From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jan 1 17:03:30 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 k0203Ug3002119; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:03:30 -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 k0203O83018832 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:03:24 -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 k01Lb9FI031567 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:37:09 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k01Lb9pq031566 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:37:09 -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 k01L6gFI031475 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:06:42 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k01NWl00005031 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:32:47 -0700 X-Envelope-From: Weezid@aol.com Sun Jan 1 16:32:47 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 k01NWlg3005020 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:32:47 -0700 Received: from imo-m25.mx.aol.com (imo-m25.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.6]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k01NWKuD008845 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 16:32:20 -0700 Received: from Weezid@aol.com by imo-m25.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r6.3.) id e.190.4eee1578 (63024) for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:32:11 -0500 (EST) From: Weezid@aol.com Message-ID: <190.4eee1578.30e9c07b@aol.com> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:32:11 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: Thunderbird - Mac OS X sub 310 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: ROOTS-L Digest V05 #585 I started doing computer genealogy in the early '90's. We had copies of information from my husband's family's Bible that went back to the 1820's, and I started looking for information online. When my father-in-law died in 1994, we inherited the original family Bible, and my research grew more intensive., including trips to the rarchives in the public library and Missouri Historical Society. I just turned 50, so I must have been about 36 when I started out. I have had much better luck with my husband's families than my own because his ancestors have been in the same city for about 150 years. My own paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants, and they did not share much information about their youth in Italy with their children; my maternal grandmother did not remember her parents well, as she had been raised by an aunt. Louisa