In a message dated 11/11/97 12:26:02 AM, vsbriz@alpha.ultraweb.net wrote: <<To all those posting on these families: I have been enjoying the notes you have posted. I descend from Edmund Herndon, son of Edmund Herndon who married Elizabeth Graham daughter of John Graham and Mary Bird. Most of my information on the Grahams and James Bird is from the book "A Tartan of Many Threads, The Grahams of Union Ridge" by Kara Lee Graham. Would love to hear if you have seen this book and agree with her research. It appears to be well documented and I intend to retrace her steps to see if I come to the same conclusions. I also have correspondence from years ago with Ruth Sheldon Herndon. Do you have any other sources that you would share with me. Virginia Brizendine >> Dear Virginia, The book that you referred to "A Tartan of Many Threads-The Grahams of Union Ridge" was published by me and my Aunt Kara Graham in 1991. All of the layout pictures, lineages, and stories were done on my computer here at home. I was able to contribute to the Graham lineage and provide the lineages of the allied families, Boswells, Empsons, Birds, Foxes, Hazells, Hurdle, Jeffreys, Kernodles, Leas, Rices, Roneys, Shutts, Simpsons, Swifts, Tapscotts, Thompsons, Walkers, and Windsors, that were included. Aunt Kara was ninty years old when we finally got the book to its final stage. She was a wonder, deligently researching, corresponding with cousins, both distant and near, prodding, pleading and pressuring to get various ones to contribute to the stories of persons and families in the book. I still have a few copies of the book remaining if anyone is interested in acquiring a copy. She was the guiding force in the inventorying of three significant cemeteries in the area: Cross Roads Presbyterian Church with Mrs. Sophia S. Martin; the Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church with Mrs. Martin; and the Old Union Ridge Congregational Christian Church with Mrs. Martin and my mother, Claudia Graham Fox; all completed by 3 October1974. The original publication is no longer available except in some public libraries, but I have republished and copies are available. I am continuing to research the Graham family; many "new" items of information have come to light since the books publication. I am also delving into many of the other families that were not included in the publication, especially the King family of northern Alamance County. The Tapscott family which was a part of Caswell and Alamance County history is also an ongoing project. For those of you who have not used the old Alamance Gleaner Newspaper as a resource are missing some useful as well as delightful bits of information about the early days of Alamance County and sometimes of the Old Orange County history. These are available through May Memorial Public Library in Burlington, North Carolina. My wife and I have been diligently working to get copies of old Bible records that have bearing on the community, located in the State Archives in Raleigh. Anyone who has a family Bible record and is interested in family research, really has an obligation to make a photocopy of each page that contains family data and also the flypage of the Bible which gives the date of publication of the Bible and publisher to establish the time parameters for it, and to place that copy with a state archives. That makes it a matter of public record and is generally considered irrefutable evidence in establishing family lineages. This can fill the gaps that are present in much of what is available in public documentation. I have even placed a record of my mother's Bible which she took with her into nursing school in 1921 because she had copied the information from my grandfather and grandmother's Bible about her family. John Fox Winston-Salem, NC ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm