Would like to get on the band wagon and join the Roll Call. I would also like to toss out an idea - there really can't have been that many early settlers in Lincoln County. We all know that the records have NOT all been copied and are endangered. Most of us that have more than one line in those early settlers end up being related to a good share of the others. I wish we could come up with a plan to really glean the records of every name EVERY time one of us has access to them. The alternate idea would be to systematically glean every record and get the material either copied or picked clean of names and information before it is lost to age, theft, fire - whatever. Lincoln County seems to have the least attention of genealogists. Sometimes I don't see a single mention of Lincoln County in an entire issue of "Kentucky Explorer. I NEVER see the name of a researcher willing to do research IN Lincoln County in ANY of the many gen publications that I subscribe to. Lincoln is truly the forgotten county and it is amazing when one considers that the foundation of the state is there! I think one of the main problems is that while many of us have Lincoln County roots - we don't LIVE anywhere near there now. So it's easy for people like myself, who have never BEEN to Lincoln County, to say "let's glean those records!". I spoke to an archeologist in one of the upstate colleges last year that was willing to do research in the Lincoln County courthouse. She is gravely concerned about the fragile condition of the records and their very vulnerability in being the ONLY copy of so much data in such an old building. She also believes that it is because Lincoln County is NOT one of the current hot spots in the state that it is so neglected. Obviously ALL the records are important - but MAYBE a focus on the first 50 years after the beginning of the court records and documents would be a start. My cousin DID get to spend a few days in the court house last fall; she said many of the records are so delicate - they hated to touch them. WHAT CAN WE DO - FELLOW DESCENDANTS of Lincoln County Pioneers??? If you are reading this email - you have an interest in that County. Marcellene Graham Davis dvsclan@hotmail.com ******************************************************************** My names of interest in Lincoln County are the following: BARNETT, PEMBERTON, WINDSOR, LYONS, MAY, TEAGUE, TROYER/TRAYER, McDANIEL, McFAIR/FAIR, LANDBARRIER/LINEBERRY, WRIGHT, BLACKLIDGE, MONTGOMERY, GIVENS, BERRY, ALLEN, CATHEY My greatest quest in Lincoln County is to FIND the parents of Captain Robert Barnett, who served under George Rogers Clark, and established Barnett Station in Lincoln County, near Stanford and to FIND the parents of his wife, Elizabeth. Thank You. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com