knoxcotn-digest Wednesday, December 1 1999 Volume 01 : Number 002

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:04:48 -0500

From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>

Subject: Let's get this party started!!!

Welcome everyone to our new list! Rose-Anne Cunningham, the Knox County

TNGenWeb site queen, is jointly hosting this list with me, but she's

divided up the responsibilities by saying, "I'll do page stuff, and you can

do list stuff." That sounded more than fair.... <g>

Please send a message to the list with questions, comments, surname

interests, or whatever, to let us know why you're here. I always like to

know whom people are, also, so my fellow list members aren't just a bunch

of names lurking in the background. You never know what else you have in

common!

I'll start -- then it's YOUR turn. Remember, if you don't spout off, no

one else will do it for you!

I was born in Knoxville, grew up on the east side of the county, went to

high school in Jefferson County, attended Carson-Newman but did my last

year at UT-Knoxville. After living around the country for 20 years, I

moved back to Jefferson County nearly 5.5 years ago and live near the

Knox/Jefferson/Sevier county intersection -- where 50% of my mama's

ancestry is located. I'm married to a retired submariner who's presently

in graduate school at UT-Knoxville and have a stepson at Eastern

Connecticut University. Although I'm a paralegal by profession, I took

some time off from that and manage a "junk" shop for my mama.

I've been interested in genealogy for <gulp> 23 years now. I have been a

guest speaker and seminar leader, written books and articles, edited

journals, and taught genealogy courses for local colleges and organizations

for about 16 years. I am honored to have won awards for some of the

above. I started the Jefferson County Genealogical Society, and I was the

first coordinator of the TNGenWeb project. I have been involved in on-line

genealogy for 8 years and do my best to manage some mailing lists and Web

sites.

Besides being born there, my only genealogical connection to Knox County is

that some of my ancestors went there when they got high-falutin' and moved

to town. Well, I did have a couple of early families in East Knox County,

but they're a big ole mystery. I know generally about the county's

history, but I'm really only familiar with communities and families on the

east side (the area between the Holston and French Broad Rivers and within

5 miles north of the Holston River).

I am particularly interested in the Welsh immigrants to Knox, Anderson,

Campbell, and Roane Counties after 1860.

My surnames with Knox County connections are Acuff = Asbury = Brickey =

Bryan = Butler = Cate = Coons = Davies = Gillespie = Jackman = Langston =

Lindsey = Martin = McCall = McCarty = McCombs = Miles = Ramey = R(h)emy =

Underwood and a few gazillion collateral lines.

Of these, the only ones I personally research are Acuff and McCall. I

dabble with the McCombs line (one of those frustrators) and rely on the

kindness of distant cuzzins for info on the others.

So, there you are. Now tell me about yourself!

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