Betty, Thanks for writing. I got David's book(s) last summer and they are just overwhelming!! When I find someone that you or some of the others is certain came from John (1690), I try to verify it with the books (when I have the time) or I make a note that that person is probably in the books. If I ever get to concentrate just on this family for an extended period, I'm sure that I'll have a boatload of questions for you. I hope you're not planning on going anywhere for the next twenty or thirty years. As to Adam (m. Juelly Dowde) springing from the Kentucky bunch, though, I have to say that he isn't. But that surely isn't set in concrete. I only know that at this point, I have extracted all of them from Rev. McElroy's "Scotch-Irish McElroys" and the "McElroy Family Newsletters" (except for a couple or three issues) and haven't found a single one named Adam. It is a possibility that Adam Calhoun could be from that family, though, as a desc. of James3 (John2,James1) who married Violet Davis Calhoun(?). If anyone has a thought on that, chime in. Out of all the people in my db, I have found only a handfull who are named Adam...the two mentioned above and the ones in Pa. who are from Thomas Ray McElroy's line. So, has anyone found a connection to the Adam who married Juelly Dowde? Julie _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

I'm 70 years old. I have been "doing" genealogy for 29 years. I started with the Muckleroys (various spelling). We don't have all the McElroy, etc. folks because we didn't make contact with some of the descendants. David has been putting his book on a database and plans to put it on a CD. I think he made some early mistakes in entering children, but he tells me he is doing it correctly now. He has finished with the book part and is entering loose papers. Since he moved around, I'm not sure he still has everything, but it is still a lot. I expect I have a big percentage of what he has. Just the names. I have not gotten into the other things yet. I may not have time before I either slow down too much or die. When I started in genealogy, back 29 years ago, the Xerox machine was very basic. If you wanted anything from our local library, you had to mark the book and leave it with the librarian to make a copy. It cost 50 cents a page and then the book was out of circulation until they could copy it. You either had to go back and pick up your copies or leave money for it to be mailed. There was no microfilm copier. If you wanted a copy of a census, you needed to find a printed copy, or in some other libraries - not ours, you might get an especially important to you census notarized that this was an exact copy of the information on the film. As you might imagine, that wasn't done very often. I go by locations as much as anything else. It seems to me that one of the Adams mentioned was in the "right" place. When that is the case, it is possible that we might find out who they belong to. The courthouse or the state archives are usually the best. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "julie freeman" <jffree1@hotmail.com> To: <MCELROY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] Adam Calhoun McElroy > Betty, > Thanks for writing. I got David's book(s) last summer and they are just > overwhelming!! When I find someone that you or some of the others is > certain came from John (1690), I try to verify it with the books (when I > have the time) or I make a note that that person is probably in the books. > If I ever get to concentrate just on this family for an extended period, I'm > sure that I'll have a boatload of questions for you. I hope you're not > planning on going anywhere for the next twenty or thirty years. > As to Adam (m. Juelly Dowde) springing from the Kentucky bunch, though, I > have to say that he isn't. But that surely isn't set in concrete. I only > know that at this point, I have extracted all of them from Rev. McElroy's > "Scotch-Irish McElroys" and the "McElroy Family Newsletters" (except for a > couple or three issues) and haven't found a single one named Adam. It is a > possibility that Adam Calhoun could be from that family, though, as a desc. > of James3 (John2,James1) who married Violet Davis Calhoun(?). If anyone has > a thought on that, chime in. > Out of all the people in my db, I have found only a handfull who are named > Adam...the two mentioned above and the ones in Pa. who are from > Thomas Ray McElroy's line. > So, has anyone found a connection to the Adam who married Juelly Dowde? > > Julie > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > I collect dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! > I looked for my ancestors,....and I found friends. > I shook my family tree and out came a forest of friends. > >