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    1. [PRA] Group 10 files update and review
    2. Jim Lantz
    3. I have attempted to combine the all of the Pennington Group 10 data that was available on our PRA site and the data that I personally have. This includes both Penningtons and their allied families. This data is available at http://home.comcast.net/~jimlantz/ As I mentioned in a previous post we have a lot of spouses listed that we don't have a last name for. I have given them an arbitrary last name of ZZZ Mr/Mrs (known spouses last name) i.e. All we know of John Jones' wife, is that her name was Martha. Therefore, she would be listed as ZZZ Mrs John Jones. Lets see if we can't give these people their proper names. Also, there are some individuals that I have given an additional middle name of "SUSPECT". I have serious concerns about these individuals. My reasons for concern are covered in the individual's attached notes. I would sure appreciate your input on them. Please visit the site and look it over. Any errors and omissions that you come across, email be directly at jimlantz@comcast.net and I will make the necessary corrections. When we get the list cleaned up we can see about transferring it to the PRA site. All of us have at one time said, if only I had asked my parents, aunts, uncles, etc. the questions about our family history while they were alive. Lets get our family history down now while we are still alive, maybe someday our children or grandchildren will get bit by the genealogy bug and they will have all of this information available to them. Granted, we will cheat them out of the pleasure and satisfaction of putting the pieces together, but what they will have is accurate data. Then they won't fall into the trap of playing "adopt an ancestor" that so often happens. At least then they will know that we are their true g-g- ancestor and not be claiming someone with the same name, that is not even remotely related. Let's all chip in and try to clean our group up. One other thought, it's never a good idea to place information on the web on living individuals. Identity fraud concerns being what they are. Maybe we could find a way to place this information together and intrust it to the PRA for later dissemination. I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS WOULD WORK, BUT IT MIGHT BE WORTH THINKING ABOUT. Jim Lantz (jimlantz@comcast.net) Group 10

    03/22/2007 05:06:04