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<DIV>Denise</DIV>
<DIV>Do any of your Shoemaker lines trace back to Nebraska or Kansas, my wifes family has Shoemakers and the related names are Aumiller.</DIV>
<DIV>Glen Portland, Oregon</DIV>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Glen A. Jones</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Denise Merritt" <merritthome1@cableone.net> <BR><BR>> I had to add a happier story. In years past I went around asking relatives <BR>> about old photos. Some showed me what they had and some kept them secret! <BR>> <GRIN>Eventually I received a book of old photos but many weren't labeled <BR>> (this was on my maternal grandmother's side). <BR>> <BR>> When a cousin on my maternal grandFATHER's side died another cousin called <BR>> me to come look at the photos he'd received to send on to the cousin in the <BR>> Will. There were MANY and some were labeled. Both sides of the family were <BR>> from the Roseburg area. In looking over the photos I found one that <BR>> appeared in the other photo book (unlabeled). It was a photo of my direct <BR>> ancestor on my maternal grandMOTHER's side. It was labeled so now I knew <BR>> who was in the photo in my possession! Apparently they had been friends and <BR>> so had a photo of an ancestor on my OTHER side of the family labeled in the <BR>> second collection. <BR>> <BR>> Sad to say (for me) the photos were "willed" to a cousin who has now died <BR>> and I can't seem to find their descendants to learn what happened to the <BR>> collection. All the same, I felt blessed to have seen them and identified <BR>> another of my own unlabeled collection. <BR>> <BR>> I have a small group of photos of my one branch that were the only clues to <BR>> the family history when I first began. They were labeled with things like <BR>> "your sister, Myrtle and a son"; "your brother Jim and his first wife, <BR>> Mary"; your brother Jim's children (3 in the photo). With those scant clues <BR>> I did track down the siblings in Kansas & Illinois & Missouri. Just this <BR>> week I've found a third cousin who had no photos of the family so I'm able <BR>> to send him scanned photos of his ancestors. I'm always trying to share so <BR>> I have gotten my warm holiday feelings from this latest connection. <GRIN><BR>> <BR>> So...my moral is...keep all old photos and keep looking for those cousins. <BR>> <BR>> Denise <BR>> Descendant of AGEE, ATTERBURY, BLAKELY, CHESTER, COLLARD, CRAWFORD, GAGE, <BR>> GILLIAM, KENT, LANDRETH, LIVINGSTON, MATTHEWS, SHAFF, SHOEMAKER, SIMMONS, & <BR>> THORNTON lines in Oregon (many of those were in Coos, Jackson Polk or <BR>> Douglas Counties) <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> or-roots mailing list <BR>> or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>