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From: "nredell" <>
Subject: Re: [MIKENT] MIKENT Digest, Vol 2, Issue 31
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:01:50 -0800
References: <mailman.127.1171519208.9273.mikent@rootsweb.com><000d01c75122$38d17ee0$4001a8c0@sawyers>


Evelyn,
Thank you for posting this. As I recall you helped me another time. I am
always very happy when an ancestor of mine lands in MI as the help and
records are outstanding.
Sincerely,
Nana Redell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evelyn Sawyer" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MIKENT] MIKENT Digest, Vol 2, Issue 31


> Message #3
>
> You can find the text for Albert Baxter's 1891 History of the City of
> Grand
> Rapids on the Kent County GenWeb site.
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikent This is the main page, right after
> Resources, you will see the histories listed, click on Baxter's and there
> are all of the chapters of the book that have been transcribed. You will
> need to check the index to decide which chapter holds the pages you are
> interested in.
> As for Goss', you can go to the same URL and click on books and you will
> find the information to go to the University of Michigan which has both
> the
> Baxter's, Goss' and other early Michigan county histories. When you get
> to
> the site, click on the button that says Search/or Browse County Histories,
> then choose Authors, type in the authors name, and the books that the
> author
> has done will come up. You can click on the book you want, then find the
> pages you are interested in. If you want to, you can print the pages you
> want so that you have a copy of the page. Is this plain enough?
> Sometimes
> it's hard to explain things when a person hasn't done them.
>
> Evelyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:00 AM
> Subject: MIKENT Digest, Vol 2, Issue 31
>
>
>>
>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. MISC (nredell)
>> 2. Re: MISC (Tim & Lynda Minter)
>> 3. Re: MISC (nredell)
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:33:15 -0800
>> From: "nredell" <>
>> Subject: [MIKENT] MISC
>> To: <>
>> Message-ID: <000a01c7506e$f9155d20$>
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>>
>> I just joined the list yesterday and have not seen any posts come through
>> my mailbox.
>> This is a test.
>> Nana
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:05 -0800
>> From: Tim & Lynda Minter <>
>> Subject: Re: [MIKENT] MISC
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <>
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>> nredell wrote:
>>> I just joined the list yesterday and have not seen any posts come
>>> through
>>> my mailbox.
>>> This is a test.
>>> Nana
>>>
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>>>
>> hi,
>> what names are you researching?
>> Lynda
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:13:26 -0800
>> From: "nredell" <>
>> Subject: Re: [MIKENT] MISC
>> To: <>
>> Message-ID: <000501c7508d$bbed9970$>
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>> reply-type=original
>>
>> I posted a request to see if anyone had these books available for lookups
>> and if not where I might find information from the books, It was a pretty
>> ambitious list. Here is what my post said.
>> Hello,
>> I have been a member of this list from time to time and now find I am in
>> a
>> "new phase" of my research. I would like to find out the parents of
>> Harriet
>> and Frances Rutherford who were sisters. I know they came from Steuben
>> County, NY and that Harriet married ( I think Putman) and that Frances
>> was
>> a physician.
>> I have used WMGS for many obits, but I don't think these books and pages
>> are
>> listed at their site. I would be most appreciative if someone could do
>> these
>> lookups for me ( yes, there are many) or let me know what I might do to
>> find
>> the info needed.
>> Baxter, Albert, History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Munsell &
>> Co., 1891.
>>
>> Rutherford, Frances A., 694, 696, 698, 712
>>
>> Index to the
>>
>> 1906 Goss History of Grand Rapids
>>
>> "Q - S"
>>
>> Rutherford
>>
>> Frances A.
>>
>> 200-01, 221, 1265-67, 1279
>>
>> Rutherford
>>
>> Harriet
>>
>> 944
>>
>> Rutherford
>>
>> L. G.
>>
>> 1003
>>
>> Rutherford
>>
>> Mrs. Frances A.
>>
>> 228
>>
>> Special Personal Paragraphs
>>
>>>From History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Albert Baxter;
>>>Munsell
>>>&
>> Co., 1891
>>
>> Rutherford, Frances A. 712
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Nana (NAY-na) RUTHERFORD Redell
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tim & Lynda Minter" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MIKENT] MISC
>>
>>
>>> nredell wrote:
>>>> I just joined the list yesterday and have not seen any posts come
>>>> through
>>>> my mailbox.
>>>> This is a test.
>>>> Nana
>>>>
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>>>>
>>> hi,
>>> what names are you researching?
>>> Lynda
>>>
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