This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FBB.2ACE/860.5 Message Board Post: Dear Lochlainn Seabrook, I realize it might detract from the sales of your book on the Caudills, but I am an avid advocate of sharing in the field of Genealogy. With this in mind, I would really like to see some of your replies to Caudill queries posted in the message boards instead of requiring that they email you privately. I'm not suggesting that you dump your entire book into the reply, but a "bit" of positive information, and then offering more via email might be a possible alternative to the total privacy issue. My mother was born a Caudill and now resides in a nursing home in Spokane, WA. I have her ancestry back many, many generations. I worked closely with Clayton Cox, who devoted his life to the research of, and authored "Appalachian Crossroads" - The Caudill Family - THREE Large Volumes. containing 2,865 pages, INDEXED, and published in 1993. I have two sets of these books, which I refer to often. I started out researching the ancestry of my grandfather, William Harlan Caudill b. 1883 Letcher Co, KY, but when I met Clayton, I deferred to his work and went on to devote my life's work to the research of the family of his wife, my grandmother, Celia Melvina Clark (the Clarkstons). My question would be; how closely does your work correspond with Clayton Cox's work? Have you found any major errors you would like to share? My only argument with Clayton (when he was compiling his work) was that he didn't include any pictures or source documentation, but his argument was that he had such a massive amount of data, that realitically, there wasn't any room to include pictures or documentation, but that the documentation was available for anyone willing to do some elementary research starting with the information he provided. I would like to hear from you. I am particularly interested in documenting the family of William Caudill b, ca 1825 prob Letcher co, KY, who md 2 jun 1847 Letcher co, KY to Sarah 'Sally' Christian Gloria Kay Vandiver Inman "Kay" http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/v/a/n/Gloria-kay-Vandiverinman/