NOTE: PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE IN ITS ENTIRITY!!!
This week's phrase is "migration pattern" :) What this means is in your
line, usually, you will notice a migration pattern of your family
(unless they are like my Bradford's and stayed in the same place for
many years) such as VA>>KY>IL (my Hackett line) or maybe it was just
Mecklenburg Co.>Cabarrus Co., NC. Take a few minutes and post it to the
list.
FOR NEWBIES: The way the "word of the week" works is I throw out a
topic and if someone has a
Oath of Alliegence
2 Nov. 1794 - before Joseph Vance, of Smith Twp, Washington Co. - John
Coventry
Census (don't have the actual data)
Coventry, William State : PA
County : Washington Co.
Location : Hanover Twp
Year : 1820
Page # : 221
I am led to believe that William and John were related, either father
and son, or brothers because here is what info I could find on the
formations of the townships of Smith and Hanover in Washington Co:
On the east [Hanover] is bounded by Robinson and
Hello everyone! I got an idea last night about a new program, similar
to word of the week, that I am calling "Story Time"! First off, this is
not gonna be weekly right now, more like a monthly thing. What this is,
is I will pick a topic and you respond to the list. This is not a
sharing of regular genealogy info like "Word of the week" is, however.
This month, the "Story Time" topic is "How I got started in genealogy."
So what I would like is for people to post how they got interested:). I
wil
NOTE: PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE IN ITS ENTIRITY!!!
This week's phrase is "census information" :) What I mean by this is if
you have any info at all on your line pertaining to the list that you
found from either the census itself or from an index, send it to the
list. Please include as much as possible, especailly Names, County and
State and (Township if given), Date, Page number (if you have that
down), and then the census info itself (If you are giving info from an
actual census and not from an in
This was sent to me by the ILRICHLA=ADL list here at
rootsweb. There are actually quite a few misspellings
of names, but this sure was helpful to me!
the Richland Co. Marriage Index Book 1840-1915 for
Brides and Grooms here is what it shows:
Grooms Index:
Samuel S. Coventery to Sharlotte Black 2/17/1878
license 32 book 2 page 150 parents of groom William
Coventry and Elizabeth Slinchicomb parents of bride
Isreal Black and Hannah Duss (Hannah's last name
was actually Durr)
C.C. Coventry to Ethel
Hi. Just wanted to let you know that the census info i have for the
Coventry surname is finally up. There is not much, but for a surname as
uncommon as Coventry in the US, what do you expect:) hehe
Erin Bradford
eabradford@unity.ncsu.edu
ebradford@hotmail.com
listowner
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kshai (The Genealogy Depository)
Sally A Shaner wrote:
> Hey Erin and list members,
>
> How many people are subscribed to this Bradford list? Suppose we
> ought to all donate for Erin's birthday present? Seriously.
>
> Sally
> sshaner@alaweb.com
There are about 165 people on the just the Bradford list and close to
500 on all the other lists as of right now, give or take a few, (I have
to count them all by hand and math is my worst subject;) hehe) As far
as the donating for my birthday (Oct. 18th), that was a joke!:) but if
you do