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system: You are Heather Evans, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Harley Phillips about "Nova Scotia Marriage Ind".

They wrote:
HP>I will look for B.C. marriages, which are indexed uptill 1921 and
HP>deaths indexed uptill 1976, for anyone interested.

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assistant: Hi Harley,
I have just found some of my Scottish TAGGs who went to Canada on the
B.C. Indexes and would be so pleased if you can look them up for me.  I
have quite a list so will put them in order of preference
Death
Helen Goldie TAGG   17 Apr 1922  age 69 at Vancouver
Reg No                      1922-09-305410
B.C Archives Microfilm No   B13121
GSU Microfilm No            1927298
James TAGG   4 Apr 1933 age 79 at Victoria
Reg No.                     1933-09-484239
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13149
GSU Microfilm No            1953016
Annie Goldie TAGG  30 Nov 1932 age 78 at Victoria
Reg No                      1932-09-474698
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13146
GSU Microfilm No            1952657
Eleanor TAGG 4 Dec 1948 age 80 at White Rock
Reg No                      1948-09-011019
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13199
GSU Microfilm No            2032569
James TAGG 4 Aug 1933 age 79 at Victoria
Reg No                      1933-09-484239
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13149
GSU Microfilm No            1953016
Margaret S McCANDLESS 17 Oct 1953 age 74 at Victoria
Reg No                      1953-09-010208
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13217
GSU Microfilm No            2032871
Janet Fraser  6 Aug 1974 age 93 at Chilliwack
Reg No                      1974-09-012245
B.C.Archives Microfilm No   B13335
GSU Microfilm No            2050339
There are actually more but I think that will do for now - can I do
anything for you in N.Z. or advice about Scottish Research?
Thank you very much ........Heather
                            E-mail:hmcevans@ihug.co.nz
 * OLX 2.1 TD * TAGG, McCANDLESS, FRASER in Canada
system: You are Jerry Murphy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Damaris Fish about "Daniel &  david".

They wrote:
DF>        Here at 98 (yesterday was Nana's birthday!) Nana is trying
DF>to decide to whom to leave her silver - who in her progeny has her R
DF>initial - but that leads into the story that her silver was purchased &
DF>changed from some other initial - easy enough to do.  Then there are
DF>the MLR things: see here's where you get the family history stories.
DF>Morton Loomis RING, jr. Morton Loomis RING , sr. then his mother Mary
DF>Morton LOOMIS RING (MLR)... Now there's only one of Nana's great grand
DF>children MLR: Mary Lois (age 2). Does she Need a ciagrette case or a
DF>calling card case? When her parents move back to Ghana in September
DF>(Wycliffe Bible Translators) what would they do with stuff like that?
DF>My own mother typed up a little card & stuck it in with the various
DF>stuff - on where it came from, whose it was, what it is, what it's for,
DF>etc - and wrapped & packed it up in a box. But she was a social studies
DF>teacher. Don't we all wish we had more of those in our family?

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assistant: Silver that old might have some historical significance, and/or be a rare
collectible.  There are historical societies and museums, even an art museum,
that might want some things of that nature.  (I would hope that a cigarette
case would become useless to ANYbody.  Melt it down, and make something
useful from it.)  BTW, It won't be too long before that child will be working
on her hope chest.  Those few years will fly!
My own mother left behind many notes and historical records in boxes as well.
 Sadly, they aren't sorted out or connected, one to another. Most of the
photographs in her albums were not labeled, and nobody can be found to
identify just who was who in most of them.  Her sister also left behind boxes
of miscellania, and in that mess I found her parent's (my grandparent's)
baptismal certificates, passports and shipping papers!  My siblings had
fought with me, wanting to simply chuck it all. What a find!
The name MORTON is one of my collateral families.  Mine originated either in
North or South Carolina, removed into KY for a while, and then to southern
Indiana.  My grandfather MURPHY's sister married into this family, so some of
my cousins are named MORTON, all of them known to me only by old census
records.  Might there be a connection?
 the Jerry Murphy in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #8814 * Remembering all my buddies on The Wall. R.I.P.
system: You are Jim Schira, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "New Virginia, IA".

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assistant: Does anyone live around New Virginia, Iowa?  I need some pictures taken in
their cemetery, and will pay $$$ for your efforts.
system: You are Jean Halverson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Cheryl Singhal about "Inet access".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Cheryl Singhal to Jim Venedam <=-
JV>On (11 May 98) Cheryl Singhal wrote to Jim Venedam...
JV> CS> Jim (and others) -- if any of the USGenWeb Project sites
JV>  > give you this kind of trouble, let me know which site and
JV>  > I'll report it to the webmaster and other appropriate persons.
JV>Could you give me an idea of what USGenWeb is?
CS> The USGenWeb Project is group of volunteers who maintain county sites
CS> organized by State.  The general URL is
CS> http://www.USGenWeb.org/XX replacing XX with the two letter
CS> state postal abbreviation.
CS> At the state page you can link to each county.  Each county is
CS> different, but each is required to have (a) general info about the
CS> county (b) a query site and (c) a look-up list (I call mine
CS> "References").  Many have lots of other things.  Most have information
CS> in a Archive, accessed usually through the state page.

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assistant: I do not have INET access but have been considering it seriously. Is what
 you have described here a way to do more indepth research without having
 to actually _go_ to the various places where ancestors lived? Is it
 possible to see records of births and deaths through these web sites?
 I would sign up for INET access in a heartbeat if this was possible.
 Thank you for all your previous help,
 Jean Halverson
... Researching: ALLEN (KY),HENLEY (AL), HOBBS (TN), RICHARDSON (IN)
system: You are Elwyn Goldsbury, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jean Kelly about "Surname mailing lists".

They wrote:
JK>EC> Every now and then I get a message with new surname mailing
JK>EC> lists from one  of the surname lists I subscribe to and I'm
JK>EC> wondering if there is any  interest if I repost the messages
JK>EC> here (with the moderators permission of  course).
JK>I would be interested Eric.   I am fairly new to the BBS and
JK>the surname list sounds very interesting.

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assistant: You  obviously run as a point off another local NZ BBS.  I think you
will find the FULL SET of Genealogy Newsgroups are avialble on NZ FIDONET
maybe Opus north could look at importing some of them ?
the R_ANZ  one would be a good starter.
Elwyn Goldsbury
 * SLMR 2.1a * searching LUCKSTEDT - India 1880's  or Hampshire GB.
system: You are Jennie Lee, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Spence about "Spence".

They wrote:
SS>Would dearly love to find Ruth Ann Ostrander (still living in Michigan
SS>named after her ancestor).... I had her e-mail address once upon a  time
SS>several years ago and cannot seem to find it anywhere.  If your  friend,
SS>Reed Ostrander knows of her, I would like to have her e-mail  address
SS>again. Ruth has done extensive research on the Spence name and  she and I
SS>share common blood.

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assistant: nd
.
I have not been able to reach Reed.  If you will send me your e-mail
address, I'll forward it to him with a note.
                        Tom
                        twlee@gulf.net
system: You are Tim Cox, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Mailing lists".

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assistant: Atlanta Genealogy BBS is hosting the following Internet e-mail list with our
Listserver:
BALL-LIST(Ball Surname List)
BBS-LIST(Atlanta Genealogy BBS Files and Updates) BEENE-LIST(Beene Surname
List) BIBLESTUDY-L(BibleStudy List) CAREYCOX-L(Carey Cox, Sr. Descendant
Researchers) CHADWICK-L(Chadwick Surname List) CHEROKEE-L(Cherokee Co.,
Alabama Mailing List) DEKALBAL-L(DeKalb Co., Alabama List) ELROD-LIST
     (Elrod Surname List) ETOWAH-L(Etowah Co., Alabama Mailing List)
FANNIN-L(FANNIN/FANNING Surname List) NATIONAL-L(National Genealogy List)
GREYHOUND-WAR(Greyhound Employee Stories) Jackson-L(Jackson Co., Alabama
List) LEE-ALGA-LIST(Lee's of Alabama and Georgia Surname List)
MALLARD-L(Mallard Surname List) MOSES-FREEMAN(Rev. Moses Freeman & Fannie
Ball Researchers) NORWOOD-L(Norwood Surname List) PALMOUR-L(Palmour Surname
List) PEEK-LIST(Peek Surname List) PRAYER-L(PRAYER REQUEST)
REVELATION-L(Study of the Book of Revelation) TESTIMONY-L(Christian Testimony
List) TRAFFANSTEDT-L(Traffanstedt Surname list) VICKERY-L(Vickery Surname
List) WHITECO-L(White Co., Georgia Genealogy)s
To join any of the above list send e-mail to mail@atlroots.com and in the
body of the message type: JOIN NAME-OF-LIST EXAMPLE: JOIN NATIONAL-L or
DIGEST NATIONAL-L (for digest mode)
 * PowerEdit 2.5 Atlanta Genealogy BBS - Info Email info@agbbs.dscga.com
system: You are Sarah Nunez, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Robert Ainsworth about "Fam Tree journal".

They wrote:
RA> I too am getting to know the Brothers Keeper program.  How do you
RA> delete a name, or date, or place after it is once entered using the
RA> Add feature?

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assistant: On 18 May 98, Robert Ainsworth writes to Calvin Mitchell:
You can delete a name one of two ways.
The first way is to go to Modify and call up that person's name.  While the
cursor is in the block in the lower right corner, press /.  You'll be asked
to confirm the deletion, and then that person will be deleted from all
marriages, parents, and children.  The person's number is not reused, but the
disk space is.
I don't like not being able to reuse the number, so here's what I do:
From the Modify screen, disconnect the person from all marriages (X) and from
the parents (D from the parent's record).  He'll be an unconnected person
just "floating" in your database for the time being.  Then you can reuse that
number just by changing the name attached to that number.
To change or delete a date or location from a single record, you use the
Modify screen.  To globally change or delete a location, you use the Location
print/change option from the Utility menu.
... Looking for parents of Preston BRICKEY, b.abt 1800 in KY, m. Millie
ALLS.
system: You are Sarah Nunez, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "A poem".

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assistant: Preserving the Past
(author unknown)
Who is this little girl?
What happened on this day?
Did she grow up to be a mom?
No one can truly say.
How proud and glad I'm sure she'd be
To see herself this way.
But through neglect and lack of care,
Her joy is lost today.
Stored in a box and put away,
Forgotten there so long ago --
Along with letters, flowers and cards,
And other faces we don't know.
Such a pretty little picture,
And its condition is quite good --
But no one ever kept it in
The place they really should.
So when I found her photo there,
It made me sad to see,
For all her youthful days on earth
Were lost in history.
... Looking for parents of Anna THUMBSTOCK ROBERTSON, b.abt 1810 in TN.
system: You are Heather Atherton, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Damaris Fish about "EDDY...".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Damaris Fish to Jerry Murphy <=-
DF> Cute. DRP - that's asking for a ribbing......
DF> One of our boys is called "Eddy" - after the EDDY family name in my
DF> -!- Maximus 2.02
DF>  ! Origin: CPAFUG WashDC Area (703) 698-7912 (1:109/422)

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assistant: Pardon me for LOYS....but the surname, EDDY, caught my eye. My mum
     has the EDDY name on her father's side.
     We have Esther EDDY m. Thomas POLLARD...do you have any
     conneections?
     I look forward to "hearing" from you. :)
     Regards from OZ
     Heather.
... "Scotty, beam me up another Blue Wave message."
system: You are Lenard Mc Donald, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Clive Gudsell about "Genealogy Mc Donald Family tree".

They wrote:
CG> Hello Lenard
CG> My Grandfather on my mothers side was;
CG> Allan John Mc Donald he Married Elsie Bell Wicksteed, he was
CG> born 16/7/1889
CG> his father was Neil Mac Donald who married Elizabeth Pearson
CG> Neil's father was Allan Mac Donald who married Margaret
CG> Macarther He came from Calgary on the Isle of Mull, which is
CG> where I have come to an impass as my uncle told my mum that
CG> he had been to Calgary and all records were lost in a fire
CG> some years ago.

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assistant: Hello Clive!
In a message to Lenard Mc Donald <05/16/98> Clive Gudsell wrote:
I'm sorry but I don't see any connection.  The only thing I've
been able to trace so far is my Great-grandfather James C. Mc
Donald was born in Louisiana in 1822 and the family moved to
Tejas (then Mexico) in 1828.  His marriage to Eliza(beth) Forrest
in 1849 was registered in Guadalupe county but it appears they
resided in Bexar county.  My grandfather, Alber Finis Mc Donald
and my father Leonard Earl Mc Donald sr. were both born in
Atascosa county, TX.  They moved to Oklahoma about 1913 and
that's were I was born in 1926.  We moved to California in 1928
over the new Route 66.
Lenard Mc Donald
... Forrest 1796, CT>CO Lenard_McDonald@genealogy-la.com
system: You are Jerry Murphy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Sarah Nunez about "A poem".

They wrote:
SN>Preserving the Past (author unknown)
SN> Who is this little girl?

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assistant: Thanks for sharing that.  Into the collection it goes!  Here's another one
from that collection on return:
       "The Way of the World"
Oh, where are the playmates of yesterday?
     The fellows we knew at school?
Oh, what has become of the studious one?
     And where, oh where, is the fool?
Oh, what has become of the orator,
     Whose passion was to recite?
And the bashful kid who could speak no piece,
     Unless he succumed to some fright?
Oh, what has become of the model boy,
     Who was always the teachers pet?
And where, oh where, is the tough young nut,
     The one we can never forget?
The studious one, so we have been told,
     Is driving a cab these days.
The fool owns stock in a bank or two,
     And a railroad that always pays.
The orator that we knew so well
     Is a clerk in a drygoods store.
While the bashful kid we knew has been
     In Congress ten years or more.
The model boy has been behind bars
     For stealing a neighbor's cow.
And you ask what of the tough young nut?
     Oh, he's our Bishop now.
By J. W. Johnson
Journal of Commerce
 the Jerry Murphy in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #8814 * LAWRENCE,MCCONNELL,MURPHY,LUCAS,MYERS;OH/VA/KY/IN
system: You are Marianne Montgomery, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "UK-IRE".

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assistant: Hey, friends, I thought when I asked my SysOp to get UK-IRE on our board,
that I'd see a lot of messages.  So far all I see is the 2 that I sent 2
months ago.  Are there more than one UK-Ire echos? I'd like to hear from
someone on this topic.  I'm posting now on the Nat. Gen. Conf. and on my
board that's #24.  UK-Ire is 24J.  I don't know if your boards would have
these same numbers for your lists, but I'm just wondering where everybody
who's mentioned Ireland so often is these days?
Marianne
system: You are Sarah Nunez, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Marianne Montgomery about "UK-IRE".

They wrote:
MM> Hey, friends, I thought when I asked my SysOp to get UK-IRE on our
MM> board, that I'd see a lot of messages.
MM> I don't know if your boards would have these same numbers for your
MM> lists,

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assistant: On 21 May 98, Marianne Montgomery writes to All:
There's been plenty of traffic there, but on the other hand, I don't recall
seeing any messages from you there.  That leads me to believe that there is a
connection problem on the BBS you call.  It may be that one of his uplinks is
using an outdated BACKBONE.NA list (list of all FidoNet echoes available in
North America).  If that's the case, your sysop would receive "Echo not
found" messages when he requests the echo.  He may have the echo set up on
his BBS, but I suspect that it isn't connected to the rest of the world.
No, the board (echo, conference, list) numbers are different for each BBS.
In FidoNet, each echo has an echotag that is universal throughout FidoNet.
The echotag for this echo (the National Genealogy Conference) is GENEALOGY.
The echotag for the echo you're looking for is I&UK_GENE.  The sysop must
request echoes by their echotags.
... Looking for parents of Preston BRICKEY, b.abt 1800 in KY, m. Millie
ALLS.
system: You are Richard Reeks, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Marianne Montgomery about "UK-IRE".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Marianne Montgomery to All <=-
MM> Hey, friends, I thought when I asked my SysOp to get UK-IRE on our
MM> board, that I'd see a lot of messages.  So far all I see is the 2 that
MM> I sent 2 months ago. Are there more than one UK-Ire echos? I'd like to
MM> hear from someone on this topic.  I'm posting now on the Nat. Gen.
MM> Conf. and on my board that's #24.  UK-Ire is 24J.  I don't know if your
MM> boards would have these same numbers for your lists, but I'm just
MM> wondering where everybody who's mentioned Ireland so often is these
MM> days?

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assistant: Dear Marianne -==-
The numbers for echos are different for every board!
There are at least 5 different areas that can have echos that cover
genealogy (as well as everything else under the sun!)
1. RIME Network (on my BBS #10-385)
2. FIDO Network (on my BBS #390-699)
3. Usenet (temporarily dead on my BBS for some reason) #700-1200)
4. INTELEC Network (on my BBS # 1200-1449)
5. IG (Genealogy) Network (on my BBS #1450-1500)
Of course, ALL of them are suffering from lack of traffic!  It is really
discouraging the number of people that have dropped off the BBS (or who
never started with them).
The echos I am "subscribed" to are as follows with their numbers that
correspond to the above:
Gen EUR 414
Gen Ireland-UK 581
SocGen.Britain 903
SocGen.Ireland 908
Socgen Surnames: Britain 917
Socgen Surnames: Ireland 920
Socgen Surnames: USA 922
IGA_NetChat.Gen: 1465 (lots of traffic here, but mostly about diaries,etc)
Gen_New Zealand: 1471
Genealogy-United Kingdom & Ireland: 1484
Genealogy-Australia: 1490
Genealogy-Ireland & UK: 1493
Genealogy-New Zealand: 1494
Your Sysop should be able to get any of these from his "backbone", but as
I stated, the amount of traffice is pitiful!  Not like in the old days -
just a year ago or so!
Sincerely --
Dick...
system: You are Nicholay Lastovka, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Searching".

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assistant: Hello All.
 Searching for information on:
 Lastovka
 Any information on the above greatly appreciated!
... "Don't mince words, All ... what do you *REALLY* think?"
system: You are Jerry Murphy, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Genealogy message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Marianne Montgomery about "Uk-ire".

They wrote:
MM>Hey, friends, I thought when I asked my SysOp to get UK-IRE on our board,
MM>I'd see a lot of messages.  So far all I see is the 2 that I sent 2 months
MM>ago.  Are there more than one UK-Ire echos? I'd like to hear from someone
MM>this topic.  I'm posting now on the Nat. Gen. Conf. and on my board that's
MM>#24.  UK-Ire is 24J.  I don't know if your boards would have these same
MM>numbers for your lists, but I'm just wondering where everybody who's
MM>Ireland so often is these days?

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assistant: that
on
mentioned
Hi Cousin, Lonnnnng time no see.  I've been wondering about you!
The I-UK echo is very much alive and well, with several messages per day,
many per week, much like this echo we now use was about last winter.  Your
sysop definitely has a major problem.  The message count today is 3 in this
NGS echo, 19 in the I-UK.  My sysop just told me he was down to only 5 active
users; a year ago there were 5 dozen.
Whatever number system s/he uses is unique; no other system in the world is
likely to use the same schemes, so naming message numbers in your message is
a waste.  It's a lot like using RIN numbers ... nobody else in the world uses
the same ones for the same people, so it's a huge waste of time to mention
them elsewhere, usually.
I finally stopped doing any serious research in Gibson County, IN.  I found
myself the sole survivor from our family who cared even the slightest.  Those
who still live in that area cannot be bothered and no longer answer my pleas.
 The few who went with me to put flowers at the graves of our mutual
ancestors tell me this year they probably won't even visit the cemeteries,
let alone place flowers, not even on our Memorial Day next week.  It is so
sad!
 the Jerry Murphy in Lakewood, Ohio, USA
 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #8814 * Remembering all my buddies on The Wall. R.I.P.