This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Criswell/Vannoy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CBB.2ACE/576.1434.1.1 Message Board Post: I always welcome information! Even when it turns out to be something that I THINK I already have........because it is always helpful to me for another set of eyes and ears to review things. While I did know about William fighting the Mexicans -- and about his body being moved to the State Cemetery (that is the only reason I know what I know.....), I was not clear on the dates for Papa William being in Kentucky. So thanks! There are several resources available to you - if you are new at all of this (I am....and the more I know the more confused I am!) about the Criswells. I happily share any and all..... It is nice to have another cousin on the "tree"!! I know that my mother will be happy to make this contact with you! My grandmother was Effie Criswell, daughter of John Henry and grand daughter of William Vannoy. She was a treasure to have in my life -- and always VERY much comitted to her family -- no matter how many "once-removed" they were! While I am new to all of this -- I do have a wealth of information from my mother. It is not that I am so all fired up about genealogy as much as it is this intense fear I have that all the work she has done (by hand and by GOING places, I might add! -- none of this "click-the-mouse-stuff" you and I can access!) will just disappear with herI am deperately trying to at least get it all down somewhere and in some fashion that I can understand nad know how to "cull through". Thank you for your response. And I appreciate the info. Beverly Rutledge bevrutledge@earthlink.net