Dear Cousins on the List; Before leaving for God's Country for Thanksgiving (The Beautiful Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon) I got up two new pages at the website: Lists from Ashe County 1810 Census and Land Ownership Lists of the same period: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Ashe/census.html With this page and similar lists we can make comparisons of who was where in what periods and begin establishing and confirming identities from additional marriage, death, military records, etc. The initial Anson County page begins the same process there: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Carolina/anson.html It is increasingly clear to me that Bucks County, PA will play a very important part in determining origins and identities of many families who moved down the Appalachians. The early PA researchers especially Mary Yardley and Marilyn with their Quaker records) will play an important part of helping in this process, and we will want to work back and forth between the PA lineages and the southern ones. We need to take a record, determine its meaning in terms of the locality, the history and the names. Take a look at the names of officials in the Pennsylvania Archives for Chester, Bucks and Philadelphia Counties: Mitchell, Yardley, Canby, Isaac Pennington, Wells, Ennion Williams, Thomas Stevenson, Biles, Samuel Baker, Janney, Hampton, Craig, Hall, Hicks, Hart, Harrison, Preston, Chapman, Atkinson, Langhorne, Vandergrift, Francis -- These are just OFFICIALS -- yet look at how many Appalachian and allied surnames are listed here. Thank you Mary Y, for your kind offer! And thanks Linda for your kind comments -- We want to get going soon on your families! I hope(as I did) that everyone had had a blessed Thanksgiving full of friends, family, and love, as well as turkey and trimmings! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html