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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 52511, member: 59"]Good morning. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just wanted to report that I got lost in Wales yesterday. Unfortunately doing so didn't help unravel anything. I had been trying to work backwards from some of the (many) men named Williams living in Poultney and surrounding towns in 1900 and before, got thoroughly confused by the place names and gave up in frustration.</p><p><br /></p><p>The exercise did give me a chance to "relive" my own personal experience (in the late 60's/early 70's) with that part of Vermont, though. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie84" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> And I suppose I should correct an earlier tidbit that's not totally unrelated to the genealogy. Poultney is not in the heart of the Green Mountains where the famous Vermont granite is quarried. It's near the flatter "plain" along the western border of the state abutting New York about 1/3 of the way up from Vermont's southern border with Massachusetts. At the very bottom of Lake Champlain. Quarries there are for slate. Not that any of that really matters, but I did notice that slate production seemed to be a common occupation in some parts of Wales as well, so if we had a sense of where those places are, it might help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 52511, member: 59"]Good morning. :) Just wanted to report that I got lost in Wales yesterday. Unfortunately doing so didn't help unravel anything. I had been trying to work backwards from some of the (many) men named Williams living in Poultney and surrounding towns in 1900 and before, got thoroughly confused by the place names and gave up in frustration. The exercise did give me a chance to "relive" my own personal experience (in the late 60's/early 70's) with that part of Vermont, though. :smuggrin: And I suppose I should correct an earlier tidbit that's not totally unrelated to the genealogy. Poultney is not in the heart of the Green Mountains where the famous Vermont granite is quarried. It's near the flatter "plain" along the western border of the state abutting New York about 1/3 of the way up from Vermont's southern border with Massachusetts. At the very bottom of Lake Champlain. Quarries there are for slate. Not that any of that really matters, but I did notice that slate production seemed to be a common occupation in some parts of Wales as well, so if we had a sense of where those places are, it might help.[/QUOTE]
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