will of Betty Baily, dau of Joel and Ann Short Baily, per request. Someone has emailed me, asking why I post emails that came to me, personally. The answer is that I do too many of these lookups to try to Taylor and alter and edit things, before searching for answers and them sending them on. I always feel that it's a terrible waste of information to send it to just one person, and many times folks benefit from the answers to the questions asked by others..... So, if you don't want to see your question and my answer posted, for some reason, please let me know..... The Cope book says "The will of Betty Baily was dated 12 MO 8, 1775, but not proved until July 24, 1785. to grandson John Webster 5 shillings; to granddaughter Hannah Hayes 3 LB; to 4 daughters, Betty Swayne, Ann Hayes, Mary Mendenhall and Phebe Mendenhall my wearing apparel; to sons Joel, Isaac and Joshua 1/20th of my estate between them, and the remainder equally between my 4 daughters. sons Joel and Joshua to be executors." --
Hi Guys, I think it is a good idea for Sandra or any other researcher/volunteer to post all answers to queries publicly to this board, assuming there is no invasion of privacy. It's my understanding that this list is archived somewhere, and perhaps a month or a year from now someone may access and search the archives, only to discover that they already have a cousin who was on the Chester board earlier asking the same questions. Every day someone new to on-line genealogy shows up doing searches for their surnames... It's only been in recent times that the light bulb for this has clicked on in my skull. I felt I would clog up a list if I posted a question about an ancestor when only one other person might have had a remote knowledge of them. However, I now understand that in the future someone may search the archives and will connect to me, and that's really the point, isn't it? Sharon No. VA : From: Sandra Ferguson [mailto:ferg@intelos.net] <SNIP>: : Someone has emailed me, asking why I post emails that came to me, : personally. The answer is that I do too many of these lookups to try to : Taylor and alter and edit things, before searching for answers and them : sending them on. I always feel that it's a terrible waste of : information to send it to just one person, and... <SNIP>