Thought For The Day Genealogywise-Wood CountyA query posted at the Wood County, Texas Message Board at Rootsweb.com concerned the Richard M. Black family in the 1910 census of Wood County. They included Richard, Zoa Black (wife) and children Mollie, Martie, Barbara, William, and Lillian. Other names were Richard’s parents David M. and Mary Whitworth. His mother and his sister Francis [...]
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Member Mark Reid has shared the following request:
I have been working with Joe Francis of Mineola .
Joe is researching his Francis family and preparing a book based on this research.
Joe has done years of research and has a mountain of material, but has run into a couple of problems.
I plan to ask one of our [...]
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Member Mark Reid responded to a recent query for Eli and Susan Manor/Maynor/Mainer and has shared his findings with us.
The original query included this:
This couple moved from Panola County (lived there in 1860 and 1870) to Wood county sometime before the 1880 census. In the same household is daughter Susan Hodges and [...]
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Member Gwen Sears is trying to contact Violet Shirey who had a recent query posted here wanting to connect to families with the surname Shirey. She is having some difficulty connecting. Gwen said, “I have a ggrandmother who is a Shirey so I am interested in talking to her about a possible connection.” If violet [...]
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Wiley Alston Jarrell has shared a list of 62 people in his database with a Wood county Texas event (birth, marriage, death).
“If you can add, subtract, delete, change any of the above data please
advise. If you have any questions about the data feel free to ask! I want every date and place I [...]
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I’m helping my son-in-law’s family to research his father’s lines and have traced one of the Ray families to your county. We are trying to find more information on the Jones Daniel Ray family who were in Woods County in the 1860 census–Holly Spring Post Office. But then they apparently moved to Travis [...]
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These researchers are seeking information on the following surnames:
Violet Shirey is researching Potter, Bellomy, Shirey, and Minshew in Wood County, Texas. Violet can be contacted at 361-729-5283 or at vshirey@sbcglobal.net.
Shirley Navarro is researching Cave, Wilder, Ramey, and Willingham. Shirley can be contacted at navarro6@swbell.net.
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Member Mary Yandell of Grove, Oklahoma writes that she is still seeking information on the James Greer family and the Hugh Bailey Morrison family, both in Wood County before the Civil War. She can be contacted by postal mail. For her address, go to the WCGS Bulletin member only pages where this query is also [...]
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A recent TXWOOD Mailing list post inquired about the family of Wylie Jackson Browning, 1891-1964, died Wood County, Texas. Names mentioned included children Lula Reeves Browning, Arless Browning, E. Aubrey “Dick” Browning, T. C. Browning, Wylie Jackson Browning, Jr. Contact email: ellenATairmail.net (Note: substitute the “@” symbol for the “AT” in the email address.)
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If you can help a distant researcher with a look-up in vertical files, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the post below on vertical files and click on the comments (1 comment at the time of this writing).
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