Dear Cousins! I am through napping! Thanks Georgia! (and I will get your last e-mail answered!) Today I worked on two more aspects of the new identifying pages I want to use as prototypes. I hope to have them up tonight or tomorrow. One is an individual name summary for the name Elijah Pennington. The other is a locality summary database for Somerset County, NJ. These both form parts of the Ephraim descendants. I hope to have examples up in the next couple of days for the others. These two summaries, and three others in the works should put us in good shape in reducing gadzillions of data into individual ancestors. Also, I like to give the ancestors identifying names, such as Abraham the Trader, Levi the Quaker, etc., which also helps to further flesh out the unique identity of each. The summaries, and a Sercher registry will be set up as follows: AMXROADS SURNAME SUMMARY (For example, BEASON) Sursum/beason.html AMXROADS IDENTITY SUMMARY (For example Elijah Pennington) Identsum/elijahp.html AMXROADS ALLIED SURNAME PAGE Allsum/index.html AMXROADS LOCALITIES SUMMARY (For example, Ashe County, NC) Locsum/ashe.html AMXROADS DATABASES (For example, Somerset NJ database) Data/NJsom.html AMXROADS SEARCHER REGISTERY Register/index.html) Obviously, we are not going to do Summaries on every ancestor, for inclusion on the website. But if we do the summaries on the key ones, I believe it will lead us to finding answers for whole lineages. One of the biggest problems with the internet information is the unreliability of it. This methodology will lead us back to basics and restore a means of sorting out what went wrong, and where, in much of the Other information floating around. The Identity Summary Page is uploaded, and it will guide us to the Surnames and Individual summaries of interest. To begin with, I have merely put a few of the many which will ultimately be available. Remember these summaries are works in progress. They are here for all of you to add your fondest genealogical hopes and dreams! Also, remember, I am always open to your suggestions and improvements about what will help you. Sometimes we have to mull these things over and see what works. Write your thoughts and ideas to the list! Many heads are better than this wonky one! This is what I suggest: Print out the pages so that you can see how the data and information is set up and see whether you follow the interconnections. (I have about ten million pages of this kind of thing I keep trying to get into notebooks.) In doing the research, I believe we have to go from broad to specific and then back again. One fact leads to the development of another. When one has access to the information on the internet it is easy to follow up quickly. In the olden days (this is not a story about my wonky knees, Kay!) we had to wait weeks and months for this kind of information! Also, remember, I have been assembling this data from the internet. This is most decidedly secondary resource material! BUT, it is comprised of actual records that have been written down somewhere. This is what we have to remember. This material is fact, but it is secondary fact because it has passed through various transcriptions and human manglings. (Even mine!) But, even though we must follow up on secondary information, it is not a rehash of someone's fantasies recycled and recloned by World Family Tree, etc. I have loaded an additional page on the defunct county of Tyron, NC (1769-1779). This county had references to many pertinent surnames in NW North Carolina, including Jacob Pennington and Mary his wife; Benejah Pennington, Jno. Pennington and Micajah Pennington and his wife Rachel. Study of other surnames in this non-existant place (created from Mecklenburg and made into Rutherford and Lincoln) may shed additional light on our puzzles. The spelling is creative! However, these documents (from a book by Brent Holcomb) provides an interesting insight during the Revolutionary War era. Please keep our Cousin Cari and her family in your thoughts and prayers as they support her mother in radiation treatment and dialysis, while coping with a forced move notice from their landlord in the midst of these severe health struggles. Love and Peace, Your Wonky Cousin! Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Identsum/elijahp.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Identsum/index.html http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/NWSW/tyron.html