Dear Cousins, I have put up a new Localities Summary page at the website. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Locsum/index.html Throughout the rest of the day I will be uploading the data pages which are linked there. There will be a similar page for Identity Summaries, even though they are also shown on the Localities Summary Page. I hope getting these up will provide prototypes for the various facets of the records and data pages as well as facilitate plowing through the data that Barb has mentioned. This should make it easier to understand some of the ways these approaches will ultimately straighten out some of the mis-matched identities and lineages. Just today I found one shown at Rootsweb, in which a Levi Pennington of Perry County KY was mis-identified in two of the World Family Tree lineages. They (World Family Tree) took the Levi Pennington, (Perry County, KY census, 1850) b. ca. 1810 and smacked him into the lineage of Levi b. 1822 who died at Vicksburg. (Son of Aaron). I hope we will similarly straighten out Cari's Indiana ancestors which are mis-identified because they have the same names as those in the Carolinas. I believe I have found a corrected identity for Lethe Beal/Bell who m. Thomas Pennington. I believe Lethe/Lethia has suffered the same fate as the above Levis. And I have some interesting new leads on the Ephraim descendants. Additionally, through studying the 1790 indexes, comparing them with the 1790 images available at Ancestry.com, then finding their locations on GNIS maps, I believe I've made progress in delineating various others in NW North Carolina. I've also discovered some names which I believe are Penningtons which previously may not have been identified as Pennington, and we will need to work on figuring out their true identities and positions. The key to this methodology is to use databases as units for storage and comparison, rather than relying on them to determine and link identities. This restores individual identity and allows careful re-placing these identities into other families and lineages only if the records indicate it. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR UPDATES! On a more serious note, please keep our dear cousins, Ric Blake and Donald Flowers in your thoughts and prayers. Both have had serious health changes and/or decisions recently. And please hold my small neighbor, Alexander, age 5, in your hearts and prayers while we wait for results of biopsies of his brain and spine. Love, your cousin, Carolyn --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads