Hi Teresa, Welcome back to the List. As far as I know, yes, Lyn is still on the List though he only catches up reading messages periodically (like every several weeks, it seems). If you'll look on the Poythress website, which is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/ and scroll down the left side to "17th Century Records" and then when the window on the right side of your screen gets to all those 17th Century records, scroll down, and in 1637 and 1639 you'll find mention of Laurence Evans, merchant, there. I think the notation you found in the book should've said "Francis" rather than "Thomas" (Possibly a typo or transcription error). Anyway, you'll find info about it all there. As to whether or not anyone is on the Batte chart, you can now easily check it out yourself, thanks to wonderful work by Diana Diamond. See the below copy of a message from Diana & see the Poythress-List Archives for other recent messages on this subject. I believe the correct site is: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=poythressp1 Welcome Back Teresa, Barbara (BPN) = = = = = From: "Diana Diamond" <[email protected]> Old-To: "Poythress List" <[email protected]> Subject: More on The (P-1) Poythress Family Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:19:21 -0500 To: [email protected] If the email I sent earlier doesn't engender some questions, then I haven't done my job well. But to anticipate some questions, I would like to list some highlights of my database at <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=poythressp1> Features: - Fairly complete picture the Poythress family and descendants--nearly all descendants, including Jane's--from 1609 through 1800, and for many of them, through 1900. - Fairly complete references to the Batte's index cards for each person in the database in the target group. I provided a link to the RBB cards in what is called "My Home Page." I encourage you to check my work. - Fairly complete background of the spouses of the Poythress descendants, for a few generations in many cases. - I converted all the Eppes to Epes to make the alphabetical features of computers work better. I used R. Bolling Batte's cards rather than Mr. Dorman's book, "The Descendants of Francis Epes". I did this to keep the work consistent. In a few cases, I made note of The Dorman book. - Good linkage of families when cousins marry, which they do often. - Less information about the individuals' occupations etc. Something I hope to work on in the future. In my own FTM database, (which the produced the gedcom, that rootsweb uses) I have the card images in my scrapbook to refer to again and again. So if you have specific questions about individuals, I hope to answer them easily. - A serviceable system of identifying where there are problems and questions. - By having each card image handy to check and double check in my personal FTM database, and by using Mr. Batte's own letter-ordering system, I have a high degree of confidence I got the marriages and children entered correctly. I expect some typos in the date sections, by the nature of how they were entered. I am continuing to recheck these. Some of our people have strange given names. - At the moment, a fair amount of redundancy in identifying people, using Mr. Batte's letter system. Perhaps in the future I will reduce this. It was necessary to insure I had the right person when so many people have the same names. A few times R. Bolling Batte had trouble keeping them straight. - Inclusion of information on Mary Poythress's second family with Col. Wynne. - I am happy to add written notes to individuals you have researched and give you credit. Diana