From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 11:36:43 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 k01Iahg3019383; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:36:43 -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 k01IagNQ025975 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:36:42 -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 k01GASFI030281 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:10:28 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01GASKH030280 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:10:28 -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 k01FOYFI030156 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:24:34 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k01Hobwh017626 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:50:37 -0700 X-Envelope-From: joanbancroft@sbcglobal.net Sun Jan 1 10:50:37 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 k01Hobg3017617 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:50:37 -0700 Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.208]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k01HoYQs007419 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:50:35 -0700 Received: (qmail 1153 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2006 17:50:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Joann) (joanbancroft@sbcglobal.net@69.224.70.57 with login) by smtp109.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2006 17:50:30 -0000 Message-ID: <002a01c60efb$dadf3840$3946e045@Joann> From: "Joan Hise Bancroft" To: Cc: References: <200601011629.k01GToM6032556@lists5.rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 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] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V05 #590 OH MY, I was a late starter..sometime around 1990 when I was a kid of about 60. My sister had been researching for much longer, but it wasn't until then that she convinced me to get my feet wet. My mother talked alot about her family (HINCK) so we knew a good deal about them, but we didn't know my father's family at all (he died before I was born). We decided that my sister would take the maternal line (NEWBERRY), and I would take the paternal side (HISE). I first went to the Family History Library near me and was shown the SSDI (on CD at that time). I did know my father was from Missouri and, thank heavens, Hise is a relatively rare name..found one entry that looked possible, wrote for his death certificate and WOW! it was my uncle. Then wrote to the church where he was buried and asked if the minister could give me any information on the family. A few weeks later I received a letter from a woman who said she was a niece of my father...adding "think very carefully before pursuing this course, you may learn some unexpected facts." AND, learn them I have...and addicted I became. I now know my lineage back to 1800 and, of course am spending most days trying to find who was my next gggggrandfather!! An exciting find was a newspaper article headlined "HISE MURDER" in which it was reported that, on his death bed, a man had confessed to the murder of my father...and that was almost 10 years before I was born...don't believe everything that's in print.