[or-roots] Carla's Hawley and Shields connections

[Cassie in Portland, OR]

Carla,

This is not about Ancestry, but I noticed that you are
researching Shields and Hawley.  My paternal line is
Shields and I have a Hawley connection too...

Can you tell us more?

Cassie

--- CKlooster at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/13/04 7:03:44 AM Alaskan
> Standard Time,  
> whizinc at comcast.net writes:
> 
> I have Ancestry's immigration and newspaper portion.
>   I'd be happy to do 
> look ups.  Please email me off  list. 
> Ronda
> 
>  
> Have you ever found a NAME in the Ancestry newspaper
> search?  I was  very 
> excited when upgraded my subscription to add the
> Newspaper and Periodical  search 
> and my  first search result showed two entries for
> my 4th-great  grandfather, 
> Emmor Jefferson Stephens.  When I viewed the actual
> image  however, I found 
> that "Emmor" was actually "Summer", and "Jefferson"
> was in an  article about 
> our founding father,  while "Stephens" appeared in
> an article  about a "lady of 
> the evening"!  I stopped using this  particular
> function of the Ancestry 
> search because it seems to be an  exercise in
> futility.  I'd be interested to know 
> if anyone else is using  this with success...
>  
> Carla
>  
>  
> STEPHENS, WHEALDON, HAWLEY, SHIELDS in Oregon and
> Washington
> 
> 
>  
> 


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Cassandra Hansen in Portland,OR
Brycas at yahoo.com
Researching the following Oregon surnames: AYLSWORTH,SHIELDS,SMITH,TONER,WELLS,WIDENER,WILFORD.   Other surnames not in Oregon: BURLINGHAM,DEBUSK,DYER,EDMONDSON,HAVENS,HOLMES, JAMES,KIRSCHNER.