In a message dated 00-08-31 13:45:15 EDT, [email protected] writes: << I have a Benjamin Harper (no dates) who married Amy Shoemaker b. 1761, d/o Benjamin Shoemaker 1727-1811 and Mary Comly 1731-1793. >> Hi, Lea, In going through some old saved mail, I noticed the above comment at the bottom of one of your emails. I've recently come across some pedigree charts submitted by Erik Conard (thanks, Erik!) to the Ancestral File on www.familysearch.com, that include an Esther SHOEMAKER b. 2 April 1732 in Shoemakertown, Chelten, PA, and m. 26 Mar 1748 Abington, Philadelphia, PA to Isaac TYSON. Esther was the daughter of Isaac Shoemaker (b. 23 Oct 1700) and his wife Dorothy PENROSE (b. 1703). Esther's birthdate of 1732 would have put her in the proper age range to have been a contemporary of your Benjamin (b. 1727). Do you have any idea if they were siblings/cousins? My brother-in-law Allen has asked me to find what I can on his family of which he knows extremely little. Erik has been invaluable in direct-line connecting Allen's mother Joy CONARD with Thones KUNDERS, so you can imagine my delight when I found these pedigree charts with information on Allen's other ancestors! Lots of new surnames to research: SHOEMAKER, TYSON, WALN/WALL, PENROSE, LEECH, ASHMEAD, RUDD, WHEEL, KNIGHT, ANTILL, JAMES, HINKSON, POTTS, DIMERY, WILLIAMS, ENGLISH, BROM, SAXBEE, DONALDSON... I only wish I could return the favor to Erik, which is very difficult to do since Allen wasn't even sure of his own mother's death date and knew nothing of her parents other than the fact that they were Robert Allen CONARD who married Aline Mallard RUCKER. He didn't know when they were born or when/where they died, etc. I gather that Allen's family didn't discuss family history much, and Joy died of Alzheimer's when Allen was in his 30s and just starting to get interested. I'd like to thank, publicly, Erik Conard for his PRICELESS help to me in researching the Conard/Kunders family. Lynn Marshall [email protected] P.S.: Now I just have to figure out the relationship between Allen's Matthias Tyson (whose father was Reynier) who m. Mary Potts, and my sister's Matthias Tyson (whose father was Cornelius) who m. Barbara Sellen...I joined this list to find out more about my Tysons, and I guess the time has come! researching: Haldeman, Kunders, Manz, Op den Graeff, Pannebecker, Root, Seyfret/Safried, Tyson, Umstat, Wenger, Yaeger, Yarnall...amongst others!