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From: "jacque reynolds" <>
Subject: Re: [OKGEN-L] Marshall Co fam + re-intro please
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 16:03:14 PST


Pam: don't be afraid to ask anything. No one could be more computer
illerate that I am. Just rush right in and ask anything you want.
You'll find that there are those that will answer. The "8" that you're
talking about from Nalora is eyes smiling <8}> My niece uses :} same
thing. Jacque

>From:
>Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 18:56:14 EST
>Subject: Re: [OKGEN-L] Marshall Co fam + re-intro please
>To:
>Reply-To:
>
>I guess I have lurked long enough. Let me do an intro and then ask for
a few
>things I need help with.
>
>I am a native of Tulsa. After high school I went to OSU. I really
love that
>school-it always had a "down home", comfortable feel to it-kind of like
this
>list. After that I taught school for awhile in Abilene, TX, McAlester,
Norman
>then back to Texas to teach again in Arlington. I got tired of that,
then
>went to work for American Airlines until I took early retirement just
to keep
>from working all those midnight shifts with Tuesday & Wednesday off!!!
>Currently working for the State of Texas here in the "Foat Wuth" area.
I tell
>my native Texan hubby that I'm just doing pennance 'til I'm good enough
to get
>back to the Promised Land of Oklahoma.
>
>I think I may be speaking for several of us lurkers when I give the
reasons
>why we stay in the background and just enjoy the chit-chat. I don't
have much
>time for genealogy and most of the time just have to speed read thru
most my
>e-mail. Also, I'm fairly new at this, so don't want to get flamed by
doing or
>asking something that most people know or has been on something that I
by-
>passed on e-mail. Also, I about as computer illiterate as can be-other
than
>turning the dang thing off or on I am just about lost. Also, I have
trouble
>remembering dates, who married whom, and other things that good genies
can
>spout at the drop of a hat. Maybe when I get more time, I will be
better able
>to remember these things (maybe I'm just getting OLD!).
>
>Things I need help with.
>
>1. I read something on an e-mail awhile back that said something about
the
>partial 1890 census. I know there is a list of Union veterans, but I
thought
>the rest of it burned. Is there another census I'm not aware of for
1890???
>
>2. This next thing is just something I'm curios about. All 4
grandparents
>came from the same general area of Northwest Arkansas (Lawrence,
Izzard,
>Independence, & either Fulton or Stone counties). I have read where
several
>Okies had ancestors from Arkansas that either came to OK or TX. I am
curios
>about the reason for so many people leaving at around the same time. I
know
>OK was having the Land Runs, but my family did not have any land to
speak of.
>Anybody out there got any ideas?
>
>3. All my ancesters wound up in Sequoyah County-mainly Sallisaw.
Anybody got
>any info on MCLAUGHLIN, CHRISCO, FINLEY, TAYLOR, OR LABASS???? My
grandfather
>was a Justice of the Peace in Sallisaw until his death in 1945. The
Taylors
>were active in city and county governemnt also. The LABASS's may have
settled
>in Muldrow.
>
>4. Last of all, I am having trouble with some of the abbreviations
used. I
>know BTW is for by-the-way, and LOL is for laughing out loud. But I
have seen
>TTY something or other and Nalora always uses an 8 in her messages.
There
>were a few others that I can't think of right now. Anybody out there
that can
>help???
>
>
>Thanks,
>Pam Cobb
>Fort Worth, TX
>

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