Hi Elizabeth and also Clyde, Thanks! True, Elizabeth, it would have been much cheaper to write and pay a fee to have all this searched and cost me a ton less than the flight from Mexico, 5,000 miles of driving from Dallas, Texas to New York and now in Mississippi before returning to Dallas for the flight back to Mexico but I would have missed so much including the chance to meet some third cousins along the way I didn't know before existed. Not only were the fall colors beautiful in Jennings Co., Indiana but I got to drive by the land that Stephen Knowlton had owned which is still quite rural and I took pictures from one corner that probably still looks a lot like it may have looked when the Stephen Knowlton family lived there. I found an old two story wooden house on the land that was falling down but probably had been built in the late 1800's by those who purchased the land from the estate but it gave me a feel for where my people walked and lived each day. I also talked to a lady who lived next door to the church Eunice and her daughters had joined in 1832 (the church originally was a log building but had been rebuilt). This lady gave me a lot of history about the area and she just happened to have a lot of old pictures of the area with some of the families who my Jesse married into. She made copies of some of these right on the spot. It was worth the flight, gas, hotels and resturants. Of course this was also my vacation but I am already allowing the old ticker to try and figure out a way to do this again next year. There is still much to learn about my family. Sheri Burk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Sheri, This is so exciting. I was lucky (perhaps) to have been born and reared within 100 miles of where all my Knowlton ancestors (my maternal great-grandmother was a Knowlton) were born and raised. Best wishes, Clyde -----Original Message----- From: Sheri-Family Tree [mailto:nadxeli1@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:40 PM To: KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KNOWLTON] Indiana KNOWLTON,s 1800 Hi Elizabeth and also Clyde, Thanks! True, Elizabeth, it would have been much cheaper to write and pay a fee to have all this searched and cost me a ton less than the flight from Mexico, 5,000 miles of driving from Dallas, Texas to New York and now in Mississippi before returning to Dallas for the flight back to Mexico but I would have missed so much including the chance to meet some third cousins along the way I didn't know before existed. Not only were the fall colors beautiful in Jennings Co., Indiana but I got to drive by the land that Stephen Knowlton had owned which is still quite rural and I took pictures from one corner that probably still looks a lot like it may have looked when the Stephen Knowlton family lived there. I found an old two story wooden house on the land that was falling down but probably had been built in the late 1800's by those who purchased the land from the estate but it gave me a feel for where my people walked and lived each day. I also talked to a lady who lived next door to the church Eunice and her daughters had joined in 1832 (the church originally was a log building but had been rebuilt). This lady gave me a lot of history about the area and she just happened to have a lot of old pictures of the area with some of the families who my Jesse married into. She made copies of some of these right on the spot. It was worth the flight, gas, hotels and resturants. Of course this was also my vacation but I am already allowing the old ticker to try and figure out a way to do this again next year. There is still much to learn about my family. Sheri Burk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================== Expand your family tree. Search more than 200 million names in Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx