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From: ace1125 <>
Subject: [TNDICKSO] Sandra or Mollie HELP please?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:15:56 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <1335743302.593.YahooMailNeo@web125902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>


In Charlotte TN there is a archive department....but I will have to let Sandra or Mollie give you the details...............it has been a long time since I was there.......BUT at one time (not now) you could handle the antique documents ....now it is all microfilm I believe.  But at one time I held IN MY HANDS a document that dated 1813!  Isnt that cool? 


--- On Sun, 4/29/12, Lisa Pemberton <> wrote:


From: Lisa Pemberton <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] West, research in general and Rome Ellis
To: "" <>
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 7:48 PM


When you say contact the Dickson County Archives is there one in Dickson County or do you mean usgenweb site?  I know Wilson and Rutherford Counties in TN have nice archives and I have ordered many records from them. I too try to verify everything.


Thanks,

Lisa



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From: Sandra Ellis <>
To:
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] West, research in general and Rome Ellis

Good morning, Cher!

Can I tease you, now?  Lisa Pemberton was looking for information on
James West and wondered if anyone had access to Will Book A to see if he
had a Will.  As it happens, I scanned that particular Will Book years
ago and have it on an OLD computer.  When I read her email, I went to
the old computer and looked at the index to that  Will Book----then, I
looked at the Will to see if James was mentioned in Robert's Will.  (I
didn't see his name mentioned.)

If I were Lisa, I would contact the Dickson County Archives.  (They are
really nice people---and VERY helpful, from my experience.)  She needs
to check Administrations/Settlements for James West.  I recommend this
little search for most anyone searching for someone that died.  Some
people don't realize that if a person died with a Will, they appointed
an Executor---but, if they died without a Will, the court appointed an
Administrator.

And, as you said, a researcher should VERIFY EVERYTHING!  (Don't take
_anybody's_ word for it!)  I'm going through that with a woman who lives
in Cleveland, Ohio.  She keeps saying that she grew up with the people
and she knows the stories.  That's fine---but the records either don't
back up the stories or there are no records!

As for the Ellis family----I married an Ellis (I'm a Sheppard).  Gary's
gg-granddaddy was Hardy Ellis.  Hardy and some of his brothers and
cousins showed up in Middle Tennessee in the early 1800s.  Hardy married
Martha Trotter in Montgomery County in 1815.  They left Montgomery
County in 1832 and moved to Calloway Co, KY.  They claim they aren't
related to any of the Ellis' living in the area but it's because none of
them ever researched their family----or thought about being "cousins"
from much earlier generations.

>From what I've been able to learn, "most" of the Ellis clan around here
descend from Edward Ellis who arrived in the James River area about
1634----as an indentured servant.

Chores?  That's something I don't want to know anything about!  I try to
keep my eyes on the monitor or my nose in a book---so I don't see chores
to do!  When I happen to have to take a look around, it seems like a
good time to head to the archives, library, or old cemetery!

Love ya, Cher!

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