Finally the voice of reason amongst all the chatter! Thank you, Richard. Nancy Lowe ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard A. Sherer<mailto:rasherer@ix.netcom.com> To: PALEBANO-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:PALEBANO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [PALEBANO] ancestry LDS or not At the risk of sounding like a genealogical extremist, I'd like to suggest that it's time to quit bashing institutions and get back to looking for traces of our ancestors. Along the way, it's worth remembering that no source is perfect. Our family Bible lists my great granduncle's birth date two years AFTER he appears in the 1880 census. Census records often have wrong information in them. Church records are sometimes mistaken, especially those that have been translated from old German script. If you don't want your data "stolen," keep it locked up. I've had people take my family information from private emails and post it on Rootsweb as their own research. Get over it. Just hope that, if they get it wrong, they leave your name off. Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.com have their shortcomings, but they're very useful tools, especially for people who can't go gallivanting around the planet looking at grave stones. Use the information with a measure of critical analysis and you'll be on the right track much of the time. I have letters written by a relative at the beginning of the 20th century who spent 10 years doing what we can accomplish in a good afternoon online. He'd have been ecstatic to have the help we've got in preparing his SAR application. In the end, what we're doing is a hobby. It's supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Nations won't topple if we misspell great grandpa's middle name. If it causes you too much stress, try stamp collecting. Richard Aurand Sherer ==== PALEBANO Mailing List ==== to contact list administrator: travis21_98@yahoo.com<mailto:travis21_98@yahoo.com>

Searching KEGLEY and all variations of name. Probably Anglicized from GOECKLE/GOECKEL or KOCHLE. In Lancaster/Lebanon area prior to 1768. Four children supposedly born and baptized there. Migrated to Virginia and settled in what is now Wythe County. John George and Catherine (mnu) KEGLEY. I have been able to gather in excess of 20,000 descendants for this German immigrant couple but have not been able to discover her maiden name. The following is the best possibility I have seen for his lineage: Johann Mattheus GOECKEL Born: 1717 Einhausen, Saxe Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany Married: Anna Barbara GAENSLER on 11 Feb 1742 Woelfershausen, Saxe Meiningen, Thueringia, Germany Anna Barbara was the daughter of Caspar GAENSLER and Margarethe HERDER Born: 18 May 1716 Woelfershausen, Saxe Meiningen, Thueringia, Germany Died: 26 Jun 1749 Einhausen, Saxe Meiningen, Thueringia, Germany Children all born Einhausen, Saxe Meiningen, Thueringia, Germany 1. Johann Georg GOECKEL Born: 11 Jan 1743 2. Daniel GOECKEL Born: 4 Mar 1747 Died: 21 Mar 1747 3. Anna Dorothea GOECKEL Born: 21 Jun 1745 Buried: 22 May 1746 Place: 4. Johann Caspar GOECKEL Born: 15 Jul 1741 Died: 15 Oct 1741 5. Sebastian GOECKEL Born: 4 Nov 1748 Johann married Margarthe Catherine STIRTZEL b: September 24, 1724 Erentwertshausen, Saxe Meiningern, Thuringia, Germany m: April 21, 1750 Washungen, Sachsenmeiningen, Thuringen, Germany Anna Elizabeth Goeckel b: October 14, 1752 Johann Michael Goeckel b: October 29, 1753 Johann Caspar Goeckel b: February 15, 1750/51 Elizabeth Goeckel b: May 05, 1756 Any help would be very appreciated! Dianna in MO