Response to Cousin Geneva.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geneva T. Malenfant" <genevatm@comcast.net> To: <RIWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [RIWASHIN] Re: Dye family of Washington Co., R.I. > How do you know that the Dyers are not a different spelling of Dyer? I am > connected to the Dyers through my ggrandmother, Almy Moore, whose nephew > married a Dyer from Yawgoo, which I believe is where the Dyers have lived > for ages. ...I don't, and...since I'm miles away from primary data....(which as I've said, I wish was on/in an internet database which I'd gladly transcribe for...if it were nonprof....) ...anyway, I've no indication, and certainly no proof to indicate that my or Richmond RI Dye(r)s are NOT Little Compton Dyers....I'm just dealing with a "global" perception based on...that wonderfully vast and comprehensive familysearch.org site, which as we all know is not, (and cannot) be exhaustively primary source corrected at this point, due to the vastness of their files, and due to the phenomenal responsibility/expense of testing each entry for primary source authenticity...(let alone the responsibility of determining WHAT IS primary source authenticity...) (mini-rumination off....) ....You say the Dye(r)s are from Yawgoo....meaning...Yagoo ([Clam]Bakes) in Slocum/North Kingstown? Meaning...Yawgoo Pond by Wincheck Pond in Hopkinton/Westerly? Best regards, Barry Hale Browning