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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2009, 01:04:01 am »
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Thanks for sharing your finds.  The finds on this forum never cease to amaze me.  Keep up the good work!!

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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2009, 03:10:13 am »
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tabdog;

I could never wear Timex very long, I magnetized the balance spring, and my persperation ate the back. I had to use the pocket watch version, the Massey-Harris. You know.... clunkclunkclunk....  No no!

Your son looks like my cousin Laurie, a masculine version, of course, and like my mom....you ever have relatives in Kansas or Missouri?? Or any Willis ancestors? Curious. (My mom was a Keith. Keith, Willis, Gooding, Wyrick in one generation.) Our family is supposed to have some Cherokee, from several sources and my cousin, I mentioned, is also 1/4 Cree.

My kids are weird... my oldest son looks like a farmer from N.Ireland... skinny,long nose and chin, red hair... looks like his greatgrandpa who  was Irish. The other two look like me, or a big, fat blond Mohawk. (Mowhawk and Cherokee are close relatives.) I think you are very fortunate.

Anyhoo, My kids are all elsewhere, and only one, the red head, phones me on Dads Day.

Have you got him hooked on metal detecting, yet??  Funny

Goldigger (Brian)




Hay Bryan,

That is my older son. He is 19 now and interested in graphics arts.
Neither of my sons has ever used a metal detector in my presents.
They both think it is dorkie.

My younger son is 16 and still in high school.

I do not know much about my dads side of the family.

On my mothers side,  my family comes from Mississippi, East

Texas and my grandfather moved to west Arkansas. Their names
are Lovett, Phelps and Rutledge. Going way back to the late 1700s,
there was McCrory and Crawford.

Captain Thomas McCrory was an officer in the Revolutionary War.

My grandmother is responsible for handing down most of this info.

Here is a tintype photograph of here taken about 1888,

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Happy Huntin,

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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2009, 03:45:10 am »
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tabdog;

Incredible pictures, tintypes. they are so durable. My gramma said they were easy to make, easy enough for her to do. All you needed, for tin, was an old coffee can or the like (and scissors). We have several old ones of ancestors, but they are slowly getting darker, even tho'  they are kept in lightless storage. Ive done loads of contact prints, a few with an enlarger and even some colour, but I could not fix up a darkroom here and I hate daylight bags. Ive never done tin type, I don't even know the tintype process.

Speaking of coffee.....

We have put a bunch of the old photos on computer and I suspect they should go on CD and DVD, now.

Two of your family names do ring a bell but not in my family.... Ive got Merry, and  Leonard as well as those I mentioned, all on my moms side.

In my family, there are a bunch, on all sides, that came from Tennessee and N. Carolina, some went back and forth, too and went to Texas. But the genealogy killer is, all these years Ive been told my dads fam is French, I found that they are MOST LIKELY Dutch, as in NEW AMSTERDAM. Wouldn't that just joggle your cart! I inherited an itchy foot, from all these gypsy ancestors!

That is one reason I like metal detecting, it gives me a feeling of going somewhere.

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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2009, 08:08:32 am »
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I know what you mean.

I went this morning. Just got
back. I feel like I went some
where.

It got so hot, I took off my
headphones. I still got soaked
with sweat. $0.11 in clad and
some aluminum and iron trash.

I am wilted,

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I am trying to hunt this site
before they sell the lots they
have developed.

I took all three of these photos
from one location this mornin.

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I have found some nice relics there.

Happy Huntin,

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« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2009, 01:59:12 am »
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tabdog;

What kind of tree is that first picture.... never seen one quite like it.

It looks like a nice shade tree, the kind of place someone would like to sit, on a hot day, and pay for the shade with the loss of a coin or two.

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What kind of tree is that first picture.... never seen one quite like it.

It looks like a nice shade tree, the kind of place someone would like to sit, on a hot day, and pay for the shade with the loss of a coin or two.

goldigger.


I think that is a big old oak tree.

There used to be a house there. I hunted there when
the house was still there. There was an older house
before that. There was a very large Union camp close,
that was established at the end of the Civil War. It
was established to keep the Confederates in line after
the war. There were bussiness that catered to the soldiers.
Some old names still survive on bussiness signs and roads
like road house liquor, military road and so on. few people
know anything about it.

Because of so much development, finds are hard to come by.
But, when I keep trying, I can usually come up with something.

happy Huntin,

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« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2009, 12:49:51 am »
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tabdog;

I thought it might be an oak, still a nice tree. The oaks that can grow here are a sub-specie of Gary oak.

There are two basic kind of oak: 1) drops its acorns in autumn; 2) holds the acorns all winter., and drops them in the spring. Most of the Oaks in the Fraser Valley (Greater Vancouver, BC,) are  the first type and I have never seen acorns on any that manage to grow here.

It still looks potentially coin bearing, not like a butternut, any I've ever seen, of them, in the Fraser valley, do NOT have any grass under them, only butternut seedlings and bare, damp ground. I like butternuts but they are haaarrrd to crack.  Great

There probably are potential places, here, as Dawson Creek blew up and burned, about 1941, there is only a half dozen houses left, that escaped. There was some kind of military involved accident at the rail yards... the US army was shipping in tons of stuff to go up the Alaska Highway. To this day I don't know if it was accident or sabotage.  Wise

That was at the end of the depression, here, and there would not likely be many coins.  No no!

I want to map all the rural Community Halls for 30 or 40 miles each way, and hit them successively.  Funny

Probably won't find much but a few of them have an associated camp/tenting grounds, as well... golly, I just thought of 2 more. It pays to think out loud... er.... out email???

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