[or-roots] Brickwalls redux

[Leslie Chapman]

I can understand your frustration Karla, but just let me give you an example
of why mosts lists like to do this little thing, even though it drives a lot
of folks nuts who have signed up, often without realizing they have
volunteered to recieve unspecified quantities of email from total strangers
[and boy are some of us strange] in their inbox.

Mosts lists call it simply "Roll Call" the Wheeler list which is another
list I am on that has historically been very active though has been slow of
late, as much as a week going by without a post, as opposed to my Pierce
list which was dissolved because the host refused to allot space to a list
that only got a post every year or two.

My point is that there may be a Newbie out there who is sitting on their
grand-dad's diary that they just happened to look at last week again and
wondered who the heck all of thos John Smiths were in Podunk that came to
Boring with grandpa, now if it happens to be John smith, John Smith Jr. and
John Smith the third from Podunk that moved to Boring with "your grandpa"
and you posted that question last year and Mr Newbie isn't curious enough
about these folks to do a google or whatever on them, the two of you might
not connect, but if Mr Newbie has been lurking here for the last three
months and you repost your John Smiths and the name resonate with him enough
for him to dig out the diary and reread it, you might have the proverbial
"Gold Mine"

My personal brick wall is who was the Mrs Barnes that nursed my great
grandfather Milan Morell Melvin through an epidemic on the Wagon Train to
Wherever the heck they first came to (first inof we have hard knowedge is
thier residing in Del Norte Co Cal, but no wagon train terminus near
there??)

But back to my story [now you can see why every tiime I open my mouth at
family gatherings somebody stuffs my foot in it]
I came on here a year or two ago in answer to a similar complaint about why
repost and I threw out one of my dead ends by example, just like the above
Mrs Barnes story and one of the people on the list googled my question and
there was my answer. Of course I could have gotten that one myself, but I
had Googled and dogpiled and ship listed and etc the same problem for hours
and hours over a period of years and come up blank.

This of course isn't the best example of why we should have a "roll call"
now and then, but I think you can see my point, I was totally frustrated
with that particular fact, had in fact given up on it over a year before and
just threw it out there as an example of how frustrating some things can be
and was kindly handed a large helping of crow so to speak.

So by all means, repost that question, the other thing you have to consider
is that some of us have resources that we are either too busy or too lazy to
use except on whim, and maybe all of us missed you previous post, or were
too busy, but maybe you can catch us with free time, which it looks like I
have a lot of but actually don't because wifey has been hovering in the
background wiht a list of honeydos since I got on here this morning, but if
you post it, I promise within a week I will take a stab at it.

Les C


-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us]On Behalf Of
karfranw at juno.com
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 9:28 AM
To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] OREGON ONLY NAMES AND BRICK WALLS


Hello, the above idea, is all well and good, I agree.  But, some members of
my family have already done research on the family name, and have hit
brickwalls no matter where they search.  And as far as when this errant
antecedent of ours reached Oregon, it is anyone's guess.  I could tell you
the story but already submitted that when I first subscribed to this
list.
My brothers and I have come to a conclusion, the old guy was lying through
his teeth about
his name, because of circumstances.  We don't have a clue as to what to do
now.

Sincerely,

Karla (Gray) Williams