Hunting Jasper, Jochemse, de Kay, Keene, King, Knightly Lewis Marriott, Metcalf(e), Moller, Morgenroth, Morse Norcross, Nubury or NUBERY Palmer, Pares, Parker, Peters, Phillips, Potts Quincy, Randolph, Rebelle, Reynolds, Richards, Robbins, Roehm, Roeloff Roundy Sewall, Sewell or Shewell, Shattuck, Sherman, Silvester or Sylvester, Smith, Staats, Stancliffe, Stanley, Stone, Storer Tainter, Taynter, Tiemroth, de Trieux Waide, Walley, Wendell, Whitehead, Whitney, Wight, Willet, Woods

Am looking for information on my great grandfathers predecessors. His name is Ulysses Simpson Grant Woods. Born 1865, died 1939. Married to Anna Jagerson (1869-1940). They lived and are buried in Elkhart, Iowa. My grandmother was Stella Woods and her sisters were Alma, Grace, Pearl and Elizabeth. I cannot seem to get beyond Ulysses and am new to all this! Where do I go next? Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynda Lindsey" <linda1@zebra.net> To: <WOODS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [WOODS-L] WOODS > Where please? > > At 06:15 PM 4/13/2001 -0400, Charlie and Chris Woods wrote: > >I AM TRYING TO FIND INFO. ON MY ANCESTORS. JAMES M. WOODS IS MY GG GRANDPA. > >IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING PLEASE SEND ME INFO. THANK YOU. > > God Bless > Lynda > > > ==== WOODS Mailing List ==== > Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Threaded archives at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists/ > >

Hello Woods Cousins, I see from researching the Woods list archives (lightly) that many folks have been looking for ANDREW WOODS, said son of ARCHIBALD WOODS & ISABELLA GOSS/GASS. The 1943 & 1945 Virginia Historical Magazine articles are quoted - my question is - before I have to go through all the trouble of re-inventing the wheel - has the question of ANDREW WOODS been solved? A lot of years have passed from 1943 to 2001. Many thanks folks! Patricia in Oregon pat@skyride.net

Where please? At 06:15 PM 4/13/2001 -0400, Charlie and Chris Woods wrote: >I AM TRYING TO FIND INFO. ON MY ANCESTORS. JAMES M. WOODS IS MY GG GRANDPA. >IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING PLEASE SEND ME INFO. THANK YOU. God Bless Lynda

I AM TRYING TO FIND INFO. ON MY ANCESTORS. JAMES M. WOODS IS MY GG GRANDPA. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING PLEASE SEND ME INFO. THANK YOU. SINCERELY, STEPHANIE WOODS

where in NC in 1900 At 12:40 PM 4/8/2001 EDT, KermeenRac@aol.com wrote: >Hi, > >Was wondering if anyone has access to the 1870 North Carolina Census Records. >I am trying to find information on the Asubry WOODS listed on page 085 in >Summers Township, Caldwell Co. I found reference to this but do not have >access to the census. Also, if anyone has access to the 1900 North Carolina >Census and wouldn't mind doing a look up for me, I am looking for information >on Elbert A. WOODS. Any help would be appreciated. Please e-mail directly to >KermeenRac@aol.com > >Thanks in advance. >Cindy Woods Kermeen > > >==== WOODS Mailing List ==== >All rights including Copyrights to the messages sent to this LIST for >distribution to its subscribers remain with the original author of each > message. > > God Bless Lynda

Hi, Was wondering if anyone has access to the 1870 North Carolina Census Records. I am trying to find information on the Asubry WOODS listed on page 085 in Summers Township, Caldwell Co. I found reference to this but do not have access to the census. Also, if anyone has access to the 1900 North Carolina Census and wouldn't mind doing a look up for me, I am looking for information on Elbert A. WOODS. Any help would be appreciated. Please e-mail directly to KermeenRac@aol.com Thanks in advance. Cindy Woods Kermeen

Does anyone have an Ila Wood/Woods born between 1868 and 1881 anywhere in America? She may or may not have married in or near Arkansas. Sheri LeQuia 1227 Panorama Pt. Merced, CA 95340 lequia@elite.net

Does anyone have an Edna or a May Wood/Woods born between 1868 or 1881 anywhere? Sheri LeQuia 1227 Panorama Pt. Merced, CA 95340 lequia@elite.net

Faith asked about selecting random counties to search (1880 census) when you're not sure which ones. I've done it! It's like deciding which haystack to search when you need a certain needle! First, are you looking for ancestors of people in the census, or descendants? Do you just want to know where they went, or where they came from? As a stab, I'd try counties in either state that are nearest to each other. You may be able to narrow it down, though. I've had a lot of luck by calling the most likely county court house's deeds office. That's because, after somone lived in an area and has moved on, they frequently sell their old house--and on the deed, they sometime say what county they currently are living in. I've also had luck with ordering the microfilm of the newspaper in the place where I know they lived. Often there are mentions when arrives or leaves town, sometimes there are other clues. For example, I found one sentence in an old Nebraska newspaper that mentioned a child had died while the parents were on a visit to the wife's home town in Iowa. I checked the real estate office in Iowa and found a deed where they bought the Iowa land while living in a county in Wisconsin. I check the WI census--and found not just this man, but his brother (my great grandfather) living with an older, married sister in WI. This is a family originally from PA. Then I was able to search the web and discover that my great grandfather went into the Civil War from WI, of all places. Boy did he cover some ground (he lived next in TN and GA, and died in TX). Soooo...follow the trail from known area, using real estate records and newspapers. Happy hunting. Best regards, Laura in NC

In a message dated 4/2/01 7:20:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, logie@mounet.com writes: > Wiley Woods > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ You might be interested in going to the BLM site. In Alabama there are two land transactions for a Wiley Woods in 1837. Could be a relative. These two images are downloadable. Sincerely, Kate Surname Index Abbot, Archer, Arden, Aslebe or Aslett, Baskerville, Beamsley, Benjamin, Benjamis, Blaney, Bowman, Bragg(e), Bray, Brazier, Brooks, Brown, Van Brugh, Burrill, Chenery, Clap(p), Clark, Colburn(e), Dever(e)au(x), Dolling, Dummer Ellis, Eveleth or EVELEIGH, Fairebanke Fairbank, Fairbanks, ffrie Frie, Frye, Fisher, Fisk(e), Flower, Flynt or Flint, French, Fuller Gamblin, Gamlin or Gamlyn, Garnish, Gawroger, Good(e)now, Gookin, Grant, Graves, Grazebrook, Guillims or Duglim, Guy Hamant, Hanlon, Harding, Haynes, Henchman, Hinkesman, Hoar(e) Hogenson, Holmes, Holt, Hull, Hunt, Hunting Jasper, Jochemse, de Kay, Keene, King, Knightly Lewis Marriott, Metcalf(e), Moller, Morgenroth, Morse Norcross, Nubury or NUBERY Palmer, Pares, Parker, Peters, Phillips, Potts Quincy, Randolph, Rebelle, Reynolds, Richards, Robbins, Roehm, Roeloff Roundy Sewall, Sewell or Shewell, Shattuck, Sherman, Silvester or Sylvester, Smith, Staats, Stancliffe, Stanley, Stone, Storer Tainter, Taynter, Tiemroth, de Trieux Waide, Walley, Wendell, Whitehead, Whitney, Wight, Willet, Woods

Hello I am still looking for information on Wiley Elijah Woods-b- abt. 1860 he married Sarah Lane..I think they were from NC then later moved to TN...they had the following children Ruben,Thomas,Emaual,Frank,John Ruben married Martha Ward..any help will be appreciated. Thanks Lisa

Where please At 08:08 PM 4/2/2001 -0500, Faith A. Blount wrote: >Anyone know the above names? They had a daughter Lone E. Woods 24 Apr 1893. > >Could A. C. stand for Adam Woods? > >If this connects with anyone out there please let me know. I have to know if I am related to them somehow. >Thanks, >Faith >blount@netnet.net >The Roots of my tree. >ACKERMANN, ARTHUR, BAXTER, >BLOUNT, CARTER, EICH, FRIEND, >GLASSBURN, GREENE, ROEDER, >ROTH(E), SPINLER, STILTNER, >TRITT, WOODS. > > > >==== WOODS Mailing List ==== >The purpose of this list is the WOOD... family. If your message does >not contain a reference to the WOOD... family, it does not belong on >this list and may be the reason for your removal from the list. > > God Bless Lynda

Anyone know the above names? They had a daughter Lone E. Woods 24 Apr 1893. Could A. C. stand for Adam Woods? If this connects with anyone out there please let me know. I have to know if I am related to them somehow. Thanks, Faith blount@netnet.net The Roots of my tree. ACKERMANN, ARTHUR, BAXTER, BLOUNT, CARTER, EICH, FRIEND, GLASSBURN, GREENE, ROEDER, ROTH(E), SPINLER, STILTNER, TRITT, WOODS.