on 26/8/02 7:40, Raymond Wing at raymond.wing@snet.net wrote: > I would appreciate it if anyone having the Mayflower Families in Progress, > Francis Cooke, 5th ed. (2000) could tell me the family number for Joseph Taber > found on page 103. > > I am assuming that this is still the most recent version of the Cooke MFIP. > > Ray ___________ Hello Ray: I'm not sure whether the Mayflower Families in Progress (2000) is the "most recent version" to be cited or the 1999 Silver Book is the gospel. Here's some stuff from each of them: 1) MFIP: pp 102-103 Joseph Taber appears as Family #128. 2) Mayflower Families vol 12 ("Silver Book"1999 edition) Joseph is on pp 211-213 as Family #180 (in the 1996 edition he's #178). There are differences in the text between the two accounts. For example 2) gives Dartmouth as place of death for Joseph while 1) does not give a place; 1) says Joseph married Elizabeth Spooner while 2) says Joseph married "Elizabeth [possibly Spooner]," Both accounts list the same 13 children with the same birth dates. There is no explanation in the MFIP why a Families in Progress was necessary in 2000 when a new edition of the Silver Book was printed just a year before. Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to why the MFIP 2000 edition was necessary. Cheers, Wilfred