I took a Speed Hearing Course in college. Now I can hear about as fast as anybody...

I took a speed peeing course last year:

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

We have a lot of smart alects on this forum Karen.
Zona

Well, at least MINE was a true, true story, Zona --- unlike some "others."

That is true, Zona. It's a crying shame some people on the forum have to make something dirty out of every day postings...a shame.

Hey, "Pot" Culberson!

SIGNED: "Kettle" Holmes

On E.S.'s father's side I haven't been able to get very much. Only two surnames. Glosson and Roberts. On his mother's side I have Cast, Herren, and Grant.

On my father's side I have Stewart/Stuart, Snow, and Parkerson. On my mother's side I have Dison, Barnett, Wood,
Goodman, Campbell, Mitchum, Hammonds, Dodson, and Machen.

I started when our first son was born and the Sylacauga hospital gave me a baby book and it had a family tree to fill out in it and I couldn't fill very many of the blanks out. So it has been a long search of 49 years with lots of interesting journeys. I have 16 three inch three ring note books on our family with pictures, birth certificates, census records, wills, land grants, news paper clippings and any thing else I can find for documentation.

Hope you enjoy your search as much as I have.

Handsome Ed has a lot on his family also with very much War info on the male side. He is about the only man I know that has as much of an interest as I do on genealogy.

I got my sister-in-law, Lois Lewis hooked and we have went on several trips together digging up dead folks. Her husband, Clem Lewis's family has extensive work that has been done by members of his family.

Zona

Charlie and I started "hunting" about the same time. In fact, he was the one who actually started and the bug bit me. I so enjoy the search. On one of Charlie's lines, a 4th cousin read one of his posts and sent him a wealth of information taking the line back to England....all documented. My lines have been a little here and a little there with extreme enthusiasm when something shows up. I'm sure you know the feeling. One year we took a genealogy vacation to Ohio and Indiana where my ancestors "settled". My dad told me his grandparents were buried behind a little white church somewhere between Milan and Rising Sun. We went to every little church that had a graveyard and we found them! What fun!!!!

Oner,
I thought it was against the law to dig up dead people until I went to the grave of Beethoven where some Music Archivists were exhuming his remains. They opened his coffin and asked Beethoven what he was doing?
Beethoven said, "I'm Decomposing!"
Almost a true, true story...Neph

There is no hope for any of you nuts so I'm just going to over look you.

Zona

In "some cases," that won't be hard to do, Zona.

I've never come across that kind of luck. My daughter-in-law could care less about genealogy and her grandfather carried me to a grave yard that had five generations of her family all laid out in a row and the library had several family trees on them also. I had a second cousin that told me where my great uncle was buried. He said it was across the river from the back of the court house in Ft. Worth, TX. When we went out west with Lois and Clem we came back through TX and finally found the cemetery. Oakwood Cemetery. I already knew that he was killed over the right of way along the railroad. He had a store next to the railroad with living quarters in the back.

I have found a lot of info that I didn't really want to know.

Zona

I know what you mean Zona...some things I really did not need to know. Have a book on Bibb County churches and it has minutes etc....well my great grand father was "churched" (that means thrown out of church) for cursing on the streets in Centerville. It does not say when but at some stage of the game he was allowed to reenter as he appears as having made a motion in a business meeting later.
Has things changed or what??? Can you imagine a church putting someone out for cursing these days? Wonder when these things changed.

Oh, but the out of the line stuff keeps it interesting. We've had outlaws and heard stories about others...one of my great great aunts was evidently quite an interesting lady and had several husbands...I enjoy it all.