Dear Cuz Iz, and Cousins on the List: I don't have a St. Stephens birth date for John (Atkey) Pennington. I do have him named in William's will, probated 1737. (Also, Richard, oldest; William, Jacob, James, Benedict, Rachel and Rebecca.) And I have the same marriage of John Pennington to Margaret Pennington (daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Drake.) but we don't have an identifier for either of them in the marriage record. So we are still not totally sure which John married Margaret Pennington. I have a birth date for William and Mary's son Richard b. 22 June 1714; for James -- your ancestor as 2 Oct 1723; for Anne, 25 April 1726, (unmentioned in the will or Mary's indenture gifting her children); and Benedict b. 13 Sep 1728. No records for William, Jacob, Rachel, or Rebecca. I have lost some pages of the copies I made of St. Stephens Records, so I may simply be missing the pages, but I suspect the date for John is part of a bunch of Pennington records that were submitted to the LDS Ancestral File which are mostly speculation and misrepresentations. Iz, the other innacuracies in this mess contain complete fabrications. They include the statement that William was the son of Abraham, and Abraham was the son of Henry (of Sassafras.) The Pennington Surname organization promotes and continues these fabrications on their webpage, presenting them as fact. I will write more on the Johns, and which one married Margaret. Tonight I found out a childhood friend I used to tease as we walked to school together has died and her funeral will be tomorrow morning in our hometown in Eastern Oregon. I am worn out, and terribly sad, and will be driving home tomorrow. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, The theory of research I have developed is based upon the equation that Kinship + History + Locality = Identity. When I started out developing the theory, I used "Names" as the first ingredient. But, I soon found that the names are not always accurate identifiers. The mispellings, miscopying and typos are fairly easily understood in secondary documents. But, "When is a Name Not an Identity? " In the case of my Maryland Penningtons, quite often. Using the equation, I found that my identified Penningtons who settled in Belmont Co., OH came from the midst of batch of Pembertons in western Baltimore County. If you remember A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" you'll recall: "Mr. Edward Bear, who lived in the woods under the name of Saunders." So what was this bear's "real name" and why did he love "hunny," not honey? I think, like our ancestors, Mr. Milne wanted to keep us on our toes. Or make us strong, like the "Boy Named Sue." I have found Penningtons living under the name Peddington, Peniston, Penn,Pendleton, Penton, Payton, and others you just wouldn't believe, in addition to the most traditional variant, Penington. The statement is often made by family members, (who don't understand the process,) "so and so changed the spelling of the name when his part of the family moved to Georgia." Or some variant on this theme! But, that is not really what happened in the majority of these variants. We are usually aware of the way names evolved in the original countries. John the Miller became John Miller, and John who lives in the Woods became John Woods. And John the son of John Woods became John Wood's son, and eventually John Woodson. Although there are some names that WERE changed, (most often in the case of immigrants from countries using patronymics,) variants usually come about from mispronunciations and misspellings. The mispronunciations usually come about in an original document (contemporary with the individual) and the misspellings usually come about from secondary sources such as indexers and copyists who can't read the writing, or who made typos, or both! The other myth about variants is that there is a "correct" way to spell the name. Because we now work with search engines that rely on a certain spelling for names, this becomes a very great problem when we use computer generated indexes, or gedcoms or internet searches. The great "middle America," formed out of the "Backcountry" pioneers, was the primary stewpot for this odd name variant problem. These people, although designated as "English," Scotch-Irish," or German, etc., quickly hopped into the genetic stewpot and ruined those stereotypical designations. We have to be careful and clever to recapture their Identities. 1. Misspellings in Primary Records People didn't value correct spelling very much in colonial times. No, wait! They didn't value it at all! They wrote what they heard. Their English ear and English hand had a hard time with Native American, Dutch, Scandinavian, and Middle European tongues. And Vice Versa. Usually it was the English pen writing the names because the colonies soon became English oriented, and English speakers and writers got the jobs that required keeping records. Very simple. But even then, English spelling was not standardized. Many people didn't write at all, some wrote when they were young, but factors of aging deterred them in later years. So records got distorted, and nobody was checking to see how the name was spelled. 2. Common Family Names used in each cousin's family over several generations. In both my Smith family of Hanover County, Virginia and my Pennington family of Maryland, John is a primary name. Yeah! John Smith! John Pennington isn't as bad, except if you have John Pemberton living at the same time and in the same locale. Then throw in some John Paintons some John Pemistons and a couple of John Penstons. Which brings us on to how people tried to use qualifiers as identifiers. 3. Surnames used as forenames If you rely on naming patterns, you will go wrong. Yes, colonial persons often used naming patterns. But as soon as you believe that they ALWAYS did something or another, you will find they deviated from it. Surnames of grandparents are used as often as the surname of some other close relative or dear friend. As people moved on they retained their connection with their kith and kin through the names of their children. We often find when a child with a family name died young, another child was also given the same name. Names were given as tokens of respect and honor, as in the case of John Pennington of Bohemia, who named two (living) daughters "Sarah." When his first wife died he remarried to Mary Othoson. They also named their daughter Sarah, and I am convinced the reason was to honor John's deceased first wife. John refers to his daughter Sarah in his will and then states, "Sarah, the daughter of Mary," as a means of identifying the second Sarah. We have (John) Atkey Pennington, the son of Mary Atkey and William Pennington. This individual is sometimes John, and sometimes Atkey. In the next generations the name is again used by descendants and we have John A. as an identifier. But not always. And even though a middle name is often used as an identifier, if a nickname or initial is sometimes substituted, we still don't know the true identity of the person. My Alfred L. Watts is always referred to in documents with the middle initial, and even though he lived in the 19th century and died in 1904, which is lately, by many reckonings, I still don't know what name the initial identifies. 4. Women's names. The way women are treated and regarded is an identity killer, and it didn't go away in Colonial times. I got madder each year as I was continually identified each successive year with HIS name, and the appendage "and wf" on our tax bills. These are just a few of the major kinds of genealogical problems in which a name is not an identifier. The means of determining the identity lies in taking a fact about your John Smith, and beginning to compile a kith and kin list around the fact. I hope to have a webpage up soon (maybe tomorrow if the check is in the mail today,) which will help you to start doing this, and I will be including some census listings for Beej's Burton's as an example. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, Yesterday marked our terribly one month anniversary. During the past month we have been horrified and thrilled as this new American history story unfolds itself. We've seen and have been a part of the best and worst in 21st century society. I can't say anything that hasn't been said, but I agree that one person can make a difference in nearly every situation. We always stand at that Crossroads in these kinds of circumstances, and the choice at the Crossroads always lies within each individual. I like Helen Keller's example and words: "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

I got word that purple was the color of ribbon to wear for the Twin Tower of the World Trade Center on 9.11 I went to google and found the following two sites and there were many more. I am passing these along for your concideration. Beej [Unable to display image][Unable to display image] <A HREF="http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/other/prp.html">The Purple Ribbon Project</A> http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/other/prp.html <A HREF="http://www.fote.org/ribbon.htm">Fellowship of the Earth- Fight the Fear!</A> http://www.fote.org/ribbon.htm

Dear Cousins, I hope you all saw our vivacious Portland Mayor Vera Katz marching in the Columbus Day Parade in NYC. If not, she and a thousand other Oregonians got on planes and flew to New York to proclaim that Oregon Loves NY. They went to plays, visited Ground Zero, stayed in the Waldorf Astoria, where I used to stay when I lived in Maryland and made many I Love NY weekend trips, usually about this time of year. Watching the parade, I was so proud of being an Oregonian, and of being an American. It was a true reflection of American community. Thanks for all your suggestions about coping with viruses and attachments. I will put in the subject line now if I am sending any attachments, and will tell you ahead of time. I have gotten two more messages, not with attachments as previously, but from people I don't know, and with garbled messages, which I suspect were also virus sent. Today it is raining in Portland, OR. Although we are known for that, this has been our dryest year in 130 years, when they started keeping track of rainfall. Our rivers look like stream and the falls of the Wilamette, where pioneers first settled, have vanished. It is my belief that most of the Backcountry settlers who originated along the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600's ended up in some form or another here in Oregon. (Some made a wrong turn to California, too.) It was lovely to see other Oregonians remembering their community connection with the East Coast. Welcome to our newest subscriber, John O. who is fortunate enough to still live in that fertile "Cradle of American Civilization." John wrote me last night that he had taken communion at St. Stephens Church in Cecil County, Maryland, where our ancestors did the same, with the same communion service. I lived many years in Maryland, and I too, have walked among the graves there at St. Stephens, and felt that unique communion with the past. The first parish church was begun shortly before 1700, and finished in 1702. As I remember there were two subsequent ones, the current structure being erected in the mid 1800's. You can visit my short history of St. Stephens, and Cecil County, and some of its characters at the website. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Homelands/cecil.html Then, as now, history is shaped by Religious issues. The settlement of America was undertaken first by commercial interests, and quickly became a means for ordinary persons to escape the ongoing religious/political beliefs and wars that characterized the Reformation throughout Europe and Great Britain. Although founded by the Calverts, who were Catholic, Maryland was to be a haven for anyone who professed Christian beliefs, but this attitude was overturned, and Maryland fell into the typical English mold. Like all Church of England parishes, St. Stephens Parish was both the church and state: The churches were concerned with both political and moral outlook of the parishioners. It was in Pennsylvania, chartered in 1681, under William Penn's Quaker faith that religious freedom bloomed, and Pennsylvania became a true haven for the politically and religiously persecuted. Maryland had been chartered almost 50 years before, in 1634. The Yale Law School Avalon Project put the Maryland and Pennsylvania charters online, along with those of the first and second Virginia Companies, and others. This is a great site. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm Before I moved to Portland several years ago from Eastern Oregon, I talked with an older lady, another Oregon pioneer descendant, who lived across the street from me. She related how her homesteading grandmother had missed her family in the East so badly. She would go outside when the moon was full and gazing down on everyone, East to West, North to South, and remember that they were all connected by things greater than themselves. And so are we still. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

In a message dated 10/09/2001 8:02:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, AMXROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Virus Precaution >> I've told friends and relatives that I don't want to open attachments in the past. Sometimes they adhere to your wishes and sometimes they don't. My last resort was to tell them that I was running out of run on my hard-drive and didn't have the available space it would take to open attachments. Then their feelings aren't hurt when you don't open attachments from them. It's just a suggestion. Peggy Peggy (Evans) Wilson, Researching Surnames: AR/MO/OK - Basinger/Baysinger/Bennett/Liles-Lyles/ Harrell-Herrell/Mizell/Sanders/Wilson NC/IN - Arrowood/Barrett/Burns/Butner/Cox/Helton Hensley/Johnson/Melton/Mullins/O'Neal/Sweany OH>IN - Downey/Hellyer/Jordan-Jordon/Straub/Tracy OH/PA - Evans/Fox/Hunt/Moore/Pfleegor-Pflieger-Pfluegar

Tell them...they'll understand. And they'll surely appreciate the warning too. ----- Original Message ----- From: keenebj@juno.com Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 10:42 PM To: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AMXROADS] Virus dangers and good friends who send attachments Hi, Regarding not opening attachments, I usually....usually...don't open them. This is hard because I have at least 4 friends who send me cute or sentimental or patriotic attachments a lot. I have not told them that this is dangerous because they obviously are really into these things and are trying to be nice. I get a couple of these things every day because I don't want to hurt their feelings. Once in awhile, I get tempted and open one. So, when I saw one from Carolyn McD. who isn't into forwarding stuff promiscuously, I opened it. Whew! My Norton's jumped in real quick and I was spared the trouble I might have had. I knew then what had happened. Now I'm struggling with the issue of whether to ask my 4 friends not to send these to me and warn them not to open them either. Or to just take the cowards way out as I have been doing. My brother would tell me to "lighten up" but then he doesn't own a computer. Any ideas, my email is below. Barb T keenebj@juno.com ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

I've had this suggestion sent to me also but ... This really won't help, because the person that wrote this originally is assuming that the virus will use the existing email programs to spread the virus. When in fact the virus programs usually process and send the email themselves, so there would never be an error, even if the email address is invalid. Viruses usually have their own tools to process and send the email, which would obviously suppress any errors. There is a slight spin to this suggestion that would work sometimes. If you added a contact, with the email address: virussentmexxx55@hotmail.com, it is possible that the message will get bounced back by hotmail and appear in your inbox as an undeliverable message. However, this is not always fully effective either, as the virus program could be smart enough to test the validity of the email address before it attempts to send it. Cari in CA P.S. Some good mail servers scan for viruses so that they never even come to your inbox. I have updated McAfee here, but never needed it in this case since it never even made it to my computer. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bex400000@aol.com> To: <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [AMXROADS] Virus > In a message dated 10/6/01 3:30:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > cmacdee@excite.com writes: > > > Dear Carolyn....I recived this from one of my other Lists, and I hope it will > help all....it did work for me.....Becky > > Recently a friend sent me the following and since then I have > circulated it to a number of friends who say it works. > No guarantee here folks but any help to stop worm virus attacks suits > me just fine. > > Information to stop virus. > > Here's a computer trick that's really ingenious in its simplicity. As > you know when/if a virus gets into your computer it heads straight for > your Email address book and sends itself to everyone in there, thus > infecting all your friends and associates. This trick will not keep > the virus from getting into your computer but it will stop it from > using your address book to spread further and it will alert you to the > fact the worm has gotten into your system. Here's what you do; > 1) First, open your address book and click on "new contact" just as > you would do if you were adding a new friend. > 2) In the window were you would type your friend's first name type in > !000 (that is an exclamation mark plus three zeros) > 3) In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email > address type in Worm Alert. > 4) Complete everything by clicking "add", "enter", and "ok". > > Now here is what you have done and why it works: the name !000 will be > placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This is where the > worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But - > when it try's to send itself to !000 it will be undeliverable because > of the phoney Email address you entered (Worm Alert). If the first > attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney Email address), the > worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected. The > ***second great advantage*** of this method is that if an Email can > not be delivered you will be notified of this in your INBOX almost > immediately. Thus if you get an Email telling you that an Email > addressed to Worm Alert could not be delivered you know right away > that you have a worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to > get rid of it. Pretty slick. > Friends have tested it and say it works just fine. > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >

In a message dated 10/6/01 3:30:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cmacdee@excite.com writes: Dear Carolyn....I recived this from one of my other Lists, and I hope it will help all....it did work for me.....Becky Recently a friend sent me the following and since then I have circulated it to a number of friends who say it works. No guarantee here folks but any help to stop worm virus attacks suits me just fine. Information to stop virus. Here's a computer trick that's really ingenious in its simplicity. As you know when/if a virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your Email address book and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and associates. This trick will not keep the virus from getting into your computer but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further and it will alert you to the fact the worm has gotten into your system. Here's what you do; 1) First, open your address book and click on "new contact" just as you would do if you were adding a new friend. 2) In the window were you would type your friend's first name type in !000 (that is an exclamation mark plus three zeros) 3) In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address type in Worm Alert. 4) Complete everything by clicking "add", "enter", and "ok". Now here is what you have done and why it works: the name !000 will be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This is where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But - when it try's to send itself to !000 it will be undeliverable because of the phoney Email address you entered (Worm Alert). If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney Email address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected. The ***second great advantage*** of this method is that if an Email can not be delivered you will be notified of this in your INBOX almost immediately. Thus if you get an Email telling you that an Email addressed to Worm Alert could not be delivered you know right away that you have a worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it. Pretty slick. Friends have tested it and say it works just fine.

Hi, Regarding not opening attachments, I usually....usually...don't open them. This is hard because I have at least 4 friends who send me cute or sentimental or patriotic attachments a lot. I have not told them that this is dangerous because they obviously are really into these things and are trying to be nice. I get a couple of these things every day because I don't want to hurt their feelings. Once in awhile, I get tempted and open one. So, when I saw one from Carolyn McD. who isn't into forwarding stuff promiscuously, I opened it. Whew! My Norton's jumped in real quick and I was spared the trouble I might have had. I knew then what had happened. Now I'm struggling with the issue of whether to ask my 4 friends not to send these to me and warn them not to open them either. Or to just take the cowards way out as I have been doing. My brother would tell me to "lighten up" but then he doesn't own a computer. Any ideas, my email is below. Barb T keenebj@juno.com

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Dear Virused Cousins, This virus attaches itself to your e-mail address book and sends out e-mails under your e-mail address. That doesn't mean the person whose e-mail address shows is the one who passes it own. I was unaware the messages had gone out until I started getting alerts from recipients who had virus protection, which I didn't have. I think I got it from Mr. Woodson, but he is no more guilty than anyone else, rather he is a victim of it as well. All he's guilty of is having our addresses in his machine. We can lock the barnyard door now that the horse is out with the excellent suggestions of downloading virus protection from the web, and checking once a week. I thought I was safe because I never opened mail except from someone I knew, which is the method this virus operates on. Pretty insidious! Well, we're all learning! Please don't blame anyone, it's just do to ignorance. The whole country is learning about terrorists. This perpetrator is an internet terrorist. Love, Cuz Carolyn _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Hello All, I got another message this AM through this site that I am sure had a virus on it. I did not open the attachment and won't open any from anyone for a while. Marilyn

Dear Cousins, Tomorrow, 6 October, marks the anniversary of the Battle of King's Mountain, which took place in 1780. To those of us with NWSW Perimeter Ancestry, it is of tremendous importance. The Battle of King's Mountain holds great significance even to those whose ancestors were not there, because it marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. It raised a great battle cry about the American character, and American resolve against those who threaten their homeland. Patrick Ferguson, the fiery Scottish commander of a regiment of tories and regular soldiers, had issued a warning to the backcountry people that he would come "that if they did not desist from their opposition to the British arms, and take protection under his standard, he would march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword." Ferguson should have known he was threatening people who were from the same rootstock as he was! The "Overmountain Men" -- all those unruly, undisciplined, and fiercely independent frontier people -- came together in glorious common cause and wiped out Ferguson and his entire army. You can find rosters and descriptions on the internet, and some pages have terrific pictures of the area. I found a bunch by typing in "King's Mountain" into the google.com search engine. Most wonderful on the web, however are the actual roster images at the Library of Virginia. In Captain Isaac Shelby's roster, for example, I found a Sizemore, and Emmanuel Shoat. Two of cousin Kay's Sayers are listed, etc. etc. The images are indexed and you will undoubtedly encounter many other ancestors and familiar names. The Choate family is a connecting link between my Pennington/Pembertons of Delaware Upper Hundred in Baltimore County, MD, and that family in the NWSW Perimeter. The Harrisons, Odells, Randalls, Chapmans, and a variety of other migrators are also associated with both areas. The Library of Virginia now has images online for Dunmore's War, and every imaginable type of record concerning Revolutionary War participants. http://image.vtls.com/collections/index.html Additionally, they have recently made their wills and land records completely searchable. This is a great way to compile a kinship group. My next effort will be to demonstrate, with Beej's Burtons, some other ideas about compiling kinship lists, and the perils of relying on Other Peoples' indexes and transcriptions, especially with the census. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn AKA Typhoid Mary _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Wow Carolyn...that's awful what happened to your computer....I'm sorry you have to go thru this...hope you can get everything back to normal as soon as possible....I've had one of those things happen to me last year...that wasn't fun at all, so I feel for ya....better days ahead, I hope.... take care..... Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn McDaniel" <cmacdee@excite.com> To: <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:38 PM Subject: [AMXROADS] Virus Dear Cousins, I am still here, although I've had many problems trying to get my computer straight after the virus hit. The first problem was that I didn't recognize it was a virus. It goes out to all persons whom you have in your address book, and you don't know it. Then I tried to download the anti-virus software and my internet connection kept switching off in the middle of it, or downloading so slow I couldn't retrieve the download. Three days of that! Then I found that my computer had too little memory to be able to run anything. I still can't print anything, because a fatal exception occurs. I've rearranged the drive space 50 times and still can't print. So maybe the configuration was attacked by the virus. Anyway, it's been interesting, time consuming, and nutsy making. (Nutsier making!) I sure hope that everyone who got virus messages from my machine will forgive it; it knew not what it did, and neither did I! My e-mail seems to be okay now, (I quarantined three files) but I'm sending this from my "emergency" e-mail. where you can always reach me ultimately! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ============================== Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

Dear Cousins, I am still here, although I've had many problems trying to get my computer straight after the virus hit. The first problem was that I didn't recognize it was a virus. It goes out to all persons whom you have in your address book, and you don't know it. Then I tried to download the anti-virus software and my internet connection kept switching off in the middle of it, or downloading so slow I couldn't retrieve the download. Three days of that! Then I found that my computer had too little memory to be able to run anything. I still can't print anything, because a fatal exception occurs. I've rearranged the drive space 50 times and still can't print. So maybe the configuration was attacked by the virus. Anyway, it's been interesting, time consuming, and nutsy making. (Nutsier making!) I sure hope that everyone who got virus messages from my machine will forgive it; it knew not what it did, and neither did I! My e-mail seems to be okay now, (I quarantined three files) but I'm sending this from my "emergency" e-mail. where you can always reach me ultimately! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Dear Barb and Cousins on the List, I think you have touched on what is the center, or at least the first means of these viruses. They attach themselves to our computers through sites that compile e-mail lists. Many of the so-called dot com sites are set up as nothing more than as a means of acquiring e-mail addresses. I find myself "subscribed" to one for cheery greetings and smiles because of well meaning friends. Well, like Barb, I love my friends sending me loving greetings, and jokes. But I believe these type sites are the problem. On the other hand, Blue Mountain Cards has never put me on a list. Ancestry, now the biggest genealogical resource provider (they own Rootsweb, our host) seems to have put me on the list of some of their subscribers. Attachments can't be sent through Rootsweb, so it is not the list that is infected but those of us who communicate with one another. I haven't been able to tell precisely, but it appears that not just my address list but persons I've merely received e-mail from have gotten the infected attachment sent by the virus. It's hard to discourage loving connection from friends, because that's what we want to foster. I guess we could suggest to friends that they simply refer to a site instead of sending an attachment. And if we are sending legitimate attachments, to alert the recipient before sending any. This has taught me a lesson about the cunning of the people who create these things. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

At 09:18 AM 10/2/01 -0700, you wrote to Carolyn: >I received a post from the Crossroads this AM and it was all in >gibberish and had a file attached. I did not open it and am wondering >what this is all about. Could it be a virus. Dear Marilyn: You were very wise! Carolyn's message was indeed infected by this virus: W32.Magistr.24876@mm Delete it at once, not just "trash." Get it off your computer. Then get yourself a good anti-virus program and update it at least once a week. Our NORTON anti-virus program caught it Sunday evening and I immediately wrote to Carolyn, but haven't heard from her since. NORTON says this is one of the nastier viruses. You can read about it here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html Poor Carolyn! She gets hit with more trials and tribulations than even a far less decent person deserves. Best wishes, Cousin Isabel

Dear Carolyn. I received a post from the Crossroads this AM and it was all in gibberish and had a file attached. I did not open it and am wondering what this is all about. Could it be a virus. Marilyn

In a message dated 9/1/01 9:00:30 AM US Mountain Standard Time, AMXROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << A huge number of the Virginia Backcountry (Frontier) settlers came from Maryland. Their patterns are fascinating. Early research (Maryland settlement began in the 1630's) is complicated because of the writing and spelling. One must remember too that these people had accents almost impossible even for their English compatriots to understand. Dialects still abound throughout England, >> I read this post with interest. My George Burton is said to be from VA but so far no one has found him. He was with George Washington at Valley Forge and was a member of the VA Militia. He married a Rebakah (several spellings) and married her after his enlistment was done in First Shelby Co., KY in 1798. Rebakah's father was Greshom Lee of Hunterton Co., NJ and he also went west with several members of his family at this time. He was in Woodford Co., KY also. and my ggg grandfather George Burton landed in and raised a family in Jefferson Co., IN. I am in the process of documenting him for the DAR. He has been reaseached by other Burton's I am finding out so there is much more known about him than I thought. I just have to see if I can contact these Burton's as last letters to Jefferson Co., IN were dated 1984. But there were persons and books named that has info suppostedly on this George Burton. I have my family traced to him. His marriage bond in in the Library in Shelby Co., KY. So when you mentioned that VA pioneers were from Maryland it gave me a new place to check on for this man and his partents. I am doing as much by computer as possible as I live in AZ and a continent away from the east coast. I am not well versed in how to get into places so it is still stumpble along and pick my self up and try again. I have the CD of PERSI and several formes printed out to send for research do you feel that this is a good place also to look for people I am looking for on the east coast? I get so frustrated sometimes as I am doing all my families and feel sometimes that am spinning my wheels as I have two sisters wanting to do research and they expect me to pass on all I find plus sites that I find and if I did that I feel that I would be spinning my wheels realtime. I keep telling them to get on the net and start surfing and they would find things as that is how I started 3 yr. ago. One sis did genealogy 20 yrs. ago and see feels she has done her bit. She has passed on a few things but not much. She did not document only got names dates and places from others of the family. They have been very helpful as I knew where to look and find and get documentionation. Last summer spent three wks in Henry Co., IN ; Hancock Co., IN ; and Jefferson Co., IN, getting copies of birth and marrieages documented and cost me but no one else had done it. I copied much in Jefferson Co.,IN. about my George Burton also in tax lists, poll lists, town directories, plus other members of the family, my younger sister was with me so she has what I have. Sorry to get off on a tangent but have got so much to do I am going to have to start alotting time for certain areas now I am afraid. I do love your list and hope somewhere along the way to meeting a distant cousin of the Burton Clan. I have some Burton 1st cousins that are into Indy racing and one of them found were we are 5th cousins to some others of the racing Burtons but he died before I got that info and the other brothers had non of his info. His father was also a race car driver of midgets in and around Indiana tracks in the 40s and 50s, named Everett Burton. I will close for now and read your next postings with great interest. If any of this info is familiar to someone out there I would love to hear from you. Billie Jean (Ballenger/Burton) Reese PasaPeruva@aol.com In Apache Junction, AZ via New Castle, Henry Co., IN.