Thank you Emma! I did a search online of my local public library and show this woman has 28 books in our genealogy section! What a lead! Ruth >Hi Everyone, >This was posted on another mail list. I asked for permission to repost it >here. Thought some of you Rucker folks might like to see it. >Take care - Emma > >Mrs. Edythe Whitley, well-known Tennessee genealogist, was a Rucker >descendant and had written on the Rucker family. Her papers and books were >purchased and donated to the Williamson County, TN library at Franklin. > > >==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== >Edythe Whitley: The Whitley Collection consists of over 2,300 notebooks of >genealogical research compiled by Mrs. Edythe Rucker Whitley during her >lifetime. Includes research on pioneer families of Tennessee, North Carolina, >Virginia, and other states. > > > >==== IVESTER Mailing List ==== >REMEMBER: Help save space by quoting only the relative part of the >message you are replying to, not the entire message. >Have questions or concerns contact list administrator at >Ivester-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 -- Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." ---Ella Fitzgerald Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow you down a bit but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards. Don't stay on the bumps too long. Move on!