Dear Margaret, Below is the general letter I send out on the Carpenter CD Project. Since it is a hobby to me, I can afford the time and energy put into it without seeking recompense for my efforts. The Carpenter CD Project (for the lack of a better name) is due out about the first part of the year 2001 with the deadline being the end of the year 2000. Hopefully the cost for the CDs will be low and to help offset the costs for the publishing the CDs and the two or three hard copies books. The Carpenter CD will also be submitted to the LDS Ancestral File to correct old erroneous data. Knowing them, it will take many many years to be added. If you have any questions, please let me know. Sincerely, John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA Maragret Cass wrote: > > Dear John, > What is the 'Carpenter CD Project'? > Thanks, > Margaret Cass > > A side bar of the Carpenter CD Project is to correct the data in the LDS > Ancestral File. *************************************** Dear Family History Researcher, I was advised that you might be interested in the CARPENTER FAMILY. For more than twenty years, I have worked on my own line and related CARPENTER lines. I have built a good size computer data base on the early CARPENTER Family in France, England and in America. This main data base has over 48,000 CARPENTER & related names with over 17,000 families. I also have about 67 other CARPENTER related data files. As you probably know most CARPENTERS can trace their lineage into England. But how many know that the research has taken that CARPENTER line into France to a gentleman called "William 'the carpenter' De Melun" who was a knight who had fought at Antioch in Syria during the First Crusade in 1098 AD? Many CARPENTER researchers have focused on their pacticular line, where as I am gathering the roots and descendants of the CARPENTER FAMILY. I have included corrections to their works and new data as I get them. I plan to produce a computer CD about the end of the year 2000 AD with the results of my gathering and compiling of records. My data has the major and minor CARPENTER branches in and from England dating from the grandfather of William 'the carpenter' De Melun about 920 AD. It includes source and other interesting notes. AND I NEED YOUR HELP! If I may have your CARPENTER FAMILY data, I will send you what I have (using GEDCOM) on my main CARPENTER data file in exchange. GEDCOM or Genealogical Data Communications is a standard way to transport computer data from one computer program to another. If you do not have your data on computer, let me know and we will work something out. I look forward to hearing from you. Please pass my name around to any other interested researcher on CARPENTERS. I will answer all inquiries. John R. Carpenter 5850 Yorkshire Ave. La Mesa, CA 91942-2821 U.S.A. (619) 466-5735 Voice (619) 466-591O Fax E-Mail: jrcrin001@home.com