This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_921045960_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In response to your query about Patterson's in Bristol and Easton, PA, my family is from the Bristol, PA, area and I know that a brother of my great grandfather was a vice-president of a railroad in northeastern PA. My grandfather had a brother named William who gave birth to a son named William. This son would have been born in the late 1800s. He had a brother Howard and sisters Sarah, Mildred, Margaret, and Mabel. Margaret married a Thomas Armstrong and had two sons--John and Raymond. Raymond had a band at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. My father is Charles and he was named after an uncle of his. Perhaps there is a relation here. My father has lost touch with all of his relatives. His brothers are all dead though there are still two children of his one brother who still live in the Philly area. Do you have any more info.? Do you know if the relatives in Easton ever had a past relative who worked on a railroad? My father's father worked for the Pennsylvania RR. Other brothers of my father who were all born in the late 1910s to 1920s are Walter, Harold, Robert and Edwin. Does any of this sound familiar? My father was raised in Eddington, PA, just off of State St. and Highway 1. Bristol was the nearest big town and he went there a lot. He remembers the opening of the Burlington-Bristol Bridge. Hope we can make a connection here. David P. --part0_921045960_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-za04.mx.aol.com (rly-za04.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.100]) by air-za02.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:12:36 -0500 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-za04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA18126; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:11:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20816; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:12:51 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:12:51 -0800 (PST) From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:01:17 EST Old-To: [email protected] X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 Subject: [PATTERSON-L] question? Resent-Message-ID: <"zHwujB.A.dEF.AFf52"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/958 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I am starting at the elementary level regarding a patterson search. I have information back to my grandfather, George Patterson Sr. He was born in Bristol, Pa. and Married a Peal Williams. He has current relatives living in the Lehigh Valley, PA area, however they were not aware much of their past. I have been saving information from these daily e-mails in hopes that one day they will lead to answers. However, these postings usually deal with the 16, 17, and 1800's and not the present to the past. I have an Uncle George, Charles (who is a brother to my deceased biological father William). These relatives all live in the Easton, PA area. If anyone has any suggestions, please help. Thanks for all the wonderful communications, William PS--I also have roots with the following surnames:DECKER, DAVIDSON AND SMITH. --part0_921045960_boundary--