This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Cadrolls1_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.beckwith/1260.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Tina, Thank you very much for the effort that you have put into this. It is immensely appreciated. Lena was my Great Grandmother. I wasn't aware that she was so well liked in the community. I have been to Colchester and found it to be an incredibly warm and friendly town. They have a beautiful town green that is right out of colonial America. I have spent hundreds of hours trying to find who James Beckwith's parents were. I wake up each day at around noon and search 'till 5 or 6 in the morning. It is starting to affect my health, I think. I think I am becoming obsessed with it. I can't stop and I don't how to if I wanted to. I have to take a ride down to the Waterford City Hall and go through their records. I don't know what else to do at this point. Thank you so much for the help. You can search through my tree and see if anything helps you in any of your searches. Most of the family is done to England and Scotland on most sides. Ignore the Johnson side as it is in error. Both Johnsons list their parents as coming from Connecticut but I unwisely took the advise from one of those hint leaves and went with Rhode Island. I have to delete it. Everything else was gone through with a fine toothed comb for accuracy. Even though Elizabeth went by the name "Edna", Elizabeth might be on her birth certificate so it might just help after all. My Aunt is in her 80s and does not have too much longer to go and I promised myself I would get this done before she died. Her Mother died when she was young and her Father was a horrible man who never visited her after the 1930s. She would love to know about the rest of the good family members who she never met or knew about. Thank you very, very, much, W. V. Coleman/Johnson Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.