User talk:Looking4family

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John Stone Stone[edit]

Hi there! Thanks for contributing to the page. What's your source for Mount Hope? I don't doubt the veracity of your assertion, but I wanted to ask how you find that out. I'm interested in John's father's page. I happen to know a great deal about JSS's family, if this is why your user name is "Looking4family". One sister is a question mark, but the rest I know pretty well. If I can be of service, please feel invited to click on my link and post to my talk page. Thanks in any case, and welcome. BusterD (talk) 02:22, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Everything you wrote makes perfect sense. Please, please don't die of the flu. So thankful you made this contribution. The only disappointment is the lack of dates on the stone for Todas Santas. (Until your addition, I'd never seen her named Egypta before, though she spent her early years living with her brother, mother and family in Egypt.) While I don't have the dates at hand, based on a family bible discovered in Louisiana, my recollection is that Todas was born in Manakin, VA around 1867. I'm wondering where the dates came from, if they don't exist on her memorial. How did anyone discover the Todas Santas name? If Todas was born in 1871, this means she was born in Egypt, which would be news to me. By the way, I live in New York, though I lived in San Diego for a time as a child (Rowan Elementary). So nice to chat with you. If I can bring any of my NYPL sources to bear to help yours or Jeff's effort, please call on me, I'm a big fan of GAR folks. I'm always in the library. Please pass my regards and thanks on to Jeff. BusterD (talk) 10:40, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BusterD[edit]

Hlj are you BusterD? Sorry I've not used wiki to talk before... its making me crazy and its a short drive tonight! Looking4family (talk) 04:26, 16 November 2011 (UTC) looking4family

No, I'm Hlj. BusterD sent me a message on my Talk page. Hal Jespersen (talk) 12:30, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]