To Fred and others, When posting about families, it always helps to provide ALL the relevant information you think that might help someone to connect to your families. Giving names of children and their birth dates for example, might help, in connecting to previous generations since family names were often repeated generation by generation. Posting locations of where the family was known to emigrate from to where they settled and stops along the way can help someone define a possible relationship if their family or one they know of took the same trek at the same point in time. I personally tend to print out information on various BUCK families and keep them in a folder. Occasionally I run across helpful information months after the original posting. Sometimes I take the time to type unrelated families with common surnames (at least at that time) from my major family surnames into my database which means I am more likely to be able to provide information should someone else write asking about the same family later on. With this material I include the submitter's name and the email address so that I can forward on what I know to the next person who may write on the same family. As it turns out from Mary's information posted after the one I am replying to, this John BUCK family lived in VA and West Virginia, and I personally have done no research in that area, but one never knows when other people's family names and locations will connect, perhaps with someone researching the archives a year or two from now. As an example I found a 10 year old query in a genealogy publication a few years back, and you guessed it, I happened to have the information in an 1800s family diary that answered the query that had gone unanswered all those years.. In summary, when one writes a query, try to be as specific as possible. This is an area where being vague likely means you will make no connection. Even with specifics you may not make a connection now, but you might two or three years from now when someone searches the list archives. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Buck" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BUCK-L] Re: John Buck > All offspring born 1813-1835 in Monroe Co.OH/Tyler Co.WV and resided there till death. have all names but doesn't seem relevant to ? Fred