Gerry.... Thanks, well said! I agree completely. I grew up being told R.E. Lee was a cousin (distant, but a cousin) and to date I have found no proof of that. I have limited resources but love to search...in lots of places....to find the truth. Lorrain At 01:15 AM 5/17/2004, you wrote: >Circa 1960 Donald Lines Jacobus lamented in an article in "The American >Genealogist" that he feared for the quality of genealogical research. He >said that there were so many published family histories at that point that >people would rather use someone else's work than to do their own research. >This he said could only compound the errors that he was finding in even >the best of genealogies. Imagine how he would view "Ancestral File" or the >many internet sources of family trees. Anyone with a genealogy program and >an internet connection can download, merge and publish a family history in >a matter of a few weeks. Plagiarism abounds and errors are so often >repeated that it is nearly impossible, at times, to find the occurrence >of the original error. As another contributor has pointed out, many people >who have published errors seem little concerned about them when they are >pointed out by others. >We need to applaud Hugh and others like him who dig hard for primary >evidence and share it with with us. Errors and family MYTHS are hard to >dispel even when proven wrong. Most of us are probably not related to >Robert E. Lee, even if great grandmother said we are. Most of us, too, >have more questions than answers. >There is not an abundance of good information, easily available, >concerning the battle of Stony Point. I commend you Hugh for your tenacity >and perseverance. Thank you too, for the many good pieces of information >you have contributed toward Lee family research in the past. > >Gerry Shepard > > >==== LEE Mailing List ==== >To leave the LEE mailing list, send only the word Unsubscribe >in the subject line and in the body of an email to: >[email protected] -- if you subscribe in Mail Mode >[email protected] -- if you subscribe in Digest Mode > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237