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knoxcotn-digest Monday, January 24 2000 Volume 01 : Number 050
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 11:07:28 -0600 From: "Kay Rodell" <krodell@risecom.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] BRITT This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01BF6592.092AE560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am searching for my 2nd great grandfather Thomas G. Britt. I know he = is from Tennessee. I have found a Thomas G. Britt located on the 1850 = and 1860 Census of Knox County. But I cannot find the Census that would = list the age of this particular Britt. Can anyone help me? My Britt = died in Texas May 17, 1885 ( Age 49yrs. 7months, and 1 day.) I am a = beginner at this genealogy! - ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01BF6592.092AE560 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>I am searching for my 2nd great = grandfather Thomas=20 G. Britt. I know he is from Tennessee. I have found a Thomas G.=20 Britt located on the 1850 and 1860 Census of Knox = County. But I=20 cannot find the Census that would list the age of this particular = Britt. =20 Can anyone help me? My Britt died in Texas May 17, 1885 ( Age = 49yrs.=20 7months, and 1 day.) I am a beginner at this=20 genealogy!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01BF6592.092AE560-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:17:27 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] BRITT Hi, Kay! Both the 1850 and 1860 censuses will give you the person's age and state of birth. Forgive me for editorializing here: We're all beginners -- just some have been beginning a little longer than others. No one person knows everything - -- regardless of how much he or she tries to make you believe it! We each have our specialties where we're more-knowledgeable, but we're really ignorant of other areas. For example, I can just about tell you everything you want to know about Dumplin community -- where Jefferson/Knox/Sevier Counties intersect. The rest of Jefferson County I feel about 90% confidence in. North of the River in Sevier County, 80%. East Knox County, 75%. As the radius moves farther away from Dumplin, my specific knowledge decreases. We're fortunate to have people in Knox County like Morton Rose, who's probably mapped just about the whole county the way it looked before 1800; Rene' Jordan, who's mapping every East Tennessee county boundary change through about 1870 (when Hamblen formed); Jack Neely, who spends hours digging out the "hmmmm" stories of Knoxville's history; and Robert McGinnis, who can walk the entire county with his eyes closed and introduce you to every pioneer settler -- not only can he visualize the entire county's development over 200 years, he can impart it to you to make you believe you were right there watching it happen! Robert's also transcribed probably 99% of the tombstones in Knox County and collected wills, obits, and other documentation to go along with many of them. Ask any of these marvels a question about researching Spanish families in the Florida panhandle, though, and you'll discover that it's true -- we are all "beginners" at something. </editorial>
At 11:07 AM 1/23/00 -0600, Kay Rodell wrote: >I am searching for my 2nd great grandfather Thomas G. Britt. I know he >is from Tennessee. I have found a Thomas G. Britt located on the 1850 and >1860 Census of Knox County. But I cannot find the Census that would list >the age of this particular Britt. Can anyone help me? My Britt died in >Texas May 17, 1885 ( Age 49yrs. 7months, and 1 day.) I am a beginner at >this genealogy! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:09:33 -0500 From: Keith and Paula Griffin <dwec@charlotte.infi.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] bibliography on web site I have been looking at the bibliography on the Knox county web site. Are these books located in one particular place? I am interested in several of them. Could I get any on interlibrary loan? My library in Charlotte does not have any research books on Knox or Union counties. The book on the family of Edward Eppes by Mary Lou Shoemaker Johnson and M. L. Treadwell says "n.p." - does this mean not published? Where could I find it? I am looking for: Clapp, Booker, Hankins, Walker, Graves, Carden, Kelly, Mynatt and several more. Paula ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:21:49 -0600 From: Marian Dunlap <mdunlap@effingham.net> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Pronunciations East Tennessee isn't the only place you find those pronounciations! I found in Lee Co VA my GGGrandfather's will listed a son Adson, census in the area showed that son as Adson, but today when all the people who grew up around Lee Co write his name they spell it "Addison". Haven't figured that one out yet! Marian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:05:03 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: Re: [KnoxCoTN] Pronunciations Hi, Marian! Considering where he lived, are you sure it wasn't actually Eidson? There's a small community by that name between Kyle's Ford and Rogersville..... Sorry to throw yet another wrinkle in your search!
At 08:21 PM 1/23/00 -0600, Marian Dunlap wrote: >East Tennessee isn't the only place you find those pronounciations! I >found in Lee Co VA my GGGrandfather's will listed a son Adson, census in >the area showed that son as Adson, but today when all the people who >grew up around Lee Co write his name they spell it "Addison". Haven't >figured that one out yet! >Marian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:12:23 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Brooks, Crews, Sing From another list: Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:23:16 EST From: PRCarpe@aol.com Interested in any information on the surnames in subject line who were in Knox County 1800-1850. Elizabeth BROOKS Ellen BROOKS Malinda CREWS Robert CREWS John SING Benjamin SING Thanks, Phyllis WIlson Carpenter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:15:41 -0600 From: "Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray" <knoxcotn@wdbj.net> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Order TN vital records online! Hey ya'll .. a friend just posted this on the LBL list -- thought y'all would like to know <g>:
http://www.state.tn.us/health/vr/
Rose-Anne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:32:35 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] This is noteworthy You can now order TN vital records certificates from 1914 to present (subject to limitations, of course) on-line at http://www.state.tn.us/health/vr/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 02:46:08 -0800 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] New 1792-1817 Knox-area records on-line Thanks to the diligent transcription efforts of Judy Ingram, we have the 1792-1817 Knox County Brands Book (registration of animal markings) on-line. This book also contains the registrations for public water, saw, and grist mills. If your ancestry isn't in Knox County, don't despair. There are names from surrounding counties here as well! Remember that the earliest records are for the period before some of Knox County's "children" formed. And, don't forget that Knoxville became a center of commerce because of the rivers, meaning people came here from all over the area. So, your 3Xgreat-grampaw's brother might have moved "to town." http://www.knoxcotn.org/records/brandsbk.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:37:39 -0800 From: "J. C. Tumblin, OD" <sleepy6@mailhub.icx.net> (by way of "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org>) Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Library of Congress General Information > Thank you for visiting the Library of Congress web site. Your >communication will be reviewed and will receive an additional response in >accordance with the Library's Reference Policy. > > The primary mission of the Library of Congress is to serve Members >of the Congress and, thereafter, the needs of the government, other >libraries, and members of the public, universities, and learned societies. > > Library of Congress staff will respond to your reference and >information needs to the extent possible. Please note that the scope of >our services does not include: 1) compilation of bibliographies; 2) >response to requests for information connected with school assignments; >debates, and contests; and 3) research in heraldry or family history. > > The Library of Congress encourages correspondents to use local >library resources first, particularly their online catalogs and reference >email services. Public, state, academic, and special libraries are often >able to respond more quickly and thoroughly than we and are better able to >identify and respond to specific and ongoing research needs. Local >reference librarians often rely on state and regional library networks to >supplement their resources and on the Library of Congress for questions >requiring access to our collections. > > Please note that the collections in the Library of Congress >(books, serials, music and sound recordings, cartographic items, visual >materials, computer files, etc.) are generally not available as digital >versions via the Internet. However, as many libraries are doing, the >Library is reproducing portions of its collections as digital works, via >the American Memory project. > > >For further information, please visit the following web pages. > >General Information > http://lcweb.loc.gov/faq > >Services for Researchers > http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/ > >Legislative Information: Thomas > http://thomas.loc.gov/ > >Research and Reference > http://lcweb.loc.gov/faq/research.html > >Library of Congress Internet Services > http://lcweb.loc.gov/faq/netfaq.html > >American Memory > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html > > > > > ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #50 ***************************** |