Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Finding John R: 7. SOS the message boards

Putting a message in the bottle and tossing it into the sea is a lot like posting to a message board. Family searchers all over the world toss messages into the sea of internet traffic hoping to connect with a fellow searcher who might have a fact, a photo, a family bible that can tell them more.


We look for John R Allison's family on the message boards. We do not find him.

We post in hopes someone, somewhere might see our request and maybe, just maybe might know his kin.  Our post goes up on an Ancestry.com message board titled: north america> usa> states> Texas>unknown families.  There is an art to posting to a board that other related searchers might see. 
We don't know what it is. 
We post and hope.  
We are searching for the family of our great grandfather, John R. Allison b. 1844 or 45 in PA by his account on the 1880 US census. John R. probably came to Texas sometime after 1870. According to 1880 US census he’s living in Precinct 5 of Wood Co., Texas with wife Mary Catherine (Evans) and baby, Annie B. Allison. In 1892 he is postmaster in Hawkins, TX.We have found no record of him after this. What we would like to find is confirmation of his life previous to this and to know who his parents were. We have found a John R. Allison with a matching birthdate in the 1850 and 1870 US censuses of Greencastle, Franklin, PA and some military records indicating he was at Big Wichita, Texas. Posted: 8 Mar 2013 2:09AM

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Message board ancestry.com

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