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Subject: Re: [MDGARRET] Help with 1860 Allegany Census- Christian Durst
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:50:21 EDT
In a message dated 7/5/2002 3:49:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
> Lois,
> Thanks. I'm off to Somerset. Wish I had a summer to be there, but I just
> saw
> that the History Center is open on Sat. and Sunday. Very good news for a
> working person.
>
> You have really helped me a lot.
> Beverly
Glad I was able to help some. It all comes back believe me. Am as anxious as
you are that you can solve some of the puzzle. It looks like looks like it is
you, Beth, Pat-T and I are cousins several times around throughout the
generations on Dursts, Knoxes, Hetricks, at a minimum. In the Christian Durst
line alone have seen familiar names mentioned on this site; i.e., Starks,
Teets (Martin), Sterner, Spiker and Speichers, Butler, Folk, Barnhart
(Robert), Cutter, Butler, Hoover, Bowers, Hileman (Jasper), Knox (John),
Hetrick (Albert), several Wilburns, and others.
Until this is all in a database of some sorts, it's almost impossible to find
an ancestor very far removed from one of the original Casper, Casper II,
Lightfoot John Durst, or Lightfoot John's brothers or sisters. There are 66
or so pages of very small type xeroxed copies on 8-1/2 x 11, very yellow and
a lot of the print is very faded.
My cousin Jim Hetrick (my uncle Lester Hetrick's grandson) has volunteered to
put the Durst book into a searchable data base. I believe he has Family Tree
Maker. He's retired from the railroad as are Preston and I from our jobs at
the local electric utility here in Sacramento, but we still have a couple of
clients we do publishing for (brochures and coupon books) and Preston is
trying to train our other business associates on invoicing and reports for
his client. Will probably be another year or so before I can get to my family
history book.
I still have to see if I can combine (or import) the information from Family
TreeMaker, WordPerfect and Word into PageMaker so I can make an electronic
file for publishing my book. It is much easier to work with that way and a
lot less expensive than working with a publisher. I can order 1 book or
hundreds on demand that way. Anyway that's my plan.
Lois
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