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Be careful Jan!!! Cat says that cyber food is not fattening but take it from me... it is!!! You think about it long enough and it will absolutely put a few pounds on... Wow... don't those brownies smell good... By the way !!!

It is interesting to note that you can tell where a Social Security Number was issued simply by looking at the first few digits of the number. This does not tell where the person was born, only where he or she was living when the number was issued. Nonetheless, it can be a valuable clue as to where to look for additional information. The Social Security Account Number (SSAN) is divided into three sets of digits. For example, let’s take 123-45-6789. The 3 digits in the first group indicate the state or territory in which the number was originally issued. The second group of 2 numbers is used to define the people within the state. The third group of 4 digits is simply issued in numerical sequence. The following list shows the area indicated by first 3 digits: 001-003 New Hampshire 004-007 Maine 008-009 Vermont 010-034 Massachusetts 035-039 Rhode Island 040-049 Connecticut 050-134 New York 135-158 New Jersey 159-211 Pennsylvania 212-220 Maryland 221-222 Delaware 223-231 Virginia 232-236 West Virginia 237-246 North Carolina 247-251 South Carolina 252-260 Georgia 261-267 Florida 268-302 Ohio 303-317 Indiana 318-361 Illinois 362-386 Michigan 387-399 Wisconsin 400-407 Kentucky 408-415 Tennessee 416-424 Alabama 425-428 Mississippi 429-432 Arkansas 433-439 Louisiana 440-448 Oklahoma 449-467 Texas 468-477 Minnesota 478-485 Iowa 486-500 Missouri 501-502 North Dakota 503-504 South Dakota 505-508 Nebraska 509-515 Kansas 516-519 Idaho 520 Wyoming 521-524 Colorado 525 New Mexico (also 585 below) 526-527 Arizona 528-529 Utah 530 Nevada 531-539 Washington 540-544 Oregon 545-573 California 574 Alaska 575-576 Hawaii 577-579 District of Columbia 580 U.S. Virgin Islands 581-585 Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa 585 New Mexico (some 585 numbers) 586-699 Unassigned 700-729 Railroad Retirement Board 730-899 Unassigned A few Social Security Numbers beginning with a 9 have been issued, but these are very rare. For more information about obtaining information from the Social Security Administration, look at: www.socialsecurity.gov/foia/foia_guide.htm

Here's a great place to look up the marriages of your ancestors who were married in Illinois between 1763 and 1900... http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/arc...s/marriage.html Good luck in your search...

How in the world do they do this???? http://www.boomow.com/DontStare.swf

Theyd... I also found him on the 1900 Census: COLEMAN, SCOFIELD (1900 U.S. Census) ILLINOIS , COOK, 11-WD CHICAGO Age: 36, Male, Race: BLACK, Born: VA Series: T623 Roll: 257 Page: 116 I can send you a copy of this one too if you'd like...

Theyd, I found Scofield Coleman age 45 and his two daughters, Mary J. age 14 and Francis P. age 12, on the 1910 Census for Cook Co., Illinois... is this your ancestor? If so, and if you would PM me your e-mail address I will send you a copy of the handwritten census... COLEMAN, SCOFIELD (1910 U.S. Census) ILLINOIS , COOK, 18-WD CHICAGO Age: 45, Male, Race: Black, Born: UNKN Series: T624 Roll: 262 Page: 4

Snowmom, I'm sure that I'm a L O T older than you!!! I'm older than dirt!!! No, I got mine the day before they started limiting them so my doctor didn't have to say it was alright... thank goodness! I heard a funny one today... Senator Kerry said "When I become President, there won't be a flu vaccine shortage."

Try this website! I believe it will tell you just about anything you want to know. Well, maybe not everything!!! http://users.rcn.com/midfex/yale/whygraftyale.html

My oh my!!! This looks like a good place to start... http://lesleycooks.tripod.com/canning/canning.htm

This is a fun site. Turn up your speakers, and be sure to let the complete page load. When the music starts...begin reading (or singing!!) to the music... http://www.singingman.us/DYR.htm

I copied this from the homepage of Godfrey Memorial Library: "Easy to use; login and find the information you’’ll rely on to find your ancestors. Godfrey Memorial Library is launching it’’s new Online Resources Portal. All of our online resources are on this one site, including many new ones. Guests are welcome to try our one-stop Portal by clicking on ““Go””. Guests do have easier access to the dozens of critical Internet resources (Vital Records Indexes; Newspaper Indexes; Military Indexes and more) and will NOT have access to our databases licensed from HeritageQuest Online; Otherdays; EBSCO; Marquis Who’’s Who; etc. that are only available to individuals with a Godfrey Scholar library card." The URL for this site is www.godfrey.org I have a library card (costs $35 a year) and use HeritageQuest to do census lookups and find it much easier than www.ancestry.com ... some of you may have access to a library in your hometown that has a subscription to HeritageQuest... if so, you can get online free! Wish my library had this.

I wanted to let everyone know about a free interactive tutorial on researching family history information. The tutorial is for beginners interested in using the Internet for genealogy research. It provides a demonstration of each Internet resource, and it allows users to practice with the resource while following step-by-step instructions. The address for the tutorial is: http://www.learnwebskills.com/family/intro.html

GRANDMA Mama’s Mama, on a winter’s day, milked the cows and fed them hay, Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule, and got the children off to school Did a washing, mopped the floors, washed the windows and did some chores Cooked a dish of home-dried fruit, pressed her husband’s Sunday suit. Swept the parlor, made the bed, baked a dozen loaves of bread, Split some wood and lugged it in, enough to fill the kitchen bin. Cleaned the lamps and put in oil, stewed some apples she thought might spoil Churned the butter, baked a cake, then exclaimed “For goodness sake! The calves have got out of the pen! Went out and chased them in again, Gathered the eggs and locked the stable, returned to the house and set the table. Cooked a supper that was delicious, and afterward washed all the dishes. Fed the cat, sprinkled the clothes, mended a basket full of hose. The opened the organ and began to play, ‘When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day’.

Becca Anne, I thought you might get a kick out of this... TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I went searching for an ancestor, I cannot find him still. He moved around from place to place, and didn’t leave a will. He married where a courthouse burned, he mended all his fences. He avoided any man who came to take the U. S. Census. He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name. His parents came from Europe, they should be on some list Of passengers to the USA, but somehow they were missed. And no one else in this world is searching for this man, So I’m playing ‘Gene-Solitaire’, to find him if I can. I’m told he’s buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed. But the weather took the engraving, and vandals took the rest. He died before the county clerks decided to keep records. No family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts. To top it off, this ancestor, who caused me so many groans Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES!!!

The grand opening of America’s first state government digital archives occurred on October 4, 2004. This is a fantastic site... there are birth, death, marriage, naturalization, census, military, institution and other records that you can look up... Washington state seems to be way ahead of the other states in this respect... Good luck in your searches!!! http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/index.aspx

I'm thankful that I got my flu shot on Monday! There was nobody ahead of me at my doctor's office, so I didn't have to wait long... I'll bet the lines have lengthened since this news has come out. I probably wouldn't have had trouble getting the shot later... they say that the old should get them first... and I guess I qualify!!!

Here's a good site that give you helpful information about ordering birth, marriage, divorce and death records, etc. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm This site should be saved to Favorites, just in case you may need it later on...

Kimberly Powell says... October is designated in the United States as "Family History Month." This is a huge day for the more than 80 million Americans who are believed to be actively searching for more information about their ancestors. "Millions of Americans are researching the history of their families," said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who first brought the Family History Month resolution before the U.S. Congress. "Experts say that in the United States, genealogy is now the second most popular hobby next to gardening ." This explosion of interest in family history is due, in part, to the advent of the Internet. It is estimated that more than two million separate Web sites are devoted to genealogy. Have you joined the craze? Celebrate Family History Month with your family... Get Started Tracing Your Family Tree If you have been curious about your family tree but just weren't sure where to start then you don't have any more excuses. Here is a great collection of resources and simple advice on how to get started researching your family tree both on and off the Internet. One Stop Beginner's Guide to Genealogy http://genealogy.about.com/library/onestop/bl_beginner.htm

Wow Cat, what a party!!! Golly I've never had one this nice before... Thank you so much for remembering me on this day... and like Snowmom I almost didn't get here!!! Yes, Theyd I really feel like a queen after all of this!!! You're all so sweet to think of me... I've felt pretty special all day, in fact... all of my children came to give me a party and I really enjoyed that!... Thank you Becca Anne and Unikemom, and Lois that cream colored dress looks lovely on you... don't you just love my lavender one... Cat picked it out for me... Gosh, all of this food!!! How will I ever lose all of that weight that I wanted to lose??? Oh, I forgot, ciber food has no calories!!! You're a great bunch and I love you one and all... Again thanks...

Quote: work on the family tree That caught my eye, Theyd!!! If you need any help come on down to the Family Tree forum and we'll see what we can do!!

This might be of help to somebody who comes across a word and they don't know the meaning! It's a Genealogy Dictionary and is very useful...especially when looking at census forms... http://home.att.net/~dottsr/diction.html

Gol---ly y'all, we might be kin!!! Let me tell you a good one... My 5th great grandfather Richard Jones had several children but I believe that my 4th great grandmother Elizabeth was the only girl... Anyway, Richard told Elizabeth that if she married "well" and to his liking that when he died he would leave her 50 pounds Sterling... Sooooo along comes my 4th great grandfather Richard Hodges and he seys to himself "Hmmm, 50 pounds!" So he married her and later her father Richard says "Since she married so "well", instead of leaving her 50 pounds, I'm going to leave her the same thing that I leave my sons." Well back then the only thing the daughters got was a bed and bedstead and the clothes that they wore, so this was a good deal... but, old Richard died and didn't leave her anything... He left all the sons property but left nothing to Elizabeth! So she and Richard Hodges, her husband, sued the estate and WON!!! But in order to win they had to pay witnesses to come back to Virginia from North and South Carolina and it cost them more than they got from the lawsuit... I guess it was just the principle and the satisfaction that they got from getting what was due them... Wonder why he thought that he had to "buy" a husband for her? Sorry this is so long!

Thanks for posting that Cat... It's especially interesting to me since my Grandfather died from symptoms of that Flu on 19 February 1919...

Boy! This is harder than you would think... Here's a hug for you (((Dee))) Glad you have a short name!! Entertaining And Much Loved at MrsSurvival...

If you had ancestors who served in the Union or the Confederate service you may be able to find them at this search site! I found my great grandfather and learned which company he served in. Good luck! http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/Personz_Search1.cfm