Greetings From Your Cousin, Joe
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Karin Ariss 1/05/05
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Hi, Karin.
Please, call me Joe, if you would like.
Let me introduce my Ariss line for you, going back as far as I can.I do not have my family information in electronic format; however, regarding our family, let me start at our beginning.
John Ariss, (about 1773 - ? - 8-30-1807) our great-great-greatgrandfather, was the father of James Ariss (10-20-1799 - ? - ?), our great-greatgrandfather, and grandfather of George Ariss (4-8-1840 - 12-26-1866 - 3-6-1933) our great-grandfather.
One of George Ariss's sons was John Joseph Ariss (6-29-1877 - 1903 - 9-5-1935), my grandfather, and your great-uncle.His only natural child was my father, John (Johnnie) Samuel Harold Ariss (1-26-1905 - 7-3-1928 - 4-10-1955).He married my mother, Agatha (Gatha) Josephine [Mooney] (8-24-1907 - 7-3-1928 - 3-21-1993) in Clinton, Indiana, U. S. of A.
I am the youngest of 5 brothers.Robert (Bob) Joseph Ariss is the older of my two surviving brothers.He was born January 7, 1931, and married Joanne (Jo) Marie [Pavelko].I shall leave Joanne to elaborate regarding her children and on her relationship to our family.The younger of my two surviving brothers, William (Tom) Thomas {John} Ariss was born May 24, 1936, and married Bonnie (Bonnie) Jo {Josephine} [O'Kelly].
I hope I got all of this straight.Please check the birth-marriage-death information for errors that you might detect, especially incomplete information.The format of the names in this chart is Given, (Nickname), Middle, Middle, {Confirmation}, [Maiden], and Surname.The format of the dates is US style: Month-Day-Year.
Some of us cousins wonder if your father was married more than once.
As we start to exchange more information, I will introduce you to more of the cousins.If you would care to use a format similar to the one I used above regarding your family, you would feel right at home receiving similar data from those of us you meet.
Alvera [Shade] DuBois is, of course, your cousin, also.Actually she is a double cousin to us as a third cousin, once removed, and as a fourth cousin, once removed.I'm sure your brothers told you about her.She is really a neat person to know.
As you did in your letter to me, try to answer each question asked of you in our messages among the cousins.That way, thoughts do not get lost because someone is reluctant to ask the same question of the same person who did not answer the question in the first place.Questions asked do not have to be answered "fully", we all have things we would rather not talk about for our own reasons.Questions that do not have direct answers should at least be acknowledged, so that the asker does not wonder forever whether the person asked even noticed the question.
We do talk among ourselves "off-line" from time to time, perhaps via phone calls or messages directed to individuals rather than the group as a whole.
I am going to share your messages with my brothers and their wives to start the ball rolling, if you don't mind.
:) Your new cousin, Joe :)
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Re: Greetings From Your Cousin, Joe
Karin Ariss 1/06/05