In a message dated 11/11/1999 12:31:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: HORN Books Date: 11/11/1999 12:31:02 AM Pacific Standard Time From: [email protected] To: [email protected] You mentioned that you had looked at the HORN Books, Vol. 1 & 2. Could you tell me WHERE you saw the books? On my next trip back to Wash. Co., if they are there, I'd sure like to see them! Thanks, Robert D. Mollenauer, Jr. Ridgecrest, CA >> I try to give my answers back to all on the rootsweb because I feel if one person has a question then others may have it also but they just won't ask. I was the same way when I started my researching about ten years ago. At that time there was no rootsweb stations to consult with. I do enjoy sharing the info I collect because I do know what it is to not know who my family were due to a divorce when I was 3 yrs. old. I personally think everyone should be given their natural lines from day one. I personally feel that no individual has the right to keep any info from any individule concerning who their family tree is. But I've been called a dreamed many times and I've suffered many years by not knowing and being afraid to ask because of what the consequences would be if I even asked. Thank goodness I grew up. The Horn books are a very controversial set of books. I have been told by many that the first two books are fabricated but that the third vol. is great. I have the first two that I found at an Estate Sale several years ago. I also saw them at the Charleston, WV Archives. I personally have enjoyed my two Vol.'s and use them as ref. when I find something. I always try to find a second opinion on what I find in them also. Getting a second opinion is something I always try for in all my research. The books are written by W.F. Horn and were published by The Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. I don't know if they are still available. They are about the early Western Movement on the Monongahela and Upper Ohio 1765-1795. My copy was made in 1945.....Laura Nelle