> Can someone tell me if this relationship is right that my 1st > cousin's child would be my 1st cousin, once removed? Yep! And your child would be a 2nd cousin to your 1st cousin's child. Your 1st cousin's grandchildren and your grandchildren will be 3rd cousins, and you will be a 1st cousin twice removed from his/her grandchildren. "Removed" means simply a cousin in a different generation than yours. Julie, endlessly sorting out dead relatives..... ----- Original Message ----- From: Cristy To: WVKANAWH-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: [WVKanawha] Relationship Question Hi All, I'm at work and I don't have PAF on my computer here. Can someone tell me if this relationship is right that my 1st cousins child would be my 1st cousin, once removed? Please let me know, and THANKS! Cristy ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Good news for all who ordered copies of the reprint of my book, "Mason County, WV, Marriages, 1806-1915": My publisher straightened out the shipping mess, and the re-shipment arrived last Thursday. Friday, copies were mailed to all of you who ordered, and you should be receiving your copy tomorrow or Thursday, if not today. My thanks to all of you for your patience, and I do hope the book is helpful to you in your research. Kindest regards, Julie Hesson, author, "Mason County, WV, Marriages, 1806-1915"

Need marriage date to Nina Payne or Humphries in 1940s or early 50s. His death date a few years later. His name may have been Anthony???

Hello Everyone, One of my CLARK cousins just told me about this CLARK list. Anyone researching CLARK or CLARKE families that lived in Virginia/West Virginia might be interested in this rootsweb mailing list. Just send a e-mail to the address below with subscribe in the subject and in the body of the e-mail.<A HREF="mailto:CLARK-WV-L-request@rootsweb.com"> CLARK-WV-L-request@rootsweb.com</A>

Go to Google.com, put in Blossom Dairy Charleston WV for many links, some with photos and paintings of Blossom Dairy(Deli). <A HREF="http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Writeup.aspx?ReviewID=95&RefID=95">Click here: Roadfood.com</A> Reviewers Writeup An Art Deco dairy bar restored to gleaming perfection, the Blossom Deli has a long counter facing the soda fountain tools and grill as well as a vast dining room with tables and plush blue-upholstered booths. Late in the breakfast hour, you can sit at the counter for coffee and pastries (The Blossom doesn’t open at the crack of dawn); at lunch, choose from a wide-ranging menu of sandwiches and salads and better-than-lunch-counter hamburgers; but it is at supper that the Blossom shines. The tables are covered with soft white linen and butcher paper and the menu is eclectic bistro fare. Beautiful filets mignon are a specialty, charred to crusty succulence with butter-tender insides, served on a bed of caramelized onions and accompanied by a timbale of pepper-and-mushroom-infused potato hash. An appetizer of creamy polenta is described to us by our waitress, and we quote, as “better than S-E-X” … and we wouldn’t disagree! Other interesting items are seared tuna steak, crawfish etoufee with jerk-seasoned shrimp, and a vegetarian grilled eggplant steak with portabello mushrooms. To accompany these deluxe dishes, you can choose a fine wine … or a chocolate milk shake from the soda fountain! - Michael Stern, 7/11/2001 > NOT A DELI > They call it a deli, it's not a deli. In fact, it used to be a dairy bar. Now it's a nouveau restaurant in downtown Charleston WV. Blossom Deli is small, but it has a big counter. Too bad you can't sit there to eat dinner (lunch only... for dinner you have to sit at a table.) Lot's of foo-foo items on the menu, but the pasta option caught my attention. Choose your ingredients. I went for penne with marinara, italian sausage and pine nuts. Pretty darn good. :: John-David H 10:22 PM .

I am looking for information or photos of the old Blossom Dairy that was located on the corner of Pennsylvania and Virginia Streets just west of the the Elk River in Charleston. It supposedly operated here during the 1930's. Presently the lot is vacant and no structures remain. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Ray Ezell, M.A., RPA Senior Archaeologist Michael Baker Jr., Inc. 5088 West Washington Street Second Floor Charleston, West Virginia 25313 304/769-2112 rezell@mbakercorp.com

I am looking for a Mary Jane Adkins/Atkins born around 1837 she is from somewhere in VA, She married WIlliam Harrison Beller. He was from Giles cty ,VA.ANy help is greatly appreciated......Thanks Ray Tryall

What information would I need to be able to look up a Deed? Also, what information is provided on a Deed after one has been found? Thanks. Cristy

Does anyone connect to this MARTIN family? I'm also wondering if anyone knows who Lindsey J. Pauley's parents were? Lieuvena was my grandfather, James Henry Clark's sister. Any additions and/or corrections are welcome. JOHN MARTIN was born February 1876 in Kentucky, and died Aft. 1930. He married LIEUVENA CLARK Abt. 1900, daughter of JESSE CLARK and LUCY PARSONS. She was born July 1876 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, and died Aft. November 27, 1936. Children of JOHN MARTIN and LIEUVENA CLARK are: i. CARIS MARTIN, b. Abt. 1903, Kanawha County, West Virginia. ii. IDA MARTIN, b. Abt. 1906, Kanawha County, West Virginia. iii. RUBEN MARTIN, b. Abt. 1908, Kanawha County, West Virginia. iv. EVA MARTIN, b. Abt. 1914, Kanawha County, West Virginia; m. LINDSEY J. PAULEY, Abt. 1927; b. April 20, 1907, West Virginia; d. August 1972. Thank you, Pat Names I'm researching: Clark, Good/Goode, Kidd, Martin, Midkiff, Pauley, Rife/Riffe & Ranck/Ronk.

William or George CARSON, 1870 Federal Census, page 45., Charleston or Charleston township. Thanks Dave Copenhaver Monongahela, Washington Co., PA dlcope@stargate.net "This email scanned with Norton AntiVirus 2002"

I am looking for information on the following individials. I want to thank all that responded to me and provided me with information on other realtives....Here is my brickwall: Mary Jane Adkins? married William Harrison Beller. She was born around 1837, probably aroung Giles Cty,VA..They resided in Putnam and Jackson County,WV. Abraham Brannon, born around 1842 in Roane/Clay/Jackson Cty,WV and married a Anna Lawrence from Meigs County,OH and they lived in Jackson Cty,WV. Martha C. Wolfe married around 10/28/1883 in Jackson County married Abraham Brannon. Chancey Dartt, born 4/29/1847 in CHeshie,Meigs Cty, Ohio, he married Hettie E. Jividen, he died around 8/9/1945.... Any help is greatly appreciated....Thanks Again, Ray Tryall P.S. I am willing to share any information that I have

For those of you who ordered a copy of the reprint of my book last fall, and are wondering where it is: Just called the publisher, and uncovered a real mess! Apparently, they shipped out the books and invoiced me on 04 Feb, but sent everything to my old street address here in Camden, but, in TEXAS, not here in Tennessee! So the woman is checking with the warehouse to see if the shipment was returned to them. Am awaiting her call back to me, to ascertain the status. Will let you know the result ASAP. I have all the padded mailers addressed, ready to be filled and mailed as soon as the books arrive. Please accept my sincerest apologies for the delay, and thanks for your patience. Julie Hesson, author, "Mason County, WV, Marriages, 1806-1915"

I am hoping to get to Kanawha, Lincoln, and Putnam Counties over our Spring break for some research, I'm just not sure where to go to get the most for my time. When in Kanawha County, where should I try to go? Thanks Beth I am just one branch of many in my Family Tree Searching for my Lost Family: BOWMAN, BROOKS, HAYDEN, HOSKINS, JOHNSON, MCCARTY, RUPE, STOTTS/STURTZ

Here is my brick walls any help is greatly appreicated. I am looking for information on Lebena (Lubena or Labena)Helmick born around 1827 she married John Young Naylor. Abraham Brannon Jackson Cty,Va born around 1847 he married Anna Lawrence of Meigs Cty, Ohio. Mary Jane Adkins born around 1837 she married William Harrison Beller from Giles County,VA. Chancey M. Dartt born around 1847 in Meigs Cty, Ohio, he married Hettie Elizabeth Jividen. Any information that you can share is greatly appreciated...Ray Tryall

Can someone please tell me where I can find old newspapers for Kanawha, WV? All help appreciated! Thanks! Rosemary Honaker (Stone) Ravenna, Ohio Fax: 775-871-4577 Researching: Stone, Basham, Romine, Berry, Perry, Walton, Pauley, Honaker, Cochran http://home.earthlink.net/~roseh1550/ UPDATED FUNERAL HOME RECORDS FEBRUARY 05, 2003

Thank you all, who responded to my request for info regarding old newspapers fo Charleston, WV. Bev in Tucson, AZ -------------------- Can someone please tell me where I can find old (1940) newspapers for Charleston, WV?  The online link at <A HREF="http://library.cnpapers.com/">http://library.cnpapers.com/</A> only has archives to 1985. All help appreciated!  Thanks! Bev in Tucson, AZ

Can someone please tell me where I can find old (1940) newspapers for Charleston, WV? The online link at <A HREF="http://library.cnpapers.com/">http://library.cnpapers.com/</A> only has archives to 1985. All help appreciated! Thanks! Bev in Tucson, AZ

Surname DNA Testing Helps Families Find Ancestral Roots By KEN WELLS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Jim Wells, a longtime University of Kentucky mathematics professor, went to bed one night pondering a maddening and fruitless decades-long search for the origins of an ancestor. He woke up the next day to have his history handed to him in an e-mail. "It's astonishing," says the 70-year-old Mr. Wells of the recent revelations regarding his fifth great-grandfather, John Wells, who turned out, as Mr. Wells had suspected but could never prove, to be a Pennsylvania Quaker with British roots. "It just didn't seem possible we would ever learn his origins." Mr. Wells, of suburban Lexington, Ky., was part of something called the Wells Family DNA Project, organized by a determined armchair genealogist named Orin Wells. It enlists an intriguing new tool called surname DNA testing. The technology, built on advances in the science of DNA over the past 15 years, rests upon research showing that the Y-chromosome element of DNA passes from father to son basically unchanged over the generations. Hence it serves as a highly accurate marker of paternity. In Jim Wells's case, by volunteering a blood sample to a testing lab, he threw his DNA into a test pool of scores of other Wellses, many of them from 24 American Wells branches that have kept meticulous genealogies going back to the 1600s. The idea: "Orphans" such as Mr. Wells might make a genetic match with one of these families and, by comparing what he knows of his genealogy with the new data, fill in missing pieces. By doing that, Mr. Wells not only verified his theories about John Wells but found out his roots actually go all the way back to one Henry Wells, an English Quaker who immigrated to Pennsylvania around 1684. (The Wells Family Project also helped this reporter find his own branch of the family tree. Read the article.) Until a few years ago, surname DNA testing was the province of universities and research laboratories but not commercially available. Now, three for-profit labs, Relative Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City, Family Tree DNA of Houston and Oxford Ancestors of Oxfordshire, England, have sprung up to serve a growing consumer interest. Though the Wells project, with more than 250 participants, is the largest to date, about 550 other surname DNA projects are already under way in the U.S. and abroad, says Kevin Duerinck, a Rochester, N.Y., genealogy enthusiast who tracks such things on his Web site. He organized his own surname DNA project about two years ago to answer a question unanswerable by conventional means because ancient records that might have shed light had been destroyed in fires: Was his family related to one or more of some 28 ancient Germanic clans with surnames spelled similarly to his? He rounded up a dozen volunteers representing a range of those names. To date, the tests, conducted by Family Tree DNA , show that the Duerincks are relatives of at least two of those clans, the Durincks and the Diericks. "We're talking about establishing a relationship to thousands of people," says the 46-year-old Mr. Duerinck. To see a glimmer of surname DNA's possibilities, some 60% of all Americans are pursuing their family trees. Ancestry.com, with almost a million paid subscribers, is not only the Web's most popular genealogy site, with 600 million page visits a month, but the fourth largest paid Web subscriber service (excluding pornography sites). Still, the commercial surname-DNA market has had some hitches. Ancestry.com, after briefly offering surname DNA tests through its Web site in a joint venture with Relative Genetics, has pulled back for now. For one thing, the tests are expensive, at about $200 a person. And many DNA databases aren't yet large enough to be of much use to the solitary researcher looking for his roots. Most of the surname business comes from clusters of people -- groups as small as four or five and as large as the Wells Family Project -- who already have some notion that they are related and can use DNA to be sure. DNA (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) is the blueprint of all life. It has long been used by forensic experts to link suspects to crimes and by lawyers to establish paternity. More recently, DNA sampling has emerged as a method in so-called deep genealogy, which has allowed African-Americans to broadly trace their origins to African tribal regions or even specific tribes by following what are known as haplotypes -- genetic markers unique to groups of individuals. Surname DNA got a big boost in 2000 when Brigham Young University, with money from Mormon philanthropist James LeVoy Sorenson, launched a DNA-collecting program whose primary goal is to determine "the genetic composition of major populations throughout the world," according to its Web site. (Dutiful Mormons have long been interested in ritual baptism of their ancestors, and genealogy has helped find them.) The project is seeking 100,000 DNA donors from at least 500 populations scattered over the globe. In Kent, Wash., Orin Wells, a computer consultant who had gotten into genealogy 20 years earlier in order to solve a mystery in his own family tree, heard about the BYU project. He pitched researchers there on the usefulness of including a Wells surname project as "a good special case study" to test the practical usefulness of surname DNA testing. Since 1988, he has presided over the Wells Family Research Association, a not-for-profit organization that has been a Web clearinghouse and bulletin board for the collected genealogy of the dozens of early U.S. Wells families. With hundreds of thousands of names, these family trees represent one of the largest surname collections in the U.S., and a significant baseline against which the relationship of people named Wells could be tested. BYU agreed, and the testing has since been taken over by Relative Genetics, a commercial spinoff of the BYU project. Mr. Wells hopes to broaden the project to at least 600 volunteers globally. Of the more than 180 participants who have seen results so far, about 65 orphans such as Jim Wells have been connected to baseline families. The results have also disconnected some people from the Wells lines they thought they belonged to but redirected them to others, or to at least five new family branches that have been brought to light by DNA results. The Wells Family Project uses what is called a 26-marker Y-chromosome test. DNA , extracted from blood samples or cells scraped from the inner wall of the cheek, is run through a sequencer that generates numbers for each of the markers. If all 26 of your markers match all 26 of another participant's markers, chances are extremely high that you share a common ancestor within a few generations. Matches of 23 to 25 markers prove relationships, but farther up the family tree. Less than 23 markers and you aren't related at all. In some cases, results have delivered bad news. In five instances so far, participants have learned that they aren't Wellses at all -- or at least, their DNA doesn't match any of the other Wellses in the project.

A Reporter Uses DNA Method To Find His Own Family Roots By KEN WELLS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By the time I decided to become my family's historian, all I knew for certain is that my father and grandfather had come from Arkansas and that my great-grandfather, Rufus Henry Wells, had lived and died there, an impoverished itinerant laborer. Beyond that was a story, delivered to me by a cousin along with a hand-lettered family tree by a great aunt, that said Rufus, his father, George Henry, and grandfather, Henry, were all Virginians. Oh, and maybe they came from someplace called Wellsburg or Wellsville, Ohio, and maybe their wives' names were Alzia (or Elvira) Vaughn and Mary Taylor. On and off for 22 years, I had searched conventional genealogical records and, more recently, the Web, all in vain. I had pretty much given up until, in the summer of 2001, my brother e-mailed me about the Wells Family DNA Project on the Web. I eagerly signed up, though with beaten-down expectations. Since the project was a pioneering one, wheels turned slowly. I finally gave a DNA sample in January 2002. Results started to trickle in last summer, but the first results weren't certified and formally released until late last year. BACK TO MAIN STORY DNA Testing Helps Dig Up Family Roots Orin Wells, the project's organizer, knew that I also had a journalistic interest in this story but we agreed it would be premature to write about the project until enough results were known to make clear a pattern. In late July, though, he gave me a heads up. It was an e-mail informing me that I had matched the DNA of a number of distant Wells cousins who belonged to one of the 24 early Wells families, known as baseline families because they have kept meticulous genealogies going as far back as the 1600s. For my purposes, my most notable new cousin was John Hart Wells of South Hill, Va. Mr. Wells, a 68-year-old retired school administrator, had helped write a book titled, "The Wellses of Mecklenburg County, Va." Orin suggested that in that book lay a lot of my answers. A day later I was on the phone with my newfound cousin John, a cheerful-sounding man with a soft Virginia drawl. He had in his hands the Wells book, 542 pages long, plus an index. And there on page 191 was a Rufus Henry Wells, son of George Henry Wells, married to an Eliza Vaughn -- a match to my great-aunt's hand-scrawled genealogy. On the page before was a Henry Wells, married (his second marriage, I learned) to a Mary Taylor -- another match. On the same page came new information: Henry's father and mother were David and Susannah Wells, David having been born about 1730 in Virginia. My Henry was the seventh of his 10 children; my newfound cousin John was descended from David's youngest child, Baker Wells. It started to sink in: Our great-great-great-great grandfathers had been young brothers at the time of the American Revolution. Two of their older brothers, cousin John informed me, had fought in the War of Independence; one, in George Washington's army, had died at Valley Forge. The details went on and on. "Come down and see me," Cousin John said. "We have a lot to talk about."

I found this quite interesting...please read. Cristy A Reporter Uses DNA Method to Find His Own Family Roots: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1046918321775502160-search,00.html?collection=wsjie%2F30day&vql_string=DNA%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29 Surname DNA Testing Helps Families Find Ancestral Roots: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1046902971252925920-search,00.html?collection=wsjie%2F30day&vql_string=DNA%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29