Greetings St Joseph Co., MI researchers, Activity has been slow and our subscriber list has had new researchers join recently, so I thought I'd start a query search. Please post your collateral line surnames from St Joseph County. I'll start. The above surnames are collateral lines to my direct line of BECKWITH. Oftentimes, we get so involved with the search of our direct ancestors, we forget about the possible connections with our collateral lines and the info those connections can afford us. Each of the above surnames married into the BECKWITH line in St Joseph Co., MI with a range of marriage dates from 1835-1853. Levi BECKWITH, Sr. and Lucinda STARKWEATHER had 10 children: Sidney BECKWITH/Mehetable HUNT, Albert BECKWITH/ Rosannah POLAND, Orson S. BECKWITH/Louisa Jane SCOTT, Eliza BECKWITH/George PRIEST, Polina BECKWITH/Peter SIXBEY + George BURROUGHS, Lucinda BECKWITH/Henry Edwin ROOT, Rhoda BECKWITH/Augustus VanSchaak DODD, Lydia BECKWITH/James M. HUTCHISON, Levi BECKWITH, JR./Lucy R. MARKHAM and Rodney BECKWITH/Eliza Ann ROTE. Are you connected with one of these names from the St Joseph Co., MI area? When you post your query, be sure to change the SUBJECT line to the "surnames" you're researching. Regards, Denise St Joseph Co., MI List Administrator ***************************************************** Petoskey, Emmet Co., MI NEW email address: tfred@voyager.net Researching these surnames: BECKWITH, BUGBEE, CHASE, CLINE, FLANDERS, GAUMER, HEIFNER, HENRY, HUNT, LANE, MORROCHE, MUSHRUSH, NEEB, QUIGLEY, RAYDURE, ROSS, STANTON, STONE, SHURGOUR, STARKWEATHER, VAN RIPER, WERTZ and WHITING Visit my homepage and read "Denise's Story": http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/index.html CC for St. Joseph County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/mistjo.html *****************************************************