On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:32:21 Willette Smith wrote: >.... however i stand by my findings. because, the road has not been opened >yet to declare charles breedlove/mary parr-did not come out of thin air. he >was born in va. in 1685. this implys his parents were there!!! etc. someone >somewhere knows of this. i am still doing my own research on this. sorry if >some do expect to find full documentation in my submission. it was designed >to touch base with people of this lineage and those working with it. everyone >has their own opinions. thank you for yours. There has not been one single piece of evidence ever found that Charles Breedlove was born in Virginia, OR ANYWHERE ELSE! He does suddenly appear, out of thin air, in 1708 in Essex County, Virgnia, as a witness, but there is no way any good genealogist would accept that as proof that either of his parents were ever in Virginia. On the other hand, there have been many submittals to the LDS, World Family Tree, World Connect Project, etc, that have given Virginia as Charles Breedlove's place of birth, but there is not a single submitter that can offer any evidence to support that supposition. I know, as I have sent emails or letters to more than 50 of these and received replies ranging from my brother's aunt said so or they got it from the Ancestral File or some such other non reliable source. Not a single one was able to come up with any written record of that time period that would give any clue as to where Charles Breedlove was born. Perhaps Gerry Hill can shed some light on her submittals to Ancestral File if she is still a member of this list. While I am raining on Willette's parade I better drizzle a little on the rest of the Watkins parade. Have been doing the same investigation of the Catherine Digges-William Herndon line and still have not found any proof that Catherine was the daughter of Edward Digges. Most of the 20 or so repliies I've received have given no better than Ancestral File or World Family Tree as proof. A few have ventured that the Herndon Family of America or the Herndon Family of the American Revolution books provided the proof. But, as a few of them have noted, these books also say that their is no conclusive evidence that Catherine Digges is the daughter of Governor Edward Digges and wife Elizabeth Page. Has anyone done any digging in Kent Parish registers to find baptismal records for this Catherine? Yes, we are all entitled to our opinions, but I would not use someone elses' opinion of our Breedlove origins as fact without a lot of research on my own, and I would hope that others would do the same. Don't accept everything or anything that Hope Perry Breedlove wrote or that anyone else wrote as true without some research to verify what they have said. And never quote me!!! I make mistakes too, and my memory seems to be slipping at times. With not too much effort I've found errors in the best of genealogies, from Gary Boyd Roberts down to John Vincent Boddie, whose Virginia families are well mangled with skipped generations or meshed families of two people by the same name. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!! Use what others have written only as a guide to your own research and make your own conclusions based on all of the evidence that is available to you. Don't let one piece of primary evidence lead you astray, as even primary evidence can be greatly full or errors. My own son's birth certificate has at least 5 major errors in it. I gave the information to the nurse who just wrote it down all wrong. Better get off my soapbox. Tom King Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications at http://comm.lycos.com