Hello Dutton Listers; It seems I've stirred up some controversy. I hope that's a good sign... For the first 8 generations of my ancestors (to 1746), leading toward John DUTTON of 1596 fame, I have done most of the research myself, because I am currently writing a book on my maternal grandfather's ancestors. I have visited the New England, USA, several times and have researched public and library records in little towns all along the way. Before 1746. the remaining 26 generations I have on my Dutton ancestors I have downloaded from Ancestral File at the LDS Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Ancestral File, simply put, is a massive database of all the genealogical records of persons who have submitted them to same). Since 1987 I have been trying to track down proof that each individual record is accurate or inaccurate, whichever the case may be. As you're probably aware, the LDS Ancestral File does have many errors. If you are interested in receiving a gedcom of all the Duttons I have in my database, which will show you how I trace my lineage to John DUTTON 1596- I would be happy to E-mail it to you (it also includes 22 generations of the ancestry of John DUTTON who married Mary DARLINGTON, all the way back to a Niel II De St. SAUVEUR, born about 1000 AD of Normandy, France), but I don't think it is appropriate for submission to the list. It's too big (1,641 names), and not everyone will be interested in it. The gedcom I can E-mail to you takes a genealogical computer program capable of handling gedcom files generated from PAF 3.0 If you would like one, please let me know and I will send it to you. For those of you without gedcom capability, I can E-mail a large Word Perfect file with the main Dutton lines I have been working on if you will send me your address. Oh, I hope I'm not opening Pandora's Box... I cannot vouch for any of the information I have in my data base except the first six to eight generations before me. Sorry... 26 generations back in time (before 1746) have not yet been proven by my research. 1746 is just my page marker... I still have a LOT of research to do on the Dutton names. SAM