Re: Thomas Lough Family
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In reply to:
Re: Thomas Lough Family
1/19/02
Dear Cyndy,
Howdy Cousin! Thanks for the story...now I KNOW I'm related 'cause I did the same thing with the dishes a long time ago (slight variation: covered with a lot of bubble bath...unfortunately, when the guests went in to use the bathroom, the bubbles had all died down...how embarrassing!)...I now have two cooks and several employees to help clean up after meals.)
My Lough descent is through Loretta. She was my gr-grandmother. I never met her and my father knew very little about her origins. I have only recently been finding info on her family online. In my membership application to the NSDAR, I had decided to use this branch of the family to "Prove" our descent from those who fought in the American Revolution...thinking it would be the simplest. HA! I need some kind of documentation that connects Loretta to her daughter Lena Ethel Lough Barnes, and then to Loretta's parents, Thomas Jefferson and Mary Elizabeth. If you know of any family bible, census, letters, etc. would you help me?
I would be glad to "trade" info...I have seen by your message posting history that you were interested in a family line from Scotland...I have a LOT of information in books, clan info, etc. on Scotland, and would be delighted to see what I could find for you? I also noticed a message re. Zachariah Barnes. He was another of my ancestors. Either the father or brother (I keep getting him mixed up with Elias) of Bailey Barnes, who was the husband of Loretta Lough. Small world.
I live in Lincoln, NE and work (sort of!) as a housemom for a sorority on the UNL campus. Great fun and lots of free time. My house is a few feet away from the historical society so I spend a lot of that free time in the archives there.
Thanks for sharing,
Sherry