Hi Steve, don't worry...
I was very 'hard headed'(a Carden Trait, <grin>?) about
that 'map thingy' myself. It took me years & lots of
wasted time to learn that a map is your best friend when
tracking the migratory paths of your Ancestors. Putting
it in front of me when searching for their 'whereabouts'
became a must. It helped me keep the generations & where
they went in perspective.
Today we tend to think that those early settlers didn't
move around a lot bc/ of their slow & tedious modes of
transportation. Au contraire, my friend. To them having
a nice wagon & a good team of oxen was like being on a
trip in an 'Explorer' or a 'Yukon' SUV might be to us
today ! [No gasoline probs., but the 'horse power' still
had to be fed !]
Just like people are 'on the move' today, so were our
Ancestors whose main goal, esp. after the Revolution,
was to settle some of the newly opened 'bounty' land.
This was esp. true if a man was caught in the 'inherit-
ance rut'. Daddy may have inherited Granpaw's land, that
he had inherited, etc, etc. Those 1st few hundred acres
only divided up into a worthwhile inheritance just so
many times. By the time 3-4 gen. had past, and esp. if
you're not the oldest son, it became a necessity to
'move on', or buy expensive land to farm for the support
of your family where you were.
Well, our 'grandpas' weren't 'dummies', their goal wasn't
only to find some good land to farm; but on the 'frontier'
it could be good AND cheap land.
So, there you have it...
America was built 'on the cheap' ! <S>
Martha
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Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 2:00 AM
To: carden(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: CARDEN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 25
Today's Topics: 1. Lamar Co CARDENs (Steve)
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:44:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve <shmartonak(a)ticnet.com>
Subject: [CARDEN] Lamar Co CARDENs
To: carden(a)rootsweb.com
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Mostly it's a case of Steve being geographically challenged.
I associate all these folks with Russell Co, which isn't even all that far
south. I had never looked at a map to see where Lamar Co is. I had just
assumed it was next to Russell.
So, no typo. Just plain ignorance.
Steve
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, carden-request(a)rootsweb.com wrote:
Something puzzles me about them being in Lamar Co, AL then
going to south AL though. Since Lamar Co. is actually in the
north west quadrant of the state, next to the MS Line, did
they actually migrate into south AL from there, or was that
actually a typo from Steve...?
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