Hi, Catawba Cousins, I've been off this list for a good while, working on my husband's lines. Now I want to refine my BAKER/WHITENER GedCom a bit before I have the nerve to post it on Rootsweb World Connect. The ancestry I picked up from secondary sources 20 years ago on Capt. Matthias BARRINGER, our celebrated patriot who was killed by the Cherokees at Quaker Meadow, is quite unclear. Is he really a son of Wilhelm and Paulina Behringer as put out by Mrs. Henry CLINE, or has later research established a different line? I know he is the brother of John Paul BARRINGER. Any pointers for research will be appreciated, my library in Orlando has a fair amount of North Carolina resources, but nothing like what Miss Rhodes could whip out from her vast storehouse of vertical files at the library in Newton and personal knowledge. Is she still active, by the way? Best wishes, Gene Ballentine Rooks in Gotha Catawba Proud Families: WEIDNER/WHITENER (Henry AND Michael), BAKER, WILFONG, SETZER, BARRINGER, DELLINGER, ABEE, VAN HORN, LEONARD, STAMEY, YODER, HUFFMAN, MULL, POVEY, FRY, POPE, SIGMAN and others.