Dear Logan County, West Virginia Genealogist and cousins, I am trying to figure out how big the Toler file is going to be. I never dreamed that I could find as many Toler Descendants of David Toler and Susanna as I did for William Burgess and Susann of Bedford County, Virginia. The Burgess file has approximately 725 pages. The Toler file tonight has 425 pages of information and I have not even begun. It is a little discouraging to think how many pages I am going to have on the Toler family. Nathaniel Mullins file is about 250 (not near as big as the others) Have not begun! William Browning and Catherine Anglin is approximately 325 - I stopped to work on the Toler Family. Abner Vance and Susanna Howard (who knows - It must be the biggest by far) Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families was around 300 pages. I thought it was a good book - I guess it was for 1978. Just imagine if we wrote the book today it would have over 2500 (maybe over 3,000) pages of information. Hard to believe that we have had such an explosion of information since 1978. I believe with a lot of work there could be a 1,000 pages of information on each of these families except for the Mullins family which was a small family all things considered! If my health holds out I would like to go back to West Virginia to contact family that lives there in about 5 years. I need a gate keeper to take this project before I kick off! _______ Just a thought it would be great if a lot of people on the list would work on putting all the descendants of their Logan County Ancestors in a book or on a web site or on a data base that could be shared with future generations! At the very least I am going to print these booklets out and donate them to the libaries in Logan and Wyoming Counties and the Geneaogical Societies. I would like to see families that are close to my families the Perry, Hinchman, White, Hager, Walker, Cook, Blankenship, Belcher, Grimmett, Bailey, Cline, Dempsey, Combs, Jarrell, Smith, Cow Creek Brownings, Robinett. The list could be a super list. The list could be just a big as you can make it. It is better than watching the boob tube! Should we save this information for future generations? What are we going to leave them? Does anyone else want to work on their families? I would like for our grand children and great grand children to return to Logan County and fine 100 books on the early families of Logan County, West Virginia. I thought the Census project was a great idea. I think this is an even better idea. Any thoughts? Jim Burgess

Jim, I agree with you completely on more books being written. Even if there are some mistakes, as long as it is noted that some information might need more research. I don't think a thing about sharing what I am sure about with most researchers. I figure that the more people who have the correct information, the better. At one time, I set up for family home pages to print out. I don't know if I did it wrong but when my printer program hit 10,000 pages, I shut it off. I still don't understand why the number went that high because I only had about 4,000 people in my files. Mayby it was going to include all the notes which have personal e-mails included. Anyway, right now all my research is in computer(no burner) and on GenCircles for safekeeping. I would love to put it in book form but really don't know how to do that yet. Guess I should take a class or something. I should mention something that I didn't know before. CDs only last about ten years at the most in prime conditions. So they need to be updated long before that. I also would love to find a copy of the Hager Family History book that was written in McPherson Co., Kansas. Have not found that one yet. Somewhere hidden in puter is the name of the person that compiled that book. Probably in my e-mail program. I am close to figuring out exactly when my gggrandfather, George Washington Hager, [s/o John Morgan and Elizabeth Jane (Miller) Hager] died. (BTW, John Morgan WAS a Major, that was not his first name.) I recently got the probate records for both George W. Hager and Eliza Ann (Baisden) Hager. Proof in those that his doctor was the father in law of his son William McDaniel. I was amazed at how long it took to finish the probate because of the traveling judge at the time. Over three years for both. Well, enough for now. Gracie in Okla. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Burgess" <jim@promobiz.biz> To: <WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:56 PM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family > Dear Logan County, West Virginia Genealogist and cousins, > > I am trying to figure out how big the Toler file is going to be. > > I never dreamed that I could find as many Toler Descendants of David Toler > and Susanna as I did for William Burgess and Susann of Bedford County, > Virginia. > > The Burgess file has approximately 725 pages. > > The Toler file tonight has 425 pages of information and I have not even > begun. > It is a little discouraging to think how many pages I am going to have on > the Toler > family. > > Nathaniel Mullins file is about 250 (not near as big as the others) > Have not begun! > > William Browning and Catherine Anglin is approximately 325 - I stopped to > work on the > Toler Family. > > Abner Vance and Susanna Howard (who knows - It must be the biggest by far) > > Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families was around 300 pages. > > I thought it was a good book - I guess it was for 1978. > > Just imagine if we wrote the book today it would have over 2500 (maybe over > 3,000) pages of information. > > Hard to believe that we have had such an explosion of information since > 1978. > > I believe with a lot of work there could be a 1,000 pages of information on > each of these > families except for the Mullins family which was a small family all things > considered! > > If my health holds out I would like to go back to West Virginia to contact > family > that lives there in about 5 years. > > I need a gate keeper to take this project before I kick off! > > _______ > > Just a thought it would be great if a lot of people on the list would work > on putting > all the descendants of their Logan County Ancestors in a book or on a web > site or on a data > base that could be shared with future generations! > > At the very least I am going to print these booklets out and donate them to > the libaries > in Logan and Wyoming Counties and the Geneaogical Societies. > > I would like to see families that are close to my families the Perry, > Hinchman, White, > Hager, Walker, Cook, Blankenship, Belcher, Grimmett, Bailey, Cline, Dempsey, > Combs, Jarrell, Smith, Cow Creek Brownings, Robinett. The list could be a > super list. > > The list could be just a big as you can make it. > > It is better than watching the boob tube! > > Should we save this information for future generations? > What are we going to leave them? > > Does anyone else want to work on their families? > > I would like for our grand children and great grand children to return to > Logan County > and fine 100 books on the early families of Logan County, West Virginia. > > I thought the Census project was a great idea. I think this is an even > better idea. > > Any thoughts? > > Jim Burgess > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Gracie, We have spent our lives doing this stuff. We are not motivated by $$. We need to be sure our family information is left for others so they do not have to retract our steps. My Burgess family has a lot of information www.surnames.com (see published gedcoms) I have my direct family and my Burgess file. As I finish the Toler family I will be doing the Browning, and Mullins family. I hope that someone else will do the Vance family. A Huge family - but one that really needs to be done properly. That information has been preserved and will not be lost. I need to do the same with the other information. At the very least we need to see that this information is left in Logan County before we pass away. I am 62 going on 63. I am really trying to prepare everything for family members in West Virginia. My family is from Logan County the records need to be there. Just imagine going into a library in Logan and finding hard copies of what everyone on the list has done. It would be a wonderful thing for furture generations. Hope everyone agrees, especially those of us who have been researching for years. What families beside Hager are you working on? Is there anyone lurking on the list who should do the same? Are you going to put the data in your casket? thanks Jim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: gracie [mailto:g.winters@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:41 PM To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family Jim, I agree with you completely on more books being written. Even if there are some mistakes, as long as it is noted that some information might need more research. I don't think a thing about sharing what I am sure about with most researchers. I figure that the more people who have the correct information, the better. At one time, I set up for family home pages to print out. I don't know if I did it wrong but when my printer program hit 10,000 pages, I shut it off. I still don't understand why the number went that high because I only had about 4,000 people in my files. Mayby it was going to include all the notes which have personal e-mails included. Anyway, right now all my research is in computer(no burner) and on GenCircles for safekeeping. I would love to put it in book form but really don't know how to do that yet. Guess I should take a class or something. I should mention something that I didn't know before. CDs only last about ten years at the most in prime conditions. So they need to be updated long before that. I also would love to find a copy of the Hager Family History book that was written in McPherson Co., Kansas. Have not found that one yet. Somewhere hidden in puter is the name of the person that compiled that book. Probably in my e-mail program. I am close to figuring out exactly when my gggrandfather, George Washington Hager, [s/o John Morgan and Elizabeth Jane (Miller) Hager] died. (BTW, John Morgan WAS a Major, that was not his first name.) I recently got the probate records for both George W. Hager and Eliza Ann (Baisden) Hager. Proof in those that his doctor was the father in law of his son William McDaniel. I was amazed at how long it took to finish the probate because of the traveling judge at the time. Over three years for both. Well, enough for now. Gracie in Okla. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Burgess" <jim@promobiz.biz> To: <WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:56 PM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family > Dear Logan County, West Virginia Genealogist and cousins, > > I am trying to figure out how big the Toler file is going to be. > > I never dreamed that I could find as many Toler Descendants of David Toler > and Susanna as I did for William Burgess and Susann of Bedford County, > Virginia. > > The Burgess file has approximately 725 pages. > > The Toler file tonight has 425 pages of information and I have not even > begun. > It is a little discouraging to think how many pages I am going to have on > the Toler > family. > > Nathaniel Mullins file is about 250 (not near as big as the others) > Have not begun! > > William Browning and Catherine Anglin is approximately 325 - I stopped to > work on the > Toler Family. > > Abner Vance and Susanna Howard (who knows - It must be the biggest by far) > > Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families was around 300 pages. > > I thought it was a good book - I guess it was for 1978. > > Just imagine if we wrote the book today it would have over 2500 (maybe over > 3,000) pages of information. > > Hard to believe that we have had such an explosion of information since > 1978. > > I believe with a lot of work there could be a 1,000 pages of information on > each of these > families except for the Mullins family which was a small family all things > considered! > > If my health holds out I would like to go back to West Virginia to contact > family > that lives there in about 5 years. > > I need a gate keeper to take this project before I kick off! > > _______ > > Just a thought it would be great if a lot of people on the list would work > on putting > all the descendants of their Logan County Ancestors in a book or on a web > site or on a data > base that could be shared with future generations! > > At the very least I am going to print these booklets out and donate them to > the libaries > in Logan and Wyoming Counties and the Geneaogical Societies. > > I would like to see families that are close to my families the Perry, > Hinchman, White, > Hager, Walker, Cook, Blankenship, Belcher, Grimmett, Bailey, Cline, Dempsey, > Combs, Jarrell, Smith, Cow Creek Brownings, Robinett. The list could be a > super list. > > The list could be just a big as you can make it. > > It is better than watching the boob tube! > > Should we save this information for future generations? > What are we going to leave them? > > Does anyone else want to work on their families? > > I would like for our grand children and great grand children to return to > Logan County > and fine 100 books on the early families of Logan County, West Virginia. > > I thought the Census project was a great idea. I think this is an even > better idea. > > Any thoughts? > > Jim Burgess > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Gracie, We have spent our lives doing this stuff. We are not motivated by $$. We need to be sure our family information is left for others so they do not have to retract our steps. My Burgess family has a lot of information www.surnames.com (see published gedcoms) I have my direct family and my Burgess file. That information has been preserved and will not be lost. I need to do the same with the other information. At the very least we need to see that this information is left in Logan County before we pass away. I am 62 going on 63. I am really trying to prepare everything for family members in West Virginia. My family is from Logan County the records need to be there. Just imagine going into a library in Logan and finding hard copies of what everyone on the list has done. It would be a wonderful thing for furture generations. Hope everyone agrees, especially those of us who have been researching for years. What families beside Hager are you working on? Is there anyone lurking on the list who should do the same? Are you going to put the data in your casket? thanks Jim Burgess -----Original Message----- From: gracie [mailto:g.winters@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:41 PM To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family Jim, I agree with you completely on more books being written. Even if there are some mistakes, as long as it is noted that some information might need more research. I don't think a thing about sharing what I am sure about with most researchers. I figure that the more people who have the correct information, the better. At one time, I set up for family home pages to print out. I don't know if I did it wrong but when my printer program hit 10,000 pages, I shut it off. I still don't understand why the number went that high because I only had about 4,000 people in my files. Mayby it was going to include all the notes which have personal e-mails included. Anyway, right now all my research is in computer(no burner) and on GenCircles for safekeeping. I would love to put it in book form but really don't know how to do that yet. Guess I should take a class or something. I should mention something that I didn't know before. CDs only last about ten years at the most in prime conditions. So they need to be updated long before that. I also would love to find a copy of the Hager Family History book that was written in McPherson Co., Kansas. Have not found that one yet. Somewhere hidden in puter is the name of the person that compiled that book. Probably in my e-mail program. I am close to figuring out exactly when my gggrandfather, George Washington Hager, [s/o John Morgan and Elizabeth Jane (Miller) Hager] died. (BTW, John Morgan WAS a Major, that was not his first name.) I recently got the probate records for both George W. Hager and Eliza Ann (Baisden) Hager. Proof in those that his doctor was the father in law of his son William McDaniel. I was amazed at how long it took to finish the probate because of the traveling judge at the time. Over three years for both. Well, enough for now. Gracie in Okla. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Burgess" <jim@promobiz.biz> To: <WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:56 PM Subject: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family > Dear Logan County, West Virginia Genealogist and cousins, > > I am trying to figure out how big the Toler file is going to be. > > I never dreamed that I could find as many Toler Descendants of David Toler > and Susanna as I did for William Burgess and Susann of Bedford County, > Virginia. > > The Burgess file has approximately 725 pages. > > The Toler file tonight has 425 pages of information and I have not even > begun. > It is a little discouraging to think how many pages I am going to have on > the Toler > family. > > Nathaniel Mullins file is about 250 (not near as big as the others) > Have not begun! > > William Browning and Catherine Anglin is approximately 325 - I stopped to > work on the > Toler Family. > > Abner Vance and Susanna Howard (who knows - It must be the biggest by far) > > Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families was around 300 pages. > > I thought it was a good book - I guess it was for 1978. > > Just imagine if we wrote the book today it would have over 2500 (maybe over > 3,000) pages of information. > > Hard to believe that we have had such an explosion of information since > 1978. > > I believe with a lot of work there could be a 1,000 pages of information on > each of these > families except for the Mullins family which was a small family all things > considered! > > If my health holds out I would like to go back to West Virginia to contact > family > that lives there in about 5 years. > > I need a gate keeper to take this project before I kick off! > > _______ > > Just a thought it would be great if a lot of people on the list would work > on putting > all the descendants of their Logan County Ancestors in a book or on a web > site or on a data > base that could be shared with future generations! > > At the very least I am going to print these booklets out and donate them to > the libaries > in Logan and Wyoming Counties and the Geneaogical Societies. > > I would like to see families that are close to my families the Perry, > Hinchman, White, > Hager, Walker, Cook, Blankenship, Belcher, Grimmett, Bailey, Cline, Dempsey, > Combs, Jarrell, Smith, Cow Creek Brownings, Robinett. The list could be a > super list. > > The list could be just a big as you can make it. > > It is better than watching the boob tube! > > Should we save this information for future generations? > What are we going to leave them? > > Does anyone else want to work on their families? > > I would like for our grand children and great grand children to return to > Logan County > and fine 100 books on the early families of Logan County, West Virginia. > > I thought the Census project was a great idea. I think this is an even > better idea. > > Any thoughts? > > Jim Burgess > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Jim, I do plan on doing something on the descendants of Barnabus Curry (my GGGGrandfather) who married three times. I've been going methodically through the censuses trying to decipher who is who. Laura -----Original Message----- From: Jim Burgess [mailto:jim@promobiz.biz] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:56 AM To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVLOGAN] Burgess file has 725 pages Toler Family is going to be bigger than the Burgess Family Dear Logan County, West Virginia Genealogist and cousins, I am trying to figure out how big the Toler file is going to be. I never dreamed that I could find as many Toler Descendants of David Toler and Susanna as I did for William Burgess and Susann of Bedford County, Virginia. The Burgess file has approximately 725 pages. The Toler file tonight has 425 pages of information and I have not even begun. It is a little discouraging to think how many pages I am going to have on the Toler family. Nathaniel Mullins file is about 250 (not near as big as the others) Have not begun! William Browning and Catherine Anglin is approximately 325 - I stopped to work on the Toler Family. Abner Vance and Susanna Howard (who knows - It must be the biggest by far) Burgess, Mullins, Browning, Brown and Allied Families was around 300 pages. I thought it was a good book - I guess it was for 1978. Just imagine if we wrote the book today it would have over 2500 (maybe over 3,000) pages of information. Hard to believe that we have had such an explosion of information since 1978. I believe with a lot of work there could be a 1,000 pages of information on each of these families except for the Mullins family which was a small family all things considered! If my health holds out I would like to go back to West Virginia to contact family that lives there in about 5 years. I need a gate keeper to take this project before I kick off! _______ Just a thought it would be great if a lot of people on the list would work on putting all the descendants of their Logan County Ancestors in a book or on a web site or on a data base that could be shared with future generations! At the very least I am going to print these booklets out and donate them to the libaries in Logan and Wyoming Counties and the Geneaogical Societies. I would like to see families that are close to my families the Perry, Hinchman, White, Hager, Walker, Cook, Blankenship, Belcher, Grimmett, Bailey, Cline, Dempsey, Combs, Jarrell, Smith, Cow Creek Brownings, Robinett. The list could be a super list. The list could be just a big as you can make it. It is better than watching the boob tube! Should we save this information for future generations? What are we going to leave them? Does anyone else want to work on their families? I would like for our grand children and great grand children to return to Logan County and fine 100 books on the early families of Logan County, West Virginia. I thought the Census project was a great idea. I think this is an even better idea. Any thoughts? Jim Burgess ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx