Concerning family tree software, there are many fine programs out there including Family Tree Maker. What I use has the advantage of being free. The Mormons, for doctrinal reasons, are very much into family history and they make available a computer program called Personal Ancestral File 5.1., and when downloaded off their internet site, at no charge. While I am not Mormon and my motivations for family history are different from theirs, I find their software very usable and pretty much user-friendly. Here's their site if you're interested: http://genealogy.about.com/library/blpaf.htm

Janice;
Since you are sending me a picture or two, I'm going to make a picture available to you, as well, and to anybody else "listening in". You have a group of second cousins and their families up here in the Pacific Northwest and each year we get together for a picnic. You'll find a picture of this year's get-together at this address: http://www.execuclean.com/laborday.htm

Mike,
Thanks so much for posting the picture from your reunion. I really enjoyed seeing you and your dad and all the other cousins. It's too bad your wife, Laurie, was taking the picture. I would like to have seen her, too. It so happens I have a daughter named Laurie. Coincidence....

Thanks also for the info on the software from the LDS. I get on their website frequently to do research, but I didn't know they had the software available for download at no charge. What a deal! I'm definitely going to check it out.

I really would like to have one of your books. If you will send me your mailing address via email, I will send you a money order. Or....if you have a Paypal account set up, I could send it to you that way. Whatever you prefer, just let me know.

Hi Janice�A;�A;I am the Louise Mike refers to in one of his messages. I have lost ready recall of our family tree since Mike has added so much lately. What relationship are you to Herman Slaughter? I remember visiting him once when I was about 8 or so. He had several sons and at least one daughter who was about 16 or 17. We went to White Sands to play in the sand I still have pictures of it. This was in Kermit Texas. I live in Oklahoma City and am 64 years old. I don't do research any more as I am rising my grandchildren now helping with three 11, 7, 6, and totally rising a set of twins 20 months old so I am quite busy, but I do check my email and try to answer it, so feel free to write anytime just wait for the answer. Louise�A;�A;�A;----- Original Message ----�A;From: QT - Janice Golden <qtopic+34-mGnHxSUsnUg@quicktopic.com>�A;To: QT topic subscribers <qtopic+subs@quicktopic.com>�A;Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 12:58:00 PM�A;Subject: The Genealogy of the Moody Family of Kaufman County�A;�A;�A;--QT-------------------------------------------------------------�A; Reply by email or visit�A; http://www.quicktopic.com/34/H/mGnHxSUsnUg/m190�A;--------------------------------------------------------------- -�A;�A;Hi Mike,�A;Thanks for your kind welcome. I have been looking at all the�A;photos, obits, etc. on the website. They are great! I had found�A;the (later) picture of Mary Louise Moody on the Kaufman County�A;"Kith and Kin" page and emailed Susan to thank her for posting�A;it, even though I didn't know if she uses that email address any�A;longer. It was only the second Moody ancestor photo I had ever�A;seen. I have one family photo of my grandparents, John C.�A;Slaughter and Sarah Francis Moody and six of their eight sons.�A;If you want it, I'll scan it and email it to you. �A;�A;As I said, I'm a REAL newbie to family research, although I have�A;always been interested in it. Back in the early 1970's, I tried�A;to pick the brains of my dad and his brothers at our family�A;reunion but I got very little information from them. I concluded�A;that there was a conspiracy among them to keep some deep, dark�A;family secret.:) Anyway, I really only started looking for�A;information in August and haven't input anything into a file�A;yet. I have been looking at genealogy software. Do most of you�A;use Family Tree Maker 10? Or do you recommend something else? I�A;am compiling our family's information and have asked my sisters,�A;brother and some cousins for their information so that it will�A;be as accurate as possible. When I get it into a file, I'll be�A;glad to send it to you. �A;�A;Re William Andrews and the "Old Three Hundred", I feel certain�A;that Mary Louise's father was too young to have been awarded a�A;land grant if he was indeed born in 1811. I was thinking maybe�A;her grandfather. That's why I asked if you had any information�A;farther back. �A;�A;Yes, my father's name was William. There was always some�A;confusion about which name came first. Social Security had it as�A;William Frank, but when he ordered his and my mom's marker, he�A;had Frank William put on it. He always went by Frank, though.�A;�A;I saw something on this message board about you writing a book�A;about the Moody family. I would really be interested in getting�A;one. And also something about a book you're working on now? Is�A;it about the Mackey family? �A;_________________________________________________________________�A;To unsubscribe: http://www.quicktopic.com/34/X/mGnHxSUsnUg�A;Start your own topic in 20 seconds: http://www.quicktopic.com |QT�A;�A;�A; �A;________________________________________________________________ ___________________�A;Sponsored Link�A;�A;Online degrees - find the right program to advance your career. �A;www.nextag.com

The money may be sent to my Paypal account by referencing my email address: Mike@execuclean.com

Louise, send me that picture you were talking about and I will post it. Janice your picture will go up very soon, anotated with everybody's names.

The picture of the Slaughter Family about 1907, in addition to some other new pictures, is now posted at the Moody family photo album http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm

Thanks for posting the picture, Mike. It looks much better than I expected. I have transferred the funds for your book. My mailing address should show up on your receipt. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Louise, Herman was my uncle-my father's brother. He was kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I wasn't surprised when Mike said he was driving a long haul truck. In his later years he had worm beds and would sell the worms to the locals for fishbait. He was one of those real characters who always had a funny story to tell(usually with a twinkle in his eye). The older girl you referred to was probably Christine. As far as I know she is still living in Kermit in her mom and dad's house.

I live in Odessa, TX, about 45 miles to the east of Kermit. I have one daughter, Laurie, and one son, David, and five grandchildren, ages 19, 11,11,11,and 10. Yes, they're triplets, so I know a little about dealing with multiples, too. Louise, you really do have your hands full, with the older kids and the babies as well. I am not working outside the home right now, so I pick up the triplets from school every day for my daughter and oversee homework, instrument practice, etc. Then the chaffeuring duties begin: to dance lessons, Tae Kwon Do class, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc, etc, etc. At least my busy time doesn't start until they get out of school! This is the first time I have felt that I had the time to start researching our family.

I guess you are talking about the pictures I refered to after you posted the three lookalike pictures of the moody men. In looking at them I saw a great resymbolence to my dad in the pictures of our family taken about 1947 and the one taken 1952. I know you have them in your many photos. It would stand to reason that there might be a likeness as dad was half Moody.

Several new photos have been added to the Moody photo album ( http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm ), including one recently shared by Janice. We now have pictures of all of Mary Lou Moody's children that lived to adulthood except Celia "Annie" Meek.

Mike, the picture of the children of Mary Lou Moody.....you have Louella picture wrong. That is Mollie Louisa Moody JOnes. Mollie's parents are William and Celia Ann Cody Moody.

You are right. I stand corrected. I'll fix it.

Correction made. There are two of her children who lived to adulthood we do not yet have pictures of. These are the two girls she had with Hickman: Luella and Celia Annie.

I work up such comparison-photos for my own purpose and sometimes share them, as I have this one. My personal purpose is to demonstrate the family traits, to see how facial features compare.
It is interesting to me to see how similar Henry and Jesse's features are and how different they are from their half-brother Albert. We can get an idea of the genetic infuence, if you will, that Hickman and James must have had on their off-spring and what they themselves might have looked like.
While I am not aware of Hickman's size, we do know from army enlistment records (14th Kansas Cavalry-USA) that Henry, the oldest brother, was a fairly tall man for the times at 5'10" but that James was only 5'4". (this Civil War data made available by Prof. Justin Sanders)
The WWI draft registration for Jesse Hickman, one of James' sons, indicates that he was a medium-built fellow who was medium in height. (It also tells us he had red hair.)(There is no draft registration record for Henry, his brother, no doubt because at the time he was a patient at the mental hospital and would spend the rest of his life there.) The grandson of James' oldest brother Henry, Roy, on the other hand was listed as "tall" as one would expect he might be with a father who, too, would have been considered tall in his day. Interesting to note, however, that Roy's brother, Floy, was only considered to be medium in height.

Guess what- while going thru my Knoy-Moody file this weekend I found a picture of Louella Hickman Moody Knoy and her husband William Joshua Knoy.I am emailing it to Mike -
Sue Clinton

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What email address should I use for that picture? The one I used came bask undeliverable. Sue
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mike@execuclean.com

I look forward to seeing it!

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Subject: The Genealogy of the Moody Family of Kaufman County
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:56:21 -0800




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I received the photo from Sue and I have posted it to the Moody Album. It is a wonderful find, Sue. Thanks for sharing with us. Note: the photo is severely damaged and has been scotched tape together at least once. You'll see what I mean when you go to the album. It is posted to the album as Sue passed it along to me. I also went ahead and digitally tried to repair the worst of the damage, hopefully without detracting from any of the original content of the picture. Both the original and the repaired are posted to the album.

http://www.execuclean.com/family_tree/MOODY_album.htm

Sue mentioned in her email that the photo appears to the family to be an old studio-composite portrait. That's what it looks like to me, too.