In a message dated 08/01/2001 6:40:19 AM Central Daylight Time, HANSER5@aol.com writes: > Can someone please check that letter I sent and see whether it looks that > way > to you? If so, I'll resend it to the list. > > Jim, it did have HTML code every place that you had put and apostrophe, or quotation mark, but it wasn't unreadable. No need to send again, it was probably copied and pasted from richtext or such. I do applaud you on your careful and detailed research, and the courage to question research that you find flawed. The hardest thing that I have found is in trying to convince others whom have clung to the early research, as gospel, and have never followed the documents for themselves, that the family they are claiming, isn't theirs. They don't seem to understand that saying it is so, doesn't make it so. My goal it to find my ancestors, regardless of who they are or what they are, not to invent ancestors or claim those who aren't mine. If some refuse to accept the truth, or continue to publish the errors, it really doesn't change the facts, but keeps the confusion going when it is found on the Internet or in libraries by new researchers. We should keep our minds open to all possibilities, even though, in some cases, there isn't enough evidence to prove one way or another. Exploration and discussion is healthy, and if a line is true, it will hold up under scrutiny. Julia French Wood