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Hello Professor,
Perhaps the following site will assist you in learning the values:
<A HREF="http://www.westegg.com/inflation/">Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/</A>
Be sure to click on the link at the bottom of this page entitled "Current
Value of Old Money."
Can anyone tell me where I can find the equivalents today of the following
sums of money?
1. From my gggg grandfather's will in 1787- In addition to a number of
properties, "I bequeath":
a. "470 pounds common money"
b. "15,500 pounds in Spanish ?? (next word is illegible - what form would
this have been?)" and "equivalent amount in silver"
2. From gg grandmother's accounts in 1870:
$15,000
Thank you,
Bruce
Bruce L. Nicholson, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
Tel: 207-581-2800
FAX: 207-581-2801
Email: brucen(a)maine.edu
Looking for any information on the following ancestors, all living last in
Baltimore City:
1. Samuel Smith (wife Martha Harris) - birth and death dates unknown but
had daughter named Nannie L. Smith (1890-1936).
2. Charles Rasch - dates unknown but had daughter Mary Elizabeth Rasch
(married name Shackelford) (1865-1924)
3. William Henry Davis, Sr. (1870-1929) (wife Margaret Hipps born 1870)
4. Margaret Hipps (born 1870) - father's name unknown, mother's name Mary
Bruce L. Nicholson, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
Tel: 207-581-2800
FAX: 207-581-2801
Email: brucen(a)maine.edu
Dear Sirs
Looking for info on my Cherokee connection.
thought to be Thomas Jones came to indiana from North Carolina in the early 1800s.
He is my husbands 3rd great grandfather.
Thank you for any help.
Marada Willis
mwillis(a)sigecom.net
Can anyone identify the Becrafts buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Salesbury,
MD:
Montgomery Becraft 1809-1866 Civil War Vet; Children of Montgomery and Nancy
Becraft,
John A. b. 1848-1852.
Henrietta 1834-1839
Alexander 1837-1839
Juliette 1840-1862
Thank you Dave Roderick
While I was so eager to get the location of my web page out to EVERY
list to which I belong, I hope I will catch everyone by just sending it
to these state lists, instead of the individual counties as well as a
select few who might not be any particular state. IT IS
http://members.home.net/mrshankindybiz/
OH WELL, I want to thank ALL OF YOU so much for sharing wiwth me!
Margaret Shank ( Arvada, CO)
To all of you who have helped me so much since I began trying to finish
my late mother's genealogy work, here is the URL for my rough draft web
page. I wanted the easiest way possible to share what I have found,
even though I am VERY VERY unhappy with the outcome from PAF4. Not only
is the web site in theat horrible ascendancy order which I find very
confusing, but also, for some reason, it will not create a GEDcom for me
which I can share with you all. Also, once there is a misspelling or
one version of a name entered, it fights you to enter that name
EVERYTIME. Thus, I have Irish Johns with the JOHANNES after their
names. Also, the parents of my Randal Vernon DID NOT DIE in Chester,
PA, but Chester, England. While I am in OH I will try to get someone
who has done a great deal of research on some of my lines and who is a
FHC volunteer help me sort out the bugs my inexperience has caused.
When I come back, I will get NEW GEN software! If you have a suggestion
PLEASE EMAIL ME PRIVATELY, NOT THE LISTS!!!
mailto:mrshankindybiz@home.com
Thank you all for help in the past. Over the next few days I will be
unsubscribing to keep my email mailbox from being overwhelmed during the
time I am gone. The private email, though, will reach me! Margaret
Shank ( Arvada, CO)
In reference to the question about City Directories for Baltimore City you
would go to the Enoch Pratt Free Library / www.pratt.lib.md.us/index.html
<A HREF="http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/index.html">Enoch Pratt Free Library -
Baltimore, Maryland</A>
or the Maryland Historical Society
I am looking for information on Roger HUNT who was married to (Mary?)
Catherine CARMICHAELS. I know they had a daughter Sarah born in about 1801 in
MD. I don't know what county. They moved to Greene County PA before 1810.
I am looking for Lutheran church records on the German family of Michael
(MIKEL) SIMON married to Anna Otila SMELTZER born in the 1740's in Maryland
(Frederick County?).
Thank you for any help. Pam
Seeking further information on the descendants and ancestors of Charles
PORTER Sr and sons CHARLES PORTER Jr and JOHN PORTER ( both brothers
married BAIRD sisters). The family might have emigrated from Northern
Ireland to Cecil Co MD and then to Fayette Co., PA. Hypothesis on my
line is as follows:
Charles PORTER Sr
Charles PORTER Jr. b. 1770 d. 1848 ( b. MD, d. Fayette PA?) m. Jane
BAIRD b. 1768-d. 1845. Children: James b. 1794; Margaret; Leah b. 1796
d. in OH after 1848; Anna Porter b. 16 July 1797 d. 28 Feb 1862 m.
Thomas ARMSTRONG; Mary Porter; William McClure Porter; Charles PORTER;
Phoebe Levina Porter d. 27 Feb 1847 Luzerne Twp., Fayette PA; Elizabeth
S. 1813-1904 Fayette PA m. William DUNLEVY; John PORTER 1818-1848 OH;
and m. a Martha; and Jacob Jennings PORTER 1820-1849 Luzerne Twp.,
Fayette PA.
James PORTER b. 19 Sept 1794 in Northwest Territory or Fayette Co., PA
m. RachelJACKSON b. 1795 in PA on 27 March 1817 in PA. Moved briefly
to Lycking Co., OH, settled in Holmes Co, OH where he served various
churches as a Disciples minister. In 1848, he settled his family on a
farm in Tuscarawas Co, OH and started a small Disciples church in New
Philadelphia OH in 1851 along wiwth others from Fayette PA such as John
SHANK b. 1797 Fayette to Jacob Shank ( b. 1770 in Lancaster Co., PA) and
Nancy STAUFFER b. 1774 in Lancaster PA to John STAUFFER and Elizabeth
WINKLE. James d. in New Philadelphiaq in Jan 1854 in a runaway team
accident. Rachel Jackson PORTER d. there in 1870.
Mary Ann PORTER b. 1833 ( probably in Holmes Co., OH ) m. Robert
Fleming SHANK b. 1830 in Bullskin Twp., Fayette Co., PA as the son of
Henry SHANKSr ( b. 1807 Fayette as brother to John SHANK above b. 1797)
and Emily FLEMING b. 1810) on January 1, 1854 in Tuscarawas Co., OH.
She died in 1894? and Robert in 1902 in Hancock Co., OH
Their son Albert Clinton Shank b. 1860 St. Joseph's MO was my
greatgrandfather. He died in 1957 and I remember him, as well as his
second wife, Minnie Etta LONGBRAKE b. 1871 in Wood Co., OH d. 1956 in
Hancock OH.
Would like to make contact with anyone else researching this line.
Thank you in advance for your time in this, Margaret Shank (Arvada, CO)
I believe the parents of my 3ggrandmother, Rachel JACKSON PORTER were
Hugh Jackson Jr. b. 19 June 1744 in Ireland ( County Antrim?
) and died 1 May 1809 in Menallen Twp., Fayette PA. His spouse is
believed to be Elizabeth Hayes b. 1752 in ? and married 1772 in Fayette
Co., PA. This Jackson family originally settled in CECIL Co MD near
Sharpsburg where Hugh SR and wife Mary are buried. Hugh Sr? or Jr.? and
a son Robert were Revolutionary War Patriots. Would like to make
contact with anyone researching this line. Would also welcome
suggestions for further research efforts.
Thank you in advance for your time,
Margaret Shank ( Arvada, CO)
Were there city directories for Baltimore as early as 1836?
If so what is the location of copies? I'm trying to find John H. Gardiner b. 1818 in NJ. A bio of him says he worked in a dry good store in Philadelphia until he "came of age" and then took charge of a branch store in Baltimore.
Thank you,
Linda McDowell in San Juan Capistrano, CA