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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Terry -thank you for your query - you are the
first person to respond to my 1st posting on this bulletin.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> I can say that I do not see a surname that I can tie to at this time,
but it is always well to ask.</DIV>
<DIV>To you, Terry, and to the Others who read this I can tell you that I have
been doing genealogy since </DIV>
<DIV>1983 when I was really bitten by the Gen Bug - LOL!!! I had my 1st
taste of it when I was age 12 when I </DIV>
<DIV>read and COPIED my Grandparents Biographical Sketch in a History of King
County (State of WA) when </DIV>
<DIV>I was 12 yrs old. It was that copy that inspired me to act upon the
Info 59 years later. That story is too long</DIV>
<DIV>but I hit "pay dirt" right from the start in 1983 and I've been going full
blast since!</DIV>
<DIV> Let me say this for an intro. I knew that my ancestry went back to
the OR Trail 1847 when my Clarks walked</DIV>
<DIV>with their ox team from IN>OR in that yr. (Brownsville, OR), soon
Harrisburg, then Roseburg area of Wilbur, OR</DIV>
<DIV>& the Methodist - Umpqua Academy or Wilbur Academy of Father
James Wilbur. My anc. were among the </DIV>
<DIV>Staff of that schooling from 1855 - 1865, when the Family migrated N to
White River Valley, WA Territory in</DIV>
<DIV>1865. The Family lived at White River Valley, now Kent, WA just
S of Seattle; but part of my Clarks lived </DIV>
<DIV>down by the Columbia River across the River near Lyle, WA but
actually 12 mi. NE of Lyle up in the rattlesnake </DIV>
<DIV>country called by the inhabitants High Prairie, but it had a Post Office
turn of the last century at that area which was </DIV>
<DIV>and is rolling hills and farming country. There were/are Clark
descendants of these families living along the Columbia </DIV>
<DIV>River areas, and at various places in Oregon. Some even lived in CA,
and it was the CA Branch that kept and </DIV>
<DIV>maintained the Clark Genealogy which goes back to 1637 London, ENG >MA
in that year; then, in 1638 they </DIV>
<DIV>were among the Founders of New Haven Colony, CT - so I know all my Grand
parents male, & female from </DIV>
<DIV>1637 Immigrant, James Clark down to my Granddaughter & all in between.
</DIV>
<DIV> I hold certificates from:</DIV>
<DIV> America's First Families' Ancestor Roll of Honor for James Clark
imm. 1637 & of New Haven Colony 1638.</DIV>
<DIV> issued in 2002 Proven in order to achieve the Certif of
Membership.</DIV>
<DIV> Oregon Pioneer Certif for Jason S. Clark (Jasson Squire Clark)
OR Pioneer 1983</DIV>
<DIV> WA State Pioneer Certif for Jason S. Clark 1988</DIV>
<DIV>I am not bragging - as it took a lot of footwork and miles of travel in WA
& OR, plus a lot of Library Searching </DIV>
<DIV>to achieve this. This was BC - before I owned a computer. I
slept in the back of my Volvo 1800 Ssportwagon </DIV>
<DIV>on my jaunts to OR, and WA to shag info, but I was so enthralled by
what I was able to find, that I </DIV>
<DIV>went "ape" in doing so. I think you get the picture of the glassy
eyed genealogist syndrome - LOL!!!</DIV>
<DIV> With that, I will watch the bulletins come in from various sources
and respond if I have anything that might </DIV>
<DIV>"tie" or be a "clue".</DIV>
<DIV> I subscribe regularly to PSRoots (Puget Sound Roots) and WASNOHOM
(Snohomish County WA) of the rootsweb system and I've been quite active on those
bulletins for quite a number of years. I have written articles to those
bulletins </DIV>
<DIV>which are among the Archives of those sites.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards to All who are on this bulletin for
OR hist & gen. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carroll Clark (male) Snohomish, WA 30 mi. NE
of Seattle</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My Personal Motto: They Want to Be
Found! I've experience so many "coincidences" with gen. that I have come
to </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> believe that our Ancestors want to be discovered - we just need to
play the "clues" and keep trying to find them.</DIV>
<DIV> About the time you give up - it comes to you -in the mail, or by
some other means, such as this BULLETIN !</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thisisez@gte.net href="mailto:thisisez@gte.net">Terry</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=w7iml@gte.net
href="mailto:w7iml@gte.net">w7iml@gte.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Your Columbia River
Relatives</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Carroll,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you have any Proebstel, Boen, Newsome,
Holland, Padgett, McClure, Bentley, Merryman, Lewis or Cox Families in your
list of relatives?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry</FONT></DIV>
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