I find this very interesting. Is there a possibility that an updated book will be released for sale?? If so and if the price is reasonable. I would be interested. Holly --- [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Liddell, Liddle, Liddel, Lydel, Lydell, Little, Ladell, > Lidell, Liddesdale, Liddesdell, Lydell, Lidel, Lidle, Lindell, Lydal > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YQw.2ACEB/185 > > Message Board Post: > > Hi-- Sorry about the long title but I am a part of Team Liddell and > we are trying very hard to reconstruct the history of a truly massive > work on Liddells (a 30-year project) that was done by James Thomson > Liddell and Xime Parsons. What they did was to trace out nearly all > the descendants of James Liddell b. 1712 (or perhaps 1707) in > Roxboughshire Scotland and who died in Abbeville District, South > Carolina about 1790 or so (I'm having to use my memory for that.) He > had three of six sons to survive combat during the American War of > Independence. > > JTL and P's project was financed, I've been told by Ann Liddell of > Hammond, La.(now deceased), by the Merchison family of Louisiana. > JTL/P completed their opus in 1958. There was a nearly 400-page > "all-family" version and one for each of the three war-surviving > sons--Andrew, Moses and, I think, George. The "son" versions were > simply pages taken from the "all-family" version and without being > page-renumbered assemblied in order for each son's line. > > Because of internal notations in the all-family version, which we > have only in microfilm from the Mormons, we think that it received a > 1,000-copy pressrun and would have been semi-soft bound in a black > leather-like vinyl cover with white letters silk-screen on the front > cover and spine. We have only two actual bound copies of this nature. > Both are of the Andrew "son" version, so we are confident that there > was at least this version printed and bound and distributed. > > I received my copy from Ann Liddell in the early 1970s. She had about > a dozen in her hall closet. Except for a copy that Cheryl Hayes > inherited from Parsons, we know of no other copies in existance at > the present time. Yet, the Mormon microfilm images seem to indicate > that a bound book was used to produce the--get this!--400-page long > all-family version and the roughly 250-page Andrew version. The other > son editions are reported to me to be about the same size as the > Andrew one. > > So I am asking this question. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY JTL/P BOUND COPIES > OF THEIR BOOK, REGARDLESS OF THE VERSION??? We very much want to know > where and how these went and where. We do not want access to your > copy if you have one. Between our two hard copies and the microfilm, > we have everything the authors produced as of 1958, and we will > update these in coming years. --At present, we just want to know more > about which versions were printed and where the finished bound copies > went and if there is a large stock still piled up somewhere. > > We are NOT interested in learning about the location of microfilm > copies. > > Your answer will be treated very privately. > > Please contact me at [email protected] if you have a copy or > know for a certainty where a copy is and any information about it you > can provide. > > I live in Carrollton Georgia just to give you an idea of my locale. > > Thank you very much. --James Wallace (Jim) Liddell > > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html