Probably you don't need one more letter to the latest controversy of records and internet but no one has mentioned just using some common sense. I have a letter here asking for documentation, are you kidding? In our area there are no birth or death ceritificates before the late 1800's. Most of the people could not read or write, they were too busy trying to survive. Records might have been kept by one individual that could write and, even if some of those records survived, they might not be accurate. Children were born, if they survived they might show up in tax rolls IF the area kept them, it they died they could have been buried under a tree in the back yard. Our grandmother had a brother & sister (twins) buried that way. Now the house and tree are all gone. If someone told 10 people their name it could have come out as at least 5 different spellings, the person telling it would not even know the difference. And people argue because the name isn't spelled the way they know it now! The carving on the gravestone was not done by the person put there, nor the information on the death certificate. An example, my grgrandmother has a headstones in two different graveyards. Seems her son intended to move her to where the rest of the family was buried but when he had the stone carved he even had her death date before he was born. (she was never moved) This is the type of stories that has to be put out and with the explanation. Newspaper articles got screwed up then as much as now. All it takes for a book to get published is the money to pay for it. The Dutch Settlers book is an example, it should be circular filed, but yet there are clues in it and must be worked on. ALL local history books have some errors, we might be able to prove them and should put the new info out. But some will never be. The point is, I appreciate each and every clue that is given to me and will try to work them out to the best of my ability but, unless you are getting all your information from "the horses' mouth", should you really expect everything to be accurate? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]