Dear Cousins, This is very exciting to have this kind of coordination and sharing taking place. I've been dreaming of some of these things coming together for a long time. This is just wonderful. NOW all you have to do is buy all your future books on the new website, and I'll be able to keep American Crossroads going! Bill, your information on the families of Lydia King and Thomas Lindsay is just the kind of thing we need to do some comparisons of ages. It is my belief that Abraham the Trader was much older than previously thought, and that his identity has been confused and mixed in with his son Abraham. I've just written Rod Pennington a couple of days ago about the Abraham Study that I think needs to be done to start clarifying not just Abraham's family, but the other Maryland Penningtons as well. Further, I think we will find when we start detailing and tightening up identity for one, a whole host of other skewed identities also will fall into place. I think this is well demonstrated through the information sent over the last several days as we have begun sharing each family's information. So, although I call this the Abraham the Trader study, please remember that is a blanket term for the study of all these associated families. I think the "Abraham the Trader Study" can be an icon for the community and the era. I'm busy on the pages which will reflect the records I have collected, about him, and the Old Frederick county pioneers. (Our Cousin Dick Coburn's folks were there too! Dick is known as the husband of the woman who loaned me all the books.) If we learn about and interpret the history of these families and their interconnections we will soon be on our way to solve the identities of the later families in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and on and on. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn