In a message dated 11/10/01 8:02:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time, AMXROADS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << And Beej, I still haven't forgotten you! Now in keeping with my landlord settlement, I have to be out of here by the end of the month. I have to displace two cats and move five rooms of belongings. AND, I have a book club celebration of my mother's 90th birthday, and Thanksgiving! Then Christmas! AND, I have a new grandbaby arriving in mid-January in Maryland, and I have a GENTECH 2002 speech to give in Boston the end of January! It's going to be a fun time. I need all the help I can get! >> Dear Lady: Do not worry about my research you have enough to keep you busy for the next 6 months. The last bit of help you gave me was great and the River Valley area is great. I had been there several times but it is hard to cover everything at the same time. It takes time to do genealogy research correctly. Now MOTHER'S are special and at your mothers age you need to give her all the time you can. My father died this past June at 95. Moving takes time, time and more time. If I were closer I would help you but I am in AZ. The baby is another need to be near at hand To bad that you have to move this time of yr. Do you have your waterways picked out? Do you have all you need for your migrations? If there is anything I can do to help in finding them let me know and I will see what I can do to help. I was on the Roads/Trails list that Beverly and Bob Whitaker had before it moved and found much to help the list with. I can look for you, send you the info to check and see if it is what you desire to use if you want. Matter of fact waterways was a source of travel for many pioneers. I have a book that tells of a family that had a special made wagon, it was shipped unconstructed down the Ohio river to the Mississippi and constructed in St. Louis and provisioned there for going on west. I thought it a very interesting bit of pioneer trivia. Another story told of covered wagons going thru wooded areas and to save the canvas from getting ripped and torn by the tree limbs they would take it off and fold it up and once thru the trees reapply it to the wagon tops. I had never given that aspect of covered wagon travel a thought, it sure seems very logical. May the Great Spirit Guide you in your goings and comings and working. I hope your mother is in good health and happy. Your cousin in research Billie Jean Reese (Beej) PasaPeruva@aol.com