mornin' all! NJR, hoping you have some luck w/ the IN obit for FRANKLIN.... will be lurking & surfing...

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ NEHGS is pleased to offer free access to its New England Historical and Genealogical Register database on NewEnglandAncestors.org over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Normally only available to NEHGS members, the Register database will be accessible to everyone from Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28, 2004. We encourage all NEHGS members to spread the word about this offering, and we hope that those of you who are not members find a veritable feast of ancestors in the Register database!

ooh that's great! thanks for passing it on. hope we can ALL find at least one good success there this weekend :-) ..... Pearl, hope you're doing/feeling great and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

http://www.crownhill.org/cemetery/index.html ~~ Crown Hill Cemetery and Funeral Home- 700 West 38th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46208 - Cemetery: (317) 925-8231 Funeral Home: (317) 925-3800 Toll Free: (800) 809-3366 Fax: (317) 925-8240 E-mail: info@crownhill.org ............ EARL JAMES FRANKLIN - Burial: 02/18/1992 Marker: N Section: 13 Lot: 20 ........... If you go to index pg link at start of this post, click Burial Locator link at left, type Franklin February 1992 in the blocks and voila! this match comes up, including link to order more details... which I checked, there's a fee, online form & tells you what you will/will NOT get in return. Not sure it's worth it, esp. since you don't even know if this IS your Earl Julius FRANKLIN's son Earl J. FRANKLIN who was on the 1930 Census yet, but... LOL ..... bottom of page and left of pg have several links too (incl. Genealogy - didn't check that but you might want to)

oh ya, that cem. has 184 FRANKLIN names, but I didn't see any that had the same section # and Lot # as him.. was just hoping that might tip us off if he had other fam. buried there

http://www.crownhill.org/cemetery/index.html ~ Posting pg link again for anyone else to check out - it's huge! (here's only part of the description, also has photo) ----- CROWN HILL CEMETERY is located in Indianapolis, INDIANA and is the third largest non-government cemetery in the country. Crown Hill Cemetery was dedicated on June 1, 1864. The first burial took place on June 2, 1864 ....... With over 555 acres and 25 miles of paved road, Crown Hill is the final resting-place to over 185,000 citizens. One of the most historically significant sites in Indiana, Crown Hill is the burial site of such famous people as: President Benjamin HARRISON, Colonel Eli LILLY, 11 Indiana Governors, 1 Kentucky Governor, 14 Indiana Mayors, 13 Civil War Generals, poet James Whitcomb RILEY, author Booth TARKINGTON, automobile manufacturer Frederick DUESENBERG, and the infamous bank robber John DILLINGER. ......... [hey, wasn't someone here looking for info on John DILLINGER???]

My gggrandfather James Sampson BURNS was born in 1811, Isaac BURNS was born 1800, Isaac went to Mo. from TN. close to 1820. His son James Sampson was born Feb 23, 1837 in Clay Co. Mo. I have thought Isaac and my James Sampson might be brothers, because they both went to Clay Co. Mo. from Tn. and they both lived in Gentry and Harrison Co. at various times too, both the descendant of Isaac and I have tried to prove it, but have been unable to.

Heritage Quest shows no BURNS in TN in 1810. 1820 finds 34 in TN including the following by the name of James: BURNS JAMES TN LAWRENCE NO TWP LISTED 1820 BURNS JAMES TN MONTGOMERY NO TWP LISTED 1820 BURNS JAMES TN WILSON LEBANON 1820 BURNS JAMES W TN LINCOLN FAYETTEVILLE 1820

I sent to the library and for $1.00 they are sending me the obit. When I see if it is the right one I will delve deeper. Thanks for thinking about me.

Marge, that Dick Eastman article link re: HeritageQuest you posted was very informative. Then I spotted message posts below that & I just gotta pass one on from there!!! .... ['...Any Connecticut resident who has a library card from their local public library can access HeritageQuest Online from their home computer. They should go to http://www.iconn.org/ Then choose 'Access from Home', enter the barcode number from the back of their library card, click the link for HeritageQuest Online and there you are...']

cool huh?! I recently got member access to HQ Online thru new membership with CT Soc. of Gen. I was excited about it, asked staff at my local library if they had access for their visitors & none had heard of it before. Now, if that CT lady is correct, I can pass that info on to MY local libraries & ask them to inform/publicize that for visitors.... I've already used the iconn.org site several times (& the librarians here do VERY often) but never knew that. Apparently the lib. staff doesn't yet either, LOL. ..... so all you CT residents should give it a try too! :-)

Atta girl! You're moving right along on that one. Wow, not sure I would've ever thought to request obits from a library. That's great! Is that pretty common to do (and so reasonable)?

Here's what I have, Isaac BURNS son of Benjamin and Sarah SMITH BURNS b.1800 one of 11 children. Only two of these children have been identified, the other being Benjamin Smith BURNS b.Nov. 10, 1809 near Lexington KY. His parents Benjamin and Sarah were married June 7, 1800 in Botecourt Co. Va. The lived in various counties in Va. until they moved to Lexington Ky. where their son Benjamin was born. Around 1813 they moved to Washington Co. Tennessee where they live until 1817. They then migrated to Howard Co. MO. then to Jackson Co. Mo. then to Clay Co. Mo. Benjamin and Isaac also lived in other parts of Mo including Harrison Co. where they both owned land. My gggrandfather James Sampson BURNS stated on his census records that his parents were born in Va.

Been thinking of you two gals often... know how busy you've both been and just had to holler out a couple of Howdy!'s & Hope things are going great for you.... and HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to REWRITE! (missed it on Nov. 20)... (((HUGS)))

Yes, Heritage Quest is available in many libraries and I would suggest that everyone check with your local and neighboring libraries to see if it's available for you. My membership is through a larger neighboring county library and my library card cost $10 a year. But it is well worth it especially with getting Heritage Quest and I often use the library for other research.

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