My vote is to take the info any way that it comes! Many times our best clues come from stories handed down of great-grandma's knowledge of an event, even though we may not have a birth/death/marriage certificate in hand. Marilyn -----Original Message----- From: d wilson <dwilson@cafes.net> To: CRAWFORD-L@rootsweb.com <CRAWFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 7:05 PM Subject: To Document or Not to Document >I have more brick walls than anyone would believe.. Trust me, any scrap of >information >I get I twist it every way possible to see if it fits what I need; if it >doesn't , maybe it will >for someone else. I would have given up long ago if I didn't believe that >for every >person who ever lived there is a paper trail somewhere. Sometimes we only >need >one link to bring together all the boxes, books, etc. of material gleaned >through the >years. Who knows, I may have yours, you may have mine. I'll take it any >way I can >get it. > >Claudette >