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Pam Thomas

Sat Jan 27 15:20:56 2007

Location: Howell, Michigan, USA
My E-mail Address: pamanddewey@yahoo.com
I am looking for:self published book by Betty-Bright P. Low, ca. 1974, entitled "Kemp Thomas: A Freeholder of Wythe County 1781 - 1865"
I would like to purchase.

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s towers

Wed Jan 31 02:35:08 2007

Location: lake city mi
My E- mail Address: ssntowers@yahoo.com
I am looking for:books on waterbury washington co vermont and sharon norfolk co mass --whately franklin co mass----would like people's names that lived there in early years of 1700-1850's.
I would like to purchase.

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Caroline Holland

Sun Feb 25 15:35:20 2007

Location:
My E-mail Address: chollandjr@triad.rr.com
I am looking for:Happy Valley and Echoes of Happy Valley
I would like to purchase.

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Helen

Sun Feb 25 15:11:47 2007

Location: Australia
My E-mail Address: charlie.13@bigpond.com
I am looking for:A look-up in any books on "The Royal Irish Constabulary" for Bernard Cummins , who enlisted in 1833.
I would like a look up.

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Trudy Cauthen Tanzillo

Thu Mar 15 18:05:07 2007

Location: 
My E-mail Address: trudy.tanzillo@gmail.com
I am looking for:"Cauthen Family History." by Maryline Cauthen Westenhaver.
I would like to purchase.

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Patricia

Wed Mar 21 13:43:45 2007

Location: Olympia, Washington
My E-mail Address: bhoef@aol.com
I am looking for:Personal Journal by Thomas Lewis. Covers his survey work for Lord Fairfax in the 1700's regarding the Fairfax Line. Mentions Peter Jefferson.
I would like to purchase.

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Len Hott

Sat Mar 24 18:35:44 2007

Location: Denton Texas
My E- mail Address: lhott@verizon.net
I am looking for:I Remember A Collection Of The Writings Of Denton Senior Citizens (published in 1981) To buy or at least read and pull out info
I would like to purchase.

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Ron Biggs

Tue Apr 10 12:44:45 2007

Location: Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy Counties, N.C.
My E-mail Address: ron_biggs@msn.com
I am looking for:The Heritage of the Toe River Valley 3 Volumes
I would like to purchase.

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Donn Lord

Sun Apr 15 00:33:51 2007

Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
My E-mail Address: donnlord@sbcglobal.net
I am looking for:a 1973 Ionia, Michigan High school yearbook for a good friend Gladys Rose Jacobsen who graduated that year but through misfortune lost her yearbook. Any help in locating one would be very greatly appreciated.
I would like to purchase.

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Teresa Tuller

Sun Apr 29 09:32:33 2007

Location: Bentonville, AR
My E- mail Address: tet246@aol.com
I am looking for:I am looking for a book by Sally Nall Dolphin entitled Nall Families of America published in 1978 and 2nd edition in 1983 by Century Publishing Company of Idaho. I would like one or both copies.
I would like to purchase.

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Verona Goebel

Tue May 1 15:03:07 2007

Location: Washington, Michigan
My E-mail Address: vgoebel@comcast.net
I am looking for:The Queen/MacQueen Decendants by Paul E. Dyer
I would like to purchase.

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debbie herrman

Tue May 1 18:11:21 2007

Location: ellinwood, kansas
My E-mail Address: peteypoly@yahoo.com
I am looking for:a family genealogy book called The Wright Connection by Negatha Powers
I would like to purchase.

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Thu May 3 16:48:31 2007

Location:
My E-mail Address: rivershore@frontiernet.net
I am looking for:Along the Hills to the Valley - Huns Valley Polonia District. 1885-1985 A book published by the Polonia Centennial Committee (Manitoba)Title page mentions William R. Smith. Would like to purchase a reasonable condition copy of this book.
I would like to purchase.

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mary koenig

Sun May 6 00:32:47 2007

Location: mathis, tx. usa
My E- mail Address: sissypeatx@hughes.net
I am looking for:The Seven Townsend Brothers of Texas by Tula Townsend Wyatt. Published by Aus-Tex Duplicators, Inc. in Austin , Texas , 1974 I missed purchasing this book at a family reunion in the 70's.
I would like to purchase.

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bobby creel

Mon May 7 02:01:17 2007

Location: new hebron ms usa
My E-mail Address: bandj4him@ftc.net
I am looking for:high school annul tucscaloosa high school 1956- 57,1957-58
I would like to purchase.

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Bob Neher

Mon May 7 18:17:09 2007

Location:
My E-mail Address: bob.neher@gmail.com
I am looking for:"Six Generations of Larue & Allied Families" by Mather, 1921
I would like to purchase.

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Gary Hartness

Tue May 15 18:34:15 2007

Location: P.O. Box 1246, Long Beach, MS 39560
My E-mail Address: garydh@cableone.net
I am looking for:History of the Presbyterian Church of South Carolina, Vol I [originally published by the Synod of South Carolina in 1965]
I would like a look up.

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Gary Hartness

Tue May 15 18:38:55 2007

Location: Long Beach, MS 39560
My E-mail Address: garydh@cableone.net
I am looking for:A Memoir of the Archaelogical Excavation of Fort Price George, Pickens County, South Carolina by Marshall W. Williams
I would like to purchase.

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Sarah Parker (Sally) Landels

Tue May 22 14:01:32 2007

Location: Merced, CA, USA
My E-mail Address: slandels@sbcglobal.net
I am looking for:"Descendants of John Parker and His Wife Sarah Gordy of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia" by Ima Zylks-Adcox. Published 1989 by Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-80755
I would like to purchase.

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Phoeby Gibbons

Fri May 25 15:18:26 2007

Location: Missouri City, TX 77459 USA
My E-mail Address: phoebygibbons@yahoo.com
I am looking for:"From Log Cabins to the White House" A History of the Taylor Family - by Mary Taylor Brewer
I would like to purchase.

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Carlos A Donate

Wed May 30 17:00:39 2007

Location: United States
My E- mail Address: Valera1602@hotmail.com
I am looking for:La Formacion del Pueblo Puertorrique�o: Contribuci�n de los Isle�os Canarios
I would like to purchase.

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Nancy Helms

Tue Jun 12 11:01:42 2007

Location: Littleton CO USA
My E-mail Address: NLHelms@gmail.com
I am looking for:A Dowling Family of the South, by R.A. Dowling, pub 1959
I would like to purchase.

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Donna Johnson

Mon Jun 18 18:04:50 2007

Location: Yukon, Oklahoma, USA
My E-mail Address: altoreedblaze@cox.net
I am looking for:Southern Garners: Our Branch of the Family Garner-Keene by Sam Garner
I would like to purchase.

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Kathleen Vargas

Fri Jun 22 14:26:05 2007

Location: Novato, CA
My E-mail Address: kathyvargas@inreach.com
I am looking for:Genealogy of the Balch Families 1897
I would like a look up.

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Jan Ascoli

Sun Jun 24 03:10:55 2007

Location: England
My E-mail Address: janascoli@yahoo.co.uk
I am looking for:The Chronicle of Joshua Piza & his Descendants - Vida Lindo Guiterman Published 1928 in New York
I would like to purchase.

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Mary Longstreth

Mon Jun 25 17:13:09 2007

Location: Perkasie, PA, US
My E-mail Address: marylongstreth@mac.com
I am looking for:Fair Acres
I would like to purchase.

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Cornelia Warner

Fri Jun 29 19:15:18 2007

Location: Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for:East Texas Family Records from Index to East Texas Family Records COLLINS, L. D. - 02/2:12 COLLINS, L. T. - 05/4:13 COLLINS, Lewis - 01/1:45 COLLINS, Lewis - 05/3:18 I am looking for Lewis D. Collins b. abt 1790 S. Carolina, settled in Houston Co., TX by 1837. wife Cynthia (Catherine in one census) (maiden name may be Black) b. abt 1792 N. Carolina. all their children were born in Alabama-Mary, James Alfred, twins Francis Lee and Louis Davis, perhaps there were other children, maybe a William.
I would like a look up.

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Peggy Freeman

Sat Jun 30 07:05:25 2007

Location: Lilburn GA Gwinnett Co. USA
My E-mail Address: peggyfre@comcast.net
I am looking for:All books in the set of "Heritage of the Toe River." Published by Walsworth Publishing Co, 306 N. Kansas Ave., Marceline LMO 64658
I would like to purchase.

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Cornelia Warner

Sat Jun 30 10:10:58 2007

Location: Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for:HOUSTON COUNTY (TEXAS) CEMETERIES looking for Lewis D. Collins, Mary Boykin, her husband, given name unknown, James M. McDonald, and am interested in Collins in general prior to 1850.
I would like a look up.

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Gerry

Tue Jul 10 17:09:46 2007

Location:
My E-mail Address: ozzycarel@yahoo.com
I am looking for: "Old Speedwell Families."
I would like to purchase.

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Kitty Anding

Fri Jul 20 15:21:13 2007

Location: College Station, TX
My E-mail Address: kittyoncole@msn.com
I am looking for:Mize Genealogy in America by Joel Sanford Mize
I would like to purchase.

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Melissa White

Fri Jul 27 11:46:33 2007

Location: Dahlonega, GA/United States
My E-mail Address: scoobyvin@hotmail.com
I am looking for:"Branthaver, Branthoover, Branthaver Genealogy 1748-1968" by W. R. Branthoover
I would like to purchase.

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denise sanderson

Tue Jul 31 18:53:52 2007

Location: new braunfels, tx, usa
My E-mail Address: dsandersonreel@yahoo.com
I am looking for: Pagan, Hunt, and Sanderson Geneologies by Glenda Hibdon, 1994
I would like to purchase.

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Gerry

Mon Aug 6 19:32:38 2007

Location: USA
My E-mail Address: ozzycarel@yahoo.com
I am looking for: books on the old families of Bell Co. and Knox Co., Kentucky.
I would like to purchase.

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Brenda Barr Phillips

Tue Aug 14 22:35:11 2007

Location:Lake Jackson, Texas
My E-mail Address: ena@usawide.net
I am looking for: "'CLIMBING THE LADDER"the struggles and success of a village lad. autobiography of DAVID BARR. PUBLISHER ROBERT CULLEY OF LONDON.around 1880???
I would like to purchase.

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Jean Frederick

Thu Aug 23 12:52:15 2007

Location: Chicago, IL , USA
My E-mail Address: jmfrederick3@aol.com
I am looking for:The Muno Family of America: Their German and Belgian Ancestors by Patricia Thayer Muno
I would like to purchase.

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T. Darnall

Mon, 27 Aug 15:45:56 2007

Location:
My E-mail Address: Dentanator@aol.com
I am looking for: The Darnall darnell family vol 2 book by avlyn dodd conley. Where can I order it from?
I would like to purchase.

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Janice Trotter

Tue Aug 28 12:58:50 2007

Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
My E-mail Address: Jktrotter726@aol.com
I am looking for:The Harbours in America by Louis J. Williams
I would like to purchase.

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Barbara Case Hansen

Thu Aug 30 21:36:57 2007

Location: Tacoma WA
My E-mail Address: barbs@harbornet.com
I am looking for:William Case of Rhode Island and Some of His Descendants by Carol Case Greene
I would like to purchase.

Kate Johnson

Mon Sep 3 23:33:57 2007

Location: Kyle, Texas 78640
My E-mail Address: kw1988@aol.com
I am looking for:The Seven Townsend Brother's of Texas
I would like to purchase.

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J. McG

Mon Sep 3 06:00:09 2007

Location: Tampa
My E-mail Address: mcgintyboy@aol.com
I am looking for:A Reason for The Tears by Bobby Lindsey, 1971
I would like to purchase.

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Faiszah N. Faris

Tue Sep 4 10:34:22 2007

Location: Aurora, Colorado
My E-mail Address: faiszahfaris@msn.com
I am looking for:Alsey Bowen and Her Children by Roslyn Collins Armsfield published by Rhoden Press, Reidsville Georgia about 1967. My mother has the only copy within our line that I know of and she won't part with it yet!
I would like to purchase.

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Ken Carlile

Wed Sep 5 15:43:35 2007

Location: Temple, Texas, USA
My E-mail Address: familytre1939@juno.com
I am looking for:"Our Bachman Ancestors and Our Kin" by Minnie Ray --------------------------------------------------

brenda barr phillips

Wed Sep 5 17:27:05 2007

Location: lake jackson texas 77566 usa
My E-mail Address: ena@usawide.net
I am looking for:Climbing the ladder, author David Barr,autobiography...publisher robert culley 1910
I would like to purchase.

Bachman Swoffard
I would like to purchase.

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Lianne

Mon Sep 10 04:59:02 2007

Location: Hancock County Tennessee USA
My E-mail Address: s8femail@gmail.com
I am looking for:Hancock County Tennessee and It�s People, Volume I, II & III by the Hancock County Genealogical Society.
I would like a look up.

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Lianne

Mon Sep 10 05:00:07 2007

Location: East Tennessee USA
My E-mail Address: s8femail@gmail.com
I am looking for:The River Seals & Seal by Betty J. Price
I would like a look up.

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Anne Vanderleest

Fri Sep 14 17:30:08 2007

Location: Brandon, MS
My E-mail Address: jetplex@bellsouth.net
I am looking for:Place of Burial in Harris County Texas for Marion Albert Atkinson b Jan 1885 d. Dec 13, 1944
I would like a look up.

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Violet O. Guy

Thu Sep 20 13:11:26 2007

Location: California, Maryland, USA
My E-mail Address:
I am looking for:"A WINDOW TO THE PAST: A HISTORY OF PETER GORTNER-COTNER 1704-1753 HIS DECENDANTS AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES" (1994) By Neal N. Cotner of Yakima, WA (1994)
I would like to purchase.

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David W. Owens

Wed Sep 26 08:17:33 2007

Location: Bethlehem, PA, US
My E-mail Address: skyking@enter.net
I am looking for:Descendants and related families of William Owen Cae'r Ddol, Llanfairyneubwll, Anglesey. by Kenneth Earl Owens in 1988
I would like to purchase.

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Dennis McFarlane

Sun Sep 30 14:13:32 2007

Location: Saratoga, CA--USA
My E-mail Address: dlmcf@comcast.net
I am looking for:Dawn in Golden Valley
I would like to purchase.

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Shelley Augustine1

Wed Oct 3 16:16:07 2007

Location: Auburn, NY
My E-mail Address: sea61950@yahoo.com
I am looking for:J.L. Reed, Descendants of William Reade of Weymouth Massachusetts. Can anyone please help me by providing a listing for Benjamin and Abiah (Macomber) Reed, a listing for their children, including Abiah Reed, b c1785. Thank you! Shelley
I would like a look up.

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Philip Decker

Thu Oct 4 08:18:48 2007

Location: Sarasota, Florida, US
My E-mail Address: RootsWeb@decker.ws
I am looking for:Diccionario Biografico-Historico Dominicano (1821-1930), Rufino Martinez
I would like a look up.

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Donnie Deshazo

Sat Oct 6 11:37:09 2007

Location: Dothan, Alabama
My E- mail Address: deshazod@centurytel.net
I am looking for:The DeShazo Family of Virginia by Nancy DeShazo Jennings published in 1995
I would like to purchase.

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Donnie Deshazo

Fri Oct 26 09:05:09 2007

Location: Dothan,Alabama,USA
My E-mail Address: deshazod@centurytel.net
I am looking for:The DeShazo Family of Virginia by Aubrey S. Jennings & Nancy DeShazo jennings Published in 1995
I would like to purchase.

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Jerry L Allen

Sat Nov 10 07:47:33 2007

Location: Plano TX USA
My E- mail Address: jallen1956@yahoo.com
I am looking for:Allens of the Southern States
I would like to purchase.

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Judith P. Mills

Tue Nov 20 14:10:13 2007

Location: Fosters, AL
My E-mail Address: jmills@southeastcancer.com
I am looking for:the book "Trek to Texas 1770-1870" by Pearl Foster O'Connell
I would like to purchase.

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Cornelia Warner

Sat Nov 24 01:09:17 2007

Location: Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for:Manuel illustre pour la genealogie et l'histoire familiale en Alsace
I would like a look up.

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Audrey Carnes

Thu Nov 29 08:18:53 2007

Location: Colbert, Ok 74733
My E-mail Address: acarnes@valhi.net
I am looking for:Pocahonta's Descendants, With Corrections and Additions
I would like to purchase.

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Lynn Rachkowski

Fri Nov 30 21:04:26 2007

Location: PA
My E-mail Address: casper924@epix.net
I am looking for:The Bisbing Family by Richard C. Batchler
I would like a look up.

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Ronnie Foster

Thu Dec 6 13:31:46 2007

Location: Las vegas
My E-mail Address: bimmer11@cox.net
I am looking for:1968 Lafayette High School yearbook Buffalo,NY
I would like to purchase.

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Elizabeth Sewall

Fri Dec 7 12:55:59 2007

Location: Coahoma, MS 38617
My E-mail Address: bandr@hughes.net
I am looking for:The Cauthen Family History By Maryline Cauthen Westenhaver
I would like to purchase.

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Reba Schweitzer

Tue Dec 25 02:47:01 2007

Location: Queen Creek, AZ, USA
My E-mail Address: santan2@msn.com
I am looking for:Tales of the Revolution by William Champlin
I would like to purchase.

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PHILIP SQUIRES

Fri Dec 28 03:23:18 2007

Location: WREXHAM , WALES, U.K.
My E-mail Address: phil@briarswood.co.uk
I am looking for:EARLS WITHOUT CORONETS by HAROLD K. STYRING. 1965 A history of the STYR dynasty
I would like to purchase.

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Laurie Jackson

Mon Dec 31 13:42:07 2007

Location: Riverbank, CA, USA
My E-mail Address: macjacks@pacbell.net
I am looking for:a book about Jacob Zech by Sarah Hays Sharp.
I would like to purchase.

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Frances Learnahan

Thu Jan 3 15:03:08 2008

Location: Chicago, IL
My E- mail Address: franahan@sbcglobal.net
I am looking for:Davis: A Quaker Family by Eleanor Davis
I would like to purchase.

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Tammy Steele

Sat Feb 9 15:06:49 2008

Location: Snellville georgia
My E-mail Address: aminah33336083@yahoo.com
I am looking for:Brenda Jackson's Westmoreland series and all related books to the Madaris family series
I would like to purchase.

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Cornelia Warner

Wed Feb 13 00:52:27 2008

Location: Medford, Oregon, U.S.A.
My E-mail Address: fenenga@connpoint.net
I am looking for:not sure whether this is a book, a quarterly or a newspaper! I found this listing at Ancestry and am researching this lady, would love to know what it says about her:
Mehitable Northrup
Birth Date: 1787
Birthplace: New York
Volume: 126
Page Number: 52
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 24 Sep 1930, 680
I would like a look up.

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Betty Wilson

Thu Feb 21 12:43:18 2008

Location: Spanish Fort, AL
My E-mail Address: bsw1939@netzero.com
I am looking for:I'm looking for Images of America, Clarke County, AL; Images of America, Washington County, AL; and The Mitcham War of Clarke County, AL
I would like to purchase.

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Mary Koenig

Sat Mar 8 13:03:28 2008

Location:
My E-mail Address: sissypeatx@hughes.net
I am looking for: I am in search of tula armstead townsend wyatt, "the seven townsend brothers of texas" 1826-1838. I missed purchasing this book back in the 70's at a family reunion. Sure would like to purchase one or maybe consider a copy.
I would like to purchase.

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Sandra Brown

Sun Mar 9 22:19:40 2008

Location: Commerce, Georgia
My E-mail Address: slb52746@yahoo.com
I am looking for:The Land of Wilkes book by Judge Johnson J. Hayes. This book is supposed to have early Bicknell/Becknell settlers to the region. If you know where I can buy a copy or if you have it pleace onctact me. Thank you
I would like to purchase.