Lee, I think you have a great idea. What we need is documentation for the marriages, deaths, births, censuses that we have. It is possible to have many dates but if you don't know where they came from, they don't mean a thing. At least that is the way I see it. So we need to go slowly and have proof of what we are doing before going on to something else. To the best of my knowledge, I descend through Archibald Crawford 1772 and Peggy Brown, their daughter Sytha Crawford and Joseph Bowman, their daughter Armina Bowman and Elihu Bowling and their son Marcus Delaney Bowling and Mary Frances Fowler. I have documentation back through Elihu and I have a picture of Armina that has come down through the family. I know the proof is out there if I can just go get it. Thanks for volunteering to do this. Maxine Bowling Friedly MRBOB625@aol.com wrote: > I have been reading the E-mail on this suggestion and I think it will work. I > haven't seen anyone volunteer to start the data base so I'm going to > volunteer. If someone has already started, please let me know. My suggestion > would be to start off with one category, work out the bugs and expand to > other category's.(Births, deaths, census,etc.) I would like to start with > marriages as I have hundreds of names collected by my sister, the late Janis > Crawford Wilson. What do you think? > Robert > Lee Crawford, Sr.