Hi Guys & Gals, I have only been at this genealogy thing for about seven years, since mom died, so I am still learning how to find family roots. I have noticed that for about the last five years, I have been seeing mostly the same info passed from one to another. There is always new info, recent would probably be a better word, but we seem to hit a wall beyond about 1800. I have been trying to link my oldest Sapp for seven years! Is there no more info that will let us link our families? One of the things that is abundantly clear, genealogist, new are experienced, are a determined lot. There is no limit to the resourcefulness used in finding family links to our past. My biggest problem, without exception, is that all my ancestors come from a 4-5 county area in GA. They never moved to other states, some even today reside within a few miles of the original settlers in GA. Some would say that 'Hey, that is great, find one, find them all!', but find none, find none of them. We need to get our collective thinking together and try to find a way to dig out these links. Mitchell, publishes the Sapp Family Association Newsletter, probably has the largest database of us Sapp collectors. He has given freely of his info, but again, at about 1800, we see the same info over and over. I have quite a large database, mostly collected by others and shared with me. The data I have from OH, NC and VA, for some reason, ends about the same 1800 period time. Is the info just not available, and we will wander in the land of missing data forever? I think we are missing the boat, haven't looked at what we have correctly, not looked at the right data or something! I apologize for taking up all your time, but we need to do something different, or at least I do, what I'm doing now just isn't getting the links out. Please feel free to jump in anytime, I'm just the janitor here.-Bill