Within the next two weeks, I will have copies of my mother's genealogy notes ( she died March 3rd and my sisters, cousin and I are trying to finish what our mothers started, but can't finish now). With what you have helped me find, I have valid info for 15 of the 2ggrandparents (mine), and several lines ( SHANK, VERNON, FELLERS/FOELLERS, LONGBRAKE/LAMBRECHT, ROBINAULT/ROBENOLD, ANDREWS, POWELL, WALTERS) back to the 7th or eighth generation. THE SHANKS and the VERNONS go back 15 for SHANKS ( verified) and the VERNONS, almost 12 verified. The WINTERS, BROWN, ABBOTT, MERCER, GRANT ,ELLIS, PORTER, JACKSON, FLEMING, MERCER, CRITES/CREUTZ(?), BARNHART/BERNHARDT lines stop after my 2greats grandparents. Some maternal ( on paternal side, maternal lines, also) just appear with nothing else knoen to me: HAAS, MOELLER, CONRAD, LAPE, BRACKBILL, KITTWEILER, TARBUCK, BROWN, BRADSHAW, KNERR, ROTH, BERSHINGER, BAUER, SCHERER, FAESS , COOPER, CLENDENNIN, GALBRAITH and RYTZ. My goal when working with my Mom was to denote ( verified) the IMMIGRANT in each identifiable surname. After these are established, I want to use my training as a historian to weave a narrative about what was happening when/where as they emigrated and migrated across the American continent. I feel it is NOW TIME to call in the professionals to help me finish the genealogy work so I CAN CONTINUE THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH. This is very long, but your suggestions for names of researchers in your areas will be most appreciated. Thank those of your who have waded thru this lengthy email: thanks in advance to those kind enough to answer. Margaret Shank ( Arvada, CO)