Dave, Here are two great web sites for info on the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Don't get lost! <http://www.fortklock.com/index.html> <http://www.fort-plank.com/> For Shoemaker and genealogy of related families you will want to acquire or borrow (interlibrary loan) Maryly Penrose's _Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families_ (2 vols, Genealogy Publishing Co.), and Henry Z Jones' _Even More Palatines_ (Picton Press). These are both works that mostly give documentation of specific sources. Regrettably, Penrose did not index the names of baptismal sponsors in the records she reprints from published transcripts, but unlike other transcribers for other areas she did at least give the names of the sponsors. As you get into the records you will see the significance of this. For the earlier groups of German church records the names of the sponsors tell you almost as much as the main baptismal-record data. If you would give your Shoemaker first name(s) and approximate dates I might have a thing or two concerning the Rev. War period; email me. This is ***not*** one of my families, so those tempted to email me on Shoemaker genealogy generally will not get a productive response! Good hunting, Judy