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From: "Gail Roorda" <>
Subject: lTVA records
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:37:38 -0600


Hi again everybody,

I am really struggling to get back to my research again. As I have written
to some of you privately my father was ill last summer and died at the end
of August.

Anyway I didn't have much time to write to the list last summer and this
fall. I have never really gotten "caught up". I do remember very early one
morning that I was trying to get off a letter to the list (I am the world's
slowest typist) and my DH patiently asking "Gail don't you think one of the
OTHER Mayes researchers on the list will tell Eleanor when Goodwin died?"

Or when the TVA transcriptions came up. Began first email..never sent..
"You are confusing the TVA and the WPA. Well somebody else answered the
question. This is a common enough error. Years ago when I rented the WPA
transcriptions (I went ahead and bought the film..one of my first
genealogical resource purchases) I remember sitting at my neighbor's
microfilm machine all teary eyed because Amanda wife of John H. Ivy was
under the lake <grin> Economy is NOT under the lake, of course..

Second email, "There is a book out now by Douthat....Somebody knew that
too. I really feel almost obliged to buy the book since I have been
pestering Signal Mountain for years.. okay maybe I just send an email every
couple of years or so..unfortunately for my budget the book costs 55
dollars..However, this book is starting to look like a serious bargain. I
have now been through the TVA films once. When I ordered the first film in,
the first time I got to the center, a researcher from a distance had the
reader/printer (he was there all day <sigh> didn't even stop for lunch) I
had to renew the film since it is so hard for me to get to St. Joe. The
next time I went down to the FHC I was standing there on the steps when the
center opened and I just seated myself at the reader/printer and <grin>
madly pressed the copy key for hours.

Second film...I arrived at the FHC fairly early and found it totally jammed
(they had paved the parking lot and it was the fist day after they opened up
again.) Another trip, another day of madly punching the button...and a
really BAD crook in my neck. As I said the Signal Mountain book might be a
good buy. <grin>

Also I noticed despite my many hastily began (and never sent) emails as my
DH said "OTHER RESEARCHERS KNOW THESE THINGS TOO!! <grin>...you do not have
to answer every question...!!!

Gail
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike St. Clair/ST" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 17:37
Subject: RE: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger Co Federal Census--for sale


> I do have a page that has links to known commercial resources. I'm
> prohibited from directly putting up stuff that's for sale on the Grainger
page
> but I am going to contact Betty Collins and see if can get a page up for
her
> so I can link for the benefit of Grainger researchers.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gail Roorda [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:52 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger Co Federal Census--for sale
>
> Mike it might indeed be a good idea if the list owner clarified the
policy.
> However, I had been thinking that it would be really terrific if you put
up an
> available resource page on the Grainger County site. (or <grin> perhaps
you
> have enough to do right now) I was looking at Billie McNamara's resource
page
> at the Jeff County site the other day for books I might want sometime...
>
> Most of my folks came from the section of Grainger County that became
Hamblen
> County and since I find it hard to get anywhere to research I have
acquired
> some of the published materials (once again Anita I am NOT <smiling trying
to
> quarrel). I started to "pop off" in my last email that any library I had
> access to wouldn't have such materials...this is NOT true because one of
the
> staff at the Atchison County library noticed that a lot of obituaries
listed
> the deceased as "born Morristown" so she ordered some Hamblen County
books.
> Being the original frugal genealogist I don't have these books in my
> collection..after all they are available at the library.
> <grin> The last time I was at the library was three months ago and it was
not
> actually a research trip...I went to license a vehicle and grabbed an
extra
> hour to look up an obituary...The FHC in St. Joe has Kennerley on film,
> supplemented by the original records which take up after Kennerley leaves
off
> (part of its permanent collection isn't that nice?) however, I was last at
the
> FHC about eight months ago...
>
> Anyway right now I am desperately seeking material on Grainger County
> cemeteries (the ones that are NOT online..or transcribed by the WPA..I
have
> these on film, but admittedly it has been along time since I looked at
this
> film and I don't have a microfilm reader... Anyway I am seeking published
> Grainger County Cemetery transcriptions..
>
> Gail
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike St. Clair/ST" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:06
> Subject: RE: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger Co Federal Census--for sale
>
>
> > It might be good for the list administrator to post a reminder for us
> > all about what the list rules are.
> >
> > Mike St. Clair
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anita Hinson [mailto:]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 8:29 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger Co Federal Census--for sale
> >
> > Uh - isn't there a rule regarding posting on these sites for personal
> gain?
> >
> > The items listed can be found free of charge at your local library or
> > inter-library loan.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Betty Jane Collins" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 8:28 AM
> > Subject: [TNGRAING-L] Grainger Co Federal Census--for sale
> >
> >
> > > Grainger Co Tn marriages 1858-1879/1881-1888---20.00 + 2.00 mail
> > > Grainger Co Tn marriages 1888-1926 ---------------40.00 + 4.00 mail
> > > 1860 Grainger Co Tn Fed. census-----------------------40.00 + 3.50
> > > mail 1870 Grainger Co Tn Fed. census-----------------------40.00 +
> > > 3.50 mail 1880 Grainger Co Tn Fed.
> > > census-----------------------40.00 + 3.50 mail 1900 Grainger Co Tn
> > > Fed. census-----------------------42.00 + 4.50 mail 1910 Grainger Co
> > > Tn Fed. census-----------------------47.00 + 5.00 mail 1920 Grainger
> > > Co Tn Fed. census-----------------------50.00 + 5.00 mail 1930
> > > Grainger Co Tn Fed. census-----------------------52.00 + 5.00 mail
> > >
> > > Several other books, Anderson, Campbell, union, Hancock
> > >
> > > Betty VanOver Collins
> > > 5708 Brown Gap Rd.
> > > Knoxville, Tn. 37918
> > >
> > > Phone-865-922-6605
> > >
> > >
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