Re: CORNELL/CORNWELL/CORNWALL. These can all be considered spellings of the same last name. My family used all three, but perhaps their big idea (unproved) of relation to Ezra Cornell made them finally adopt his version. Also, I know in Canada that the name is pronounced two ways: One is CORN-ull in which emphasis is placed only on the first syllable. Have any other Cornell researchers run into that one??!! That's how it is said around Hamilton, Ontario, and my cousins who were searching around 40 years ago made note of it. I found it myself quite by accident. The rest of them adopted or used originally (??) Cor-NELL with about the same emphasis on the two syllables, and this is how most people who I have encountered pronounce the name, certainly that of the University. Now, a small announcement which has a bearing on my earlier efforts to smoke those Cornell researchers out of the woodwork. There absolutely HAVE to be more of them than I have found. At present, I am working on transcribing and improving the Cornell Genealogy of Prentiss Glazier. I've only been at this for three or four years or more. It is my intent to put it on a CDROM with much better organization and accessibility than Mr. Glazier ever dreamed of. It will be in the form of a PDF (portable document format) so it can be read on virtually any kind of computer. Sorry about that Bill Gates! Glazier's book, for any who don't know it, is rather in the form of a study guide and extension to the 1902 Cornell Genealogy in which he corrected some information, added families to certain lines and mentioned several places where more research was badly needed. His intent was to help those of us who came after him and give us some clues where to start, based on his knowledge. My Cornell family line has been totally stuck for about 20 years, and I decided to follow in Glazier's footsteps a little to see if what he did can be extended. So, obviously, the first project has to be to take a look at what he left. Not only am I doing that, but I intend, as noted above, to make it available to other researchers. SORRY, I do not have the time to do look-ups. You will simply delay the project I am describing, but you are most welcome to visit my web page and download the fat GEDCOM available there based on the Glazier book. It tells you about all I know and might be all you need. It contains all the related Cornells in Glazier's book plus a few I added. It's sort of a preview of my version of his book and for free. Along the way, I have encountered some southern Cornell researchers. Probably, they have it worse than I do. Not being in their shoes, I can't say. As it happens, Mr. Glazier may have left them some clues, and I don't know how many people in this situation may know of them. One or two children of Thomas Cornell disappeared from New England, and it is believed they went south. For a serious southern Cornell researcher, this might be an important clue. I can't possibly evaluate if this is useful to them or not. Certainly, we are talking of very early families who went that direction before 1700. I'm afraid that is much too early for many people, but there are some others at a later date, one who went first to New Jersey. Descendants went further south and are not really included in the available genealogies. Wouldn't it be nice to put them in there!! The people I REALLY want to reach are any who have connected but are not in either Glazier or the 1902 Genealogy. I want to extend those families. (Just maybe, one of them will have information that will help me!!) What I learn will be added to the CDROM I mention above for the benefit of other Cornell researchers. My belief is that it is absolutely an ego trip to do family research and then not share it with others. Best of all would be to put it out where strangers to you can find it. Let me offer FAIR WARNING: While I will look at materials of any reasonable sort, I positively will not put them on that CDROM unless they are substantiated. I am not being arbitrary or arrogant. Quite the opposite. I don't expect anyone to take my word about anything without sources, and why should you do that to me or our audience? Genealogy is a very cooperative endeavor. Each of use has different opportunities and ideas about research, and, by working with others, we generate a synergy. That is, the sum of the effort is greater than the individual parts. Each family is a part of the puzzle, and it may well fit with another. But, we can't necessarily know that unless we make the fruits of our work available to others. This Internet is about the best thing invented for genealogy. So, PLEASE help me help others who are our relatives. Tom Cornell Cornell Web Site: http://www.netusa1.net/~tvcornel/gene.html