Dear Gary: Thanks for writing. I appreciate and share your concerns, but don't wish to be side-tracked by Mary Hill's kind announcement of our work-in-progress. Hopefully, this reply will nip time-consuming e-mails in the bud, and not necessitate others. Please forgive me if I cannot write more, or do not pull away from editing to construct a list of specific Holloways. In the middle of painstaking finish work, I simply don't have the cycles to answer such explicit e-mails. Candidly, this is why I'm compiling "HOLLOWAYS OF ENGLAND, COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTH" in the first place. It is of little use to expose its authentic contents, having labored so hard to discover and arrange them. I beg the family to understand I am working to create something beautiful, thorough and significant. Nonetheless, here's a little preview I pray satisfies the curious. As an American, I descend from George Holloway of Charles River Parish, who became a planter in Lunenburg/Mecklenburg, VA before the Revolutionary War.... BUT... my lineage is only one of many in our book. "HOLLOWAYS OF ENGLAND, COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTH" traces the origins of the first known Holloways in Middlesex (Middle Saxony), England and their migration across Great Britain and on to the earliest American settlements - most specifically Virginia. It follows their descendants, via individual family members and histories, through the Civil War. I stopped there, mainly because virtually everyone knows their great-grandparents. With numerous original, detailed charts, graphs, maps and illustrations rest assured, this is NOT an inconsequential work, nor your typically trite exhibit. Unoffended by the phone book interrogation, "HOLLOWAYS OF ENGLAND, COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTH" includes no Bell Telephone numbers, nor was any of it extracted from any phone index. Instead it contains official Census records, references to numerous original copies of Deeds, Wills et al. legal documents, personal references from many family members, and a culling of proven data that collates 900+ years of family history. In truth, it represents immeasurable hours of exhaustive, expensive research, and the first major contribution to Holloway family history in decades. I would be quite amazed, indeed, if its substantive findings disappoints anyone. That said, my task at hand is to finish it, not defend its forthcoming contents. While I appreciate and value your scrutiny - a healthy attitude in vigilantly verifying genealogical data - may "HOLLOWAYS OF ENGLAND, COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND THE SOUTH" stand on its own merits when released. Till then, please let me be about the task of lovingly, loyally laboring for every Holloway - living and deceased - to make you proud. A Deo Lux Nostra ("In GOD is our Light" ), I pledge to do so. A Deo Lux Nostra "In GOD is our Light" James David Holloway, Jr. Dallas, Texas P.S. If you would post this reply, I'd be deeply indebted to you, Gary. As I am more concerned with doing this right than doing it quickly, please be patient. I'll inform you when all is done. Once again, thank you kindly.