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    2. Ken Poole
    3. Hi Bolling researchers. There is no doubt that we can use all the help we can get on the Bolling families. Wer find in the Pocahontas line of Bolling, evidence, from several researchers which tells us the information in the book Pocahontas' Descendants is wrong. The Powhatan/Rolfe/Bolling subject, is a complex subject, which requires some reading and an understanding of the origins of these documents, and the quality of the documentation involved. For example, we are often told that Thomas Rolfe had one daughter, named Jane, but this is not documentated, nor does it come from a documentated source. There is direct evidence that much of what we know of Thomas Rolfe is confused, and has been miswritten about. No one will question that this information is widely believed to be true. The Crazy Judge, John Robertson, appears to be the major source for this confusion: old John heard voices, and he knew how to a redate a document. A skill one learns on the bench. Quality documentation, are those "primary" sources of information. A primary source is considered to be: deeds, wills, gravesites, court records, bible records, etc. A secondary source is what we read that someone "says" is so. The book Pochaontas' Descendants has no primay sources in it. None, zip. The first edition Preface. They speak of the Cobbs Bible, but admit, in the end, it never was found. They speak, in the Preface, of having two lists at hand, one containing 19 names, but go on to use the other list. And half the dates they did use for birth dates belonged to the Blue Bolling, as found by the Bolling reseacher, Judge Zelma Price. We are putting a Bolling Website Newsletter in place to describe these things, and provide a list of all the know books on the subject. It's my hope we can have an open forum on the subject, and all of us gain from the public input. Ken Poole

    11/30/1997 01:39:32