"Shirley T Shiver" <shirleyt@netten.net> Wrote: | Frank: Add "Sloan Ridge" on hwy 50, west of Groveland, Lake County, | Florida -- named for Daniel/Nancy (Lanier) Sloan family -- to your | list. Mrs Vera (Sloan) Boyette lives there in the house her g-father, | Gibson, built. Regards, Shirley Shirley and many others, THANKS!!. I wasn't expecting so many responses, actually filled up my office mail box and several messages got returned. I did not have a plan for what to do with that information. SO, I stole Shirley's term "Sloan Geography" and decided to create another webpage. http://www.panama.phoenix.net/~fmitchel/places.html I'll give it some time to develop and then I'll post another notice on the SLOAN-SLONE LIST. Don't forget everything posted on the list is preserved in the Rootsweb archives. Hopefully, all these SLOAN places are preserved officially on a map someplace. I never new that the creek that I used to play in at my grandmother's was called Sloan Creek until I found it on a map. Some sites may be family tradition. I don't mind documenting both. BTW, I don't mean to be plugging the Street Atlas CD, but it really is a usefull research tool and it's cheap.. There are probably better mapping CDs available, however, I still waiting for the day the Townships appear on a CD. Anyway, I've discovered that if you zoom in to the lowest levels of the map CD, you can frequently find Sloan Creeks and Branches (not found in the search engines) that indicates the general area where the families actually lived. Enough rambling!. Specal Thanks to everyone, I'm really getting flooded with information. Thank goodness I only have 5 Mo. 22 days until retirement. You are not supposed to get "stressed out" over a hobby!! Frank Mitchell,