Good Lord! Seems like almost every Blackburn researcher gets stuck on a William. I found one very nice man who's apparently the only other person in the universe studying my Blackburn line, and from him I got my G2-grandfather's parents and grandparents. Only problem is, we're stuck at my G4 grandfather, whose name is WILLIAM (born in Va., died in N.C., 1700s). So many Williams ... could be worse, though. In another branch of my family tree, there were three generations of men named John who all married women named Mary. Thank God nobody's last name was Smith. >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BLKBURN] not alone >Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:35:18 EST > >In a message dated 1/23/2000 7:59:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< parish records were carefully made (unless you were > Roman Catholic, which can be a problem). >> > >Liz, > >Why? I've used them in Portugal (I had to learn to read "old" Portuguese) >to >trace my foreign lines back to the 1500s. I found them quite easy to use. > >My Blackburn line isn't so nice. I can't get past my William (who else?) >in >1814 in E. Tenn. > >Cheri > > >==== BLACKBURN Mailing List ==== >Okay, so I don't descend from anyone... now what? >THANKS!! To Rootsweb.com for the space. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com