Have run into a wall of sludge - am stuck and would appreciate any help. Have a line of Frenches descending from two different ancestors. 1) my great uncle's genealogy, "Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French The Joiner of Stratford CT", shows a line from The Joiner into a line as follows: SAMUEL FRENCH 2nd (The Joiner) 1687-1763 > JOSEPH FRENCH (11th child) 1730-1781> GIDEON FRENCH 1757-1837> EBENESER FRENCH 1796-1854 > SHELTON GIDEON FRENCH 1819-1898 . . . 2) a recently discovered source showing the entire line following Gideon FRENCH b 1757 d 1837 in Bradford Co PA with the exception that SHELTON GIDEON FRENCH left a Family Record saying, (in the first person), his great-grandfather was Gideon but but gg-grandfather was NATHAN FRENCH b Yorkshire England and his ggg-grandfather was NOAH FRENCH b Yorkshire England. There is no other information about this NATHAN or NOAH and this information comes from a transcribed diary of SHELTON GIDEON FRENCH. The exact transcription is as follows: "My great great grandfather, NOAH FRENCH was an Englishman born in Yorkshire, England where he lived and died. He was a tiller ofthe soil. My great grandfather NATHAN FRENCH was born there also and reaching his majority left his fatherland, and with many of his kinsman left England for the New World and settled in the then colony of Connecticut at a place called Stratford Point on the North Shore of Long Island Sound where he married and raised a family of whom my grandfather was his eldest son. He was also a tiller of the soil. My grandfather, GIDEON FRENCH on reaching his majority settled in Litchfield Township, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. He was born in1757 and died January 20, 1837, aged 80 years. He married EUNICE SHELTON and raised a family of four boys and one girl as follows: . . . Bill French Houston TX wcfrench@compuserve.com