Dear Friends and Cousins, I received, just the other day, a packet of copies of documents pertaining to the family of Eli Galloway (in my direct line). Linda Raxter did the research and I can tell all of you who can't make it to Transylvania or the area, it is *WELL WORTH THE $45* to get this kind of documentation. Linda hunted down every mention of Eli Galloway in census records, land records, etc. and it became a rather THICK packet, what with all that she found. Now I know more about Eli and his family than just names and dates. If you're in the situation I'm in (little time and long distance, but a few extra bucks), I highly recommend hooking up with Linda and getting her to do some leg work for you. I can't promise that she'll find as much as she found for me, since Eli left a very nice little paper trail for her to follow and copy, but she should be able to find at least something on an ancestor or relative you'd like to know more about, if they were in the area long enough to leave an imprint on paper. I'm impressed enough to want Linda to do more on other families of mine, so she oughta make a little moolah off of me. Kind regards, Philip Philip Sheppard Beaufort, South Carolina ************************ Rootsweb Sponsor and Listowner NCMACON-L, NCTRANSY-L, NCSWAIN-L, NCJACKSO-L ************************ Look ups: 1850 Macon County, North Carolina Census 1870, 1880 Transylvania County, North Carolina Census Macon County, North Carolina, Marriages, 1829-1939 Marriage Bonds of Haywood and Jackson Counties, North Carolina ************************