I meant to write this yesterday but I've had a couple of hectic days and have been away from the computer. My next lesson for you all! If something doesn't seem right, dig it to death until you figure it out! I told you about the site I found on the web called Find A Grave with the transcription of a Bowers-Templeman Cemetery in Logan Co IL - where was supposedly buried my ggg grandfather, David Laughery; a Thomas David Laughery with almost identical dates and "our" David's wife with a middle name of Birks on the stone. Well ... it wasn't so. I wrote to a lady who tied in with this line and the next morning she emailed me 69 pages of family data - and it was all on our family - down to almost the present generation. It was in depth and accurate, more than I'd had time to check. She told me that she was not at all sure that her Elizabeth Birks's marriage was to our Thomas LOWRY/LAUGHERY, but was going to leave it until disproved. I looked at her documentation on this first part and there was no way. Wrong kids, wrong dates, wrong everything - except when she traced from our David on down. I wrote to the gal who posted the cemetery records and she was thrilled - she had transcribed the data in the cemetery herself I thought. But something was sticking in my craw as they used to say back in IL. Too much of a supposition. I KNEW the David was ours and Elizabeth was his wife. But the Birks part didn't jive - and I wasn't totally ready to get rid of her as Elizabeth Williams. And - who was Thomas David??? So - I called my guru aunt in Lincoln; she had a complete and very accurate transcription of the cemetery and had been there (and was back there today for me). Guess what? There is NO Thomas David Laughery stone, only our David. And, Elizabeth's stone said "wife of D L Laughery" - it did not say Birks anywhere. Other family members of ours were there that were not shown on the webpage. One of our listers wrote me too; he had a transcription of the cemetery - no Thomas, no Birks. (Thank you again!) I contacted the list owner of the Logan Co IL website; a native of the same area of my family - and a distant cousin; she knew everyone in that cemetery it seemed and she told me the same thing - no Thomas, no Birks. So I wrote to the lady who sent me all the information on my family and she was sweet about it; she had this knawing feeling too that her family had just copped on to ours to solve a puzzle for them. The Birks family was in the area, but are buried in other cemeteries. I wrote back to the lady who transcribed the information - asking her if she had physically copied the cemetery or had gotten the information from someplace else. I explained that the transcription was in error - and she was related to the Birks also. She did not write me back. Today my aunt and uncle shot pictures of the cemetery and everyone of our kin there and I'll have the pictures by Monday or Tuesday. I've placed post-it notes on the websites that hook these families together but I don't know if it'll do any good. What I learned? (1) where my ggg grandfather and wife were buried. (2) where my gg grandfather's first wife is buried and her maiden name (she was from Canada). (3) where several other of my missing ancestors are buried, (4) not to believe everything and to question everything. When names and dates don't match and you know the children's names - when it's too good to be true - it might not be. I've enjoyed all the success stories that were posted. It takes guts sometimes to keep pushing, asking, tossing out, accepting, deleting, and adding but it feels good when a mystery is pretty well solved! Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/