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I have just written an article on John Cloud (1740-1840) for the
Winn Parish genealogy publication. I have also posted it on my web page
(address below) under the section on "My Ancestors." The article is
linked to the section on John Cloud.
I have not posted to our list before, but do enjoy getting the articles
from others.
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* Bruce Evans bevans(a)intersurf.com *
* Home Page: http://www.intersurf.com/~bevans *
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Cousins,
I hope all of you are having success finding connections with
cousins, and with finding your ancestors!! PLEASE read this entire
post!!
As you know, when our lists lost our home at Maiser because of a
spammer, RootsWeb generously stepped forward and offered us a new
home. Providing the machinery and time necessary to handle this
huge number of lists - in addition to the lists, etc., already
housed at RootsWeb - is and has been an expensive undertaking.
Brian and Karen at RootsWeb have provided this for us, but RootsWeb
is a membership organization - you have the opportunity to help by
joining. Your membership fee - $12 per year total for basic
membership, no matter how many lists you are on - would help offset
some of the expense entailed in providing the service. We are not
required to join, but I encourage you to do so. Please check this
URL - http://www.rootsweb.com/ - to find out more about rootsweb.
If you use Juno and do not have net access, but would like to join,
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Please make sure your name and e-mail address are on the check!
Those of you who are not in the USA - please wait until they can
process credit cards; they should have that ready in a month or two
- American banks charge fees for currency conversions. I will let
you know when they tell me they can accept credit cards.
ALSO - if you have not sent me your snailmail address (PRIVATELY to
cch(a)netdoor.com, not to the list) for my personal file, please do
so, in case you go offline and a cousin needs to contact you. Use
the subject line SNAILMAIL.
If you change e-addresses, please send me a post to file, so that if
someone is looking for you at an old address, we will be able to
find you. Put your OLD e-address as the SUBJECT LINE.
I have not forgotten the list projects. A combination of the "down
time" between list homes and trying to get the lists adjusted to the
new home - and some personal health problems - interfered with and
took time from the "normal" time I spend working on the lists, but
the posts are still in the project mailboxes. They will all be
dealt with soon; I'm doing one this weekend.
PLEASE post any info you find about the surname/area/focus of your
list, whether it relates to your kin or not - chances are that it
will help one of your cousins on the list. Cousins on three of the
lists that I manage are doing this, and the cousins on these lists
have grown closer,and are really finding out a LOT about their
ancestors and connections -
YOU WILL GET FROM THE LIST WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT.
If you will ALL share your line and data, and also any bits of data
that you might find other than your own personal information, as
well as family stories that might help in connecting, and thoughts
on new methods of finding ancestors, these lists can be very
productive for ALL of us. If you have a resource from which you
are willing to do lookups, PLEASE post that information to your
cousins on the list.
My website is coming along. There will be a page for links to the
websites of cousins on each of the individual lists. Please send me
your URL in a post that has as the SUBJECT LINE -
URL - (surname)
So that it will not mix in with all the other mail and I can link it
off the page for the right list.
KING cousins - send your links to <LouPero(a)aol.com>, the KING List
Genealogist to whom I will link directly from my front page for that
surname. JORDAN cousins - please send yours to <jordan(a)digital.net>
who will link them off the JORDAN e-mail list website which will
also be linked directly off my front page. I also plan/hope to have
"automatic" sub and unsub buttons on each list page - if you like,
you will be able to unsub and resub there when you go on vacation if
you forget the commands/address, etc At this point, those buttons
and the links are all I plan to put on the list pages. I will also
have the boys' ahnentafels on the site somewhere, as well as GEN-MAT
links. Also, whenever there is a problem at the RootsWeb server and
the lists are down for a short period, I will post any info that I
receive about that to the site. The URL is
http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch but you will not see any of the
changes for a few days - my youngest son is doing this for me and he
has been busy with other commitments, but is working on it.
I have asked Karen (the listmaster at RootsWeb) to restrict access
to our list archives to you, the members of the individual lists, to
try to prevent spammers accessing our posts to get our e-addresses.
To access the archives, go to
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/members/archives.html - I have not
tried to get archived posts, but understand it is not difficult. If
you have a problem doing it, let me know and I will either figure it
out or find someone who knows how to help.
REMEMBER - if you have a problem in connection with the list, post
to me privately - cch(a)netdoor.com - and use my name - CAROL - as the
subject line, to get my attention in my inbox.
Carol Carwile Head <cch(a)netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch
Listowner for the GEN-MAT and GEN-MAT-15 lists (new/used
genealogical materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents
research), RAN-CLAY
(east-central Alabama counties), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell,
Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts,
DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head,
Humphreys, Jordan,
King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp
and Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.
> Sorry, Sandy, but those names are not of our line, which runs somewhat as
> follows:
>
> William Cloud (1), b. 1621, Wiltshire, England; m. Susan James 1647; d.
> Chester Co, PA. He came to the present StWilliam ate of Pennsylvania in
> 1682. Five sons, William , Joseph (2), Jeremiah, John and Robert also
> migrated about the same time. <SNIPPED>
I descend from William Cloud, Sr. through his son Jeremiah. My knowledge
of the early part of the line is limited primarily to the accounts in the
"History of Chester County...", by Futhey & Cope, 1881 and "Passengers and
Ships Prior to 1684...", by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., 1985. Are you
familiar with them? What are the sources for your additional information?
In particular, what are your sources for William's marriage to Susan James
and for his birth date? Do you have any further information about the
Cloud line through Jeremiah? TIA!
Jeff Palmer - d026600c(a)dc.seflin.org - No Archive
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Cousins,
Some of you have posted to me this week, asking about my policy on
posting to our surname lists, because of discussions about policy on
other lists.
Each listowner has her/his own "guidelines" for what she/he
considers appropriate. I consider these surname lists "ours" rather
than "mine". What/whether you post will determine whether the list
will be helpful for you. If you wait for someone else to post your
line, you may not benefit from the list at all. If you post your
queries and your lines, you may find new cousins. It's that simple.
I do not have our lists set to "reply to the list", because that can
be very embarrassing if you forget and send a very personal message
to a cousin as a reply, but I would like for all of you to send a
copy of your replies that relate to genealogy to the list, because
many times they have a bit of data that will help another cousin.
Excitement about finding a new cousin is also appropriate for the
list - we all need the kind of boost that gives. Family stories
about ancestors are wonderful for the list, and may help someone
find a cousin who has heard a similar story. Biographical
information, wills, census records or any other data having to do
with the list surname may help a cousin, even though it does not
help you. Information about reunions, books for sale about the
surname, newsletters - all might help us, and belong on our list.
AOL users - if you "reply" to a post from a cousin on the list, your
reply might go to the list, whether you intended for it to or not,
because of the way AOL has their settings - be aware of this and
check where your post is going, to save yourself embarrassment.
There are two things I DO NOT EVER consider appropriate for the list
- attachments and criticism of other cousins. Please be kind.
Carol Carwile Head <cch(a)netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch
Listowner for the GEN-MAT and GEN-MAT-15 lists (new/used
genealogical materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents
research), RAN-CLAY
(east-central Alabama counties), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell,
Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts,
DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head,
Humphreys, Jordan,
King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp
and Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.
Looking for information on the parents and siblings of Benjamin Franklin
Cloud who was married to Nancy Middleton in Claiborne County TN in 1850.
Based on research generously shared by other Cloud researchers, I think his
parents were Greenberry Cloud married to Barthena Cox and grandparents
William Cloud and Elizabeth Morgan. Seems that I have pretty well nailed
down the family up to Benjamin "Frank" and Nancy Middleton Cloud, but beyond
that my research is open for conjecture. Incidentally, my Cloud line from BF
on down has lived in the Harlan County KY area, including Verda, Evarts and
Dizney.
Come on all you Cloud cousins...prove me right or wrong. The gauntlet has
been dropped!
Cheers,
Gene Cloud...son of Eugene, grandson of William, ggrandson of Alex,
gggrandson of Benjamin "Frank" and ggggrandson of [fill in the blank].
Ken I can only help on my own line from GA,AL and TX. Suggest you look in
The
Cloud Family Journal index volumes. Regards jim
Cloudjw(a)aol.com<J W Cloud>
I am looking of information on descendants of the following Cloud line
Jonathan Cloud, born 1 Jul 1829 married Martha Jane Milhous, born 25 Dec
1821 on 6 Aug 1849 in Parke Co. Indiana. They had :
William H Cloud, born 26 Jun 1850 in Thorntown, Ind
married Nancy Vinson, 27 Sep 1872 in Grant Co. Ind
Jeremuiah M. Cloud, born 12 Aug 1852 in Thorntown, Ind
married Eva/Evaline Ballard 11 Aug 1872 in Howard Co. Ind
Julia Ann Cloud born 26 Aug 1855 in Thorntown, Ind
married Jacob T. Long
John B. Cloud, born 26 Aug 1855 in Thorntown, Ind
Albert D. Cloud, Born 26 Sep 1858 in Thorntown, Ind
married Florence Scamlin 21 Dec 1881 in Howard Co, Ind.
Charles F. Cloud born 18 Nov 1860.
I descend from William H. Cloud and have a some detail of the line, however
I have been unable to find much about the rest of the children. Any help
on this line would be appreciated and I will share data I have on the Cloud
line. I have about 4000 folks in my Cloud data, just having trouble with
my own direct line. Thanks Ken Cloud
>My earliest known ancestor is Jeremiah Cloud b. Twiggs Cty GA 1782-84. Mar.
>Elizabeth ? had son Henry Geo Washington b. 1810. Migrated to Montgomery
>Cty,
>AL in 1816 .
>HGW and Mary Bateman married and had a son JWJ (my GF). The family went on to
>Austin and Waller Cty TX in the 1830's and 40's.
>
>I would like to find who JEREMIAH'S father was and any earlier family
>connection.
> THANKS jim
I found Jeremiah's obit Friday in the Barker library on the
University of Texas campus. It is in the April 6, 1861 Hempstead
Courier and reads as follows:
" Died, On Caney creek in this county, on the
14th ult., MR. JEREMIAH CLOUD, Sr., In the
77th year of his age.
" Mr. C. was born in Twiggs Co.,
Georgia, in 1784; emigrated to Mont-
gomery Co. Alabama in 1816, when he
removed to this State, in which he
lived up to the time of his death, shar-
ing her joys and sorrows.
" He leaves behind him what the best
of us aspire to, an unsullied reputation;
besides a numerous family, consisting
of his first and only wife, who was the
partner of his days for sixty years,
six children, thirty four grand-children,
and twenty-six great grand children;
all of whom must be often reminded
of his absence, and feel the want of
his experienced counsel."
===== I'd hoped to find some clue as to his siblings
(if any) and his parentage ..... oh well ....
Tom Cloud <cloud(a)peaches.ph.utexas.edu>
Hello, cousins!!
It is nice to have our lists back up! I hope all of you are getting ready
to post a query, if you have not done so since the move to rootsweb - we
have lots of new cousins on the lists, and one of them might be from your
line - several cousins have posted to me this week about fantastic
connections they have made. If you have any difficulty posting to your
list, please let me know -
IF YOU ARE REMOVED from the list BECAUSE OF BOUNCES - don't worry about it;
just resub. It has happened to me on lists in the past, and will again. It
will happen to you if you bounce four times - rootsweb has a feature that
automatically removes anyone after four bounces. This is intended to
protect the computer at rootsweb and is a Good Thing, so we need to just
remember not to get upset if we are removed - if your ISP is down (doing
upgrades or repairs or something) during a busy period, you will bounce four
times, and you will be removed - just resub and don't worry about it. IF
YOU USE AN ISP THAT IS "DOWN" A LOT, I suggest that you switch to
digest(combined posts, usually once a day) mode. You will have fewer
posts(because they are combined), so that will give your ISP time to solve
the problem before you get bounced.
If you were on other surname lists and you have not been informed as to
where they moved, Steve has updated the rootsweb site
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist
and John at http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/internet.html - Genealogy
Resources on the Internet - tries to keep his list of lists as up-to-date as
is possible.
If you have not sent your snailmail to me privately, please do so in case
you go offline and a cousin tries to find you. Do NOT send these to the
list - I do not advise ever sending your snailmail address or your telephone
number to a list (even if, so far as you know, everyone on the list is your
first cousin and lives next door).
On those lists which currently have demographics projects working - I am
updating the lists as quickly as possible - the recent changes have
definitely wrecked my schedule - hereafter, I will be attending to the
projects in an order decided by the activity of the list, based on the
number of posts compared to the number of cousins subscribed.
Posting to the list, and trying to help each other, can have wonderful
results - I tried to assist one of you in your search yesterday, and now, as
a result of our correspondence, have a wonderful clue for an ancestor that
had been a total brick wall for me!!
Good luck in your searching!!
Carol Carwile Head <cch(a)netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch
Listowner for the GEN-MAT and GEN-MAT-15 lists (new/used genealogical
materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents research), RAN-CLAY
(east-central Alabama counties), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell, Bowen,
Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts, DeVaughn,
Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head, Humphreys, Jordan,
King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp and
Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.