C M Strong wrote: > > Hi listers! > > About a week ago, the list co-ordinator on the Madsion County List > started a mini surname roll-call -- his theory was that we might be > able to grab onto single names faster than whole long paragraphs. > > My initial response was I doubted it would be very productive, but > boy! Was I ever wrong! All of a sudden, match upon match started > pouring out of the woodwork! > > So I was wondering if you'all would care to do the same here? And > just to get the ball rolling, here are my Herkimer County surnames: I don't have much here, but here's my names: HOLMES--- Montgomery County about 1800 (the part that eventually became part of Hamilton County) MEHAN--- Amsterdam/ Broadalbin area. Any info here would be helpful NEHR, TRAVER--- Montgomery County. Very little info here too. ---Ray Warner [email protected] "Knowing the path is not the same as walking it." -Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), 'The Matrix'