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Bill,
I’m sure you have these and tossed them out for not being the right one, but I’ve been on this comp. for 4 hours and found a couple of George Reeds.
On freepages.geneology: William Eldad Reed was father of George Reed, born before 1732 in Rowan, NC and died in 1785 in Rowan, NC. He was married to Abigail Felps, born before 1736 in Rowan, NC and died (no date) Rowan, NC. They had a son William Reed, born before 1764. He had several siblings. I don’t have my info. infront of me to match with thses dates.
Then: There was a George Reed born 12, Nov. 1760 in Rowan, NC and died 15 May, 1815 in Reed’s Crossroads, NC. He married Martha Green on 12, May 1785. I didn’t see a William as their son.
Also; George Reed married Jamima Davis, 18 Aug., 1743 in Chowan CO., NC.
Also found a reference to another spelling of Reed on some site:rolleyes: It said that Reed is an abstract of Rude. I never figured that one! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Let me know if any of this is good. Love & Light, Lynella.
I don’t have your REEDs back that far to know if any of this figures in or not. It’s not up to me to say if it figures – dig it up, girl. Look for the the logical connections while always expecting the wild card. That means, proceed from step to step with extreme scepticism – always be able to answer your own question of “why do I think this connects?”
Why did I think we had em’ back that far? 😀 Well, my brain get’s pretty screwy with this stuff. I plan on digging through everything hopefully tomorrow afternoon. I’m gonna stretch a long piece of butcher paper out on the pool table and start putting stuff down. Cause If I can’t see it all at once, all in the same place I’ll be lost forever!:D Who knows if Kerry got my e-mails. But I’ve dumped a lot on his lap with this. He’s not as up to scratch as you are, but he’s fair…..Especially compared to me. How far back did you find? What am I thinking of? How did I put the Reeds back that far? Hm-m-m-m-m! Well, I’ll go from back there & work my way up or something! Back to front makes more sense in my head anyway. Just call me backwards!:D Love & Light, Lynella. P.S. THANK YOU VERY DARN MUCH, KIND SIR!
We all do what we can get done. Time to do “it” too often interferes, regardless of our individual capacities.
Then again 🙂 SAJ found the Williams’s in 1910 & 1920 census in about 30 minutes. I had been looking for them for 2 days. But it’s not a contest. It’s a team effort. We all contribute what we can. Sorry, I haven’t had the time to really study what you’ve sent me recently on the early REEDs but until we make that “fatal” connection to my Sheltons, Gentrys and Reeds, your secret’s safe with me 🙂 So…. how did you get my address to send me that Christmas card? Sounds like a conspiracy to me 🙂
Bill – You’re doing alot of digging for us! (Lynella and myself) hopefully it’s helping you and maybe even some other folks here on the forum. I do appreciate it. My job just keeps me extremly busy most of the time. I love doing the genealogy research. Unfortunately I have been concentrating for the last 20 plus years on my dads side of the family and my wifes family. So I’ve just taken what my other sister (Sandra) has put together on my moms side as good and figured I’d look at it later. Well – I guess later has arrived. So I’ll do what I can to help. I do extensive traveling in my job. I noted somewhere here on the forum that you’re in Indianapolis, IN. That’s great, wish I would have known you about a month ago – I was there doing some work for Phizer Pharmaceuticals. If it looks like I’m coming back around I’ll let you know.:)
Bill,
😀 I won’t remind ya’ll, which one a you’ns gave me yer address.:D
I found where I got back so far in time. You. 😀 In the William Rainwater/Molly Reaves post you put a short blurb about that Rainwater being related to my Hodges of 1770’s Surrey Co NC and to my Gentry, Shelton & Reed lines in Indiana.
😉 So, My twisted little brain just took that and jumped off into time, that’s all!:) So, inbetween everything else I’m doing today, I’ll see if I can come foreward a bit and connect some dots! 😉 Love & Light, Lynella.
Kerry,
It’s about time! I’m sending Sue a cattle prod for Christmas!:D 😀
Tell that job of yours to go work someone else’s big brother to death! Now, you see where I am and what I’v done! fix it…..PRETTY PL-l-le-e-a-a-se! And look in to Mary! I’m just being your baby brat! do what ever your pea pickin’ heart desires dear brother! Don’t open that package till X-mas. It’s not a birthday present! Love & Light, Lynella.:D
Tahcaska,
Do you have a subscription to Ancestry.com? Just curious, I don’t have access to anything like that and I hate to put good money on something that has none of the info. I want! Their one world tree thing does look pretty handy though so I thought I’d see. Love & Light, Lynella.
Nope – I don’t beleive in paying someone for my history. Besides I LOVE doing the Research myself. You know, going to libraries, going to cemeteries, digging in records rooms and Local historical societies. Many people like paying for the services and it probably is faster. But I don’t always trust the info., I get from those sites. One thing I’ve learned in Genealogy – always cross reference things that you find, and especially things others find for you. It’s not that I don’t trust others – but I want to be certain. There are some things that you have to pay for. Like copies of birth, death and marriage records. Or photocopies of pages from books. Or even to buy a book that has particular information in it you want or need. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Bill,
I never said this was a contest!:) 😀 I just get p.o’d at myself when I think I can just grab something and make it work, then it doesn’t. And I tend to forget that the world is not a microwave. Things don’t happen as fast as I want them to. I put pressures on myself and sometimes I suppose that would tend to make others feel pressured as well. 🙂 I don’t mean for that to happen. So I’m sorry if it has. I’m just trying to do the microwave-family plan here, o.k?:) H-m-m-m-m-m, now I’m hungry for popcorn! Love & Light, Lynella. 😉 P.S. Sorry about my F.U.B.A.R!:p
Kerry,
🙂 Cool! I didn’t think I should drop money there. I still think maybe some of them might be helpful. But that Ancestry.com seems to permiate everythign. Like a big conglomerate with fingers in everybodies pies and that just bugs me! So, thank you. Go to the History Forum and see if my link for the Jersey settlement works. I goota’ run to the store. Love & Light, Lynella.
Originally posted by lynellarainhawk
Why did I think we had em’ back that far? 😀 Well, my brain get’s pretty screwy with this stuff. I plan on digging through everything hopefully tomorrow afternoon. I’m gonna stretch a long piece of butcher paper out on the pool table and start putting stuff down. Cause If I can’t see it all at once, all in the same place I’ll be lost forever!:D
Lyn – I quoted you above because I wanted to bring you back to this statement. Our families are very large, and you’re definately not use to looking at all of this. You are probably alot like me – you’re a “visual person” Reading it – it doesn’t always make sense – but if you could see it all layed out then it would. My suggestion to you is to purchase a program for your computer such as “Family Tree maker” or some other one that allows you to enter this stuff in and then print out Trees, family relations charts and the like. Also then I could “share” my files with you. You want a program that can save the files as “Gedcom” files – they are more universally shared. Bill might have a different program that he use’s. You might check with him and see what he’s got. 😉
Tahcaska,
YO! Dude! Thank you really but actually I hate comp. stuff period! I’m definately a HARD COPY person. That’s why if I write really tiny and use an 8foot long piece of butcher paper, I think it will work. Then I can tack it up on a wall somewhere and amuse myself with the inbreeding!:D
Sorry! Long day in the City and My Carl is neckel and diming me to death! Just when I think I can get ahead! They’re leaving to move to Florida on the 27th. So I’ll be shipping X-mas to them late. I already paid shipping on it to buy it in the first place. He had to have the nice U-Haul boxes and coolers, cause’ they’re gonna’ drive two cars down there. Where’s Garrett! Ya’ know, Holidays really stink.
Bill,
I am truly and deeply sorry if I made you mad or anything. 🙂 I did not mean to. I just wanted to let you know I’m done being a jerk and I’m done jabber-jawing. I WILL try very hard to behave myself.:) Lynella.
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