For those of you with Paletine families, you need to look at a three volume set entitled Even More Paletine Families by Picton Press by Henry Jones Jr and Lewis Bunker Rohrback Vol 2 is Craven Co I was aware of these books having heard from Rohrback a number of times but had not seen the books until last week at LCC. They are a scholarly piece of work, one of the best I have seen. Our own Victor Jones did a list of possible Paletine families a few years ago and he is credited with supplying much information in the book - thank you Victor. The books provide much background information, ships lists, and information on the many families with how the names evolved. It also redoes the early Craven Tax Lists which is quite different than the printed list we all use but it does help to read German. LCC does have a copy and I assume that the New Bern Library does also. They are more than worth your time finding a copy as one can't order just one volume and the index is in Vol 3. According to Dr. Pruitt and her new catelogue, Margaret Hoffman is currently working on a lengthy series entitled "North Carolina Abstracts of State Grants". Someone raised the question recently on one of the lists as to whether there were patents/Grants after the Rev. War. There were but the State issued them. These books will help fill in the gaps especially for our burned counties and they also cover grants in Tenn.. There are two books published so far but I have not seen them. I don't have an URL for ordering but will try to get one for the lists. As Dr. Pruitt said - we hope she has a long and healthy life. Dr. Bruce Pruitt has a new book of interest to many of you - abstracts of Craven Co Deed Books 2,3, & 4 and he is working on another volume. His URL is below and assume the new book is listed but I picked my copy up at PCFR Reunion. In my opinion, Dr. Pruitt, is on the same level of Margaret Hoffman and the two are the best in this business. Of course, these early Deed Books cover all of our counties. He includes an excellent map of the lots in early New Bern. http://members.tripod.com/abpruitt/