This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joycecollins Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.harlan/14801.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Locating information on one's family is just one of those things that takes time. Sometimes it is a lifetime. For sure it doesn't happen in two weeks' time. Having the software so that you can document your findings is a great thing. You may have 10 minutes to work on something and/or you might have 10 hours. Either way the work will be there is you enter it in your data base or scan in documents or type in specific death and birth references. Remember that old saying: "there is no truth without proof". Genealogy without proof is mythology. It is often a good idea to place individual posts such as if you wanted more information on Amanda HELTON. Make that one posting with the census and/or information I have given to you. Make another one on some other topic such as school records for your father. Information will come to you from out of the blue and generally when you are least expecting it. Try to pay your information forward and help someone else when you are able to do so. I cannot tell you the times I have started to help someone and before I am through we discover we are related. Just as in your case, I am also related to any number of the surnames that connect to you. CREECH is one of them. HOWARD is another of them. These were small communities and earlier on there was a lot of marrying back and forth among these families. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.