Hello Barnett's, I was in Portland Ore at the Forum a number of yrs back just after the Forum finialy got around to doing the book on William and John Barnett from the imfo that the College Professor in Eugene , or.spent his life last of 1800's and first 40 Yrs + of 1900's collecting . There were old letters written on both sides of the paper, hand copied copies of wills, etc. and lots of letters from families who knew what they were saying etc. Old papers etc. I think it was a shambles the way the letters were all cut apart with writting on both sides, etc. Pasted to other sheets of paper. There is some good in the book but by the time they got to it with the abt 1500.00 left to do it about 5 t0 8 or so yrs after his death, there wasn't enough money so all the pictures and lot's of things were left out as I was told. I saw a 4 drawer file cabinent full of all this materials and spent 5 days going through it. I missed a letter that has imfo on my William S Barnett of York Co S C and went back spent several more days and couldn't find it again. At the time , and I bought 2 of the books, I couldn't find any connection except to Wm S Barnett later. I do not know what they did with all the 4 drawers of papers but several yrs later I went back again and those in there didn't know what they had done with them. I was appauled at the way they cut those letters apart and all. It just made me SICK. GOOD imfo because they didn't know what they were doing all of them. I am still sick. Can hardly bear to think of what I saw destroyed. Was anyone else there or seen the 4 drawer file cabinment full of Barnett gen ? I remember someone telling me some yrs back before Computor's. that they did. Well I just got abt 60 pages from S C and am going over them and mine are in there, not all but a good start for completeing the gen. Hope to be able to put in Web site for others. I saw mention of this book by some others and also in the Barnett E's group which i couldn't get into, to send this message there. I think I would have to recheck most of this book to accept a lot of it sorry to say. At least gives places to start. If you saw what I saw with all this Gen, I wonder what the rest of you would say. The Forum moved some yrs back and I haven't been back since. It does have a lot of books etc. and probably lots more. Maxine in wa [email protected]