This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CAHAEL/CAHILL, HENDERSON, HUNTER, OWENS/OWINGS, SAPPS, VEIRS, & VIRGINS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2013 Message Board Post: Can you solve the mystery? Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvbrooke/Mystery.htm and view photos from 1998. Mystery Cabin - Who lived here and built the homestead? Back in April 1998, while driving on McKim's Ridge in Brooke Co., WV and seeking a Veirs Run listed on an 1852 map, I found this pioneer abode and decided to take photos. I'm not even sure this cabin still exists today. It is very near where my ancestor, Nehemiah VEIRS, a tanner lived in the late 1790s. His land deed of Ohio Co., VA dated 2 Mar 1795 purchasing land provides these names as adjoining land owners: seller - John & Elizabeth HENDERSON, neighbors - John SAPPS, Demas CAHAEL (CAHILL), James HUNTER. Eight years later when Nehemiah sells the land in 1803 - these are the adjoining neighbors - Jeremiah VIRGINS, James HUNTER, Asa OWENS (OWINGS), & Dennis CAHILL. I would believe it was still inhabited in the early 1900s - as there were many such buildings in the valley. Can any Brooke County researcher provide and share information on this early homestead?

Can you solve the mystery? Visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvbrooke/Mystery.htm and view photos from 1998. Mystery Cabin - Who lived here and built the homestead? Back in April 1998, while driving on McKim's Ridge in Brooke Co., WV and seeking a Veirs Run listed on an 1852 map, I found this pioneer abode and decided to take photos. I'm not even sure this cabin still exists today. It is very near where my ancestor, Nehemiah Veirs, a tanner lived in the late 1790s. His land deed of Ohio Co., VA dated 2 Mar 1795 purchasing land provides these names as adjoining land owners: seller - John & Elizabeth HENDERSON, neighbors - John SAPPS, Demas CAHAEL (CAHILL), James HUNTER. Eight years later when Nehemiah sells the land in 1803 - these are the adjoining neighbors - Jeremiah VIRGINS, James HUNTER, Asa OWENS (OWINGS), & Dennis CAHILL. I would believe it was still inhabited in the early 1900s - as there were many such buildings in the valley. Can any Brooke County researcher provide and share information on this early homestead?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gaudio Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2011.1 Message Board Post: If you or anyone there is researching the Gaudio family, please contact me at [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1874.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks! I do genealogy also and I know how disappointing it is to find someone with information I need.....and then find the e-mail address is old! I REALLY appreciate your posting your new e-mail address! Best of luck with your research! Suzanne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MEISER, MISER, MIZAR, MIZER, MYSER, MYZER) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2012 Message Board Post: Plans are underway for the Annual Reunion in Aspen, Colorado, June 24-26, 2005. See our website for further details: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~keller/meisser/work/index.html or contact Jo-Ann Hall at 970 925 2810, [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2011 Message Board Post: Questions about Pettorano in Abruzzi, Italy and/or Pettorano genealogical research may be directed to me at: [email protected] Happy to assist whenever possible. Some of the names I am researching are: Tecca, Bonitatibus, Ginnetti, Boneventura, Trombetta, Martino, Checca, Spagnoli, Bouchee, D'Alesio, D'Amico, DiStefano, Ferrelli, Oddi, Orsini,Pace, et al.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1874.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, my ISP was acquired by another company several times, and apparently my new email address did not get through. But anyone wanting to know about genealogy in Pettorano, don't hesitate to contact me. If you have been contacted inadvertently, I am sorry. Forward anything to me. jo-ann tecca hall

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1874.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am posting this to let you know that the e-mail address posted for JoAnn is no longer valid to reach her. I'm not sure why or how, but I now have her old e-mail address. Please do not write to me regarding this posting, as I do not have any information and I do not know Jo Ann, so I can't forward your message to her. Thank-you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2010.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the help! Now if I can just figure out for sure that this Samuel is also Lambert, I'll finally have this riddle solved.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2010.1 Message Board Post: According to the transcription of the Brooke Co., (VA-WV) Marriages 1797-1874, transcribed from the official county records by Gwen Hubbard and Bobbie Elliott, and published by the Brooke Co. Genealogical Society, marriage #261, is that of Samuel Clark to Ruhanna Shepard on 5 Apr 1801, recorded in Book 1A, p. 8, conducted in VA (now WV) by J. Hughes. See that publication and others on the BCGS website: http://www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/pub.html

Ruhanna Shepard married 5 April 1801 to Samuel Clark VA Bk 1A. page 007offical Unknown, Enoch Shephard married 13 Nov 1800 to Margaret Gass VA Bk 1A. page 007 offical Unknown. Brooke co VA/WV Licenses & Marriages 1797-1874 compiled by Renee Britt Sherman, Heritage Books INC. Hope this helps, Happy trails on your searching, Kim Ralston Dresser ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 4:40 PM Subject: 1801 Clark/Shepherd marriage lookup? > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Clark Shepherd > Classification: Lookup > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2010 > > Message Board Post: > > If anyone has access to early marriages in Brooke Co. Looking to find who > Ruhanna Shepherd married. I have seen info. saying Samuel Clark in 1801 > and I have seen Lambert Clark in 1799. I know she was married to Lambert > later on Marshall Co. census. But one son's marriage cert. says his father > was Samuel Clark. I'm confused and have been looking for years to figure > it out. Maybe Samuel just started going by Lambert later. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > ==== WVBROOKE Mailing List ==== > Visit Brooke County Surnames Page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvbrooke/surnamem.htm > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/81.205.238.1 Message Board Post: Jo napot kivanok! Good morning, Bonjour, My name is DANCS Michelle, i'm living to France, but my great father has born to CSENGER, ner Satu-Maru.. Are you my family? my great father: Ignace Dancs , his wife Kövary Juliette ( 1898) Plesa write me so soon, Miska DANCS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark Shepherd Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2010 Message Board Post: If anyone has access to early marriages in Brooke Co. Looking to find who Ruhanna Shepherd married. I have seen info. saying Samuel Clark in 1801 and I have seen Lambert Clark in 1799. I know she was married to Lambert later on Marshall Co. census. But one son's marriage cert. says his father was Samuel Clark. I'm confused and have been looking for years to figure it out. Maybe Samuel just started going by Lambert later. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have seen marriage records posted which name James Doddridge as minister. I was wondering if there are any birth records from Rev Doddridge's church? Or from his traveling ministry? Many Thanks, Janet Currie

DNA helping to untangle roots of family trees Tuesday, February 08, 2005 By Bob Batz Jr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Genealogist and writer Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak says you don't have to be a science whiz to understand DNA and how it can help in researching family trees. 'Real World DNA Testing' Featuring: Megan Smolenyak, presented by the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Association. When: 10 a.m. Saturday. Where: Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Tickets:Free (parking $5). Information: 412-687-6811 or www.wpgs.org. Say you get to visit the old country to explore your ancestry. You might think to take something to give your relatives. But would it be a DNA test? Genealogy, it is a-changing. Research is going genetic. "Genetealogy" is what genealogist and writer Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak calls it. That's her real name, as she is by birth and by marriage Smolenyak, a surname that hails from the town of Osturna in Slovakia. She had identified four lines of Smolenyaks and traced them back to the 1700s but couldn't find a connection among them. When DNA testing became available to the public in 2000, she used it to determine that none matched and, further, that one line was actually Vanecko. On a subsequent trip, she and her husband furthered their quest by arriving in the village with 20 test kits and swabbing samples from men with 20 different surnames. They invited some to meet in the local krcma, or tavern. That's one of the sleuthing tips she'll share Saturday when she speaks for the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Smolenyak, who lives in southern New Jersey near Philadelphia, was lead researcher for PBS's "Ancestors" series and "They Came to America" show. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is based on the new book "Trace Your Roots With DNA" (Rodale, Oct. 2004, $14.95) that she wrote with Ann Turner. The book is a primer on this new and burgeoning field, sometimes called "molecular genealogy." It can sound complicated, but Smolenyak says you don't have to be a science whiz "to grasp this stuff and to use it to poke into your past." As anyone who's watched any of the "CSI" shows knows by now, DNA is the genetic blueprint of living things. We humans share 99.9 percent, but the other .1 percent is what differentiates us as individuals and, by extension, as families. Also just like on "CSI," you can collect a DNA sample by wiping a cotton swab inside your mouth. Several companies have sprung up that supply the kits, which you mail back so they can process the results. Cost runs about $150 for the most commonly used test of Y chromosome DNA. That's the DNA that is passed only from father to son. So it's useful for determining whether people with the same surname have a common ancestor. Many people have started "surname projects" that invite those with the same last name to submit their DNA results and play what Smolenyak calls "the match-making game." If you find someone who shares an ancestor, you can compare notes and possibly learn more about your roots. You also don't have to waste time checking out people who aren't related. Another kind of DNA, mitochondrial DNA, is only passed on by mothers but is received by female and male offspring. It's less used for tracing one's family tree, but it lasts longer and can be extracted from remains. That's the kind of DNA that Smolenyak has used in her work with the U.S. Army to identify soldiers killed in Korea. As genetic databases grow, companies also can interpret DNA to give you a better idea of your geographic and ethnic origins. More and more databases (detailed in the book) are accessible to the public. One of the most interesting projects is that of the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation in Utah, which aims to build the world's largest correlated genetic and genealogical database to scientifically demonstrate how all humans are related. Individuals who can chronicle at least four generations of ancestry can get a free collection kit -- this one uses a mouth wash -- and submit their DNA to help the bigger effort. They can also query parts of the database. The project's billionaire funder, James LeVoy Sorenson, believes "that if people know how closely related we are, we will treat each other better." Both the nonprofit foundation and for-profit companies post privacy policies. Smolenyak stresses that the DNA information used for genealogy is not the same kind that reveals genetic diseases, so participants need not worry about "giving away secrets" that could cause them, say, to be denied health insurance. All the ethical issues haven't been sorted out, but, she says, "This is all new stuff," audibly excited as she tries to imagine the positive possibilities ahead. Western Pennsylvania Genealogy Society program chair Marilyn Holt says, "This is completely new to everyone in genealogy," where there's more interest in the "physicality" of family trees, such as what diseases ancestors had. She's expecting a big turnout for the talk on this new tool. "I think that this will be a revelation." For more information, Smolenyak's Web sites are www.genetealogy.com and www.honoringourancestors.com. The Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation's site is www.smgf.org. Visit the Western Pennsylvania Genealogy Society at www.wpgs.org. (Bob Batz Jr. can be reached at [email protected] or 412-263-1930.)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mayhall, Antle, Kerr, Wilson, Storey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2009 Message Board Post: I am searching for any information on JOHN MAYHALL born abt.1825 from Cross Creek WV. He was a carpenter and mill right. John's wife was Elizabeth Antle born abt 1832. I believe her father was James Antle born abt 1796. Children included: William born abt.1850 Isabelle born abt 1857 Anna born abt 1859 George Franklin born abt 1862 Harriet born about 1865 Letitia born about 1867 Any information you might have on him or his relatives would be helpful. Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/2008 Message Board Post: Review our collection of family photos for someone in your family. Submit your old family photos to help others at http://www.wvpics.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2007 Message Board Post: Why are you researching my family?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/2006 Message Board Post: How do I find a researcher who has left messages on your post? The address is; WQ8AwB18fqO ??????????????????????? I don't know how to link. Can you help?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1050.2 Message Board Post: Dis-regard last post. Eddie is my wife's uncle. Ed is the younger brother to Louise Duggan. Please contact me about your research of this family. David Pitts [email protected]