Hello list and David. To follow is a message about the Underwood family I received from David Pearson. Can anyone help with his research. David Pearson wrote: > Mike, After a brief converstion with my mother about a relative named > Underwood who moved from Wigan,England to America and became involved > in the banking business,a brief internet search showed the web page > that you submitted in > 1999. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/bios/biounderwood.html This > caused a great deal of interest from my mother and her sister to > investigate further. It appears that Joseph Underwood is an ancestor > of our family. Joseph's brother Alfred had a daughter,Mary who had a > daughter Miriam (my Grandmother),who's daughter Renee is my mother > !!! I hope this makes sense !! The descendants of this side of the > family mostly still live in the Wigan area. Is there any possibility > that you could give us any more information about the Underwood family > and any steps that you could offer to make our research easier ? Are > there any contacts that you can suggest, maybe living relatives ? I > noticed that the web page is from a Roscoe Bicentennal Booklet, is it > available and does it contain any relevant research material ? I look > forward to your reply with great anticipation Thanks David Pearson > Hello David... The article that I submitted to the site came from that Roscoe Booklet. As far as I know there are still copies out there for purchase, but I'll have to find out from where!! I have an Underwood in my own family tree (married to a distant cousins sister.. not to close.)that is the son on Joseph. And I'm sure there are other researchers and or Underwood cousins still in this area. The village of Roscoe (pop. about 600) was named after Joseph Underwood's wife (her maiden name was Roscoe) In addition to the Website, I also have a mailing list that deals with the history and genealogy of the Monongahela River Valley, here in Pennsylvania. I will forward your message to that list in hopes of finding a cousin of yours that may have more information. The Underwood that is in my tree is: Descendants of Thomas J. Underwood 1 Thomas J. UNDERWOOD b: 1868 d: 1943 . +Ettamay QUALK b: May 1864 d: 1921 ..... 2 Hila UNDERWOOD b: Abt. 1894 ..... 2 Mildred UNDERWOOD b: Abt. 1898 Thomas is the son of Joseph and Ellen. If you go to the main page of the Mon Valley Site and using the search engine, there are 22 occurances of the name Underwood. You may find more information there. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval Good luck. -- Thanks Mike Donaldson, Bentleyville, PA (mdonald4@bentcom.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mon Valley History and Genealogy Website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pamonval/ Mon Valley: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: http://www.geocities.com/mdonald318/ My family gedcom: http://www.my-ged.com/donldson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Listowner of: Monongahela River Valley of Penna Rootsweb mailing list: PAMONVAL-L@rootsweb.com - Mail mode PAMONVAL-D@rootsweb.com - Digest mode Bieneman / Bienemann Rootsweb Mailing list Bienemann-L@rootsweb.com - Mail Mode Bienemann-D@rootsweb.com - Digest mode