From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 12:44:52 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 k01Jiqg3001329; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:44:52 -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 k01JiYsd019567 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:44:34 -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 k01HIJFI030611 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:18:19 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01HIJH5030610 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:18:19 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k01HHqFI030561 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:17:53 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k01JhvW7012070 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:43:57 -0800 Received: (from karen@localhost) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k01Jhv2W012068 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:43:57 -0800 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 k01Jfvg3000727 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:41:57 -0700 Received: from smtpout-3202.bay.webtv.net (smtpout-3202.bay.webtv.net [209.240.205.137]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01JffCr018505 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:41:41 -0700 Received: from storefull-3356.bay.webtv.net (bay-6me-tv-1a-natpool-1.bay.webtv.net [209.240.207.249]) by smtpout-3202.bay.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id BE382D6B1 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from production@localhost) by storefull-3356.bay.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/mt.gso.26Feb98) id LAA17349; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:41:36 -0800 (PST) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAm6/rAA9g+BbVKH4aFx9vI1PahE0CFFv9Jo9KMmYm08wMkSTGwKWeZL3B From: Donnaintacoma@webtv.net (Donna Jean Lewis) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:41:36 -0800 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <23813-43B83070-5101@storefull-3356.bay.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] when did I start It was really on September 2 1982 that I decided to start researching genealogy it was after my husband had died in July 14 1982 and I needed to start a hobby. so I went the the genealogy library in tacoma washington. at the LDS . it was there that I began my research on my fathers side , mothers side and I collected all those notes on various forms. I ended up with boxes and boxes of paper notes for each name. I then colleted them and was getting way back into the l600 as I went to the library every day for months....well I was a retired person at the age of 50 and so I had collected many many pages and names. then in that time I had moved down to arizona and again attended the genealogy library down there and collected more and more. in the moveing around I was not moveing furniture it was all genealogy . so back to Las vegas Nevada here I move with the many boxes of genealogy. then I moved again back to washington state. at the coast area once again I rented places that were furnished and it was just me and the genealogy boxes. that was in 1987 and the tragic thing happened all was lost in a fire.. well I was very heart broken. all the information was gone I thought. but that day I had taken a couple of pages to go to the genealogy library to look up and they were still in the car.... well with loseing everything but those few pages I had in the car the genealogy and I moved on down to vegas again.. and it took me a couple years really to get back to researching.. then in l998 in december I went to the genealogy library just to see. and it was then I started with the first pedigree chart again. like new and then I went to the store and I bought 18 notebooks. and started each one with the individual who was on number 2 on thrue 18. Yes I started searching on these lines..and so I got each back to the emigrant and some even back further. well this worked out real good. if you wanted to know who I was related to you would look at the first chart which I had on my wall and then go to book #. this kept me pretty busy. and then well in the time these bookes started to be more ana more until one day I counted I had 36 ...4 inch notebooks of genealogy.....well once again I was thinking of moveing back up to washington . so that day I tool all 36 notebooks over to my daughters as she had a computer and we put for a week copying all this information to the computer on a disk. then I left all those books for her to finish....well this time it was just me and the little disk that arrived up here in washington.........and so now I got a computer and I am trying to put it all on the computer ......so now I spend days and nights looking up some information. I had completed a lot of infromation on my father and mother side.. But, now I am trying to find the informaton on my husband side for the children. this I have gotten on the grandmother side as I was lucky to find that the book was written of her line.and so thats been easy for me. (lucky now on disk) then as I ended the year 2005 I had made a notebook of Obits for the month of December 2005 that was in the Seattle sunday and everyday paper of Tacoma washington for an extra Hobby. so if anyone had someone who died in December 2005 up this way....I just may have it. so as I now am in my 72+ I am working on the computer sitill lookig up names. and those person that is a mystery...a bigimist...a thief.... but at least I can finished someday those areas. and get the charts complete........ thats what I do now day in and nighttime to. it became a real good hobby for me..... my names on my parents side are :Steveson/stevenson and my mother side is Eason on my marriage side its Lewis and Tandy and Bears so hope that this new year 2006 will be a good one. so everyone a Happy New Year