Jane, Great description of the Arnold and Beaman books. I would like to make a minor correction and a warning with respect to the Beaman books. My copies of the "red" books by Beaman have the title, "Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series." I have not seen the CDs, so they may have been relabeled. The warning is that some of the genealogies and lines of descent published are erroneous or discredited accounts. The one I remember off-hand (I am traveling) is the Gardiner ancestry. When Dr. Beaman published it, I wrote him and asked for the basis of his parentage of George Gardiner, the immigrant. Of course, that was useless because he never responded to correspondence. Dr. Beaman re-published the account of Miller and Stanton that relied on a tradition first published 200 years after the fact. G. Andrews Moriarty published a contrary viewpoint and more believable year of birth for George ca 1615 rather than the 1599 (OS) baptismal record for a George that Miller and Stanton used. George's common-law or Quaker marrage to Herodias (Hick)s Long occurred ca 1643-45. George's children's estimated births occurred 1644-1675. If George was the baby baptized in 1599, then he was 75 when his youngest son was born. The first proven record for George is in 1638 when he was admitted an inhabitant of the island of Aquidneck. Moriarty said there is nothing except the similarity of names to tie George Gardiner in RI with the George Gardiner in England. George's eldest son, Benoni testified in 1727 that he was ninety years or older. This is the basis for Morarty and Stanton estmating Benoni's birth as 1636. If Benoni's statement were correct, then he was probably born in England and George was married prior to his marriage to Herodias. But Benoni's children were born in the 1670s and later. This fits better with a birth later than 1636. Everyone that has compiled a genealogy knows the embarrassment of errors. Even the best of genealogies have errors. We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to both Arnold and Beaman for their work. I refer to their books constantly when doing RI research. Bill Wright