HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "If you can't stand the skeletons, stay out of the closet" - Val D Greenwood I just rec'd a CD with 30 images and a 1/2 inch stack of records containing original deeds, wills and a couple dozen old (1800s) obits from Vanessa - thank you so much!! But the very first deed I transcribed confirmed my suspicions. I have often wondered, even tho we have dozens of full text documents from our earliest time periods online, how many we might be missing. Below is an example of the type of information that's scattered thruout our early Hatchers...... "Henry Hatcher sells to Daniel Price the land given him by his father-in-law, Thomas Williamson." No acreage, no description, no nada....so how do we really know the accuracy of the above somewhat meaningless tidbit? Now we know that Henry sold 100A located between Edward Watkins and Daniel Price on Chickahominy Swamp/River. We have the witnesses AND we have Susanna, his wife, releasing dower. That's a whole lot more information than our little tidbit. I think I"m gonna' be staying out of trouble for a very long time with all of this :-) Nel