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From: Lisa Pemberton <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO] Sandra or Mollie HELP please?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:49:35 -0700 (PDT)
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I found the archives listed on google. I will give them a call tomorrow. I hope they will do look-ups for people. I live in AR so I will not be able to go there right now.

That is amazing that documents still exist that are that old. Thank you for your help!


Lisa



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From: ace1125 <>
To: Lisa Pemberton <>;
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:15 PM
Subject: Sandra or Mollie HELP please?


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
>
>
>
>________________________________
>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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