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From:	fran125 <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	fran125 <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:48:25 -0400
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I have had good luck typing into google: "courthouse disasters Kentucky" (or whatever state). Virginia has a very good paper about the status of the various courthouse records.

Fran Lawson Romine
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Drake
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:24 AM

I have been asked what courthouses in TN burned, when, and what records
survived
Here is a complete list
HYPERLINK
"http://www.mytennesseegenealogy.com/index.htm"http://www.mytennesseegenealo
gy.com/index.htm

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 6:18 AM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

Jeanine Scholz
126 Riverwoods Drive
New Hope, PA 18938

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Send me your snail mail address, please

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:39 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

That is really kind of you. I have never had anything from the cw except
books.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I am full well aware that I do not have to do so, but I will anyway. So
there. All CW War buffs should have at least one or two.

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:16 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

You don't need to give me anything. Just being able to talk about it is
enough for me, and knowing someone who does have some mementoes from the war
is quite exciting.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Maybe I will send along a couple items that you might enjoy. Most of my 55
years collection has been carried off by my kids. (but that is OK)
hahahaha

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:07 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

I certianly hope so, we need to keep you around.
I don't think I have really read the observations of participants in general
but it sounds quite interesting to me. I have so much I want to read and so
little time to do it.
I would love to have some mementoes but have absolutely nothing from my
family on my father's side and a few token things on my mother's side. I
pass by some of the antique stores around here that advertise they carry
things from the Civil War and would love to go in sometime just to see what
the stuff looks like.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I am doing much better than I have for the last 4 or 5 years, and thanks for
asking. I will be OK one day before long. :-)
I have not read your suggestion, having preferred field reports and words of
the participants who were there. On both sides were Drakes and Midlams (my
maternal lines), and have gathered no small number of mementos. As we
speak, directly behind me is the wonderful 128 volumes of the "War Of The
Rebellion", to which I have referred a thousand times or more over the last
40 years. I have used Shelby Foote's works many times. I also have MANY
maps of the war and the period and enjoy those.
I think Kearns and Wills are wonderful writers and well researched, but I
have had no time in life for commentary and but precious little time for
Lincoln or the great figures of that day from Jackson to Webster to Calhoun
to Lee or Forrest.
Maybe some day I will have that leisure time, but that time is not now.
Are you a memento collector ?

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:44 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

OK, I read every book I could get my hands on as a kid about Lincoln and a
good amount of books about the war. I have just started to read about
Lincoln again, did you read Doris Kerns Goodwin's book, "Team of Rivals?"
Really very well done. I also read the Wills book about Lincoln at
Gettysburg.
Actually, the one ancestor that fought in the CW that was of the most
interest to me was my father's gg grandfather, Martin Sonnenberg. He came to
the US from Germany in 1853 and fought in the war. I had actually started
doing genealogy because I knew little about my father's side, he died when I
was 14 and my mother was not that interested in his family. I still do not
have an awful lot on the Sonneberg's, or most of his other ancestors, at
least not nearly as much as I have on my mother's side.
You still didn't say how you are doing now.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I have 5 o6 6 , including 2 cousins who were killed at New Market. Have a
million stories. When you want to, tell me about your vet ancestors, OK?

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

I knew it had to be writing and genealogy, but was surprised about the Civil
War. I have read lots about it, have had several ancestors who fought in it.
I did not realize you have been sick the past year, are you OK?

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I have taught writing, genealogy and the Civil War in adult education for
about 20 years, though not since I have been rather sick over the last year.

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:18 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

Thank you sir. I can well imagine that over the years you have had lots of
women interested in you.
What did or do you teach btw?

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

With all modesty I feel free to say that I am a pretty damned good judge of
women, having had the pleasure of being attractive enough over the years to
gain their company. YOU, Madam, ARE ONE BEAUTIFUL and sensuous woman. I
can not make a dime or any atta-boys by lying to you, so BELIEVE me. Pretty
please ?

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

OK, I will try not to be so critical when I look at myself. I have not
really tried to see myself as others see me, only see what I don't like, I
have a long list of complaints about myself.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I did. There is NOTHING wrong with you or the other small handful of
beautiful women who have looked for me. I simply think that you are so
particular about every feature - whether from actresses, beauty contests, or
what - that you and all but one of my past "subjects" can not see the woods
because the trees are so close together.

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From: jeanine scholz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:14 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE:

I have the 3 chapters printed out and am looking forward to reading them,
thank you so much.
I had said that I basically look in the mirror and see what is wrong, hid it
at the bottom of my email so you might have missed it.

Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

If and when you get through that maze there will remain 12 more chapters.
Not gonna answer my question about what you see in the mirror ?? If you are
busy, put that off till this evening or whenever, but I would much like to
know how you feel about your own beauty and sensuousness.
You may have rec'd 2 copies of II, and - of course - you need but print one.
:-)

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