Anyone know what happened to Mr. Cramer? I sent him info on someone and don't know if he got it, tossed it, didn't care? Seems a lot of that in genealogy these days. People write asking for help, you give it to them, and never hear from them again. Guess it's getting too hard to click on Reply and enter the word, "Thanks", and click on Send. Don "Clayton E. Cramer" wrote: > > http://www.danlo.com/cramer contains a database that I have been creating > of early American gunsmiths. This isn't going to give birth or death dates, > but you may find that it provides some useful pointers to sources that can > give you a bit more information about an ancestor. There are about 1880 > entries in the database right now, involving gunsmiths who were active > at least partly before 1840. I will be updating it from time to time as > I get more entries added. There is no provision for searching for a > particular name, so just take the default settings when you ask for a list, > and use the Find command in your browser to search for surname, firstname. > > I am not primarily interested in genealogy (though I can tell you the > names of at least one my ancestors in that database--Thomas Nash of > New Haven Colony). I am writing a book about gunsmithing and gun > manufacturing in early America. If you run into information in a > reliable source (primary source or a properly footnoted secondary > source) about gunsmith or gun manufacturers in early America, I would > appreciate hearing about it, especially if it is someone who is not > in the database mentioned above. > > By the way, before you make any assumptions: there are both female gunsmiths > in that list, and African-American gunsmiths as well, some of them slaves, > some of them apparently free. > > clayton@claytoncramer.com -- ~~~~~ Visit our NICKELL, GAUNCE, MOOTY genealogy Web Page http://nickell.tierranet.com ~~~~~