I am delighted to inform you that I have the ENTIRE DATABASE from the CSO in my possession! The 3" disks have been copied, and all that remains to do is tidy up a few files, then I can print the CD. I hope to be able to mail them out in the next few days! If your Caswells aren't on this disk, I'll be most surprised! :-) If you wish to purchase a CD, they are $25 inc postage. You can send me a check or pay by credit cards. (Simply send me 2 emails, splitting the number up between them, and waiting a few hours before sending the second) Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

My wife Carol, has just completed entering all the data we had on the CASSWELL family of Lincolnshire, UK. I've had this data around for years, but only in hand written, typed trees, never as a computer gedcom file. So, this is a first time for this to be available! The data comes from several members of the family, and we have crossed references the trees and added the various branches, so this is an original work. You can download the gedcom file @ www.moonrakers.com/caswell/gedcoms.gedcoms.htm Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

Please see:- www.moonrakers.com/caswell/gedcoms/gedcom.htm for a new file on the N Carolina Caswells, by Cindi Helton Mike Caswell

I have made a minor adjustment to the introductory page of Geneweb, so that you may ensure the server is switched on before you enter to look at files. Simply check to see if the server is operating, by clicking on status, then click on start if not. You can also just click on start anyway, it will only tell you the server is already running. There! Thats the 'bug' fixed! (I actually did something right today!) Mike Caswell

Thank you for your file. I have updated the webpage with it! -----Original Message----- From: Rinke <rinke16@home.com> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [CASWELL-L] SOME MOST EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!! >Mike, >Here's my updated file: >Kathy > >Mike Caswell wrote: >> >> No, its not too late. I still have some work to do! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rinke <rinke16@home.com> >> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> >> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 10:27 AM >> Subject: Re: [CASWELL-L] SOME MOST EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!!! >> >> >Mike, >> >Is it too late for me to send you an updated file to go on this CD. >> >My information is on the web site as FremontIN.zip

Many thanks for your file. I have added it to the Caswell webpage as a zipped file RhodeIsland.zip It will be included in the CD. !!!!!!!! >Mike, > >I have been working on updating my data to be added to your CD and have >attached it. This a copy of my research of the Caswell's of southern RI. >Noreen's data will be a significant addition to your CD. That data alone will >be worth the $25 you are charging. > > >Bill Caswell Seeking descendants of Job Caswell >Boscawen, NH (c.1690-1774) of Newport, RI > >E-mail address: WSCaswell@aol.com >Home page: http://members.aol.com/wscaswell/billhome.htm >ALPCA license plate archives: http://www.alpca.org/plates.html > > > >> I have just finished speaking with Noreen Haler of The Caswell Surname >> Organization. >> >> As many of you are aware, Noreen and her sister have spent a lifetime >> collecting all and every bit of information they can find, and entering it >> into a database. >> >> Currently, their file covers some 2500 written pages (in Word Perfect) and >> contains Caswell data from all over the world. >> >> The sisters have lodged this information in book form in several libraries, >> including the LDS at Salt lake. >> >> I have entered into an agreement with The Caswell Surname Organization to >> purchase a copy of this data (on 32 floppies) so I can place it on the >> upcoming Caswell CD. >> >> We, (CSO & myself) have agreed to charge $25 for this CD, sharing the >> 'profit' equally. >> >> I have made an initial upfront payment to the CSO of $400 to show good >> faith. >> >> I hope to have the files here within the next week or so, so should be able >> to send out CDs in about 3 weeks. >> If you would like to order them now, I'd appreciate the money! :-) >> >

Mike, Last summer I was researching the Taunton CASWELLs at the NEHGS and on pages 20-21, of The Mayflower Descendant Vol. 37 No. 1 January 1987, I quote George Sanborn's article: "The records of birth of the children of Samuel2 Caswell do not appear on record. As his estate was apparently never probated, and his deeds only name his sons, authority for the following daughters' names rests with Edward Alexis Caswell, "Genealogy of the Samuel Caswell branch of the descendants of Thomas Caswell,: a typescript, completed in 1901, and deposited at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. The compiler was a great-great-great-grandson of Samuel2 Caswell, and may have had access to family records. Later, writers seem to have copied his list of children of Samuel2 Caswell without question." I then practically turned the NEHGS upside down looking in vain for these deposited records. I then wrote subsequently to George Sanborn to inquire further about these records, but my letter was never answered. I noted that there was a George Sanborn listed with a e-mail address for workers doing Taunton Caswell research. If indeed he is the same person who's research is quoted above, maybe he will be kind enough to respond now, so that we all can benefit from those illusive documents. Hopefully, Phil Baltzer

Many thanks for your family tree. I would have liked to simply scan the diagram, but its too big, so I'm going to ask some good soul if they would like to convert it into a gedcom file. I'll post them a copy of your tree. (Unless Cindi Helton has already done this?) All the Caswell information on your tree is logged on our Geneweb site. @ www.moonrakers.com/geneweb - look for --- caswellta Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

American Wills Proved in london UK 1611 1775 973,P27ca SLC Compiled by Peter Wilson Coldham Kezia Caswall of Queen St London and now of Camberwell, Surrey (formerly of Boston NE) dated 17 july 1735. To my sister Lydia, widow of John Houlton of Clapham, Surrey, her family picture. Other bequests: to my son John Caswall of Boston, NE, merchant; Wm Cave of Essex St Strand Middx, tallow chandler; Thomas Lane of Clements inn, london, my daughter Susannah, wife of John Warner of Camberwell. My said son, William Cave and Thomas Lane to be executors. Witnesses, Anne Downes & Benjamin Sparrow. Proved 5 dec 1740 by john Caswall (PROB 11/706/316) Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

American Wills Proved in london UK 1611 1775 973,P27ca SLC Compiled by Peter Wilson Coldham Kezia Caswall of Queen St London and now of Camberwell, Surrey (formerly of Boston NE) dated 17 july 1735. To my sister Lydia, widow of John Houlton of Clapham, Surrey, her family picture. Other bequests: to my son John Caswall of Boston, NE, merchant; Wm Cave of Essex St Strand Middx, tallow chandler; Thomas Lane of Clements inn, london, my daughter Susannah, wife of John Warner of Camberwell. My said son, William Cave and Thomas Lane to be executors. Witnesses, Anne Downes & Benjamin Sparrow. Proved 5 dec 1740 by john Caswall (PROB 11/706/316) Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

It would seem, that after looking at the new files on our Geneweb page for the Taunton ma line, that the FINK family of Baden Germany(Ohio) married into the Taunton Ma CASWELL LINE. The Finks of Ohio also married into the Titt line of Wiltshire,(my wife's mother's line) which married into the Caswell line of Wiltshire! Small world! And getting smaller! Mike Caswell

I forgot to mention that the Geneweb file shows your Taunton line back to 1500 in England!!!! Mike Caswell 4336 Route 31 Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com

Its now officially online! A living breathing database. Only Caswell listserver members can alter/add to it! Password is -- what else - richard See the database @ www.moonrakers.com/geneweb look for --- caswellta Please add YOUR stuff to this file, and let everyone on the listserver know what you did! PLEASE REMEMBER!!!! If you can't access the files, it is because something has switched off the server. PLEASE NOTIFY ME BY EMAIL IMMEDIATELY & I'll switch it back on. (This is a quirk of the system that I'm not too sure how to handle, and my resident expert Tim Lanfear is swanning around in Japan for a month, instead of minding his computer & genealogy hobby back in England!) Mike Caswell

See my next message! I'm loading the REAL Taunton line so everyone can alter/add to it!

-----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Caswell <ccas@netzero.net> To: PARKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <PARKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 7:00 PM Subject: Found more Parker names Have more info on the children of John Parker b. 1862 m. Feliciana Short. Not only did they have my g-grandmother (1.) Mary Elizabeth Martha Ann Matilda Parker who married James Madison Caswell. But they also had; 2. William Alexander Parker 3. Jade Parker (male) 4. Alec Parker (male) m. Anne Mouser (an uncle of mine says that Alec had a daughter named Marie and lived in Sacarmento Ca.) 5. Dan Parker (male) 6. Harvey Parker (male) m. Hellen Anyone on the list looking for these people??? My guess is that their dates of birth would be around 1880-1890's. "Use a camera today as if tomorrow you would be blind". -Cheryl Caswell BC Photo Dept. 805-336-3689 ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html ==== PARKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== ==== PARKER-ROOTS-L Mailing List ==== Join and support RootsWeb, home of the PARKER-ROOTS-L list and many other genealogy lists and resources - go to http://www.rootsweb.com/

I have been working on the Taunton Database, trying to connect the Caswell's to the immigrant Thomas. When I first started doing genealogy (almost 20 years ago) I didn't understand the importance of documentation. I can assure you all though, that I do now!!! My husband and I purchased a digital camera a few months ago and we've been experimenting with taking pictures from documents at our local library. It seems to work very well. I plan on taking the camera with me on future research trips. I'm just dying to get back to health and head over to Taunton and the town hall and the historical society again! I am again putting out the word...keep sending me your lines, and try to include your sources when you have them. Mike's cd is also going to be a fantastic help to all of us. I am hoping that someday (in our lifetime) we can get these lines figured out!! Nancy -----Original Message----- From: HHuntoon@aol.com <HHuntoon@aol.com> To: CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com <CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [CASWELL-L] Thomas Caswel & Mary Sanderson TAUNTON ma. >I wasn't meaning to give a hard time to Mr. Sanborn particularly. I am just >concerned that if a new Taunton database is built, that the document footnotes >be included or a confidence-level note assigned by the person who did the work >so that the folks who come after us current Caswell-hunters can more easily >assess the degree of confidence in the database. >

I'm sure Mr Sanborn won't mind! The object here is to get to the truth, not stroke someone's ego! Genealogists make mistakes! The work is a continuing correction of old data, using the information from new finds! Most gene programs have notes sections where sources of information can be placed. I would suggest that if you do happen to see a physical entry and are able to photocopy/scan it, then please do so and forward it to me. I'll place it on the CD, so everyone can see it. -----Original Message----- From: HHuntoon@aol.com <HHuntoon@aol.com> To: CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com <CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: mike@caswellplating.com <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [CASWELL-L] Thomas Caswel & Mary Sanderson TAUNTON ma. >I wasn't meaning to give a hard time to Mr. Sanborn particularly. I am just >concerned that if a new Taunton database is built, that the document footnotes >be included or a confidence-level note assigned by the person who did the work >so that the folks who come after us current Caswell-hunters can more easily >assess the degree of confidence in the database. >

I would have to agree whole-heartedly that Thomas had 12 children. They are recorded at the Taunton Town Hall. I found them myself this past summer and have their birthdates from these records. They are all listed as children of Thomas, though no mother's name was there. I did not have the opportunity to look up a marriage record for them. I am going to call or write to them this week to see if I can get a marriage record for him. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> To: CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com <CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 7:48 AM Subject: [CASWELL-L] Thomas Caswel & Mary Sanderson TAUNTON ma. >Are we all agreed that there are 12 kids from this union? > > >Mike Caswell >4336 Route 31 >Palmyra, NY 14522-9719 USA >Voice - (315) 597-5140 Fax - (315) 597-1457 >Business - http://www.caswellplating.com mike@caswellplating.com >Genealogy - http://www.moonrakers.com mike@moonrakers.com >

I wasn't meaning to give a hard time to Mr. Sanborn particularly. I am just concerned that if a new Taunton database is built, that the document footnotes be included or a confidence-level note assigned by the person who did the work so that the folks who come after us current Caswell-hunters can more easily assess the degree of confidence in the database.

Yes, I think you have hit the nail on the head here! George Sanborn's work, by his own admission, is NOT reliable in the early parts of it, especially with any references to the UK. Many of the Taunton researchers have plucked data from this source and the Ancestral File and IGI. Both of these are MOST unreliable!!!!!!!!!!!!! What we need to do here is collectively get PROOF! I want to see copies of actual documents! Lets get them, one by one, to physically PROVE our case. I propose we start with Thomas Caswell & Mary Sanderson and their children, and work SOLELY on that line for a few days. -----Original Message----- From: HHuntoon@aol.com <HHuntoon@aol.com> To: CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com <CASWELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [CASWELL-L] Thomas Caswel & Mary Sanderson TAUNTON ma. >Re Thomas Caswell having 12 kids, that follows from the old Sanborn articles, >doesn't it? But what degree of confidence that Mary his wife is Mary >Sanderson, daughter of John Sanderson? Can anyone clue me in. Harry Huntoon > >