My apologies to ALL for any comments I may have made contributing to concerns over "personal statements." I certainly have never meant to personally injure, only to clarify vital matters at very necessary issue here. These are issues which I have been working on for well over the past year, often posting here, and taking two expensive trips to England for same! It is true that I have been too willing to rely on past conclusions of other, previous Disbrow researchers (re: at least concerning Thomas as brother to the Major General), we all should know to check the primary materials. But the VR material as "published" second-hand on this LIST may well have some serious flaws factually & as Carl has transcribed them, considering what I otherwise received from Mike Sawyer in Eltisley (see my posting: "Carl: Sorry, No Go."). I have also tried to address any possible VR archival errors also in my most recent posting too, written before reading all this rather more hostile/personal commentary now... Come on gang, let's get on with this vital debate and please not misinterpret that debate as somehow being over personal questions. (As regards the convenience of the Disbrow Archive as accurate resource: I only just figured out myself how to access VR material there since it was never very clearly labeled, and done so at SECOND hand transcription only (this particular archive also does not allow easy/accessible "browsing"). Further, I have had a long, rather difficult time just in getting what Disbrow VR material I could get before my trip to England last December, motivated in part from a concern to get exactly this material. WE should be able to debate these & other factual issues here without also mis-interpreting motives...Let's do try, what do you say? Thanks so much. STSquires