Those subscribers who are fortunate enough to be able to access a genealogical database HeritageQuest through their local--or nearby--public libraries, may be interested to know that a book compiled many years ago by Anderson Chenault Quisenberry is now digitized and cataloged under books. Check with your local or nearby library about the availability of HeritageQuest in your neighborhood. Some State libraries have a subscription, so ask there also. The title of this book is longish: Genealogical memoranda of the Quisenberry family and other families: including the names of Chenault, Cameron, Mullins, Burris, Tandy, Bush, Broomhall, Finkle, Rigg, and others. Some of these names are prevalent through Kentucky and later, I believe, Missouri, and indeed the whole South. I understand that one of the two films of trhis book held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City is one filmed and held at the Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Do an author search for Queisenberry, Anderson on _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) - the catalog link, which is on the right hand side of the screen. [Remove any punctuation which rootsweb wraps around the URL.] Caution: Be careful to check ALL the statements given by Quisenberry about the Kentucky people, at least. I have not checked the Virginia people. However, my own research, say, of certain members of the Chenault family of Madison Co., contradicts some of the statements Quisenberry has made of certain residents of Madison Co. I note that the surname Oldham shows up in some of the Chenault records. Those statements should also be checked against the original records, if at all possible. The trouble with some of these Kentucky families, as well as other families with colonial roots, is that the same names are used over and over again, and it is easy to make errors. I believe Quisenberry has mixed up the identities of several persons. There are some statements which are made about Anderson Chenault, probably the one of Madison Co., which are flawed. As his second wife, he married ca 1837 the widow of Overton Harris (d. testate 1827) nee Nancy Oldham. Chenault and Nancy married in Madison Co. in 1837, but first, Nancy had a pre-nuptial agreement drawn up. She did not have it recorded, however, until a year after she married Chenault. This document is recorded in the Madison Co., deed books. (Overton Harris's deed was very restrictive regarding the possible remarriage of his widow. If she were to remarry, she was to lose control of the property. Since she had a number of children, some of them quite young, she did not wish to relinquish control. And, it's a good thing. Anderson Chenault, judging by the number of entries he has in the deed books, was a land speculator.) Quisenberry says Anderson Chenault's second marriage was to Mrs. Talitha Harris. I believe he has mixed up Talitha Harris's mother, Nancy Oldham Harris, with daughter Talitha, who married Waller Chenault. Check those marriage records, if possible. If not, check the deed indexes. E.W.Wallace descendant of Nancy Oldham [Harris] Chenault and her father Richard *Ready-Money* Oldham ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour