buls@dataio.UUCP (Rick Buls) (08/14/85)
Ok, I know there is not much traffic on net.root, is that because no one is interested in their roots? I've been into looking, off and on, for about five years. I am at the point of not knowing what to do next, so why not try the net? Since all the surnames I'm looking for are so rare I'm sure their is a conection to anyone else with the same surnames. So does anyone have any connection to the following surnames?: Buls(my fathers name of course)(from Germany in 1883) Lobdell(my mothers maiden name)(Claude,George R,George(NY)) Ells(my grandmothers maiden name)(John A., Arnold(NY)) Hofstra(my other grandmother(grew up as a Clark)(Aaron) Emma Gorey(????)( this may have been my great grandmother, married John Ells in Minnesota in 1870s) I have access to the Archives, the Seattle and UW Library, and The Mormon Records, but I am having trouble getting further. I have marraige, death and birth records, but as you know they get thin the further back you go. I would really like to find fathers of George Lobdell (born 1799 in NY) and Arnold Ells(born 1810? in NY). Also I need the maiden names of the wifes of George R. Lobdell( Betsy Holden?), Arnold Ells(Ruth), and John Ells (Emma Gorey??). Please mail any information or suggestions to me at uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!buls. PS I am also interested in doing research here for research into my family roots. My needs are for research in Mankato(Blue Earth) and Redwood County in Minnesota, in Northern New Jersey, and in New York State (Buffalo?). -- Rick Buls (Data I/O; Redmond, Wa) uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!buls
rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) (08/19/85)
I would have sent this to you as a reply but haven't quite got the hang of that yet. Everything I send keeps getting returned. The most active net for genealogy is the ROOTS-BBS in San Francisco (415)586-8973 300/1200 8/n/1. I try to check in here and do some cross-messaging as well. You might check the Indiana Historical Society's genealogy section newsletter for (scratch that).... check the New England Historical and Genealogy Society's "NEXUS" for April 1985. There is a surname query in that issue for Lobdell. Using the ROOTS-BBS files I checked for all your names in the publications of New England, New York, Ohio, Calif, Indiana, and the current family research for York, Treganza, Saunders, Welch and could find only that one. It might be worth your while following up on. The sysop on ROOTS-BBS can give you the full text of the query if you dont have access to that publication.