Glenda made an excellent point which I overlooked..<<I don't throw info out>> NEVER disregard something a relative may make statement just because you have documents disproving the statement. Especially the elderly...they may have the date, name or place wrong and it may be 10 yrs before you find the connection. But there is something to what they are telling you..it is you that has to find the connection and the more accurate story. So don't throw those notes away. Of course I learned when I began genealogy...I don't write notes..I can't read my own writing much less other people read it<GR>..but I always took a small recorder..later a camcorder..I would ask permission to tape the conversations..this way I can go back and replay and listen for things I may have overlooked and it was straight from "the horses mouth" so to speak. Kathy