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  • Members: 135
  • Category: General
  • Founded: Sep 27, 2010
  • Language: English
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1 gilalford Send Email Sep 28, 2010
2:06 am
Hi! Welcome to About Alfords. For a while at least I am going to try to make it a daily practice to report to the group on the days activity. I'll probably do...
2 Stacy
stacy.alford... Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
4:16 pm
Do you want photos? I have James Antney (#665), Newton E (#667)& his brothers & their wives, Robert S (#???), Clifford L (#669, Their wives and children. I...
3 Gilbert Alford
gilalford Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
5:21 pm
Stacy,   Yes, by all means.  We do want Alford photos.  It is too early for us to know how best to organize them yet so we'll start with you and grow the...
4 Bonniejean Alford Hin...
bonniejean401 Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
5:41 pm
I would love to volunteer to help with organizing photographs... that is one of my specialties actually... I have been a photographer for 15 years. It would...
5 Stacy Alford
stacy.alford... Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
5:45 pm
I will look at the upload process, but I think it is best to reference whole names and the number you have assigned. But our side below John Antney #665 is ...
6 Gilbert Alford
gilalford Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
5:51 pm
Bonniejean,   We love folks who know how to say volunteer.  I think you can assume the role of the leader of the About Alfords photo effort.  We do have...
7 Gilbert Alford
gilalford Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
7:14 pm
Hi,   Whatever you prefer.  I like the idea of whole names.  I have a DOS mentality and hark back to the days when such things were critical.   You are...
8 Bonniejean Alford Hin...
bonniejean401 Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
7:52 pm
I think having full names on pictures is a good idea, along with the year of birth, since there are some people who have the same names With Metta Bonniejean ...
9 ej northrop
bethclass123 Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
8:57 pm
Just a thought on security: If the files are available to anyone, names AND full dates of birth can pose a security risk in terms of identity theft. Can't say...
10 Bonniejean Alford Hin...
bonniejean401 Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
9:03 pm
agreed... that is why I suggested just the year of birth, not a full birthdate... and for living folks we would put name and living with no birthdate... With...
11 Gilbert Alford
gilalford Send Email
Sep 28, 2010
9:30 pm
Hi.   For living folks we try not to put any of the birthdate or marriage date for living folks.  Once they are deceased then we cease to worry about their...
12 gilalford Send Email Sep 29, 2010
2:45 am
Hi, As I said yesterday I'll be giving you a daily update until things get more or less settled down. Today we have 6 more members-- now a total of 10. That...
13 gilalford Send Email Sep 30, 2010
2:57 am
Hi, There are 18 of us now and I invited another 41 today, mostly not members of AAFA. I'll begin to work on them soon but Yahoo limits us to 50 invites per...
14 Darrell Alford
alfordajf... Send Email
Sep 30, 2010
4:30 am
I am a recent member of the alford assoc. I heard about it through another member Jeff Alford of Brawley Calif I need to send in more info on my family tree so...
15 john alford
jhnalford Send Email
Sep 30, 2010
6:45 pm
  Hi Everybody, Gil quite rightly said that I was no expert on 'English Alfords', there is quite a few of us you know! In about a month's time I will be able...
16 dianneberry4
Dianneberry4@... Send Email
Sep 30, 2010
7:30 pm
Hi to all the Alford out there I am looking for Charles Alford b abt 1808 in England He emigrated to Tasmania in 1830 and I can find him there but his English...
17 gilalford Send Email Oct 1, 2010
2:39 am
Hi, It is that time of day again. Don't worry, after we get to the point that it appears we are finally set up and then I will discontine these progress...
18 sharper@...
sharper... Send Email
Oct 1, 2010
10:36 pm
I am delighted to be a member of this group. My Alford geneaology is so important to me and I am always looking for a missing link. I have traced my line back...
19 gilalford Send Email Oct 2, 2010
3:20 am
Hi, This one will be short and simple as I don't have much to report anyway. There are 37 today which I guess is not the best results ( 6 new ) considering 49...
20 About_Alfords@yahoogr... Send Email Oct 2, 2010
4:15 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the About_Alfords group. File : /Alford...
21 About_Alfords@yahoogr... Send Email Oct 2, 2010
4:25 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the About_Alfords group. File : /Harper,...
22 gilalford Send Email Oct 3, 2010
1:54 am
Sharon, Thank you for the information. Have you seen the brief genealogy of your branch of the family, called JOH801GA, on the Alford American Family...
23 Bonniejean Alford Hin...
bonniejean401 Send Email
Oct 3, 2010
2:15 am
yes through the project it is only $239 for the highest level of testing, which is recommended (only $99 for the lowest level). My branch (the Andrew West...
24 gilalford Send Email Oct 3, 2010
3:04 am
Thanks BonnieJean, Do you folks see what this lady is doing. She is volunteering which means offering to help. As I remember this is twice she has done so,...
25 gilalford Send Email Oct 3, 2010
3:18 am
Hi, I have already written too much here today so will be very brief. Yesterday we were 37 and today we are 40. I just invited 46 more. I see that there are...
26 klaus dill
klausdieterdill Send Email
Oct 3, 2010
4:00 am
hi, first, and most disappointingly, is that my dad came from mccool, ms in choctaw county. i am the only alford left, besides my son, and because i am not a...
27 sharon harper
sharper... Send Email
Oct 3, 2010
4:23 am
Cousin Gil, My records show John William Alford (1801-1855) as the first settler of my Alford line in Carroll Co., MS.  He was the son of Jacob and Milbria...
28 Bonniejean Alford Hin...
bonniejean401 Send Email
Oct 3, 2010
3:24 pm
this is fascinating stuff... it would be neat to find out if John William's siblings included my great great great grandfather&#39;s father (Andrew West Alford's...
29 jdwindspirit Send Email Oct 3, 2010
9:54 pm
I was reading on of the posts about Alfords in Greene County, MS. That is my branch of the Alfords and believe me there was a lot of them. There are many still...
30 jdwindspirit Send Email Oct 3, 2010
10:22 pm
I think Vernon was one of Ephraim's sons on the Mississippi side. I am in Colorado right now so I can't just go see my notes. I will be thrilled to finally...
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