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From: "Bill Frazee" <>
Subject: Re: [SOMGEN] Geneology
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:37:54 -0400
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Linda,
I don't have four yrs. in yet but I agree
with what you said. I don't know if I have 4 yrs. left. I have a heart that
is getting tired.
I would like to know where I came from before I go for my kids and
Grandkids. There are people out there in cyber space who remember where they
came from and help one another and others.
Beverly Domer, Linda Marker, Phyllis Frazee,
Sandy Lassen, Katie Frazee, Shirley Gray, Orris, Arlene, are a just few but
the greatest!
The lesson to learn I guess is "the truth is out there". Keep plugging
along and ignore the ones "that got theirs and figure the hell with the ones
who don't".
Ol' Bill I love ya all!!

Subject: [SOMGEN] Geneology


> Just a little story about my own quest for my family. 4 years ago, I
> started looking for my family. At that time, I knew only the names of my
> parents, grandparents and possibly the names of my Great Grandparents.
> But I did not know where they were from. I remember my Daddy telling me
> I was Pa. Dutch, so naturally the search started in Lancaster. (Daddy
> died when I was 8)
> By accident, looking for someone for a researcher from Oregon, I find my
> Peter Gary and George Carter living side by side in Greene Co, Pa. Right
> where I lived. My grandparents, Daniel Lee Gary and Mary Edith Carter
> was just 14 years old. Well, I used that census record and began from
> there. When I added it to the FTM and did a family search, I found the
> Peter Gary Rev War Soldier site of Pat Geary and the Chenowith Site
> which led me to more of my family.
> The great part was, when I went to Ohio to visit my Mothers family, I
> found the missing Peter Gary Family. It seems after the Civil War, Peter
> received his Pension and loaded up all the family and went to Praire
> Station which is now Wayne, Wood Co, Ohio. Grandma, Sarah Lee of
> Somerset Co, Pa daughter of Daniel Lee died in 1907 and is buried in
> Bradner, Ohio. Peter returned to Sculton, Somerset Co, Pa and died in
> 1909 and is buried next to the Church in Sculton.
> When I contacted some of the sites I found, they were not sure if Peter
> was there line or not. Well he is. No one could find him, as no one
> knew he went to Ohio. And the name used there is Garey. But all is
> proven with documentation.
> In 4 short years and alot of hard work, I have found all my direct line
> back before this nation became the USA.
> I almost quit several times by some unkind comments because I sent a
> querey wrong, or my info wasn't added right, but I kept on and kept
> turning over every small pebble. I now have 3 myfamily.com sites and
> tons of cousins that have come to add there info to the site. I have
> been reunited with a 1/2 sister that I have not seen for 50 years. I
> have found cousins and they have come to Greene Co to meet me from
> Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas. I have one coming in the
> spring from Toledo, Ohio so we can go to Claysville and find some of our
> Sanders and Clutters. I searched the Amity Cemetery with a cousin from
> Pontiac, Ill this past week looking for William Pattersons grave and
> then we spent the day at the Washington Co Court House getting wills.
> So, for those of you new researchers, don't quit. The rewards are
> fantastic.
> I have traced my Bates Family from Lancaster and York Co to Luzerne Twp,
> Fayette Co, Pa to Stark Co, Ohio to Sandusky, Ohio.
> I found all the graves right here in Greene, Washington and somerset Co
> for all of my Gary Ancestors, Clutters, Sanders, Hughes, McFarland,
> Carters.
>
> I would like to thank all of the ones who helped me. Helen Durbin and
> Linda Markle especially and others. And I want to say I forgive those
> who almost made me quit. I guess to an experienced researcher, I was
> rather dumb.
>
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