This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nNABAIB/5840.3 Message Board Post: I'd love to hear from Richard also. I exchanged some information with him about a year ago, and found the info. I supplied him, on his site shortly thereafter. When I sent some corrections, I never heard from him. He had been so attentive that it left my imagination...wondering if he had become ill and tried to explain to someone in the family what needed to be done...and they goofed up or something. I'm sorry to hear that he has been discredited, as he seemed to truely want to piece the puzzle together, and obviously had some information I'd never seen on my Beam line in KY (through the Phillips)... It was a great service he provided for me in that way. I think he collected, as so many do, much information from non-proven sources. Sort of like the World Family Tree at Rootsweb did at one time...and much like the LDS stakes have always done. You are not purchasing someone elses work, but looking at the compilation for leads. As long as people see it for what it is,! it does not provide any negative impact. Novices do need to read up on what is safe to share and not safe...as it may be their credit or the credit of their family, or the identification of their family that is at risk. Other than that, anyone who makes an honest attempt at fitting together the facts, supported by documentation or not, is not the enemy. They may at the worse, be ignorant ... I do not believe that was the case with Richard. I believe he was highly motivated, and had resources that we would all be better off to have available. I don't know why he stopped corresponding, but assume it must have been a credible reason. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rosamili/ Light- Christen