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From: "jmautrey" <>
Subject: Re: [OKGEN-L] My OK search
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:25:51 -0700


. They
had to make up new records on the say of the people. The county was in a
bind and did not like it. Ellen

If this wasn't so sad and pitiful, it would be so funny. Some of the county
clerks are often in a tiff and can see how they would really be in a bind.
Sure hope they were able to recover. How horrible! To the residents as well
as to researchers. For the most part, I have had only good responses in any
of the County Clerk's Offices I have visited. However, there are a COUPLE I
don't plan to visit again. We help them by remembering they are helping us
while they are trying to do their regular required jobs. We can help by
being respectful and being sure to put away all books as we found them,
making sure we leave the area as we found it, or better.

The horror of any researcher is to read "there was a fire, flood, etc. and
the records are gone". "If only" for the 1890 Census!

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----- Original Message -----
From: Ellen Scott <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OKGEN-L] My OK search

> Don't waste your time on Atoka Co. There was a fire a few years back that
> about detroyed most of the records being kept. My Uncle's birth
certificate
> could not be found. The hospital, city & county records were no more. They
> had to make up new records on the say of the people. The county was in a
> bind and did not like it. Ellen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Soquili Kunakasi <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 1999 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [OKGEN-L] My OK search
>
>
> > Vicki, That's about all I do know. I just found out about a year ago,
> > their names. Some how, there is Choctaw in that line. I had asked my
> > uncle about them, a couple months ago, and he was telling me some of
> > what he remembered about his mother's family, because I had some vague
> > memories of visiting some of the relatives, way back. He said that Aunt
> > Rella, (his mother's, my grandmother's sister)could speak Choctaw very
> > well. So I don't know if there is Choctaw in the Tindell or Waters line.
> > SO far I haven't located them in the census. From what family tidbits I
> > have found out, the family was, apparently, in the Pushmataha, Atoka and
> > Coal counties area. Grandpa and Grandma Crisp were in Push Co. in 1920,
> > but moved west toward Kiowa county about 1923/24 and the family sort of
> > lost contact with grandma's parents and family.
> >
> > This family I'm just begining to look for. I hope to find something out
> > this summer while I'm in OK. I don't know where the family went from OK,
> > I heard some including Rella went to CA, but have had no luck otherwise.
> >
> > I've found a number of Waters on the Dawes, but have no idea if there is
> > a connection or not, since all I have is great grandma's name.
> >
> > Ethel
> >
> > Vicki L. Salmon wrote:
> > >
> > > Ethel,
> > > Do you have anything else on your WATERS side. My mom's maiden name
> > > is WATERS. I looked and didn't see Mattie, but all of our Waters were
> > > Cherokee. Have you checked there?
> > > Vicki Mitchell Salmon
> > > California
> >
> >
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