Hi Barry, I don't feel qualified to rank your listings, but I would add James Arnold's "Narragansett Historical Register" volumes 1 thru 9, published in the 1880's and 90's. Charlie B > If any care to do so, and in the interest of improving all our researches, > could you all rearrange the list of sources of local genealogy below, from > what is in your opinion most accurate/dependable to least accurate, and at > the same time, add any other sources not mentioned in their appropriate > places? Also, if you know the more correct names for the following > sources, in the interest of improving all our research, please correct what > I have written.... > > * Local town hall records in order of their establishment: > (North) Kingstown(e) > Westerly > South Kingstown > Charlestown(e) > Exeter > Richmond > Hopkinton > * Local Land Records > * Local Probate Records/Wills > * Family Bibles > * Published RI Genealogical Periodicals Covering Disputed Records > * Austin's Genealogical Dictionary > * Barbour's > * Savage's > * Local genealogies, for example > Kenyon, Hazard, Browning, Gard(i)ner > (Please expand this list if you know of other > Washington County family genealogies) > * Family Bibles > * Latter Day Saints data online > > Charles I Bearse Morrisville PA To Be Remembered May Be The Secret To Immortality