SUCCESS:
For some time I have had a request for the parents of Joshua Sherman b Aug 2, 1804 in Chautauqua Co., NY. After writing an E mail in late January,  I received a referral to a Sue Kulp.  I wrote her an E Mail  and on Feb 3rd 2001 I received an E Mail with 3+ pages of Quaker Meeting Notes.  It contained all the information I needed, it took the line back to England and also a side line to the Mayflower.

Gordon & Rosalynd Green
June 29, 2001

SUCCESS:
A Shermans of Yaxley member shared the following information on LOUIE ARTHUR SHERMAN and his family.

1910 Census for Kansas City, Missouri
SHERMAN, LOUIE A., age 50, b. Illinois
Alta (wife), age 38, b. Illinois
Chester C., age 14, b. Kansas
Lucile, age 12, b. Kansas
Valentine, age 7, b. Missouri
Louie R., age 5, b. Missouri
Edwin (young), b. Missouri

1920 Census for Kansas City, Missouri
Another son was added to the family - William, b. about 1913
Chester was then the head of his own family:
SHERMAN, Chester, age 24
Izetta (wife)
Edith (age 6)
Elmer (age 4)

January 15, 2001

SUCCESS:
George located a helpful book compiled by the Marion County Historical Society called "History of Marion County, Tennessee, Volume I", which gave a lot of information about GLANCY SHERMAN.   Copies of the book can be obtained from Curtis Media Corporation, 1931 Market Center Boulevard, Suite 105, Dallas, TX  75201, Phone:  (214) 651-1025.  Some of the details about Glancy in the book include:

GLANCY SHERMAN, b. October 10, 1862, Wellsburg, Erie County, PA, m. Jan. 3, 1906, Chattanooga, TN, d. Oct. 17, 1936, Sequatchie, TN (Glancy's Parents:  Harley and Ellen Lick Sherman, Glancy's Siblings:  Harriet and Samuel)
SPOUSE:  BERTHA ALICE TOWER, b. June 30, 1873, Ashtabula, OH, d. March 24, 1967, Sequatchie, TN
COMMENTS:  Glancy was a very successful businessman.  As a young man, he became interested in real estate and moved to Middlesboro, Kentucky, then to Chattanooga, Tennessee.  He owned large parcels of timberland in Kentucky, Alabama, and Tennessee.  In 1889, Glancy came to Sequatchie, Tennessee and became president, treasurer, and general manager of Sequatchie Handle Works.

January 12, 2001

SUCCESS:
I did find Mehitable and the vast family of Shermans that she is from .... it was just interesting that others had bits and pieces of info.  Some folks had down to her father's generation, but of course I didn't know who he was.  Some folks had a Mehitable but no further info or dates, so I wasn't sure if it was the same one.   Finally, I found info at the Rhode Island Historical Society in Providence, Rhode Island.  It's interesting to see that still people will daughter out a line so quickly when there is so much information.

Joy Harrington
April 21, 1999

SUCCESS:
I had become more interested in my "roots" as I became older and my grandfather, MYRON ADELBERT SHERMAN, had played a key role in my life.  He and I were "best friends" and I felt very guilty after having been the teenager who sat at his bedside helping him to grow stronger after a stroke, when he suffered another stroke that took his life.  Knowing his strength, determination, and stubborness, and that I did not carry his name because he was my mother's father, I became very determined to find the "Sherman" in me.

I have been a computer nut for years, but not an Internet nut - for the most part because I never really understood what it had to offer until I decided to take a chance and see.  I sat down one day, after working on my family genealogy on a program I had purchased, and subscribed to the Internet.  My first real investigation was to go to a directory - probably Yahoo - and type in GENEALOGY.  Wow!  I was impressed at the number of sites I could access and got really confused with the whole experience.  I did click on a couple personal home pages and thought that they know so much - how would I ever get there?  Then somehow, I don't even know how (isn't that the truth, sometimes even now) I got to a place that said put in the name of the family member you are looking for.  Well, I didn't have to think long there.  I typed in my grandfather's name, MYRON ADELBERT SHERMAN, JR.  After awhile, a page of Myron Adelbert Sherman's came up, with sources to click on for more information.   Well, thanks to the home pages of a very wonderful woman,  I found my entire family genealogy.  My cousin, MARGE SHERMAN LUTZVICK, had done a trememdous job, and I hurried and emailed her, ordered the book she had written, and began my adventure in bringing my grandfather back, closer to me than he had ever been.

I know my grandfather is proud of what I have done, and even prouder of the Sherman Family.  Now I not only have found my family, but I have become a new "bean" in the SOY (Shermans of Yaxley, England) Family.  I get newsletters, emails, and pictures regularly from different parts of my family and a sense of belonging.   I have given my kids more stories and a heritage along with family now, and I can leave my legacy for others to enjoy.  Thank you, Marge, and all of the Shermans of Yaxley for your research now and evergoing, and may I and others discover, learn, and benefit from your undertaking.

Jan Pierce Nottingham <nott@foxinternet.net>
(John, Thomas, John, Thomas, Henry Sr., Henry Jr., Samuel, Philip, Samuel, Ebenezer, David, Gideon, Harvey, Clark, Myron Sr., Myron Jr., Harriet)
May, 1999

SUCCESS:
Recently, I decided to bite the bullet and hire a professional researcher in Salt Lake City.  It has proved to be money well spent.  I now have an extensive record of Linus' life in Colorado Springs, CO, and documentation of his children, Clarence and Marion, who moved on from there to California.  So, I have updated my query, based on the new information I've obtained.  (See "Ongoing Queries")

Margaret Burwell
July 18, 1999

SHERMAN, ADRIAN FISHER, Sr., b. abt 1870, Kansas (?), d. abt. 1924, Kansas
CHILDREN:  Adrian Fisher Sherman, Jr. (b. 1918, Chicago, IL)
COMMENTS:  Adrian Fisher, Sr. was my grandfather.  He graduated from the University of Kansas in the 1890's, and practiced law in Topeka, Kansas until his death about 1924.
RESEARCHER:   Adrian Craig Sherman <asherman@ithaca.edu> 2000-03-01

SUCCESS:
Shortly after posting my query, I was contacted by Art Cohan (ArtCohan@aol.com).  I was very pleasantly surprised to find out that Art had information on my Sherman line, all the way back to HON. SAMUEL SHERMAN (1618 - 1700), one of the first Sherman immigrants from England, and even further back.  Art had already checked all the census data up to 1920 on my line of Shermans, so we have been rapidly exchanging information.  He also put me in touch with a distant cousin.  Thanks, Art!

Adrian Craig Sherman
April 14, 2000