[or-roots] Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online

[Eugene V. Barnes]

  Dale:

  No; I am not a member of the OCCGS.

  Gene
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Harguess, Dale" <dharguess at coastline.edu>
  To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
  Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online


  >I am a Gibson researcher but not for myself.  I am doing it for my
  > cousin.  I don't know if there would be a link or not.  The original guy
  > Colin Gibson lived in Washington County New York and had two wives and a
  > bunch of kids.  He kept having children up into his 60s because his
  > second wife was about 20 years younger than he was.  Some of the
  > descendants went to Wisconsin but a lot of them stayed right there in
  > New York but moved to Oneida County.
  > Dale
  > P.S.  Are you a member of OCCGS?
  >
  >  For Dale Harguess:
  >
  >  Are you a Gibson Researher.  My Martha Gibson of NJ came to Hennepin
  > Co.,
  > Minn.,
  >  with her brood circa 1855 when townships were not yet formed.  If you
  > have
  > a link
  >  would appr. contact.
  >
  >  Gene Barnes
  >  Costa Mesa Ca.
  >
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: "Harguess, Dale" <dharguess at coastline.edu>
  >  To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
  >  Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:53 AM
  >  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com Puts 90M War Records Online
  >
  >
  >  > Boy did you hit the nail on the head.  I tried using it last night
  > with
  >  > similar results.  The only correct one I got was Colin Gibson in the
  > New
  >  > York Militia during the Revolutionary war and their source was the
  >  > History of Washington County New York which is in my local library.
  >  > Nothing more.
  >  > Dale
  >  >
  >  >
  >  > Thanks for posting that David, I couldn't figure out where to go to
  >  > "take
  >  > advantage" of the offfer.
  >  >
  >  > Seems it doesn't matter; I have never understood Ancestry.com and
  > their
  >  > search engines; If I ask for William Decker born in 1831 why do I
  > get
  >  > every
  >  > William Decker in their data base? At least they all seemed to be
  >  > limited to
  >  > the Civil War, but after scrolling through 300 William Deckers, none
  > of
  >  > which conclusively were mine, I gave up. I looked for cousin Harry
  >  > Richard
  >  > Melvin without the Richard and got every Melvin with an H in his
  > given
  >  > or
  >  > middle name, doing an exact search on his full name gave me no
  > result,
  >  > but I
  >  > know he died as an enlisted soldier on 16 January 1918. Looking for
  >  > Ezekiel
  >  > Chapman was even worse, first of all we don't know that he was ever
  > a
  >  > soldier so I was fishing, and Ancestry chose to give me every
  > Ezekiel
  >  > born
  >  > between 1700 and 1900 even though I specified his 1783 birth year,
  > and
  >  > most
  >  > of the hits were Chapmans with middle inititial E. So I don't
  > understand
  >  > how
  >  > all you folks that use Ancestry all the time find anything????
  >  >
  >  > Maybe if you are actually paying for it the search engines actually
  >  > search?
  >  >
  >  > Les C
  >  >
  >  >
  >  >
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