[or-roots] Dye, Day, Dee, Deiwks

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Idon't know if my original got out ot not.  My e-mail system is strange! so here it is again

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Duane R.(Bob) Goodman
> Hi Joyce Lee & Fellow Oregonians:
> I have been going back over my work on the Dye Family (my Mother was born Cora 
> Belle Dye) and feel pretty confident that it is pretty good.(see attached)
> In doing some reading on the Oregon Trail the name JOHN DAY came up. He was an 
> Early Northwest Explorer (b. 1704 in Bedford Mass.) Well, I spent 4 months in 
> the John Day area during my Jr. year at OSU. I was Majoring in Geology and we 
> did real field work, living in tents and hiking about 15 miles a day.
> I got interested in his line of the Days, Dyes, Dees, Diewks, and low and behold 
> his line intersects with the line I've been working on and I believe that JOHN 
> DAY is my ggFather X12. I've underlined the intersection on the attachment.  
> Myline of the Dyes Settled in the area near Coos Bay/NorthBend at Riverton near 
> Coquelle. (However my mother was born in Missouri, and I'm quite certain she 
> came out west on the Oregon Trail.
> 
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> Duane R.(Bob) Goodman