Is anyone researching the Murray Pace lines still? All I see in the recent past regard the Richard/Isabel lines or unknown lines. Mitzi

lew977MitziA wrote: > Is anyone researching the Murray Pace lines still? All I see in the > recent past regard the Richard/Isabel lines or unknown lines. > > Mitzi > > ==== PACE Mailing List ==== Yes, I am interested in this line. It's a 'foundation line'. Jack Pace of Williamsburg and Lois Long Carey, and no doubt, others, have done a great deal of work on their related lines. Many of the VA KY marriage SURNAMES associated were previously, quite popular in Shropshire, England, where PACE was also found. I've collected info from this list, the Groome list and other Rootsweb lists, Barnett, Picken, Gregory, with pertinent info, the surnames involved in VA & KY, I suspect, were the same a few generations previously, back in Shropshire, England. I've got the same names back in the English parishes, 1600,1700,1800's http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/records/index.htm and maybe someday will be able to secure the 'migration ancestor' of some of the pioneers of these Shropshire surnames in America. This is not a small job. I got Ruth Keys Clark interested in this a couple years ago, she also found one of her other Virginia names in several Shropshire parishes where PACE also was, in a research trip she took to LDS Library at Salt Lake City. I'd mentioned to her what Shropshire parishes to find PACE, she looked them up (microfilms) and found her other names too in same parishes. The DNA tests tell us John Pace of Middlesex comes from my family. Roy Johnson has worded some explicet messages on this. See - http://www.pacesociety.org/DNA/johngeorge.htm TRULY, it would be great to find some ship's passenger lists with the appropriate people on those records. Jane Shelton has asked me to approach descendents of John of M and see if they'd like to put some money together for research into these matters. Others have worked together on such focused directives. The drawback here is, there's only so much research material in England to look up. In the PACE case, most of this has already been done. I could go on and on. Getting back to Murray Pace line. http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/lines/john-mid/joseph.htm#grm 5 JOHN MARTIN b 1740 in Goochland Co VA m 03 Jan 1757 Goochland (now Cumberland) Co VA d 26 Jan 1821 Clark Co KY Burial Sheely Farm, Lower Howard's Creek, Clark Co KY + RACHAEL PACE b 20 Feb 1734/35 Christ Church Parish Middlesex Co or Goochland Co VA d 26 January 1820 in Clark Co KY Burial Sheely Farm, Lower Howard's Creek, Clark Co KY What a group of interested descendents can do is note the surnames that married into that line, or ancestral lines, and start collecting and putting things together. If you have further questions, interest, let's hear it. As I said, I've collected a lot from this and other lists and put together some web pages. I'd be happy to see others work together, find info, contribute, and we all learn. The web pages have links to help put you here and there, where related info also exists. Gord Pace, Ontario,Canada