I am interesting in starting a "Clearing House" for information on our McBee families. I have done extensive research on the McBee family that originated in Maryland back in the late 1690s which included Matthew McBee and wife Mary Brock. William and James McBee who came down through Virginia and settled in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. These families included Vardry McBee and wife Hannah Echols. I want to store everyone's information and make it available upon request to any other McBee researcher. Please let me know what you think of having a "Central Location" for all of our McBee information. I have been working on my McBee family for 40 years now. I hope to share and receive information in the form of Gedcom files and or rtf documents. Please let me know what you all think. Thanks a million. Danny A. McBee.

McBee49@aol.com wrote: >I am interesting in starting a "Clearing House" for information on our McBee >families. > I think we HAVE that 'clearing house' -- right here on the McBee-L, and the Message Boards. We also have the wonderful advantage of the World Connent system, which can be kept updated, and to which other researchers can attach "Post-Ems". I have started a McBee website, and Jean has the wonderful Great McBee Hunt. I really wish more McBee researchers were filling our Message Board with their data. Even short GEDCOMS can be uploaded, along with photographs or scans of documents, which could accompany transcriptions of Wills, Pensions, Bible Records, Obituaries, and so forth. I've been doing my best to scour the web and place information on the Board, but I basically *have* no information about my own McBees. The family Bible was thrown in the swamp when my grandfather deserted his family. We've managed to get a good deal of information up in the last 4 years, but I feel that so much more could be done! I would love to see Danny store information, but I would like even MORE for it to be stored in our Message Board, our list archives, World Connect, and our website. The reason for that -- public access. When someone comes across a McBee name in their research, they will be able to FIND us. Someday, I hope we sort out ALL the McBees. I want us to find every birth, marriage, divorce, land record, census record, death, gravestone, etc., and sort these people out into families and descendencies. This has been my dream since I asked for this list and the GenConnect boards to be created back in 1999. When we get those 19th century McBees "all sorted out," I hope some people will be writing some McBee books. :-) Valorie > I have done extensive research on the McBee family that originated >in Maryland back in the late 1690s which included Matthew McBee and wife Mary >Brock. William and James McBee who came down through Virginia and settled in >Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. These families included Vardry >McBee and wife Hannah Echols. I want to store everyone's information and >make it available upon request to any other McBee researcher. Please let me >know what you think of having a "Central Location" for all of our McBee >information. I have been working on my McBee family for 40 years now. I >hope to share and receive information in the form of Gedcom files and or rtf >documents. Please let me know what you all think. Thanks a million. Danny >A. McBee. >