On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:49:31 -0700, you wrote: >Irene - > >Too much? I don't think so - as always you hit the nails right on their >heads. You very clearly described my frustrations. I cannot verify >anything prior to Andrew S. - and by the way, I competely agree with you >about the Sickles (Suckles, Sciecles, etc etc) I came to the same >conclusion - simply because the names during that era do seem to be repeated >with a consistency that evades their spelling proficiency. Although I keep >poking around, I think it's going to take some on-site research - and I'm >trying to enlist my sister, who lives in Sussex County NJ to help me out. >Hard to do from California. But do let me know if you find anything more on >that line. Well now, if I had a sister living in NJ I think I'd enlist, draft, bribe, threaten, whine, throw a fit, whatever I had to do in order to get her to help me research on-site. I'd even consider resorting to black-mail if I though it would get me that one clue I need to tie up my line. ;) Yup. I'm talking serious genealogy addiction here. I live in Colorado so I'm not that much better off than you are for doing research in NJ and NY. While I was doing research in Nebraska it wasn't so bad. I was actually able to jump in the car a couple of times and run across the state-line for a few days to do research. Now I'm trying to dream up excuses for us to go to NY. I honestly can't come up with any to go to NJ or I'd go there first. >Amazing how well documented the southern Norwoods are - and how undocumented >the mid-Atlantic ones are! The most exciting stuff I have found has been >the well-documented burials in the Marble Cemetery - and the church >information on the Ogilvies. I have more information on them than the early >Norwoods! Isn't this frustrating? Whenever you enter NORWOOD into a search engine you end up with, if you're lucky, maybe 2 mid-atlantic entries for every 100 entries for MA, ME, MD, and all the southern states. We won't even mention all the England entries. I'm sure I'll be happy to have those once I get that far back. :) I can sympathize. I have numerous Dutch lines who have practically spawned a tornado worth of paperwork and records to follow. Only problem is, they all named their children the same couple of names so I can't tell them apart! At least the churches they attended for the most part had the curtesy to include the mother's name in their baptisms and that usually helps. That's a lot more than I can say for many of the other church records I've looked at who only list the father's name. You mention the Marble Cemetery. I found a listing for an infant of Andrew G. Norwood and a listing for Andrew S. Norwood but I've never requested the actual records. Did you take a look at the actual records and was there any good info in them? >Anyway, thanks for your info as always - keep up the good work - you're >doing a lot better at this than I am! You're welcome. And if I'm doing better at this than you are it's probably only because I'm seriously addicted to genealogy and spending waaaaaaaay too much time playing with it when I really should be doing something else. Like right now, I should be vacuuming. ;) Take care! Irene