From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 09:29:50 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k01GTog3032512; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:29:50 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01GTn5h001170 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:29:49 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k01E3ZFI029711 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:03:35 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01E3Zd6029710 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:03:35 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0129XFI013684 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:09:33 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k014ZZQ4029397 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:35:35 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mputman@gohighspeed.com Sat Dec 31 21:35:35 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k014ZZg3029386 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:35:35 -0700 Received: from mail.my180.net (mail.my180.net [216.229.188.250]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k014ZYqu017414 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:35:34 -0700 Received: (qmail 19886 invoked by uid 110); 1 Jan 2006 04:36:02 -0000 Received: from 64-35-129-74.gohighspeed.com (HELO eozfaqvf) (64.35.129.74) by mail.my180.net with SMTP; 1 Jan 2006 04:36:02 -0000 Message-ID: <001e01c60e8c$51c96040$4a812340@eozfaqvf> From: "Mary Putman" To: Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:32:02 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] How Old Were You? Hi Tom, I was 29 in 1962 when I began searching my maternal grandmother's family...the midwestern Highnote (Hinote) family, in Indiana since 1811. I began simply because of the strange surname and thought "There can't be many by that name". I began searching, not realizing that a person was supposed to cite sources. I searched and gathered information for over 3 years before I found that you must make these citations, then had to backtrack and figure out where I got all that information. During these early years, I read dozens of rolls of microfilm in stake libraries anywhere from 40-90 miles from my home and probably typed over a thousand letters with anywhere from 2-5 pages single-spaced. I couldn't have found so much information if it had not been for about 50 correspondants who shared freely with me, as I did with them. Many of these correspondants are now deceased and I owe to them a debt of gratitude which I can never repay. I had to quit genealogy in 1992, as my husban! d's health problems continued to get worse. I was working full-time, still doing my own housework and yardwork, then took over what my husband could no longer do...lawnmowing, trimming, and pruning. I did not have a computer until 1994 and was not on the internet until 1999, about a year after my husband passed away. I then began again searching ALL descendants of Philip and Agnes Scott Highnote. Can't be many by that name? There are around 3,000 descendants with 300 allied lines. The manuscript, which I am just about to begin, will be dedicated to my dear grandmother, Emma Hinote Maxwell. She was the only grandmother I ever knew and died when I was 10 years old. It has truly been a 36-year labor of love for a very dear lady! The manuscript will be distributed to county libraries in which the various families lived and will include many stories and family legends that cannot be included on the various genealogical sites. Mary Leek Putman, College Place, WA