Researching family history can give us moments of great satisfaction as we find new sources which break down "brick walls" and take us even farther back in time. But there are times when the new sources take us in reverse; cutting off some of our carefully constructed "roots." Last year my King ancestry which my sisters had extended back to William the Conqueror was cut off when land and court records in Virginia proved that our gggg-grandfather had different parents from what had been believed. Now we have a "brick wall" at out 6th great-grandfather in the late 1600s. Some on the SACKETT-L have experienced the same disconcerting experience in the past few months as questions were raised concerning the family of #75-Richard Sackett and Margery L. Sleade. The primary question was whether or not Richard had a son named "Josiah Crego Sackett." On page 59 of his book Weygant includes what we believed to be a transcription of Richard's will in which he mentions his "son Josiah Crego." We were advised by Roy Crego that Weygant's account of the will is an abstraction and that the text of the complete will leads to an entirely different conclusion. After much discussion on the SACKETT-L, Liesa Robarge obtained a transcription of Richard's will. And, indeed, the complete will, which consistantly lists his sons as Richard Sacket and John Sacket, indicates that "my welbeloved son Josiah Crego" was probably his step-son from a previous marriage of Richard's wife Margery. This discovery destroyed my theory that #714-Aaron Sackett, m. Phebe Hart was #728-the un-named son of #271-Josiah Crego Sackett. But even more seriously, it resulted in removing #271-Josiah Crego Sackett as the father of; 725-Nelly, 726-Prime, 728-Prince, and 729-Skene Douglas Sackett. So then, as is the case in science: when one question is answered ... new questions arise out of the answer. Regards, Thurmon King TSFA Historian