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From: "Mary James" <>
Subject: RE: [OHGALLIA-L] Society of Civil War Families of Gallia County
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:49:28 -0400


Maybe you need to have some work shops on filling out these forms. I
sincerely hope this isn't the lady I talked to on the phone several times
who wanted to join. Then have her son and daughter and all grandchildren
go in on the one form on her membership. I explained that they could all
go in on the same soldier, but each had to join and each had to fill out a
application for the civil war Soldier .
The information is all on the forms but the best of forms can be confussing!


> [Original Message]
> From: Marjorie L. Gilliam Wood <>
> To: <>
> Date: 10/20/2004 10:19:50 PM
> Subject: [OHGALLIA-L] Society of Civil War Families of Gallia County
>
> There was some wrong information given on joining The Society of Civil
War Families of Gallia County. We had a call at the office today from a
woman that was searching for another Civil War solider for a family member.
She had one daughter join this year on one soldier and was under the
impression that only one family member could join for each solider proven
and she was wanting another daughter to join so she was needing help
finding different soldier. This information is not correct! Anyone can
join on one soldier, there can be ten people or more with the same soldier
as long as they can prove they descend from said solider. We lost three
members due to this mistake because this family thought only one member
could join and they could not find another solider for the others to join.
>
> We do not want this to happen again! We want as many people that can
prove a soldier do so, many of these soldiers had large families and all
descendants have the right to call claim to their ancestor. Yes, we want
new soldiers but we also want all family members to join if they chose and
they don't need to prove separate ancestors. It is just like First
Families, the same ancestor can be used over and over again, you just have
to prove them.
>
> Marjorie Gilliam Wood
> President, Gallia County Genealogical Society
> Secretary, Gallia County Historical Society
>
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