Thanks Marilyn! I can't walk and chew gum and type URLs! Dear Cousins, > I can't walk and chew gum! Here's the URL: It isn't perfect > yet, but some of the links will work http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kinship/index.html Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I can't walk and chew gum! Here's the URL: It isn't perfect yet, but some of the links will work http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kinship.index Love, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I have completed a new page for the website on KINSHIP, and hope it demonstrates how we will not progress in our research quests without examining the peers around our families with missing links. I use the Penningtons as an example because they are the heart of my theories and research. In life and genealogy, we need to learn to make lemonade when we're given lemons. A big lemon in my genealogical life became the means of developing my new methodologies. I was a part of an organization devoted to Surname Research, which had withered on the vine. Through a lot of bitter frustration in trying to change them, I discovered I was not going to, and so I formed American Crossroads -- my lemonade! How Sweet It Is! By learning and growing through these mistakes, through using the new technologies and applying new methodologies, I have been able to accomplish in a year what has not been achieved in 20 years with old ways and old attitudes. First you have to recognize what is wrong. It is very hard for people to see and admit they're wrong, or that they've have taken a wrong turn. But in order to get better, you have to change the direction of what you're doing. So I want always to be open to suggestion, to offers of help in creating new databases or directing studies or anything else that can help improve our efforts. I think Barb was right on target recently when she said she found the big picture pretty daunting. I think where I have fallen down is through not getting pages uploaded that make access easier. It is because I never seem to have enough time. I get involved in the current project and the current research (and school, and trying to have a life, and get my internet access problems straightened out) and don't get back to adding and changing the indexes, and adding and re-doing the new URLs and HTML. Although right now I am the whole show I hope ultimately to have others of you become responsible for various Crossroads and Perimeters, or even for smaller efforts, like Kinship groups, or Quakers, for instance. I think the other area where I have fallen down is in translating and portraying my ideas to everybody, at all levels of experience and interest. Here, too, I think I can do better. I have long felt that e-mail is great for connecting and networking, but is not the best way to convey genealogical information. I thought that the website would resolve that, but I think a physical, hold it in your hands, old-style publication would do better for some of our members or potential members. I have learned from my recent GENTECH award that the gap is still far from closed between TECHNOLOGY and GENEALOGY/FAMILY HISTORY. I am thinking about solutions, and hope you may have suggestions too. I hope this Kinship page stimulates your imagination and helps you picture your own missing links into the interconnecting chains. Please let me know your thoughts and how I can help paint pictures that will help us all grow and improve our efforts. I will also be doing similar pages for History and Localities. Have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I am on my way to Eastern Oregon to remember my roots and my loved ones. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I have come across some extremely valuable, exceptionally well done pages reflecting Slaves and owners in Pennsylvania, published by George F. Nagle. These have been prepared in a scholarly, and yet user friendly manner. Quite an unusual accomplishment! Mr. Nagle outlines his methodology and terminology which makes understanding it quite easy and has an excellent format. Additionally, although I only checked the SE counties around Philadelphia, he has pages for many other counties. I am working on better standardization of my own pages, and this webpage really provides a wonderful example of how to provide it for this type of information. George F. Nagle. Contact: gnagle2919@aol.com The URL of this page is: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6329/lancab.html http://www.geocities.com/historian5/lancpr.html Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, Today is The Day! I am on my way to the convention center for the National Genealogical Society's annual conference. GENTECH is hosting a lunch, and the first part of the award will be presented then. I'm very proud and very excited! You all can be excited too, to be part of a nationally recognized project.(Internationally, too!) As many of you know, GENTECH promotes history and genealogy using technology -- software has been a primary focus, and GENTECH has developed a model for software manufacturers. Of prime concern is incorporating features which make documentation easier within the programs. The National Genealogical Society's home page: http://www.ngsgenealogy.org Check out their standards --it's what we live by as researchers! You can check out GENTECH's pages: http://www:GENTECH.org GENTECH President Beau Sharbrough will be giving the talk after the luncheon. You can see what you're missing by taking a look at the schedules, and the scenic and historical attractions here in the Rose City by looking at the Genealogical Forum's pages, http://www.gfo.org/ the host organization (of which I am a member) along with Clark County Genealogical Society (Cousin Alice). I promise to be more chatty after this is over! The Dalai Lama and this is about all I can handle in one week! Love, Your Grateful Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I just talked briefly with Mary Yarnell this afternoon. Her son was in visiting her so I had a chance to chat with him as well. He mentioned that perhaps this next week Mary will get to go back to her home, with in home care. He feels the re- hab has done what they can and they will give it a try having her at home. If it doesn't work out, they will explore other options. Mary loves getting mail so anyone who wishes to send her cards or notes, please do so as she enjoys it immensely. She said she didn't realize how many people were thinking about her until she was hospitalized and began getting cards and calls. Carolyn, thanks so much for letting me know how to handle the illegible names and places in these documents. In the past I've just been putting in a ? mark. Hopefully, the records will get clearer. I loved your quote from Emily Dickinson. How true it is. Love, Marilyn

Dear Cousins, First, our Cousin Mary Yarnall is out of the hospital and is recovering from surgery in a nursing home. She is very debilitated. Mary is in her 80's. Marilyn Kucera has given me her snail mail address, and if any of you would like to join in sending your prayers and all good and positive wishes to Mary I will be happy to give you the address privately. Remember, we are a present-day family reconnecting to one another just as we are re-connecting our families in the past. One of our Cousins, Mary Ann, sent me information from the local paper about Mary, but I couldn't open the attachment, and when I e-mailed Mary Ann privately the message came back. It may be because of my local ISP difficulties. Anyway, Mary Ann, if you can also help us in any way with conveying our love and encouragement to Mary, we will certainly appreciate it. A quote from Emily Dickenson, restructured by John Lennon: All I know of love, Is that love is all there is. Marilyn is working on transcribing the Sadsbury MM (PA) marriage certificates, and she was interested in proper ways to indicate that certain portions and names are unreadable. This is a very good question in response to my posting on transcriptions and their pitfalls. When transcribing old original documents like this, the thing to do is make a preliminary blanket statement about the project. State what time frame the documents refer to and the overall condition. You might say, "These certificates cover all the marriage certificates from 1834 to 1850," or something like that. State whether it is ALL that are extant, or not, so that a person reading your report will know that he has to look elsewhere for his GGGrandparents' certificate. And state where these certificates are normally held. Next, in your general statement, tell whether they are in good or bad or whatever condition, and what you have encountered in transcribing them. You might say, "Most are in very good condition, but individual certificates have been torn and there are smudged ink marks on some which make some names impossible to read. All but four out of the total 300 have been written in ink; the other four are in pencil and are badly faded. Most of the writing is clear and readible, but some of the signatures are extremely hard to decipher." (Or something similar which conveys the general state.) Then indicate if you have "interpreted" some of the signatures by enclosing your own comment or interpretation in parentheses or brackets. Just be consistent with whatever you use. Usually, as you become familiar with individual names in a collection you will recognize what a name actually is even though it might have been written or spelled differently, or even smudged or damaged. It is proper to indicate what the signature looks like to you -- i.e.: Mari - - - K [or H] u [or a]cera. [Marilyn Kucera] If you absolutely cannot make out what a word or name is, then add that, and the reason i.e., Mari - - - - ucera [large ink blot in the middle of this name, but I believe it is Marilyn Kucera.] Or, you could say, ari - - - -ucera (Marilyn Kucera? Large ink blot in middle] Do this same type of description with any old, original document. If they are your family's documents, I strongly urge photocopying. Sometimes writing can be lightened and darkened in the photocopy, and thereby determined. This is a really helpful technique for pencil. Also, if you can get your own hands on a family document, or photograph, you may be able to preserve it from the predations of others. I have several sad stories of this happening in my own families. In the case of a Bible, do a similar preamble of general condition, the date it was printed, and the publisher, along with anything which is known about the Bible and the family. This serves to clarify the veracity of what is written. In the case of the Preston Floyd Bible which I have at American Crossroads: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Bible/smipres.html -- this Bible was printed in 1828, and all of the family information was written in one hand, in 1838 by Letitia Preston Floyd, daughter of William Preston and Susanna Smith. However her beginning information concerns people of the early 1700's. This is important to consider when one tries to interpret dates, etc. and compare with other sources. Letitia was relying on memory or other documents in order to write this information all at one time, and although she was certainly in a contemporary position with early members for which information that is given, subsequent researchers have relied on other circumstantial evidence rather than what Letitia wrote. I think the newer researchers are probably mistaken. This Bible is a hugely important resource for nearly uncountable families. The Smith/Prestons had impact on nearly every family in SW Virginia. William Preston was a surveyor, civil servant, military hero, arbitrator, community force. He was a great Leader in his world and in his time. This Bible is a great study study tool, as well as an invaluable document in the Preston Smith (and M-M-M) genealogy. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, Like most of us, I often concentrate so hard on one aspect of a subject I forget there tons of different ways to approach it. Because American Crossroads is highly focused on the use of computer and internet technology in research, I sometimes forget to talk about written resources (although I use them almost daily in my role as the World's Oldest Student.) In genealogy, PERSI is a great way to look up genealogy and history specific sources for your personal bibliography. The acronym PERSI stands for "PERiodical Source Index." There are a gadzillion local history and genealogical publications which may have published information or specific data about some of your family. I have put up some of the PERSI listings for Pennington at the website. (They are available at Ancestry.com. These need to be updated periodically (forgive me,) but since some of you are new searchers you may want to see what I have put up so far. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Persi/persi.html In general these kinds of articles include the same kind of information mentioned recently, the biographies included from Dr. Dickey's Journal. If you have access to a good genealogical library, if your local public library subscribes to these kinds of publications or if you have obtained copies of materials like this at the LDS Family History Center (or other source) you can be of inestimal help to others by copying pertinent articles. Compiling bibliographies is a good way to see all the information that exists out there in that great void beyond the www. Here's two other internet sources that can help you compile a bibliography and begin searching the "old way." The Library of Congress catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/ While you are at the Library of Congress be sure to check out the American Memory section. They have wonderful photographs, an index to George Washington's published papers, actual copies of Washingtons' papers, etc. Christopher Gist's Ranger List is here, along with wonderful wonderful documents about our heritage. I've included Christopher Gist's List at American Crossroads. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/%7eamxroads/Gist/orig.html Rootsweb has a great bibliography of Quaker records: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrichmon/quaker/qksrcsec.htm You can also obtain copies of the many Quaker Surname Collections included in the Gilbert Cope Collection from the LDS Family History Centers. You can visit your local FHC to do this, or even find the Microfilm listings at home by going to the catalog at the LDS website: http://www.familysearch.org I have created a huge database collection of URL's as a sort of virtual "bibliography," still to be uploaded to the website, but haven't decided what to call it yet -- No! No! I can't, I won't call it a Urlogy! Tastfully yours, Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, First, welcome to several new subscribers! We are happy to have you among us. Please share your research interests with the List, and we will be happy to help in whatever ways we can. I am very far behind with uploading things to the website, but am trying to get that resolved. Increasingly there are great new sites that put up data and transcriptions of historical information. Even so, you have to be careful what you take for gospel on many of these sites. Follow up with your own research, and check with others doing research on the same areas or surnames. One web transcription of marriage records I encountered last year was attempting to be so accurate in copying old spelling used in these records that the name was totally obliterated. The "s" written in the middle of a word was often written as a sort of elongated "f." Copyists don't quite know what to do in this case. If the name is unfamiliar to the copyist, as is the case of a person transcribing a whole list rather than doing family research on familiar names, the end result is often distorted from the original name. One example of this is the name "Casey." For a very long time I suggested to Pennington/Casey descendants that they obtain original copies of several key documents in their research, even though abstracts of the documents were well circulated. One descendant has written me that three previous errors have been corrected by obtaining a copy of this will: " 1. Jacob Pennington's will mentions a daughter Abigail "Cassey", not "Cafey" as is commonly given in published transcriptions. "2. Also, "Jiarse" Noland, a son-in-law mentioned in Isaac's will, is actually "Piarse" Noland (other records show that Isaac's daughter Rebecca married Pearce Noland). "3. The [circulated] transcription of Jacob's will doesn't mention land on Beaverdam Creek of Little River willed to his daughter Charity (this land is later sold by Charity and her husband Randolph Casey), but published transcriptions do. This discrepency was explained when I [the descendant] read the will and found that there are 11 provisions, instead of the ten [the transcriber] inadvertantly left out. However, the provisions of the actual will are only numbered up to ten. But "fifthly" was used twice, one of which was for the Beaverdam Creek bequest!" When transcribers misinterpret names, what evolves in the research? Since Caffey "sounds like" Coffee or Coffey, I believe that it is quite likely that the original Caff(s)ey may have been interpreted as Coffey and then reinterpreted as Coffee. Coincidentally, there are also abundant Coffeys in the South, and some connected to Penningtons. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A similar problem exists in my own Penning/Pemberton line. Each is a legitimate surname. But each seems to have been subsituted for the other over a long period of time. Once the name is in the records, (written by others) and the individuals of the name are represented in that way, it is terribly difficult to ferret out which is which. There is a great deal of information on the Coffeys in a transcribed portion of a Watauga County, NC History: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/8473/Arthur/contents.html As for "Jiarse" Noland -- let the buyer beware of a strange appelation! How many Jiarses have you encountered? How would you even pronounce "Jiarse?" This misnomer begs attention! Pierce (Pearce) Noland became a well known plantation owner and is given in Ancestry.com as a study example. Similarly, when I found the name of my g-g-grandfather given in an LDS submission as Marion "Lucres" Pennington the red flags jumped up. People simply were not named "Jiarse" or "Lucres." We do have the name Lucas in our family, and I thought this might have been misinterpreted. When I found further records I discovered the name was "Loveless," another misnomer for the surname Lovelace. This occurs when the symbol for a double "s" is misinterpreted. Another problem is mistaking capital "L" for capital "S." In my case this resulted in my looking for Mandle for too many years instead of Standle (pronounced Standlee,) and also spelled Stanley as well as Standley. In other cases Largeant, Largant has been misinterpreted for Sargeant and Sargant and vice versa. There are several good sites on the web for reading old handwriting, and our Cousin Michael has previously sent the following suggestions, which bear repeating: "1. E. Kay Kirkham, How to read the handwriting and records of early America (SLC: Deseret Book Co., 1965). "2. Kip Sperry, Reading early American handwriting (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1998). "After 25 yrs of trying to interpret old records, I finally wised up to the fact that I needed help. These books have been very helpful and I wish I had read them long ago. It is easy to think you understand what you are reading while missing the boat completely. "The Kirkham book can be acquired cheaply used through BookFinder.com. The Sperry book I could not locate used, but is available new--try Amazon.com or Alldirect.com, if not found at BookFinder.com." A final warning: If someone is paraphrasing or summarizing history, take care with repeating it. Although I used secondary 19th century sources for some of my comments on Signers of the Declaration of Independence, I was told some of it was myth. But the debunkers didn't give citations! So who knows!? Another USGENWEB county page insisted Daniel Boone's brother was buried in their Ohio County, when actually he is buried in the same named county in Indiana! You tell me if he's turning over in his grave! Another "official" Usgenweb page sought to "blame the victim," in its portrayal of Charles I, who was beheaded in the English Revolution. Charley, they stated, was obnoxious and arrogant while being held for trial and execution! They seemed to be saying, "He deserved beheading, that Rotten No-Goodnik!" When we write history we must not only be accurate with facts, but also, never seek to interject hindsight, opinion, or interpretation of that time with a revisionist attitude. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, When I first started putting my grand concept of American Crossroads down on paper, because of my own family research, I had decided there were two primary keys to the migrations and therefore, two primary keys to the families: The Delaware River Valley, and the Quakers. In each family I have investigated this has proved to be the case. This does not mean that our New England ancestors were not primary keys, just that their convergence with the Delaware River Valley settlers and/or the Quakers occurred later, and in different perimeters. In pursuing these ideas, I found names on both sides of my family regularly occurring in disparate clumps. On my paternal side in Maryland I found Mounts/Mounce in connection with Penningtons. On my maternal side I also found Mounts in connection with my Smith/Markham/Watts family in Virginia. I found Wallers connected with the Smith/Markham/Watts in Hanover and Orange Counties, Virginia, and also in Southside Virginia. I found (Dutch) Wallings from New York connecting with my Williams, who connected with my Smarts, Tuckers, and Emersons who connected with my Penningtons. I found Alleys connecting with Watts in SW Virginia and NW North Carolina and identified them as likely (Dutch) Aillings from NY, along with the Van Winkles whose Dutch ancestry has been very thoroughly researched. The Watts and Van Winkle connection has continued to the present time, here in Oregon. So, it was apparent that additional primary concepts for American Crossroads were needed to encompass working in loosely defined perimeters, and with Kinship Groups, rather getting tangled up in iffy research performed on single, specific surnames. This becomes self-evident when one considers some of the surnames found in the Delaware River Valley. Take a patronymic name, and consider how it might have evolved -- for instance -- Mounts or maybe even Mouns, Mons -- a Scandinavian name from the "Swede/Finns," as I call them. Mounts was used as a Surname and Forname, as is characteristic of patronymics. In Cecil County, some of these using it as a Surname married into the Biddle/Beadle/Beedle, etc. family, who in turn married into the Pennington family. In this locality Christopher Mounce became Christopher Anderson. Now who could have predicted that transition? (Anders is Donald in English.) Further confusing this issue is that in the very early colonial period some retained the patronymic system while others, even of the same family and generation, resorted to an anglicized system. Throw into the pot the vagaries of spelling in English, by people whose ear didn't encompass "foreign" nuances, and you have variants of the variants! In these circumstances it is easy to see that researching Kinship groups works much better than a simple surname approach. And remember too: always -- some of every variety stayed, while some rode on. Because the Delaware River Valley settlers and the Quakers were principally centered around Philadelphia I have focused heavily on the Philadelphia Perimeter and have sought to work outward from that as the basis of the earliest migrations. This too has proved essentially correct. I thought it likely that I would find a clump of Quakers and early families had converged along the Susquehanna River which would provide the BIG link in the chain. I thought Bucks county was a likely place, but I still didn't find precisely what I was after. In doing this grouping and re-grouping I don't focus on precisely defined boundaries (county or state) because the people themselves did not. The conflict, however, is that when you research you MUST focus on specific counties and states because that is the way the records are arranged. Similarly, to research you must focus on Surnames because that too is how genealogical information is arranged, although we all know it becomes terribly mixed up when you have to check five or six different name spellings to find the one family all those surname variants represent. So this becomes the total equation: History, Locality and Kinship lead us to a correct Identity. So, anyway, cutting to the chase, I go back, and search, and search again, checking out ideas on the internet, and use a search criteria of three or four surname combinations with a location and seeing what comes up. Google is just great for this. Now, I think I have found a real missing link/perimeter! Eureka! You are the Strongest Link! Hello! Last fall while I researched the Regulators of North Carolina, I came upon an article written about the "Jersey Settlement" in Rowan County, NC which made references to the people found in the original area of Hopewell township, Hunterdon County (now Burlington). Cousin Alice had told me about a Baptist congregation from New Jersey which was connected with the Jersey settlement. I had already looked at that, and decided it wasn't terribly significant. So I didn't pay much attention to the article that was included with the Regulators' pages. When I finally came back to it recently, I was stunned at how wrong I was. This article, written by Ethel Stroupe and published in the Rowan County Register, vol. 11, no. 1, February 1996, has so many good points, it just goes to show how much it helps to return to one's old sources and make new comparisons with new information. www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mckstmerjersey.htm#author There are some minor things that are not quite on target, but in general, this article is very very good and very much a pointer to Hunterdon/Burlington County, across the Delaware from Bucks county, as a primary missing link for early locations of our migrating families. This certainly needs to become the next perimeter we need to focus on. Goodbye! Love, your Strongly Linked Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, My internet problems are stilll not resolved and now I've got a $644 bill with the phone company for the new service I never got! OY! Isn't technology wonderful? I'm still getting on long enough to get messages after four or five tries to connect, and that's about it. I'm determined to have this resolved by the first of May so I can get pages loaded to the website. I have an historical overview of Northeast and New England settlement which I hope will answer questions about the North Eastern tribes (First the Five Nations, then called the Six Nations), how they might have been in Illinois and the connection to Quakers. In the meantime, and ever so briefly, the Six Nations (Onandagas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Iroquois, and Tuscarawas) ranged over the area of Northeastern US and southeastern Canada to the Great Lakes. You may remember in the 1960's the Kinzua dam being built in NW NY, and flooding Seneca lands where (among others) the great Seneca leader, Cornplanter was buried. George Washington had signed the original treaty guaranteeing the Senecas this land. Until the mid-18th century French fur traders and trappers were the principal white influence among the Six Nations. As a French-English struggle for control of "western" lands began developing, the Indians well understood it was their land that was being contested. Ultimately they joined forces with the French in what became the Seven Years War, or the French Indian war. Christopher Gist had undertaken to explore the Ohio River Country for the Virginians who had formed the Ohio Land Company. In the dead of winter in 1752-3 Gist guided George Washington on a spying trip along the Monongahela beyond (now) Pittsburgh to see what the French were up to, and determine their strength. It was an amazing trip in every aspect, revealing much about the character of both men, and the abilities it took to survive on the frontier in the 18th century. More about that in my article! There are published journals for both men, and they make wonderful reading. Additionally, there are maps, and names of people and places in this frontier wilderness. Washington's map was for the purpose of building forts. The Indians ranged up and down the Appalachians, hunting, trading, living, fighting. The barrier created by the mountains had essentially created a symbolic dividing line -- a frontier -- between European settlers and the "wild" Indians and the wild western lands. The French were Catholic and the religious presence they brought into the equation was Catholic. The English were Protestant. The Indians embraced the French during the "official" war in the mid-century. The English defeated the French and their Indian allies in the north. The actual hostilities with the southern Appalachian tribespeople went on and on and was not truly over until well after the Revolutionary War -- around 1800. The final solution to the Indian problem was determined when Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's ruling on the matter and marched the SE Indians along the Trail of Tears to "Indian Territory" throughout the late 1830's and early 1840's. William Penn had established equitable relationships with the Delaware (Lenape) Indians The Delawares were of Iroquoian stock, but were not warriors. Penn's Quakers were of course, not fighters either. This resulted in a fairly harmonious arrangement, and when the Quakers began migrating into other regions they took their rules of fair treatment along with them. It was the aim of all religious elements to "civilize" the Indians -- turn "savages-heathens" (unknowing of God) into proper Christians. When the French/Catholics were out of the picture, the Quakers often stepped in to minister to the Indians, act as their "agents," help them in negotiations, etc. They first became missionaries and then much later in the 1800's often served as the actual the Indian agents on the reservations. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

She will be remembered in my prayers. Thanks for sharing. Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: Cari Dawson Bartley Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:58 PM To: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AMXROADS] B.K. Dawson-- obit Bonnie Kay Dawson, 65, passed away April 13, 2001 at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, Auburn, California. She was born Bonnie Kay Mincer January 23, 1936 in Hollywood, California, the only child of Albert and Virginia Mincer. Bonnie lived and left friends in many places including California, Oregon and Washington. A wonderful daughter, wife and mother, she was preceded in death by her husband Hugh Logan Dawson Jr., in 1987. Hugh and Bonnie Kay were high school sweethearts and married on August 20, 1954 in Brookings, Oregon. Survivors include mother Virginia F. PENNINGTON Mincer of Vacaville, California; aunt Arline M. PENNINGTON Birch and Charles Birch of Fairfield, California; daughter Cari C. Dawson Bartley and son-in-law Robert Bartley of Auburn, California; son Dana L. Dawson and daughter-in-law Julie Blake Dawson of Bear, Delaware; daughter Lyné H. Dawson Bloomfield and son-in-law David Bloomfield of Atascadero, California; granddaughters Paige C. Bartley, Bonnie B. Dawson, Pepper C. Bloomfield and Holly O. Bloomfield; various nieces, nephews and cousins. She had been living with her daughter’s family in Auburn, California, for several months due to illness. All three of her children were at her side when she passed away. Bonnie Kay enjoyed designing and making quilts, reading, church work and gardening. The last couple years she was a huge help in gleaning important information for genealogy research and was very happy it was an interest of her children and that it would be passed on to her grandchildren. She is already missed terribly by all her family and friends. At her request, no funeral service will be held. Arrangements are by Chapel of the Valley, Roseville, California. Memorials in lieu of flowers to The Salvation Army. ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>

Bonnie Kay Dawson, 65, passed away April 13, 2001 at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, Auburn, California. She was born Bonnie Kay Mincer January 23, 1936 in Hollywood, California, the only child of Albert and Virginia Mincer. Bonnie lived and left friends in many places including California, Oregon and Washington. A wonderful daughter, wife and mother, she was preceded in death by her husband Hugh Logan Dawson Jr., in 1987. Hugh and Bonnie Kay were high school sweethearts and married on August 20, 1954 in Brookings, Oregon. Survivors include mother Virginia F. PENNINGTON Mincer of Vacaville, California; aunt Arline M. PENNINGTON Birch and Charles Birch of Fairfield, California; daughter Cari C. Dawson Bartley and son-in-law Robert Bartley of Auburn, California; son Dana L. Dawson and daughter-in-law Julie Blake Dawson of Bear, Delaware; daughter Lyné H. Dawson Bloomfield and son-in-law David Bloomfield of Atascadero, California; granddaughters Paige C. Bartley, Bonnie B. Dawson, Pepper C. Bloomfield and Holly O. Bloomfield; various nieces, nephews and cousins. She had been living with her daughter’s family in Auburn, California, for several months due to illness. All three of her children were at her side when she passed away. Bonnie Kay enjoyed designing and making quilts, reading, church work and gardening. The last couple years she was a huge help in gleaning important information for genealogy research and was very happy it was an interest of her children and that it would be passed on to her grandchildren. She is already missed terribly by all her family and friends. At her request, no funeral service will be held. Arrangements are by Chapel of the Valley, Roseville, California. Memorials in lieu of flowers to The Salvation Army.

Carolyn, My prayers shall be for a quick healing and a fast recovery for Mary. I shall continue to keep her in my prayers until I receive a good report. Georgia Pennington Sligar ----- Original Message ----- From: Carolyn McDaniel <cmacdee@teleport.com> To: <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:25 PM Subject: [AMXROADS] Mary Yarnall > Dear Cousins, > Our Cousin and Listmember Mary Yarnall has been very ill and > was subsequently hospitalized and underwent emergency sugery on the > 15th of April. Our Cousin Marilyn Kucera is in touch with her family > in regard to her condition and progress. Mary is a wonderfully giving > participant of our project, specializing in Quaker genealogy and > records. I hope you all will join in all positive, loving and healing > thoughts and prayers for Mary. > > Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn > Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com > ========================================= > --- Visit American Crossroads --- > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads > > > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html >

Dear Cousin Cari and Cousins on the List, Although we didn't personally know your Mother, we know her through you, and she was a part of us. We share your loss, and join with you in your sorrow. Love and Peace be with her and you, and all her family. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Hi all, thought I'd chime in with something that's been bugging me for quite some time now: One of "my" Isaac Peningtons was in Virginia during the Revolutionary War, sent there from Philadelphia under loose arrest because he was a Quaker. But while scouring the internet for goodies, I keep finding references for Isaac Penningtons in Virginia as landowners, etc. WHO ARE THESE ISAAC'S? I'm in contact with a distant Penington cousin who descends from one of the other sons of Isaac the Mayor, whose family came here later than my Edward the surveyor. But I don't think they went to Virginia. Here is one of those crossroads thingies for sure. Sorry, no longer coherent today. Just wanted to put the question out into the ether and see what bites. Regards, Jim Cookman

Dear Cousins, Our Cousin and Listmember Mary Yarnall has been very ill and was subsequently hospitalized and underwent emergency sugery on the 15th of April. Our Cousin Marilyn Kucera is in touch with her family in regard to her condition and progress. Mary is a wonderfully giving participant of our project, specializing in Quaker genealogy and records. I hope you all will join in all positive, loving and healing thoughts and prayers for Mary. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Carolyn, I can not get these first two web sites to come in. It just says "File Not Found". Marilyn Carolyn McDaniel wrote: > Dear Cousins, > I forgot the other Dr. Dickey bio I found last night and sent > to Jim. I also wanted to tell you about some additional Kentucky > information which makes it a terrific research area. The early > grants of Kentucky have been published. If you search this at > Ancestry.com, you can locate your ancestors' patent, which gives > the watercourse, and then search up and down the "crick" to see > who else lived in proximity to them. I have made a database of > these and in the case of the Pennington surnames, have > combined them with Virginia patents. The Pennington KYVA > patents are at the American Crossroads website: > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/lands.html > > I have combined several lists (tax, census, patents) and put them > together which is really helpful, but in some cases I have been unable > to determine where the information came from (I copied them at > Ancestry.com). The specific information I'm referring to is a 1755 > Rowan County Tax list. The source at Ancestry is only listed as > "early tax records, " yet there is an internet page which states that > the 1759 Rowan county tax list is the earliest extant (existing) tax > list. I'll have to think about this and see what to do -- I may put > in the same notation with each 1755 entry. > Additionally I have another Kentucky patents database, which > was the first I put up, and I seem to have loaded it improperly, or > not finished putting it up, for it stops at the "L" counties. I'll > get that corrected. It is at > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/kylands.html > > Here's the other Pennington bio: > http://www.starbase21.com/kybiog/jackson/pennington.j.txt > Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's > and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4 > September, 1997, p. 89. By permission. Jackson County. > > "JOHN PENNINGTON (Hyden, Kentucky, January 20, 1898.) > I live in Jackson County, Gray Hawk Post Office. My grandfather > was Aaron Pennington. He came from North Carolina, at an early age > and settled on the head of Cutshin then called New Harlan. His wife > was a Coldiron. My grandfather's children were: Levi, Jesse, Henry, > William, Ephraim, James, Nancy, and Malinda. My grandfather had a > brother who came from North Carolina and settled on Poor Fork. He > was the grandfather of Capt. John Pennington of near mouth of Pond > Creek. I do not know Dr. Pennington of London." > > Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn > Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com > ========================================= > To send a message to the American Crossroads List: > AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com > --- Visit American Crossroads --- > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

Dear Cousins, Our Cousin Marilyn could not reach either of the Kentucky databases. That is because I put an extra "s" at the end of "land." Sorry about that! The proper addresses are: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/kyland.html and http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/land.html Thanks for letting me know, Marilyn! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads

Dear Cousins, I forgot the other Dr. Dickey bio I found last night and sent to Jim. I also wanted to tell you about some additional Kentucky information which makes it a terrific research area. The early grants of Kentucky have been published. If you search this at Ancestry.com, you can locate your ancestors' patent, which gives the watercourse, and then search up and down the "crick" to see who else lived in proximity to them. I have made a database of these and in the case of the Pennington surnames, have combined them with Virginia patents. The Pennington KYVA patents are at the American Crossroads website: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/lands.html I have combined several lists (tax, census, patents) and put them together which is really helpful, but in some cases I have been unable to determine where the information came from (I copied them at Ancestry.com). The specific information I'm referring to is a 1755 Rowan County Tax list. The source at Ancestry is only listed as "early tax records, " yet there is an internet page which states that the 1759 Rowan county tax list is the earliest extant (existing) tax list. I'll have to think about this and see what to do -- I may put in the same notation with each 1755 entry. Additionally I have another Kentucky patents database, which was the first I put up, and I seem to have loaded it improperly, or not finished putting it up, for it stops at the "L" counties. I'll get that corrected. It is at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Kentucky/kylands.html Here's the other Pennington bio: http://www.starbase21.com/kybiog/jackson/pennington.j.txt Dr. John J. Dickey Diary, Fleming County, Ky. Recorded in the 1870's and beyond. Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 12, No 4 September, 1997, p. 89. By permission. Jackson County. "JOHN PENNINGTON (Hyden, Kentucky, January 20, 1898.) I live in Jackson County, Gray Hawk Post Office. My grandfather was Aaron Pennington. He came from North Carolina, at an early age and settled on the head of Cutshin then called New Harlan. His wife was a Coldiron. My grandfather's children were: Levi, Jesse, Henry, William, Ephraim, James, Nancy, and Malinda. My grandfather had a brother who came from North Carolina and settled on Poor Fork. He was the grandfather of Capt. John Pennington of near mouth of Pond Creek. I do not know Dr. Pennington of London." Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= To send a message to the American Crossroads List: AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads