Hello all, Little by little the families are coming together! I was contacted by Barbara Burrows and Bonnie Whitley who are researching Jeremiah Dewhurst II, son of Jeremiah and Mary Hollings in the charts of Thomas Dewhurst and Mary Yewdall. Those charts had been provided earlier by Kathy McKegg and Janet Ogden (phew!). Good thing our collective family is relatively small ;] Not only have the above mentioned folks contacted each other and shared, between them all we have been able to add quite a bit of christening information which sorted out the sibling order in some of the existing family group charts. So far, this opens up a sibling line with the first name of Jeremiah II's wife and only one child, Susannah. BUT, this may be just enough information to allow someone else to hook up what they have to this family and fill in the Mom's name and the rest of the siblings - we all win! Take a look: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/dewhursthomas.html#Jeremiah If you can NOW connect into this family and have data to add to what is posted, send it on! I was really excited to see this kind of connection get made. Thanks to what Kathy and Janet had submitted, Barbara and Bonnie were able to add a couple of generations to their research! In exchange, Kathy and Janet's charts have filled out as well. My personal agenda??? I figure that if enough of you put up data, eventually, whomever it is that I need to connect with to hook my William Henry into his ancestral line will surface - I can't get to London right now, might as well get you all to send me the data, right? This is the "cheap" way to do British research from California ;] Another thing... I saw a terrific research tool at a genealogy workshop yesterday. You make a timeline of what was happening in the history of the localities your people lived and compare it to what the people did (i.e., were they sedentary or on the move and what was happening locally to perhaps motivate them stay put or move?). I must confess, my California education regarding British history of the 16-17 &1800s is seriously lacking detail.... If any of you have this kind of data and want to send it, I will post it so we can all use it. I guess the primary geographic areas would be Yorkshire, Lancashire, London and then there is the Nottinghamshire group I know exists but that we have not so far heard from...... This can be as good as you all help me make it.... Onward! Jana