Hi again, I remembered last night that some of the information I wanted to look at was in the copy of the "YOUNG family-history document" that I was lucky enough to receive 4-5 yrs. ago. When I reviewed the pages about the family of Earle and Mary YOUNG, I found the married names of their 2 daughters. There is a small chance that they could be still alive, so I won't mention their names on the List. I looked at the information about them, and saw that the 2 daughters didn't have the most peaceful of marriages. The 2 sons were born about one year apart and died one year apart. Frederick YOUNG never married. Winthrop YOUNG seems to have had a "normal?" marriage and he had 4 or 5 children. It seems that several of the siblings had an interest in their family-tree. One thing I noticed last night is that a descendant of one of the daughters, when married, with her husband, became important citizens in Voluntown (1960's?). That's a town I had not heard about before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntown,_Connecticut -- By the way, speaking of an interest in a family-tree, one thing which is mentioned in this document is that Marvin DEXTER in Killingly had a strong interest in his ancestry. And this is what the YOUNG document says: "Clara Allen (Dexter) Young died 27 Jan. 1937. at Killingly .. at age 80. This was about a year prior to the death of Abner .... It was through the Dexter family line that much genealogical information was obtained, inasmuch as Marvin A. Dexter, her grandfather, collected considerable information during his lifetime about Dexters, and it has been published separately by another researcher. (Newman, 1859) That work delineated the Dexter line back to Gregory Dexter, ...." I have corresponded with the Killingly Historical Society, and the volunteers there say that they don't know of that DEXTER document. And no one else seems to know about it. Marvin DEXTER only had the 2 children, John, who I research, and Abby, who married Martin CROSBY. -- So, who would have inherited that document? One of my long-time questions is: What happens to important documents from the 1800's about families living in a particular town -- when no descendants live into our life-times? Betty (near Lowell, MA)

Hi Betty - I found your book written by Newman, 1859 I did an advanced search at google.books for Newman, published in 1859 containing Dexter, and came up with these 2 Title Dexter Genealogy: Being a Record of the Families Descending from Rev. Gregory Dexter: Being a Record of the Families Descending from Rev. Gregory Dexter ; with Notes and Biographical Sketches of Each Parent Author Sylvanus Chace Newman Compiled bySylvanus Chace Newman Publisher Printed by A.C. Greene, 1859 Length 106 pages and Title Record of the Families Descended from Rev. Gregory Dexter. Author Sylvanus Chase Newman Published 1859 It was listed in the 1912 catalogue of the National Society of Colonial Dames which I also found at google. They have a website here http://www.nscda.org/ If you search for the title of the book, you will see it is available at several places - one of them is Quintin publications. Quintin publications are included on Worldvitalrecords [for a fee]. If you search there, you will see that the book is included in their records. Further searching will bring up sites where you can purchase a reprint of the book. Lisa llepore@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" bbffrrpp@comcast.net > Hi again, > > > "Clara Allen (Dexter) Young died 27 Jan. 1937. at Killingly .. at age 80. > This was about a year prior to the death of Abner .... It was through > the > Dexter family line that much genealogical information was obtained, > inasmuch as Marvin A. Dexter, her grandfather, collected considerable > information during his lifetime about Dexters, and it has been published > separately by another researcher. (Newman, 1859) That work delineated > the Dexter line back to Gregory Dexter, ...." > > I have corresponded with the Killingly Historical Society, and the > volunteers there say that they don't know of that DEXTER document. And > no > one else seems to know about it. Marvin DEXTER only had the 2 > children, John, who I research, and Abby, who married Martin > BY. -- > So, who would have inherited that document? > > One of my long-time questions is: What happens to important documents > from the 1800's about families living in a particular town -- when no > descendants live into our life-times? > > Betty (near Lowell, MA) >