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Please welcome John as a new member of our list; below is some information
from John, hopefully we can help him.
Hello List:
I'm new to this list.
My name is John Reynolds and I am descended from the Christmas family by
way of Greens, Bonners, Metcalfs & Taylors. I saw you reference to the
Christmas family on the Rootsweb surname list.
What I know (more or less securely) is this:
1. William Christmas (?-?) m(?) ?
2. Mary Christmas (?-?) m (?) William Green ( (1739-?)
3. Lucy Green (1882-?) m (?) Hamilton Bonner (?-?)
4. Mary Jones Bonner (1814-1888) m (1834) Eliphalet Henry Metcalf (1809-1886)
These last are my 2G-grandparents. They lived in Montgomery, Al, although
Eliphalet was from New York and Mary Bonner was from Hancock Co., GA. Her
father's family had been there for a while. If you have any information on
this line I'd surely like to hear from you.
My e-address is antykdna(a)triad.rr.com
Yours truly,
John Reynolds
In a message dated 6/26/01 8:42:06 AM, wht-abt(a)worldnet.att.net writes:
<< mlchristmas(a)prodigy.net >>
Thanks for posting the article about Mr. Browning. The article is especially
interesting to me, because I have used his information many times and always
marvel at the gems that I've uncovered.
Nancy Lynn
Hi Herbert:
Dell sent a technician who installed a new disk drive. Unfortunately, the
problem is still there. Apparently it's a software problem, and they ( and
I ) haven't yet been able to sort it out. We'll see.
Hope you're doing well.
Jeb
>Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:08:36 -0600
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>Hello all! Below is the text of an article from today's _Evansville Courier
>& Press_ about a searchable database of area obituaries now online. Not
>surprisingly, quite a few Christmases can be found at the new site:
>http://browning.evcpl.lib.in.us/
>
>Regards,
>
>Mary Leah Christmas
>
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>
>Morticians aversion to idle hands paid off for city
>
>----------------------------------
>By Paul McAuliffe, Editor
>Contact editor Paul McAuliffe at 464-7455 or via e-mail at
>paul(a)evansville.net
>----------------------------------
>
>When Charles Browning started his funeral home on Diamond Avenue in 1954, he
>had more time than he had business.
>
>Nevertheless, in those early days before pagers and cell phones, he had to
>stick pretty close to his desk phone or risk missing a job.
>
>Browning decided to put the time to good use by typing onto 3-by-5-inch
>cards information from every death in Evansville.
>
> >From that ordinary daily task has grown a truly extraordinary gift to the
>community: an obituary database now on the Internet that contains
>information from 1906 to the present and includes more than 300,000 deaths
>from Evansville and parts of Southwestern Indiana.
>
>Its an accomplishment that might have seemed daunting had Browning stopped
>to think about it. I took it on accidentally, then I got consumed by it,
>he said.
>
>Reflecting on it, the 78-year-old Browning noted that the bird builds his
>nest one straw at a time.
>
>After his first five years of typing the cards, Browning needed a change.
>The information he was putting on the cards was pretty minimal.
>
>I cant stand this, he said to himself. Id like to have more information
>on the card.
>
>He went back and redid the first five years, adding more detail, while
>keeping up with the new obituaries as they occurred. That still didnt
>satisfy him, though.
>
>I went back to the library and went back through microfilm. He now has
>worked his way back to the early years of the 20th century.
>
>The project has grown to a searchable database that includes 15 fields of
>information on surviving relatives, place of death, occupation and others.
>
>Since 1991, workers at Browning Funeral Home have been entering the
>information by computer. The 3-by-5 cards from earlier years have been
>optically scanned and digitized.
>
>The entire database is available online through the Evansville Public
>Library at browning.evcpl.lib.in.us
>
>Do people find the information useful? Consider this e-mail Wednesday from
>an Internet user: Im almost speechless. This is AWESOME!! In less than 10
>minutes Ive connected unconnected people that Ive had drifting in my
>family database for years!
>
>The database has brought a lot of Internet traffic to the librarys Web
>site, said library Director Marcie Au, who calls Browning a community gem.
>
>All this computerization hasnt ended Brownings need for 3-by-5 cards,
>however. I still buy em 10,000 at a shot, he says. Theyre used for some
>of his other projects, his collection of brief newspaper items on local
>people, for example.
>
>I sat in Brownings office and watched my life flash before me as I flipped
>through several entries marking my 26 years in Evansville. Browning records
>about 25 items a day from the newspaper. That biographical database all
>520,000 items will be up on the librarys Web site soon.
>
>Other card indexes list local war dead from all 20th-century wars, some high
>school graduations, service news from World War II and other miscellany.
>
>Browning comes by his World War II interest naturally; he served as a deck
>officer on a Landing Ship Tank in the South Pacific during World War II. It
>was on the deck of that LST that the seeds of his mortuary career were sown,
>as he pulled night guard duty with a man who owned a funeral home in Oregon.
>
>The GI Bill paid for mortuary school, which led to a business that has
>allowed him to give back to his community. Its a comfortable role for
>Browning, a former city councilman who would like nothing better than for
>folks to see what they ought to leave to coming generations.
Genealogy.com has the 1900 US Census online, and is searchable; accuracy is
fair to good, but it misses a lot of people. Also it is fairly expensive,
$14.99 a month or ? for a year. Ancestry.com also has several (1900-1920)
census years online and are adding, but they are not searchable, but you
can browse. I joined this also, but with my slow ISP, I've not been able to
really use their data.
Over the next few days/weeks, I will try to post some of the 1900 census
info. If you have 1900 or other census information, please post.
AR - Ashley Co. - Longview - Dwelling 189: Buck F. Christmas, b. Oct 1850
AR - F. (Father) SC - M. (Mother) SC. Wife - Emma E. b. June 1863 AR - F.
AR - M. AR; been married 22 years; 8 children - 4 living. Children: Fred B.
b. Aug 1886 AR; James Y. b. Feb. 1888 AR; Robert L. b. May 1890 AR & James
H. b. Oct 1896 AR.
AR - Ashley - Union - Dwelling 43: Thomas Christmas, b. Dec 1869 AR; F.
NC; M. AR. Wife - Annci or Anici Lee, b. Aug 1871 LA; F. & M. b. in MS.
They have been married 5 years; 4 children, 1 living. Child: Annie A., b.
Jan. 1900 AR.
AR - Clark - South Fork - Dwelling # 168: James Christmas, b. Jan 1871 IL;
F. IL, M. IL. Wife - Alice, b. March 1872 AR, F. MS, M. AR. Married 8
years; 3 children - 2 living. Children: Olona or Olena, b. March 1896 AR &
Edward, Aug 1897 AR.
AR - Jefferson - Old River - Dwelling 323: J. Y. Christmas, b. Sept 1856
AR; F. NC, M. SC. Wife - Mary, b. Sept. 1856 AR; F. MO, M. AR. They have
been married 7 years; 4 children, 2 living. Children: Eddith, b. Oct. 1892
AR & Nora, b. Oct. 1896 AR.