From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 11:36:48 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 k01Iamg3019464; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:36:48 -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 k01IalEl026009 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:36:48 -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 k01GAYFI030288 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:10:34 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01GAYhT030287 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:10:34 -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 k01FSGFI030163 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:28:16 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k01HsKDO019109 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:54:20 -0700 X-Envelope-From: P1TTYPAT@aol.com Sun Jan 1 10:54:20 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 k01HsKg3019097 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:54:20 -0700 Received: from imo-m17.mx.aol.com (imo-m17.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.207]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01HsJAE008620 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:54:19 -0700 Received: from P1TTYPAT@aol.com by imo-m17.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.223.59853e3 (4380) for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:54:10 -0500 (EST) From: P1TTYPAT@aol.com Message-ID: <223.59853e3.30e97142@aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:54:10 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5121 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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: How old How old? I suppose in my fifties. However - I came from a large family and we always had reunions. When my parents life changed - with death and disability - one dying and one having to leave the home - I found things - references to the family that someone had done. My great-grandfather's name was Sanders Perfect Day. I found that out and I wondered - did his mother think he was a 'perfect day'? After awhile it occurred to me - it was probably a surname. Indeed I found out it was - even found a preacher in early 1800s in KY that was named Perfect. I began to find things. Always interested in history - they don't write stories about my ancestors but when you study history - you get an idea of what it was like for those that came before you. Well, a few of the collaterals did make a little history - in the late 1800s in Missouri - like - the Day gang. And my aunt found a photo in her attic - labeled the James Brothers. I sent it to a man who was supposed to know and he said it wasn't either of the famous James brothers. My husband's family was easy to research - people had done so much before me and kept good records. What a search - interesting - for instance - in hubby's family - in the Revolutionary war - one was a revolutionary - one was a Tory - one was a Hessian. The father of the revolutionary - was reportedly a friend of Daniel Boone. Studied quite a bit of Daniel Boone because he was in so many of the places that our ancestors were - KY - NC - PA - MO. The county in Missouri my grandfathers went to was named after Daniel's grandson - James Callaway. Pat in AR.