[or-roots] George and Sarah Shirts

[Leslie Chapman]

Patty;

You aren't real clear on what you are asking for, first it seems you are
unfamiliar with the concept of "lists" if that is the case I will try to
give a concise (pause for groan from rest of list) explanation of what a
"list" is about, and then since you haven't mentioned whether you have said
info will throw some census info at you.

LISTS; by joining this list you have joined with a group of folks who have
signed on to receive a copy of everything anybody else sends in (there is
digest form for those who find the occasional mailing blitz cumbersome, the
disadvantage is when html format mail such as this comes through it is
awkward). In theory the topic of this list is OREGON genealogy and history.
Our list mom is pretty tolerant (ie extended discussion of 20th century
weather at Christmas time) but the idea is to stick to topic. Your
submission is quite valid. Ideally to get best results you should give what
you know, what you want and the one thing a lot of us are guilty of
forgetting; put your email addy in body of query. Subject line relavent to
query is helpfull.

Remember, the more we know, the better we can help you, what a lot of folks
tend to do is send queries like: I want to know about the Jones family. That
doesn't tell us much and will probably be ignored. Your query could have
been better with some dates, but the fact it includes place names makes it
better by far than "Jones"; I have 33 folks in my family tree by the name
Jones, but if someone asked me for info on that surname odds are about
100,000 to one it wouldn't be someone in MY family, so just asking for
"Jones" would tend to make me not want to bother.

Sometimes we be a little crotchety, sometime folks will come on with well
presented good queries and nobody will answer. We may all be busy elsewhere,
we may encounter the same problem that cause the querier to turn to us in
the first place; we can't find an answer either or maybe the mood just
doesn't strike us. We help out for two reasons, one a lot of us like solving
puzzles and are willing to spend our time helping a total stranger and the
other reason is to build "Karma" points. Most folks probably wouldn't
express it that way, but most folks here are basically nice folks that like
to be helpful, which is a very reciprocal kind of thing, if you like to help
folks, I can almost guarantee there will be peeps who will want to help you
and sooner or later if you stay here long someone will ask a question you
can answer. And, as I always have to point out "I" almost never go to look
for something for someone else without finding something that helps me.

Les Chapman khanjehgil at presys.com

-1880 Census;

       Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
       Sarah SHIRTS   Self   W   Female   W   64   TN   Keeping House   VA
VA
       Joel SHIRTS   Son   S   Male   W   25   OR   Laborer   ---   TN
       John SHIRTS   GSon   S   Male   W   11   OR      OR   OR

        Census Place Pocahontas, Baker, Oregon
        Family History Library Film   1255080
        NA Film Number   T9-1080
        Page Number   15A


       Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation
Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
       George N SHIRTS   Self   M   Male   W   32   IN   Farm Laborer   CT
TN
       Amanda E SHIRTS   Wife   M   Female   W   18   OR   Keeping House
IN   PA

        Census Place Halsey, Linn, Oregon
        Family History Library Film   1255082
        NA Film Number   T9-1082
        Page Number   424D


-Let me know if either of these looks like the right person, I couldn't find
George in 1870 or 1860 in Oreg



on---Original Message-----
From: Patty Starritt
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:45 AM

Help!  I don't really understand how all this works but I am trying to find
out the when and why of George and Sarah Shirts emigration to Oregon from
Indiana.  Their last child Flora Shirts was born near Portland but I can
find no info on this.  There is the possibility that they were missionaries.
Does anyone know anything about them? Thanks.

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