Sending this on behalf of Don [Don, just copy the Evans-Richard@rootsweb.com address above into your address book. That should work.... Don Raymond wrote: > I can't seem to send to the Roots Web message group - even though I > tried a reply to, among other methods. Therefore, I am sending my > returned response to you. > > You are right, it is a daunting task to coordinate a far flung group of > people and their family lineage into one family tree - however, not an > impossible one. I think you are going about it as sensibly and > organized as > probably it can be done. With the descendant report, everyone has an > opportunity to view, evaluate, compare and offer possibilities that might > correct erroneous or misinformation that would otherwise, as you say, > proliferate the WWW forever, and we certainly have enough of that > already. > So, my vote is as long as you are willing to bear the burden of doing the > coordinating, continue on, and little by little the tree should get > constructed as near accurate as records allow it to be. Don --------------------------------- Re your comments, Don: first, thanks for the encouragement... my ability to do this, as one might suspect, depends on what else is going on in my personal life. ;-> I administer 4 Rootsweb lists and 5 Myfamily websites, so sometimes I have to work on other lines than my Evanses.... Plus I only began my genealogy research in 2003 when a dear Evans cousin, 4 years younger than I, passed away unexpectedly... So there are many, many more of you "out there" [yourself included!!!] who have been doing this far longer than I. I have a lot of Chutzpah to do this at all! [alternately, genealogical fools rush in where genealogical angels fear to tread]. Nevertheless, all that being said, I'm SO glad you are all willing to work on this together. I love finding out about all lines and piecing together all the various pieces of our family jigsaw puzzle. I just wish we could make it more "personal" - pass along some Evans family stories to make all the data "come alive." I love learning about how actual life was for our ancestors. I believe we honor them when we remember them. Renee PS... one of my biggest problems is in getting some of the dates straightened out. For example, our Immigrant Ancestor, Richard.... I have the following possible dates for him: 1650? 1660? 1665? 1669? I guess these are based on various entries in various books, and in the work of various individual researchers w