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From: "Susan" <>
Subject: [PAARMSTR-L] Fw: Armstrong County Multiple families
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 01:08:19 -0500

Don and Holly thank you so much for your ideas and suggestions.

They are just what I was hoping for so that
I could begin making plans of where to go and what to do. From a similar
trip to Kansas City a few months ago,
I discovered that it is good to vary the routine a little bit. Too many
hours at the microfilm or looking at old newspapers
or looking through land records and deeds can break concentration and numb
the brain. So I concentrated on a
couple of sources each day and then the next day went to a different library
or historical society. It seemed to work
pretty well and so I am very glad that you sent times and locations and
phone numbers. Especially if I need to reserve
anything ahead of time.

I am also forwarding the thoughts that I sent to PAINDIAN list.

All the best to you and thanks for your kind and generous help.

Susan Eppich

PS - Don, Depending on the time frame you may have been acquainted with my
gg grandfather's brother's descendant.
I was able to meet him several years ago and I believe that he died in the
1990's. John and Jane Ralston. Fortunately,
he shared what he had recorded and shared it with me, which opened many
doors and cleared up some of the mysteries.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [INDIANA] Multiple families


> LOVE IT!!
>
>
> To all of you - Betsy, Carrie, Sonya, Holly, Don and Doreen and any others
> that I might have missed - it
> has been a long day - you are the GREATEST and I appreciate each of the
tips
> and ideas that you shared
> with me for research questions and transportation problems.
>
> Several years ago when we came, we had four of our five little ones with
us,
> ages 4-12, Jamie came several years
> later, and would you believe the research areas were closed due to moving
> most of the materials! It may have
> been when they transferred most of the holdings to the Silas Clark Home.
> But I was able to purchase the
> Caldwell Histoy and meet Francis Helman. She did get me started and
> directed me to cemeteries where we
> did get pics. Anyway what I wanted to share is that I was born in the
midst
> of the Western mountains, but in the dry
> arid desert which I never liked. Then we moved to Indiana and have been
> here for 30+ years with its incredible
> greenness and quick growing season and abundant birdsong from a myriad of
> birds. That first time when we drove
> into the Indiana/Armstrong area with its lush green hills and mountains, I
> truly felt I had entered heaven. And on
> top of that it had been the home of so many loved ones.
>
> One last thing that I can share with anyone who descended from Thomas
Sharp
> and Margaret Elder, we do have their
> origins documented. Carol Pratt located them in Kilpindie, Perth,
Scotland
> in the OPR and I have viewed the actual
> films. We have his parentage, hers and her siblings, and grandparents,
some
> aunts and uncles, and I am working to
> get it figured out correctly. If you would like the specifics, just email
> me and I will send what is documented. Too bad
> we can't get more on this couple after they moved to PA.
>
> The best to each of you listers and thanks for the continual help that I
> receive from PAINDIAN, PAARMSTR, and paifhc and the PA-CENSUS lookups
> volunteers and listers. Since I am the only one in my family that is
trying
> to sort all this out, it means a great deal to have such support from you.


Susan E

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