Norma [mailto:dnh@sedona.net] wrote: > Just saw your posting to the Covey-L and I'm wondering..... > "What are the Covey books?" > Can I get them thru interlibrary loan? Though you wrote this off list, I'm replying to the list since others may wonder the same thing. Ancestors and Descendants of Walter Covey Dutchess County, New York (1850-1834) 2 volumes copyright 1871 by Mary Lancaster Quist Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-91104, no ISBN number shows on books They were "published by The Covey Family Genealogical Organization", printed by Publishers Press, Salt Lake City. After I aquired the books in a book store in Indiana, I contacted Mary Quist who lived close by in Santa Ana CA. She expressed suprise that I was able to find them since there weren't many printed and she thought they were all accounted for (mine were new, not used and I paid $40 for the set - way under what she had charged). I got the impressed she thought there was something very suspicious about my having them, and she was not at all forthcoming on further data. A few years later I tried to call her again. Long story short, she had died in the meantime, and I tried to track her sons through the LDS (she was Morman) and got no response. I used a proper LDS form to find out about them, and I was ultimately told that if they had info they would respond, but if no response, it meant no info. So, the family is a dead end. I gathered that the family organization was just a name for business purposes, much like I use Root Chasers for my own family organization, immediate family are the only members. As for getting a copy through IL loan - well, you'd have to search to find a library with a copy and then see if they will IL loan. > My line is: > Laura COVEY, m. abt 1832 NY to Nelson FULLER > b.1 Nov 1811 NY; d. 13 Aug 1842 MI; > (Nelson is my proven connection to the Mayflower Pilgrim, > Edward Fuller) > Benjamin COVEY m. Elizabeth > James COVEY, Jr. m. Mary LANPHERE > James COVEY m. Sarah LANPHERE > Hope COVEY m. Mary > James COVEY m. Mary MUMFORD > > Hope you can find the info on the book. I would really like to > look at them. page 93 Benjamin is person Vb Benjamin Covey, of Mt Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass., b. to Mary Lanphere and James Covey; m. Rhoda, b. 1753 of Galatin, Columbia Co., N.Y. who d. 12 Jun 1805 (ae 52) at Gallatin, Comubia Co., N.Y. and bur. at same place. (estate adm 17 Sept. 1838). He m. (2) ___. pg 94 Children <snip> 6f. Laura of Gallatin or Ancran, Columbia Co., Mass., m. Nelson Fuller; in Greenoak in 1838. <snip> And before everyone asks for a lookup, I want to say that I'm sorry, I just can't do it (lack of time). Periodically, when I see a post by someone looking for their Covey connection *and I have the time to do it*, I will grab the books and see if there is anything that will help. So far, I've never found anything that would help anyone. -- Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA) "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap" kathryn@bassett.net http://bassett.net