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dear debbi,
my name is Georgia Amason, I am the ggggrandaughter of Henry Sellers and Mary Ann Coffey. Our records show their son George married Artematia (no last name) could this be your Artimissey Strunk? Our records do not show a son named Frank, they did have a son John F (middle name unknown) who married lst Hulda (last name unknown) and 2nd Sarah Strunk. Could either wife be your Mahydah? Do you have any dates, birth, death, marriage etc?
our records show Henry & Mary Ann had a grandson named Frank married to Mary Selvage.
You might try searching heritagequestonline.com for your Joel or Cole Coffey.
Good luck in your research. Georgia
Joytohal(a)cs.com wrote:
Debbi
I am great grandaughter of Mary Polly Holt, grandaughter of Wm Marion Holt b
Apr 7, 1837 Whitley. I would like more information on birth of Marion, son of
Cole. Do you have a confirmed record of a marriage? What happened to Cole
Coffey, he disappears from the picture.
Mary Polly Holt married Jackson Strunk in Whitley Co. KY Aug 23, 1839. They
had 6 Strunk children. 2 of Mary & Jackson's daughters married sons of Mary
Ann Coffey and Henry Sellars. Artimissey married George and Mahydah married
Frank Sellars.
I can give you more info on Marion Holt's descendants.
Contact Joyce Holt Taylor, joytohal(a)cs.com
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,605153189,00.html
Friday, September 9, 2005
LDS to put microfilm in vaults on Internet
Huge effort planned to index family history data
By Carrie A. Moore
Deseret Morning News
Ever wonder what's inside those secured vaults, owned by the LDS Church,
positioned
high inside the granite walls of Little Cottonwood Canyon?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is working toward allowing
anyone with Internet access to learn more than they've ever known before
about the
information contained on 2 million-plus rolls of microfilm housed there.
Currently,
the church is compiling searchable indexes to that information and will
eventually
make it available for free through an automated database on the Internet.
The church excavated the vaults containing those records on property it
purchased
in the 1960s, providing a safe repository during the height of the Cold War
for
birth, marriage, death and census information it considers essential for the
salvation
of mankind after death. Now church leaders seek to make the information more
readily
available to the world.
"The goal is to create (Internet-accessible) indexes to all the films
we have in the vault. That's a long-term process and that's a lot of films,"
according to Paul Nauta, manager of public affairs for church's
FamilySearch.org
Web site. "We've not announced when people will begin to start seeing"
the indexes.
Those attending the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies' conference
this week at the Salt Palace will get a "sneak preview" of the church's
plans. As the project progresses over time, indexes to records from 110
nations
previously stored on microfilm will become accessible to virtually anyone,
anywhere, through the Internet via the touch of a few keystrokes.
"We're showing people how we'll be creating indexes from those films.
Sometime in the future we'll ask people to help us create the indexes and
make them
publicly available, and little by little we'll start to index the films from
the
vault like we did with the 1880 (U.S.) Census.
"The challenge now is it takes a lot of people and a lot of time"
to create such an index. "Currently, you have to look at images on paper or
burn them on a CD and distribute those to index the data. We're moving the
whole
process to the Internet and this is a prototype of what that might look
like. .
. . That's what the biggest buzz is at the conference."
Conference attendees are using a lab at the Salt Palace equipped with a
number
of computers to demonstrate the new automated database. The microfilm
information
includes birth, marriage, death and census records.
New advances in indexing software utilities and applications mean the LDS
Church "now has the ability to produce lots of indexes faster," than it
did with previous databases it has digitized, including the 1880 U.S.
Census. Making
that database available online was a 12-year project, using tens of
thousands of
volunteers.
In the future, the new technology "will provide automated indexing"
for an ever-increasing number of microfilms "so people can readily search it
from their homes."
As the number of family history researchers continues to grow â" one study
showed 40 percent of Americans have done research on their family history
and another
said 90 percent have expressed interest â" demand for online indexes that
simplify
searching for ancestors has soared, he said.
How much time will it take to digitize all the films in the vault?
"Let's put it this way, it will depend on how much volunteer help we
get," Nauta said. "I think we can digitize the films to be indexed to
stay up with demand, but much will depend on how many volunteers we can
generate
worldwide to index their records of interest. If, in a couple of years, we
could
get a million indexers worldwide, we could put a big dent" in the massive
undertaking.
The indexing demonstration and other planned improvements to the popular
FamilySearch.org
Web site are drawing standing-room-only crowds at the convention. The
changes "will
make great strides to simplify and increase the success of the family
history experience,"
he said.
Just when the first indexed information from the microfilms will become
available
online has not yet been announced. "We don't want to be swamped with people
before we're ready to handle it," Nauta said.
The new developments won't make more than 5,000 small family history centers
housed in LDS chapels worldwide obsolete. Previously, those looking for
information
contained on the microfilms stored in the church's Granite Mountain Records
Vault
had to request that copies of information on the films be sent to their
local center.
At some point in the future, that likely won't be necessary any longer, he
said,
but "that will continue to be a role for a long time.
"Family history centers will continue to be a mainstay" for accessing
information on the microfilms for some time to come.
As more of those records become digitized and indexes become available, the
role of the local centers, he said, "will probably change. Some people have
no Internet access, and they'll use them for that. The role of the family
history
centers will evolve over time to help people get started" with their
research
because "many people don't know how to do that. They will become more
fundamental
to help people get and stay organized, and to answer questions they have
doing their
research."
Many of those in town to attend the conference are also making use of the
church's renowned Family History Library, less than a block from the Salt
Palace.
Hours have been extended to accommodate guests, with the library open from 8
a.m.
to 10:30 p.m. through Saturday.
"It's an exciting time for family history," Nauta said. "Those
just developing this kind of research as a hobby will never have any
appreciation
for how far this industry has evolved, even in the past 10 years."
Debbi
I am great grandaughter of Mary Polly Holt, grandaughter of Wm Marion Holt b
Apr 7, 1837 Whitley. I would like more information on birth of Marion, son of
Cole. Do you have a confirmed record of a marriage? What happened to Cole
Coffey, he disappears from the picture.
Mary Polly Holt married Jackson Strunk in Whitley Co. KY Aug 23, 1839. They
had 6 Strunk children. 2 of Mary & Jackson's daughters married sons of Mary
Ann Coffey and Henry Sellars. Artimissey married George and Mahydah married
Frank Sellars.
I can give you more info on Marion Holt's descendants.
Contact Joyce Holt Taylor, joytohal(a)cs.com
From a non-subscriber - at least at the address sent from - so if you need
to comment to this person,
please email them. Thanks, Tim
Can anyone verify the parentage of one James J. Coffey who married a Sarah
Sumpter. My data base shows that I have two James J. Coffeys, b. 1790 in
Wilkes County, NC, who married women named Sarah Sumpter, b. 1790, NC. The
information I have on children and descendants matches almost 100% with the
exception of parents. My database shows the following:
1. Reuben B. Coffey, b. 16 Sep 1759, d. 4 Mar 1842 married Mildred Morris
2. James Coffey, b. 1790 Wilkes County, NC, d. 1875 Flat Rock, Pulaski
County, KY, married
Sarah Emmaline Sumpter, b. 1790 NC on 7 Jul 1810 in Pulaski
County, KY. Children:
3. Lewis Coffey, b. 1813, married (?); two children--Lewis, Jr.,
and Samuel J. b. 1858
Mary Ann, b. 9 Apr 1820, d. 1885, married Henry Sellars; 10
children--John Frank,
James Hardin, Sarah J., George W., Joseph M., Francis,
Amanda, Mary Ann, Morgan,
Lewis Shelton
Joel
Cole, b. 1815, married Mary Polly Holt; 1 child--William
Marion
John, b. 24 Feb 1818, d. 6 May 1882, married Rachel (?); two
children--Sarah Jane, b.
1849 and Elizabeth b. 1850
and a second set of data as follows:
1. John Reid Coffey, b. 15 Jan 1753, d. 27 Dec 1825, married Mary Buchanan
Strange, b. 18 Dec
1755, d. bef. 1825
2. James J. Coffey, b. 23 Oct 1786 Wilkes County, NC, d. Pulaski
County, KY, married Sarah
Sumpter, b. 1790 NC. Children:
3. Nelson N., b. 9 Jun 1811, d. 22 Feb 1878, married Kizziah
Waters, b. 6 Mar 1810, d.
1885; 11 children--Rhoda, Nancy, James Nelson, John,
Joseph, Henry Baker,
Richard Harrison, Sarah, Pruda Ann (Prudence), Benjamin
Franklin, Emerine
Lewis, b. 1813, married Elizabeth Waters; 7 children--Anna
Millie, Elizabeth, Cullum,
Eligah Columbus, Amanda Jane, Hardin, Lewis, Jr.
Elizabeth, b. 1816
John Coffey, b. 24 Feb 1818, d. 6 May 1882, married Rachel
Barrier; 4 children--Joseph
F., Shelby, Francis Marion, James A.
Harden, b. 1822
James, Jr., b. 1823
Mary (Polly), b. 1826
Reuben, b. 1827
Joseph, b. 7 Nov 1829, d. 4 Jun 1882, married Beth Ada
Strunk; 13 children--James
Shelby, Mary E., Sarah Elizabeth, Lewis, John C.,
Jefferson, Henry, Malinda,
Richard, William, Gilse D., Alice Ann, Jesse
Emaline, b. 1832, d. 1855
Would appreciate any assistance with this. I believe that the two James
married to Sarah Sumpters are the same family. The only problem is I can't
figure out which Coffey family James belongs to. I have seen postings
showing it both ways and I want to be certain my information is correct and
that no one is duplicated in any fashion.
Debbi
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Subject: coffey,durham
From: "patburns" <cowpatty(a)usadatanet.net>
Date: Tue, September 6, 2005 7:37 pm
To: COFFEY-L-request(a)rootsweb.com
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hi. i am looking for nettie grace coffey born on 1887. she married alfred
durham on october 16, 1902, in fullerville, new york. thank you.
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Tim Stowell