Hi List, I know that the Cope-L@rootsweb.com mailing list has Archives since 1998 showing each year and month with all postings sent to that mailing list. I would think the Old-Frederick CO VA mailing list would have a Archive file to see every e-mail ever sent to this list. I have hundreds of E-mals on the Cope-L list with a ton of Quaker related family chart letters and Boone family history I sent to them. My computer crashed this morning but blew the dust out of the old buggy and got it back up in running now with a new version of AOL.9 from the old Aol.7 I had and like it alot. This year I will send the dozens of Quaker families I charted in Frederick CO VA taken first from wills there with my added Quaker files here at home. I use the Frederick CO VA deed books I had bought for me of which there are 8 Frederick CO VA deeds books from 1743-1789 . You can buy all these books for about 30 dollars apiece from William Bend Books the place for Quaker books as well. We all need these books to help each other solve just how many Quakers are in Frederick CO VA and there are tons of them starting in the 1730s as you have seen from my research. The Wlll book for Frederick CO VA I copied page for page at my local library and need the book itself to solve more . I use the will book and compare it with the Deed books and then got my my Quaker books for connections. You have noticed that New Castle CO DE , Nottingham, PA and Burlington CO NJ Quakers are showing up early on the Frederick CO VA records. The Frederick CO VA deed books show where some families came from and where some families moved to and this is a HUB for Quaker migration sort of a bus station to all parts of America . The biggest find I ver made was finding out that Daniel Boone of KY was born a Quaker and then finding out the Cope's were Quakers and my DNA matches the Quaker Copes'. Sincerely, David Crow Cope of CA

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