In a message dated 7/11/2003 4:13:57 PM Mountain Daylight Time, chandler@firstva.com writes: > > Incidentally, I have been trying, off and on, to collect the descendants > of Richard Wright, and I'd be interested in where your line goes if > you'd like to share that. If you haven't looked into Richard yet, you > may find on the web many instances where he is said to be the son of > William Wright and Priscilla Carpenter. He is not. His origin is unknown. I've traced the Tinkham line, which was fairly easy since my cousin lives in New York next to the town's library. I've just started on the Cooke line since she wasn't interested in doing the maternal route. I saw some of the Cooke items from a quick search on Google, but I was wondering if there were some favorite sites out there that people liked. Francis Cooke isn't the most colorful character in Plymouth, is he? It was much easier getting Howland information. Thank you for the recommendations, and I'll be glad to make up a desc. file if you wish. My lines go through the Howland, Tilly, Brown (now Cooke), with Esther WRIGHT m. Ephraim TINKHAM, and their son John m. Hannah HOWLAND. Amos TINKHAM m cousin Sarah TINKHAM. Affiliated families: Appley, Asbury, Ayers, Barnum, Bauder/Bader, Bowling, Briggs, Burton, Carr, Clark, Dyer, Ecker, Finch, Flannery, Fox, Grim, Goodale, Hall, Hardendorf, Harman, Harper, Hawk, Hayes, Henkle/Hinkle, Keith, Marcy, Miller, Pier, Sawyer, Summerfield, Schenk, Shepard, Slocum, Strong, Teter, Tinkham, Thompson/Thomson, Tripp, Vansant, Walker, Whitlam, Wilks/Wilkes, Wolford, Wood, Woolever. http://www.treelines.com http://www.lineage.net Regards, Diane Wolford ====Useful sites==== http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ (Hints for starting) http://communities.msn.com/AGenealogyExperience (A Genealogy Experience)