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Vance & Lyn,
I don’t know how a “group” subscription would work but I doubt seriously if ancestry.com would go for it. Give it a try!
Bill
BILL,
🙂 Not without you! And I don’t think a “group” subscription is what we were thinking about…..:) More like pitch in for the cost so 1 of us has access to it! How are you? I do hope all is well…..:) Love & Light, Lynella.
Vance, and Bill, too,
🙂 You’re cute!:) If Bill is too inundated with all of our research, well, I’m not good at geneology at all, And Kerry says he doesn’t like to put money on subscriptions because he has to be like my dad and do everything the long hard way. I’m sure that we, Vance and I can find some one of us, or if I have to I will do it. We could find a lot of stuff there, I think, for what that’s worth. The point is, ANYTHING IF IT WILL HELP. O-kay? 😀 Love & Light, Lynella. ANYTHING FOR THE CAUSE.
😮 Ooh! Vance, I did it again:o I am so sorry! I got us off track of William Rainwater/Molly Reeves.:( Kick my butt!:D
I have subscriptions to ancestry.com and genealogy.com which is the prime reason I’m able to come up with much of this. They’re much more cost effective for most people when compared to travel, hotel and meal expenses even if one were just researching their own family lines.
Neither site is predominately composed of “User” submitted “info” but have extensive county and state documents and databases.
(ancestry’s latest software “enhancements” are D.O.A. and “dollar for document”, genealogy.com is a much better buy altho I still do the ‘ancestry’ site, but only for their earlier, indexed census records prior to 1850 which genealogy.com doesn’t have developed yet.)
And there’s rootsweb.com for specific counties and states, some well done, some composed only of user submitted info; some well-sourced, some not, but it’s “free”. And there are specific County sites that are often better than all the above because their focus is very narrowly focused – imagine that!
Then there’s books bought and which I continue to buy in hopes some gen-searcher screwed-up and listed some of our people! (Subscriptions are cheaper, but well, gotta’ have documentation and attempt to cross-check that, too 🙂
Bill
Bill,
😀 Oh, Thank Great Spirit! You’re still with us!:) Does this mean you’re not mad at me? 🙂 Thank you for the info. I really appreciate it. I thought you were much more down to earth, and you are.;) I am considering subscribing to Ancestry.com, I’m wondering if maybe Vance would want to go in on it. Even just $10.00 bucks would help. If not I will find a way eventually. Cause’ it’s got to be easier than some of these other ways! Oh, thank you so much for writing this up. You’re still awsome and I love ya’. Lynella.;)
They treat Becky like she works at our ROD office. She took her 3 yr old grandson last week and all the ladies fed him sugar cookies. We are doing our part to get all Person co’s records on-line Though my and Becky’s main interest is recording and posting cemeteries, there are others transcribing other records into a digital form.
Our county library has an excellent research room with many obscure family books and many surrounding area record compilations (1760 to 1850 Caswell Marriages for example.) Also have microfilm viewer and extensive microfiles…… don’t forget local historical societies and genealogical societies……. most do lookups for a nominal fee.
Dreaminghawk,
Thank you for the wonderful good news. And the tips! Tips like that, to me are golden. I really appreciate it very much.:) 🙂 🙂 Bless you. Love & Light, Lynella.
Hello everyone,
I work with a young lady who is a Rainwater. She says she has her line traced back to Surry County (I believe that is what she said) about 1600. Her Rainwater line is also associated with the name Cloud.
I will see if I can get her to post her info.
Sherry
Sheree,
sorry it took me so long to get to this. I’m slow! That would be interesting to know. All these little bits and pieces will finish a great puzzle one day. It’s looking like so many of these family lines cross in so many different places. It is important to get everything. So, yes, please, any info you can get would be cool.
The way I see it, William Rainwater and Molly Reaves, could play a good roll in patching together a few other puzzle pieces, so I’m here to help.
Dreaminghawk,
You know I have a large interest in Cemetaries also. I find them fascinating, for some reason they really get my creative energies going like crazy. Like sticking a knife in the toaster! I’m going to look into getting a subscription to Ancestry.com, simply because I know Bill has his plate running over and his hands are full. It may be a few weeks before I can afford it, I don’t know, cause’ I haven’t checked it out yet. We have so many names and places and dates and man I want to bring this together. Love & light, Lynella.;)
🙂 Thank you! I really appreciate that….more than you know. What would be a better one?:) Love & Light, RainHawk.
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