Have you tried familysearch.org? Regards, Dene -----Original Message----- From: Ronald E. Schultz Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 6:41 PM To: devon@rootsweb.com Subject: [DEV] Introduction I am new on this list as I just subscribed yesterday. I am sure my first question is very routine. All I have is some basic information about my ancestor. His name was Henry Thomas and born in May 1808 or 1809. His obituary of 1891 stated that he was from Devonshire. I have as of this date no information on his parents or location of parish where baptism records might be kept. I do not even know if Thomas is a common last name in Devon. Could someone write to let me know the first steps in beginning my search. I thank you in advanced. -- Ronald E. Schultz 3970 Joy Road Occidental, CA 95465 leutsch@sonic.net ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message