Hi Kevin, (Yes I''m new at this) Where can I find information on the Rowan County Fraley's as that's where my connection to them is from. Betty At 09:59 AM 8/12/99 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Cousins, > As near as I can tell, there is no New World connection among the > three >major Fraley lines in America just after the Revolution, each headed by a >different Frederick Fraley. At the time of the Revolution there were at >least six (and possibly as many as twice that number) different and >distinct men alive named Frederick Fraley, in at least four unrelated >lines. Many new (and some not so new) genealogists over the years have >attempted to force fit these lines together, often horribly mixing up facts >and sometimes combining everything into "one big Frederick." > The Fraleys of Germantown and Philadelphia were very well known and >prominent in that area for many decades. There does not seem to be any >connection in the New World between this line and the Rowan County, NC line >that is the best known Fraley line, or to my line which came to Ohio from >western PA in 1800 (originally from VA). > >Kevin Fraley