Hi Deb,

 

First thanks for the links.  I am checking them out.

 

Next, gee I read and read to make sure all that data was right and still made a mistake.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I need to start putting these messages down in a word processor and then letting them sit for a day till my head clears before posting them.  I work in bookkeeping and after a full day of numbers they start to all look alike.

 

I have been spending much time going though back posts and other sites looking for information, but am having little luck.  I am also attempting to contact other relatives that might have information or leads for me.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Mary

 

Oh yes the Dorothy Mustain and  husband  Willie are not names I have run across but have made note of this information just in case they do become needed. 

 

Hi Deb,

I have only been researching on and off for a couple of years, but I have learned about dates being wrong, names not the same, and lots of other mis-information, dates and places of births, deaths, marriages. It's a lot to wade through but so very interesting. I have found several cousins I didn't know I had and heard family stories that would curl anyone's hair if they didn't already have a perm. Some of it makes you glad that you didn't know some family and others make you so sorry you missed the opportunity to meet such wonderful people. Still even family stories are handed down person to person and subject to close examination.

I have been trying to keep dates very straight so that I myself do not pass on misinformation. I have run across a few people who just will not believe the truth no matter what documents you have to prove it and so I am extremely careful most of the time. It's just that right now I have been working under extreme exhaustion and that causes me to make mistakes. I shall work to keep things straight as much as possible.

I got interested in genealogy because of my mother. Her family has been researching family for years and has come up with very little; this is my Davenport/Roggers side of the family. She wanted me to check online for some information for her and at the same time I decided to check out my dad. I was amazed to have something come up when I typed just his name in a goggle search. I found a couple of sites that listed names of his sisters, he had no brothers and some of the names I knew and some I did not. I had to go looking to find out just who Mable Irene Mustain/Boyle was. I had known this women till her death only as Aunt Pinky. Then there was a Lillian Capitola Mustain who died at an early age, who was also an aunt. I had memories then of a mention of a sister of dads who died from measles at an early age. Now if that is correct I have yet to find out.

One other thing that has peaked my interest is the family rumors. Up to the last couple of years I just let them slide and not paid much attention. Then my mother started talking about some that seems a bit outrageous and I could not just sit and say it wasn't so, as she believes them completely. Some one, somewhere said to someone who told someone and so it is true, because you have to believe that someone because you trust him or her. She, my mother, is upset with me most of the time as I do not just "believe", I have been told all my life that much of my family was from the "show" me state and I guess that is part of me. LOL I will not even mention rumors as they are probably in every family. I can say that I was able to show her that one is not possible because of research done but others out in Internet land. It was distressing to her but she listened with at least half an ear.

I do thank you for the help you have provided. Each piece is a step towards finding the next piece of the puzzle.  I have not done a goggle search in a while so your reminder is a good thing.  You run through things so often that after a while a small reminder is very good.

 

Thank you,

MaryJeanne

Hi,

 

I did that goggle search and was happy to find some new data.  From a search I learned that my Aunt Jessie Mustain/Newburn is buried in Monett, Missouri in the Bethel Baptist Cemetery.  I knew she had died but I now have a date to put with it of  29 Oct 2002. 

 

I learned from this same article that my last known living aunt was last living in Nevada and her current last name at the time of the obit was Voiles.  So Bonnie Mustain/Coble/Voiles.  I did find a phone number for a Bonnie Voiles in the living area listed in the obit but it is a disconnected number.  The is the same thing I used to get with Aunt Bonnie.  It has been many years but she used to write me and by the time I got the letter back in the mail she had already moved.  Story of life I guess.

 

I now also know that I have quite a few second and third cousins out there.  Aunt Jessie had thirteen grandchildren, and 22 great grandchildren.  Wow a whole bunch of new cousins to look for.  Then I found a general locaction of another of Jessies children.

 

So on another goggle search I found a piece where a gentleman named Raymond Banks did an abstraction from draft cards from 1917 to 1918.  My grandfather William Mustain is listed on this as having registered in Stevens, Missouri was born 5 Jun 1888 in Buffalo Missouri.  From my own grandfather's listings of his birth place I am being pointed towards Buffalo instead of Tunis.

 

So thanks again Deb for the goggle search reminder.  It has paid off some already.

 

During another search I found an email address for the county that my great grandfather is said to have been born and have email this lady for information on where to possibly get his record.  She emailed me back already and gave me information on how to obtain a search, the cost, and the information I need to provide.

 

Mary