Well, Barry, I'll take a whack at it since no one else has stepped up. With the explicit caveat that I'm certainly not the last word, I will say that I have seen that Abigail Thren name numerous times and have never been able to make it fit....or at least not fit into the line of Peter Poythress (m. Anne Baker) whose own daughter Anne (1721-1758) m. Richard Bland. Complicating this string more is that daughter Anne had a cousin Peter Poythress (son of Robert Poythress, brother of the first Peter)who married her (Anne's) daughter Elizabeth Bland; Peter and Elizabeth Bland Poythress then becoming the parents of "the nine Misses Poythress" of some Prince George fame (notoriety?). As for a gedcom of the Poythress family I have seen the family included in other strings but have not seen a Poythress gedcom per se.....maybe others on the board have and will share it. That is not to say there are not a considerable number of trial charts, etc. - they just never got to gedcom format that I have seen. (more below) Various members of our listserver have done considerable work on the several lines over the past decade when we started with 4 members working via snailmail mailing around reams of photocopies. Our webpage (poythress.net) itself is now "static" with no postings occurring....however there is lively activity offline plus among the members of the listserver (poythress-l@rootsweb.com) and you will be most welcomed to post here or elsewhere. (The downside of the Rootsweb listserver system being that it will not accept attachments). A month or so ago I tried to compile all of the information off of our webpage along with considerable offline research done over the years by various members of the group into one single CD-ROM. It has 699 files and is 219MB and I am happy to make it available at no charge to anyone simply furnishing me with a snail mail address to send it to. With a total lack of modesty, I'll suggest that it is a tad overwhelming albeit reasonably well organized. Other than scholarship done by various researchers over many, many decades (Batte, Boddie, Hall) this material is largely factual transcripts of legal and other actual records in the half dozen or so Southside counties in which the family lived. So, if reviewing the CD seems to you to be the next appropriate tack, just send me your snailmail and it will be off to you same day. I hope you will become an active participant in our work. Warmest regards, Maynard (John M. Poythress) (brerfox@bellsouth.net) -----Original Message----- From: Albert Tims [mailto:atims@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:34 PM To: POYTHRESS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Fwd: Poythress in Virginia] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Poythress in Virginia Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:59:48 -0600 From: BARRY EWELL <bj57barry@msn.com> To: <POYTHRESS-admin@rootsweb.com> Poythress in Virginia My name is Barry Ewell. I have been doing quite a bit of research on the poythress family during the last year and have tracked my family into Prince George county, Virginia. I am trying to connect a confirm the marriage of a Abigal Pyothress Thren b. 1712 (parents Peter Poythress b 1686and Miss Jones) and Richard Bland b. 1712 (parents Richard Bland b 1665. Abigal and Richard had a son name John Bland b. 1739.and Elizabeth Randolph) to a Anne/Barbara Ann Rennick who was the daughter of Thomas Rennick. I am also looking for a more complete history and family tree of the Poythress. I have spent time in the Salt Lake City Family History Library and for the Poythress family in Prince George family. The following are some of the Poythress names I found in Prince George but not sure how they all fit together. Any thoughts? Or do you have recommendations of who might be able to help. Thanks for your help in advance: Here are the names by County: *Prince George County**, **VA** Early 1700's* *Edmund Poythress* *Capt Fancis Poythriss* *John Poythress and Family* *Joshua & Jane Poythress* * * Poythress Gedcom I am looking for a Gedcom of the research that has been done for Poythress. I want to make sure I am not crossing research that has already been done. Where would you suggest I go for such a file? Thank you for your help. Barry Ewell ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Visit www.poythress.net o learn more about Rootsweb please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/