Hello Karen It would appear that are families travel in the same circle of people. You Wrote, > Shields family who came to live in the FAranklin County area of PA as > mentioned on the Lambing site . > I notice the statemant "-Due to the size of the book, I am skiping the > Shields > Yes when I wrote that I really didn't know much about making a web site, or using a scanner, I know perhaps a little more, and would be willing to post the information on the Shields family however I don't have the book, but I am working from copies I made of the book at the Pa. State Library, in Harrisburg. If you are a resident of Pa., you can get a interlibrary loan of the book on microfiche, so I was inform by the Pa. state library (sadly I no longer live in Pa.), and I did not copy the Shields part of the book, since I didn't plan to post the book on a web site when I made the copies. I don't have at least 7 pages of the book. However you are welcome to what I do have. Shield O'Shiel Shiels from the celtic patronymic O'Siadhail ( pronounced O'Sheeail) and there is a lot of information concerning the name. Here is some information concerning the family, what little I have, "Thomas Shields, the founder of this branch of the family in America, married a Miss O' Neil, in the southern part of his native county Donegal, Ireland, and emigrated to America with a number of other families of the same name, about the year 1745. This date is arrived at from the fact that his son John was born on the ocean on their way over, and he died of old age in 1825. Now, fixing his age at 80 years, which is not unreasonable, it will place the date of their emigration in the year given above. The party appear to have settled first in York county, awaiting the cessation of Indian hostilities, before proceeding further west, as many of that name took up lands in York county about, or soon after that time. Thomas, leaving the others, set out with his family, carrying his few effects on a horse , and cart; and it is said that, when he passed through Chambersburg, he was offered a large tract of the land, on which a part of the city now stands, for the horse and cart, but' he refused to accept it. Proceeding on his way northward he came to Amberson's Valley, in the northern part of Franklin county, where, in the northwestern part of the valley, he purchased about 300 acres of land and made it his permanent home. The record of the purchase is dated June 23, 1767. The date and place of his death are" (end of quote) Sorry I don't have more. Best wishes, Warren Lambing