Hi everyone! I'm updating our database and will be revising all the branches on the Arledge Family History Project web page this summer. If you have not yet submitted your family's information to me, or if you have new information, please send it to me as soon as possible. I'd like to get as much done as possible in the next two weeks. Please remember that it is my practice to conceal any specific identifying information about living persons when I put information on the web page. I do keep that information in my database, however, so please feel secure sending it to me. I'd like to have information down to the present generation for ALL Arledge descendants. It makes our history much more interesting if we have more than names and dates. I'd love to have profiles, biographical sketches, and other information to add about your ancestors to make their interesting lives come to life on the web page and in the history books. Be sure to include WHERE your family members were born, married, lived and died; also any educational achievements, occupational information, career achievements, stories or anecdotes about their character and personality, and so on. If you have old photos or letters of interest, I'd love to add them as well. [It works best to scan the photos in as .JPG files, and then I can upload them directly onto the web site.] Thanks, and I look forward to getting our web page revised. "STATE OF THE PROJECT" report: We've received a massive amount of new information since I last revised, so the updates should be very exciting! We've added substantial new information this year and have filled out several new corners of the giant ARLEDGE puzzle--especially on some of our southern branches, such as: (1) the Arledge families of eastern Tennessee and northern Alabama (Marion CO, TN, Chattanooga, Etowah Co, AL, Coosa Co, AL; much work still needs to be done on the related Chilton and Perry Co, AL branches) descended from Samuel Arledge (bc 1797), son of Moses Arledge of Kershaw Co, SC; (2) the Arledge families of Falls Co, TX descended from Isaac Hassell Arledge (b. 1853, son of Henry William and grandson of Jesse Arledge of Randolph County, NC); (3) a research trip to TN brought me new information on the related Arledge family of Warren Co, TN, descended from Henry William Arledge and Betsy Alldridge, originally of Randolph Co, NC, and (4) the Franklin Co, TN descendants of Clement Arledge and Martha Ginn, originally of Fairfield Co, SC (5) and the BIGGEST corner of the puzzle has been the new information and documents on the descendants of John and Anna/Nancy Arledge of Edgefield Co, SC, whose children went to Wilcox/Monroe Cos, AL and then further south and west to Winn and Jackson Parish, LA, to Burnet/Williamson/Milam Cos in TX, to Jasper Co, MS, to Nacogdoches CO, TX, etc. Considering that we didn't even have the pieces of this branch connected three years ago, now it's perhaps the biggest branch of the Arledge family! However, we still have a lot of research that needs to be done to *document* many of these ancestors and their branches. If you are in a position to have access to local, county or state records (wills, deeds, estates, census, birth, death, marriage, etc.) for any of the ARLEDGE family, obtaining those would be greatly appreciated. [Contact me and let me know what you have access to, and I can tell you what we already have and what we need.] The more of these we can get transcribed and online, the more they can help us and a lot of related families! For those of you who are quantitatively inclined, consider this. I now have approximately 20,000 Arledge descendants in the database, and when I just tried to generate am FTM "Outline Descendant Tree" from Clement Aldridge/Arledge for 15 generations, it alone came to 575 pages! So--we have a lot of Arledge information. Just for comparison sake, that breaks down in outline pages for the children of William Arledge of Northumberland Co VA into: (1) JOHN b. 1706 (146, which includes 116 for the descendants of son John of Edgefield and 30 for William of Kershaw), (2) CLEMENT b. 1708 (124, mostly divided between the children of Isaac & William who went to Ohio [104: 84 Isaac and 20 William] and those of Jesse who went to TN and IA [20]) (3) ISAAC b. 1721 (151, which includes 60 for Amos, 39 for Clement, 33 for Caleb, 9 for Isaac Jr., 6 each for William and Joseph, 4 for Sarah Bishop). Our major unattached branch, the descendants of Isham Arledge who settled in western LA, generates 31 pages. Another big unconnected branch is that of the descendants of William A. Arledge (b.c.1818), with 6 pages. Then there are the Barnwell Co, SC Arledges, who are not yet connected, with 4 pages. We need to find the missing links for these branches! I also have records of dozens of African-American Arledge families gathered from slave records and census records, plus hundreds of assorted Arledge individuals and family groups that are not connected to the main "trunk" of the family tree. Thanks for the support of all of you, but especially the Branch Coordinators who have worked so diligently this past year to gather new material and forward it on to me. I want to especially commend Don Meenach, Joy Moore, Bob Arledge, Graham Louer, Enlow Ose, Nell Arledge, and Edward Snyder for their exceptional contributions! Also, Linda Cooper, though not even an Arledge researcher, has been a terrific point person at the NC Archives, and her work has benefited us all as well. I look forward to learning more about *your* branches and limbs and twigs of the family, so please send me any new information you have. Thanks! Pam ************************************* Pam Wilson wilsonpam@mindspring.com Marietta, GA List Administrator, EFSS-L (Early Families in Southern States), HOLBERT-L and LAWLER-L through Rootsweb.com Associate list administrator, Arledge/Aldridge list (arledge@tx3.com) Coordinator, Arledge Family History Project http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8208