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    1. [NJGLOUCE-L] CHEW Data at LDS
    2. Vince Summers
    3. Folks! I know there are many CHEW researchers out there in NJ, my homestate. Particularly Gloucester County, but also Burlington and Camden. This URL, one you are by now familiar with, http://www.familysearch.org/ the LDS site, has *much* Chew data. It even connects the various branches, and goes back to 1500. What I did was to start with Jeremiah Chew, I think it was, and worked back. I found a birth date. Some names have multiple representations, so I check out each one. Then, from that, I find the parents names. Then I check the father out, figuring, usually, the father is a minimum of one year sooner for his marriage date. Seldom is it many years more. I do this by entering the father and mother's name from the previous find. Once I have done that, then I go for the father's name alone, which then gives date entrances of birth for the father. I repeated the process, clear through a John Chew or two, until I ran across the best item of all, an Ancestral File. This is a collection of data, and gives interrelationships in great detail. Wound up back in England, after passing through Flushing, Queens, NY first. 1500 before it all stopped. Perhaps if I then did a search on that man, I could have gone back further, but, hey, 1500 was enough for me. Now, this is not even truly secondary data, but on the ancestral file, if you click on details of the source, it gives the submitter's names and addresses, and they are listed as of 1978, so you have a chance of contacting one or more of them. Well, enough for now. Vince

    04/13/1999 11:31:50