In a message dated 11/10/2005 8:31:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, hhsh@earthlink.net writes: > have visited the site and checked out some books dealing with families I'm > > familiar with. Two thoughts: > > (1) You must have an Adobe Acrobate Reader version 6 to see much. (Free > downloads are available from the Adobe site.) > > (2) The books I saw were far from authoritative -- more like photocopied > family > group sheets from a generation or two ago. In the families I know something > > about (Thrall and Gunn), they perpetuated long-refuted errors. Of course > that's no different from the internet -- lots of clues out there but not a > lot > of hard evidence! > > Harold > I found the Daniel Shedd Genealogy by Frank E. Shedd published by the Shedd Family Association in 1921 in their collection. The online books are no more and no less accurate than any other book you find in a public library. They are the same copies I used to get from the NGS library in Arlington, Va.\