Hello cousins, Well today was a very beautiful day here in Stevenson, Alabama. I had a doctors appointment in Chattanooga early this morning. Got a good report on my eyes (always good to hear for a photographer). And some more good news: I'm very pleased to announce that we now have a new RAGAN-ROOTS GedCom available for your inspection. You'll find it at two different locations (so far). One is in the Genealogy Forum on AOL (Keyword - Roots). At least it should be available by now since I uploaded it last night The other place is at our cousin Bill REAGAN's site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/billreagan/index.htm Our GedCom now contains 34,017 people! Of course not all are RAGAN/RAGIN/RAGON/REGAN/REAGAN (...etc.). And I know that we have some duplicates in the file. That's just part of the game friends... For our new members: This is a GedCom that has been compressed using the Zip format. If you have a PC you'll need the PK-Zip/UnZip (or similar) software. Our Mac friends will need ZipIt (or similar) software to decompress the file. The file is about 1.6 MB in size. After downloading and decompressing the file you'll need a genealogy software to import and use the GedCom. I don't know why I'm typing all this info.... Tell you what, I'll just paste the disclaimer file I've posted with the GedCom. It has all this info. ;-) Please read the following before downloading the file: Dear Cousin, I make this file available to you for your research and personal use only. Permission is not granted for you to publish this file in any way shape or form, either hard copy, electronically or by any other means. This file was exported from our RAGAN-ROOTS family database and contains everyone in it with the name RAGAN (and all variations) that I had through 31 Dec 1999. It also has as many RAGAN descendants as I was able to come up with at this time. The file now contains 34,017 people. It was exported as GEDCOM v.4.0 in the MS-DOS character format It was compressed using ZipIt (v1.4) for Macintosh. If you use a PC you'll need to use PK-Zip/UnZip to decompress it. Once it's unzipped you'll have the GEDCOM. Then you'll need to import it into your genealogy software. Please don't ask me how to do this since all software is different. I use Reunion 6.0 on the Macintosh platform. The file is a little over 1.6 MB in size. Once it's unzipped it should be about 7.5-8 MB. After being imported into your genealogy software it will probably be much larger, perhaps 14 or 15 MB. This file may contain some errors so please understand that I did not do all the research here. Some of it I did research, but most of these lineages were submitted to me by members of our RAGAN-ROOTS discussion group. I need to depend on them to do the research. I can't do it all. My software was supposed to export all my notes in the file. If any notes, references or sources are missing contact me via private email and I'll attempt to get them for you. One of the branches of Timothy RAGAN & Mary LARY has been contested by some other RAGAN/REAGAN researchers. That branch is their son, John who m. Mary MORRICE. Their children are not proven. And one son, Charles is strongly suspected to belong to another couple. I'm starting to strongly suspect that Ira and either Timothy (or Timothy's father) were the two original RAGAN/REGAN Immigrant brothers we've discussed in the past. I'm also of the opinion that Timothy's father was probably named Cornelius. There is some sparse evidence of a Cornelius RAGAN/RIGGAN living in MD in the mid to late 1600's. He witnessed a couple wills back then. And Timothy named one of his sons Cornelius. There's no proof of this yet, but if you can show any proof please contact me right away. If you submitted your lineage and it's not in this file please accept my apology. Some submissions were a little difficult for me to understand so they're not included here. If I'm not clear on how the different lineages fit together I won't put them into the database. I think from now on I'll ask that people submit their lineages in GEDCOM format. That will save me a lot of time, plus eliminate any typos on my part. Also if you see any people (spouses, siblings, children) missing please let me know. Tell me exactly where they belong-ie-The wife of Isaiah RAGAN (1842-1877) was Susan Mariah MARTIN (1838-1906). She was b. in Hardin Co., IL and d. in Pope Co., IL. and her parents were ... etc. That's it fans! Go ahead and start your download. And enjoy. Thanks for all your help with RAGAN-ROOTS. Sincerely yours, Michael W. RAGAN ============== RAGAN-ROOTS List Moderator ============== NOTE: The file Ragan.ZIP is copyright � 1999/2000 by: Michael William Ragan -> ALL RIGHTS RESERVED <- If you have any questions about this file you can contact me at: Michael William Ragan [email protected] 118 Main St. Stevenson, AL 35772 (256) 437-8651 <-home (256) 437-8282 <-work