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From: Doug Leonard <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] OFF/On SUBJECT-Names/Riley-Etta/Rosemary/SandraW/Jean
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:47:37 -0600
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Yes Rosemary,
We have a big time Riley line goin down.
Sandra W. has done extensive work on it -excellent job.
As I am recalling, we were able to connect Sandra's Riley line with a group
of Riley assocaited with my Williams line. So far, I have not been able
to connect my Williams line with the Jeffery (or allied family - or the
Izard Williams) except way on down the line after Ole Jesse moves into Van
Buen Co.,AR - yes quite a ways off from the Izard folks. But, as I recall,
I am thinking Sandra W. was a direct of her Riley compilation. Being
connected to Sandra W. in a direct way, I am thinking Riley aint far from
the Jeffery/allied family and an Izzardish connection. Of course, having
my Riley on my Williams line being Sandra's Riley, I am circumstantially
drawing closer to a possible my Williams line to some kind of Izardish
Williams conncetion. Wheeeew- waaay out there.
Anyway, I am not showing any Gillihan connected to the Riley (at least from
what I have compiled so far in my database through my Williams line), but
if you have found Unknown Riley crossing "the" Gillihan line, I would for
sure like you to check/get with Sandra W. to see if she has connected these
Gillihand Riles' to her Riley line already or if she can connect them. If
Sandra can connect to these Gillihand Riley's, I for sure would not mind
crossing Sandra W.'s Riley database to show a connection between my
Williams line and the Gallihan line. That would be an interesting one - a
my Williams to Gallihan connection. Don't know what I would ever do with
it, but it would be interesting, and who knows, someone someday might
actually be able to show something with it - ha probably 100 years after I
am worm dirt.

Uhhh Errrrr ahhhhh, Snadra, did you ever get that Riley situation
straightened out. If not, I sure wish you would kick me in the rumpus so I
would get ahold of that contact and see if they could straighten it out.
It has just been irritating me to death (what for 8 months now) to have
that sore spot sitting down ther on the Riley line and have a possible
contact that might be able to straighten it out. You have to kick this ole
mule pretty hard nowdays to dislodge him from his computer. Try snarling a
bit, that works for my wife- some of the time.

On the McDonald, I am showing a big fat zero. I am showing two attached to
my Williams line (through a Lockhart line)-wheew now thats thin. Am
showing an interesting one Margaret McDonald that married a Thomas Bledsoe
on 4th November 1787 Virginia, Scott Co. Married on my brithday -not the
1787 part :). Last time I checked, no connection could be found to Jean's
Bledsoe line (now that would be a good one), but am still keeping my
fingers crossed. Now lets, see, just how did I connect my lines to this
Bledsoe. Oh my gosh. I picked up this "huge" Bledsoe line from the Owsley
line. Remember Sandra the Owsley line I think you found that had the Jane
Mason that married the James Jeffery on it. It was posted to the Izard
group, whoever found it. I think we looked closely at it and figured out
that it couldn't be "our" Jane Mason that married James Jeffery. Almost
seems impossible that it wasn't - but, it weren't. Jean, I cannot believe
this aint your Bledsoe line. I scarfed up and added to my gedcom 885 names
from this Housley database - all the Bledsoe (in anticipation they had to
be Jeans') and a large chunk of the Owsley including their reference to
this other Jane Mason married James Jeffery. Wheew, I had to go waaay out
on a limb to connect my database to this Housley database, but, actually
found a connection through Mike Spainhour's database and his Hardin line,
which is my Hardin line. Hey, that's only about 3 light years from the
Jeffery line - pretty close form where I am used to working -Ha :). Some
pretty interesting surnames I have scarfed up of the 885. Could post the
885 I scarfed up if you want- just one single copy and paste away. I
scarfed up data tending towards common of our surnames. Way over half of
them are connected Bledsoe's.
This Housley database can be seen in its unscarfed state at:
http://home.dwave.net/~skeeter/genealogy/surnames.html

Any waayy, if the Bledsoe line does pan out to be the Izard Co descendant
(jeans Bledsoe line), this lone McDonald could for sure be a possibile
McDonald line for which Izard Co gets its middle names of McDonald from.

Well, shoot, you got Ole Doug's hounds to howeling and they just won't
stop. But since someone actually mentioned McDonald's, and to make life
just a little more rough for you McDonald researchers, I had a McDaniel
researcher wander into the Van Buren Co., AR sight wanting me to link to
his Van Buren Co McDaniel database. Its a long story where Ole Dougs'
hounds went from there, but he has pointed out/implies evidence that an
alternate spelling/ name change of McDaniel is McDonald (may even work both
ways). Go figure. Thats like Venus and Mars as far as different database
go (two huge databases), but proven fact on his McDaniel line. Got
McDonald's need to look at the McDaniels. Thats analogous to saying Got
Jeffery - need to be looking at the alternate spelling of Watson or Smith.
Wheeew. Makes me wonder why I ever chose genealogy as a hobby - it has to
be for the pure pleasure of pain.

Well, got to git out of here. Hounds have stopped howling and are now hungry.

Have been reading some pretty interesting posts ya'll have been throwin out
-both on the assumption/consumption trail and doc. Been working for five
days straight tryin to get caught up on readin and archiving the posts
(couple hours per day)-just the Izard posts. Working on both ends of the
posts - new ones and old ones. I have finally made it up to July. I cannot
wait to get them all archived so I can search and update my database. I
tell you Jeffery folks (and allied family which is synonymous with Izard),
if the Izard posts were treated like a book, it would be the greatest book
ever written on our Jeffery line. This is to say nothin about the probably
100's of other lines who are getting the same feelin. And, a living book
which we have all lived - that is if you can keep up- I know I cannot- but
I got the rest of my life to get caught up. Its a very big book. It just
boggles my mind to think what has been created. I mean we sit here today
haggling and assuming what JJ Sams meant by his writing - how in the world
what he said could even come close to what we know. In the Izard book,
there is no question as to who wrote/thought it and why. I mean when a
genealogical book gets down to what relative was prayin for another
relative, I don't know, but I get the distinct feelin our future
generations of researchers are goin to love genealogy much more than we
have or could ever imagine. Most definetly a book I intend on passing onto
my future generations. We are creating History for our future by studying
the History of our past. Our future generations "will" be getting what we
only dream that we had of our past (and much more than we could even dream
we wish we had.) This is the most amazin group I have even seen. Love
every bit of it.

Later,
Doug Leoanrd


At 09:06 AM 1/23/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Etta,
>
>I've wondered about the popularity of the middle name of "Riley," too, as
>it's a common name in my GILLIHAN family. But we haven't found its
>origin.....yet! <g>
>
>Rosemary Gillihan Kenney
>Jonesboro, AR
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [mailto:]
>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:38 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L]Genealogical- Beth
>
>Another thought, have you ever notice how many of our ancestors in that area
>have the middle name of McDonald or Riley. I have noticed a number of them
>while reading the messages. Wonder why? Any input on this.
>
>Please share your stories and info.
>Thank you, Etta
>
>
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