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~POSTED BY SCMARY~

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the storytellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.

It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us.

It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.

So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers.

(Unknown Author)

I am the Story Teller for my family...~Mary~

True!!! But my little dog starts howling so I quit... but did you know that the person below me likes to crochet???

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

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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...

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...