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Brenda Lafflam

Wed Apr 10 21:12:16 2013
Location: Loveland, Colorado USA
My E-mail Address: brendalafflam@aol.com
I am looking for: Cockes and Counsins 1 &2
I would like to purchase.

Bobbi A Williams

Sun Jul 29 13:37:16 2012
Location: La Vernia
My E-mail Address: bobbiandherb@dishmail.net
I am looking for: The Blum family of Waldmohr, Pfalz, Germany and United States of America
I would like to purchase.

Linda Johnston Gooding

Fri Jul 27 10:41:52 2012
Location: Pinellas Park, FL
My E-mail Address: 12goodingl@tampabay.rr.com
I am looking for: Mineral County WV Family Traits, Tracks, and Trails
I would like to purchase.

Stagecoach Library

Mon Jul 23 23:40:48 2012
Location: Wimberley, texas, USA
My E-mail Address: StageLibrary@aol.com
I am looking for: Any book about Denton County, Texas or Collin County, Texas. Or families from that area that we do not own. We are a genealogy Library wanting to expand our Texas area.
I would like to purchase.

William J Jones

Thu Apr 19 17:43:04 2012
Location: Campo, CA, 91906 USA
My E-mail Address: biljones@aol.com
I am looking for: Two books by Reba Kemery first is Camebeer's in America and second is Camebeer's in America Revisited. My Mother was Lilly E. Casbeer
I would like to purchase.

Vickie Burnette

Fri Apr 13 06:34:07 2012
Location: Asheville, NC
My E-mail Address: vickiesharon@gmail.com
I am looking for: "The book entitled...This Was My Valley" by Frederick Burnette. This was written by a relative, and I would cherish the opportunity to own this book for my family. Also, looking for any informaiton on Shope, Burnette, and Burleson geneology in Western NC area...Asheville, Swannanoa, Mars Hill, Black Mountain, etc..
I would like to purchase.

Tom Joselyn

Fri Feb 3 16:34:15 2012
Location: Olympia, Wa USA
My E-mail Address: tjoselyn@comcast.net
I am looking for: The Beckwith Family of Samuel and his wife Lydia Gridley
I would like to purchase.

Betty Southern

Mon Jan 16 20:32:53 2012
Location: Walnut Cove,N.C USA
My E-mail Address: BJnWC@aol.com
I am looking for: The World Book Of Ring's. copy rights by Halberts Family Heritage 1990 Reg.number 21840. Ring is the family name,not something you put on your finger. Thats the problem I'am having finding this book. I have seen the book and this is all the info I have got from the book.
I would like to purchase.

William Russey

Mon Jan 2 11:31:39 2012
Location: Talbott TN USA
My E-mail Address: fourrusseys@hotmail.com
I am looking for: The Russey Family in America
I would like to purchase.

Cornelia Moore

Sun Jan 1 20:36:20 2012
Location: Medford
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: A Compendium of Early Mohawk Families
I would like to purchase.

Cornelia Moore

Sun Jan 1 19:55:24 2012
Location: Medford
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: History of the Robert Moore families 1757-1933 by Alexander Warrick Moore I couldn't find it currently in book stores online and expect this one will be out of my budget should a copy be found.
I would like a look up.

Cornelia Moore

Sun Jan 1 17:13:20 2012
Location: Medford
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: HERITAGE OF MORGAN COUNTY ALABAMA. I don't know the publisher. I couldn't find it currently in book stores online and expect this one will be out of my budget should a copy be found.
I would like a look up.

Cornelia Moore

Sun Jan 1 13:07:40 2012
Location: Medford
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: The Collins and Allied Families. commpiled by Lorene (Rayburn) Conner. I've found it at Alibris but cannot afford it on our retirement pension and with no insurance for the new glasses I need.
I would like a look up.

Dorothy Fetch

Mon Aug 15 23:20:14 2011
Location: Spruce View, AB. Canada
My E-mail Address: dotbob1952@hotmail.com
I am looking for: "Descendants of William Russell of Salem, Mass., 1674" by George Eli Russell. Published by Catoctin Press 1989.
I would like to purchase.

Mary Koenig

Mon Aug 8 19:16:44 2011
Location: Mathis, TX
My E-mail Address: sissypeatx@hughes.net
I am looking for: a genealogy, bibliography, "The Seven Townsend Brothers of Texas, 1826-1838" by Tula Armstead Townsend Wyatt.
I would like to purchase.

Carol Pruitt Schultz

Tue Jul 26 02:55:28 2011
Location: Tucson, Arizona
My E-mail Address: rcasch@cox.net
I am looking for: Tennessee Smithology by Emma Barrett Reeves.
I would like to purchase.

Lori Terwilliger

Sun Jul 17 13:35:01 2011
Location: Bowling Greeb Ohio
My E-mail Address: bgjc1995@yahoo.com
I am looking for:"Compass to computer: how it all happened: a historical grouping of families related to the author with press releases, obituaries, biographies, and some interesting happinings." Compiled by Richard Stoller Myers. Published 1988 by Closson Press, Apollo, PA. 346 pages. This book is about the Myers and Shupe families.
I would like to purchase.

Mark Mitchell

Wed Jun 8 10:45:08 2011
Location: Ludlow, KY
My E-mail Address: mitchell.mark@insightbb.com
I am looking for: Cane, Cotton and Crevasses
I would like to purchase.

Cornelia Fenenga Moore

Fri May 6 19:53:15 2011
Location: Medford, OR U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: Oacama History Book, Iona History Book, both published within the past 5 years. I want to read the articles about my Fenenga relatives in them as I cannot afford the books.
I would like to purchase.

Bill Luebbehusen

Tue Apr 12 09:52:31 2011
Location: Fort Worth, TX
My E-mail Address: wluebbehusen@charter.net
I am looking for: Cauthen Family History, Westenhaver
I would like to purchase.

Cornelia Moore

Sat Feb 26 15:35:09 2011
Location: Medford, OR U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: Chittenden family: William Chittenden of Guilford, Conn., and his descendants
I would like to purchase.

Cornelia Moore

Mon Feb 14 16:17:16 2011
Location: Medford, OR, U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for: sorry, I should have written it down, and now it's beyond too late, a decade or more too late, but I'll describe it and pray someone knows. it's heavy on the Randolph's of Virginia. a largish but relatively thin (1/2 inch-3/4 inch (?)) book, bright yellow or orange cover...with gilded? title. I've looked for it on GoogleBooks and OpenLibrary.org and did not recognise the ones that came up as it. I could be miss- remembering anything or everything, but I do remember that it had a listing of related Peytons in it. I've looked in a number of Randolph's of VA and Peytons of Virginia books, but maybe it was of a different title and I'm not sure what that might be. I only saw it once, in a private library (an associate's, he's passed since then.). the other Randolph books said little abt contemporary Peytons. I am looking for proof of Valentine Peyton m. to Sarah Randolph
I would like to purchase.

Dan Mullins

Fri Feb 4 17:02:11 2011
Location: Prentiss,ms 39474,usa
My E-mail Address: danjuan@earthlink.net
I am looking for: The Ancestry & known descendants of Soloman Lee (1758/60-1818) of New Hanover County, NC Reprint 2005 compiled and written by Marilyn Lane Sirmon & William Arnold Sirmon , 3rd edition 1988
I would like to purchase.

Geri Mccomb

Sat Jan 15 01:31:44 2011
Location: moreno valley
My E-mail Address: Kanree@aol.com
I am looking for: William Renfro 1734- 1830 by Josie Baird
I would like to purchase.

Diann Hale

Sun Jan 16 11:29:09 2011
Location: Alabama, USA
My E-mail Address: dhale44@yahoo.com
I am looking for: The Stamps Family History by Muriel Teel Cooter.
I would like a look up.