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From: "Joyce Nash - Wafford" <>
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] The problems with Ancestry
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:29:42 -0700
References: <153212.94005.qm@web81509.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Orlena,

You know some of the HANNA family went into Richland County, Illinois. I
have one of my Patterson family members who married into that line. Also
have a lot of my family members buried in the HANNA Cemetery, just outside
of Noble, Richland County, Illinois. I just visited this Cemetery in June
of this year.

Joyce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orlena" <>
To: <>; <>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] The problems with Ancestry


>I may have to look at GenForum later, but I'm hoping once I contact the
>HELP folks, they'll be able to take care of the problem.
>
> All the Census transcriptions book or computer have the same problem. In
> some cases that's because all the census microfilms are not the same. Back
> before the days of computers, I learned to never give up looking for
> anyone that I hadn't found or couldn't read their info. What wasn't
> missing or readable at the Archives was there and readable at another
> location.
>
> When a film roll breaks they don't replace it, they cut out the damaged
> section and put it back together. They try to do it in such a way as to be
> mostly unnoticeable. Once when I was at the Archives a woman broke 5
> different microfilms rolls of the census. Before he could get one
> repaired, she'd break another. The Archives employee finally told her if
> she broke another one, she would be banned from the Archives. She was
> extremely loud and rude claiming it wasn't her fault at all. Yes, the
> breaks were her fault, I was where I could watch her really showing off
> for her group. She was an embarrassment to the group she was leading.
>
> The links below have some information you may find of interest. It's not
> very likely there are many records of any kind except possibly marriages
> in those areas for the 1850's I wouldn't think.
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judysstuff/maps.htm
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~judysstuff/index.html
>
> I was going to check Heritage Quest and see if they had William Horton in
> their search feature, but they are down until tomorrow morning for
> maintenance.
>
> I've found all of them have information that didn't get included in their
> search that is there and easily read.
>
> I don't know if it's a fact, but I've heard Ancestry will allow people to
> report errors now. That could be a major help as long as someone verifies
> the corrections.
>
> My husband's grandmother was a Hanna from Washington Co. AR. Her father
> served for the Union and his brother for the Confederacy. The Hanna
> families sort of spread out into MO, KS and OK. Then some of their
> children spread on to the west coast.
>
> Orlena
>
>
> Linda Spencer <> wrote:
> Try GenForum, although it is also owned by Ancestry. It works better.
>
> I subscribed to Ancestry for a year, and when I found out that the indexed
> censuses were mostly indexed incorrectly, I unsubscribed. For instance, my
> gg grandfather, William Horton, (a common name, you would think). was
> William Harton on Ancestry. I never had thought to look at that spelling.
> And on the actual census, the Horton name was quite clear. This was just
> one instance. There were so many more mistakes on the censuses that I just
> decided not to pay Ancestry for access to bad transcriptions.
>
> Since I only answer people who get in touch with me now, I don't know
> about
> the problems you are experiencing. Because GenForum is free, Ancestry will
> probably try to get rid of it. But I just sent some good stuff (Civil War
> pension papers of her great grandfather) to a cousin that contacted me
> through GenForum.
>
> I am only on this site because I want someone to talk about Joplin in the
> olden days (the 50's) and about the orange juice store. And the pimento
> cheese sandwiches. The smell of that store. It was unique. And
> wonderful.
>
> And yes, my great-grandfather was born in Jasper County, MO, in 1853. But
> I think the family was just passing through. It's a Greene County, MO,
> family. With a diversion during the Civil War to Washington Co., AR.
>
> If someone has birth records or school records from 1853, I would like to
> know about them. My gg grandfather was a school-teacher in Lawrence
> County, MO, in 1850.
>
> Linda
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: N & K Chestnut
>> To:
>> Date: 8/17/2007 4:48:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] the good old days, 5 years ago
>>
>> I liked doing just Mailing Lists. It was much easier to put out queries,
> to respond to queries, to help and encourage other family genealogists.
> Now, going to boards etc. is much more time consuming, and I am less
> likely
> to try to help others. However, once I get to the boards, and figure out
> how to follow discussion threads, I may gain more information. I may even
> find someone I want to e-mail; but so often their e-mail address is no
> longer valid. Now, that is a real 'bummer'. I've got at least two
> 'remote' cousins 'out there' that I would like to connect with again.
>>
>> Kay C.
>>
>> P.S. - Am I actually seeing 'sent (by me) e-mails' in my own deleted
> folder before I have an opportunity to receive and then delete them
> myself?
> It certainly seems that way.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Joyce Nash - Wafford
>> To:
>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:36 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Cemetery
>>
>>
>> Orlena,
>>
>> I would hate to see you stop answering people also. I DO AGREE with
> you,
>> since Rootsweb changed over to this new system with the Lists, there
> has
>> been nothing but problems.
>>
>> I for one and not getting half of the messages from the numberous Lists
> that
>> I belong to. I have problems snding messages to the Lists to be
> posted.
>> Even have problems finding new Lists when I am looking for them. I am
> about
>> ready to just Give up on Rootsweb Lists all together. It is beginning
> to be
>> a Joke. Used to be enjoyable.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Orlena"
>> To:
>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Cemetery
>>
>>
>>
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