[or-roots] what is AFF

[DanM]

From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: [or-roots] what is AFF


> Dan;
>
> thank you for that link, i know have that web page save to my
Genealogy/Info
> misc folder where I will promptly forget I put it.
>
> I have another question about that cryptic note;
>
> "I have a lot of AFF. collected from my great grand dad, seems he did a
> lot of that, I wish I knew if he really knew those people or if he did it
> for money ?"
>
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For the remark about the aff.
As I was looking in all the books I could find,
and the precious transcriptions fellow genealogists gave to us for our
research,

 I found dozens of places where my great grand was aff.
also with others, after reading these books over and over I started to see a
patern and wondered if this was in part of how those folks made money.

 Like wittness to wedding at Justice of the Peace, we got $5 .

   As for ( cryptic)
I think was more ( curious) than any thing.
Some of the old timers might explain why people were there for that. ( other
than for friends) that is.

    I was looking in the book RUCH, Oregon,
I was noticing some of the people had interations.

  There is an entry there,
 Jeff Matney built the Methodist Church and later some one else used the
lumber to build his house.
Books like these are a real help for people like us ;-).

 I went to meet Margarette Black and her hubby and on my interview I learned
a lot,
 they lived up in the mountains above Applgate,
while there, I tramped all over logtown cemetery taking lots of pictures .

 My great uncle Carrel Matney had a DLC on the river,
there is a story in the ( As told by the Pioneers)
about a hunting trip where several of them were hunting bear
and were being followed by a mountain cat.

 I found him as aff in a lot of entries, with Roundtree, Shortridge,
Applegate, and so many others who were popular back then because there were
only so many people then.

    Easy for so many to be related now
because lots of the people
who traveled those first few trails made families.

    I think stories have a lot to do with genealogy,
sometimes it puts a real name in the right place to tell just what line it
is too.

   I was doing some research and found my Aunt living next door to the great
grand dau of my great uncle, they never even knew they were related, so many
years as niehbors and just because the last names were different untill I
came with the stories, there would have never known, now that Aunt is gone
less than a few months after I met her.

    With out stories I dont think we can follow up on a lot of genealogy.

Dan M
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