Dear Cousins, I've received a wonderfully positive e-mail from Billie Jean (or Beej,) one of our new list members. I am reposting it with her permission. It is so nice to get responses like this one. I've written Beej that there will be more information on Van Meter, Ballenger, and Teagues before long. I'm working on further indexes that I hope will continue to clarify Kinship and Migrations and am editing the Site map. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@teleport.com ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads Carolyn McDaniel: I was very impressed with the first of my digest posting from AMXRoads. I have already found two of my surnames in the reading I have done in your site. Van Meter and Teague. I knew the Van Meter's traveled west with the Dye's but have not put them anywhere else. Let alone in the state that I was born and raised in, being IN. Later in the reading there was a Ballenger that could lead somewhere as my father is a Ballenger, also a Burton entering as a servent to a family. So There are four surnames to enhance on. I have my ggg grandfather George Burton with George Washington at Valley Forge marring a Lee from NJ in First Shelby Co., KY and moving on up into IN to Jefferson Co. about 1800's. Problem is I am in AZ and doing research in IN on my families. My sisters are doing Genealogy and collecting data but not resourcing it as I am trying to do. My older sister did research yrs. ago but no documentation as to where she found things. I am trying to follow her tracks and putting that in my papers. Her research has helped in that I don't have to blindly look, I can go and find and document I already know that you can find a like name in a different family and that all to often happens in the Burton line. Sorry I did not aim to get off on a tangent but I am hopeing to really learn on this list and give positive responses and help. Oh, I will need to unsubscribe in a week or so as I am traveling to IN to visit my father and do some research in Henry, Hancock and Jefferson Co.s, IN and mybe go to Shelby Co., KY. I am a school but driver so have a few weeks of R&R. Billie Jean (Ballenger/Burton) Reese PasaPeruva@aol.com