It's been so long since I have been on line, that I thought I would re-introduce myself. My claim to the Taulbee line is through my mother. My mother was Dorothy Brown, the daughter of Doloras Elim ( or Elam, no one is sure which) and William Edward Brown. William was 30 years to my grandmother, born in Cumberland County PA in 1865. My grandmother was born in Lee City, KY in 1895. Haven't been able to find anything else about my grandfather. My aunts say he worked a while in the Argentine for International Harvester so maybe I can find a passport record or IH may have its ancient employment records. I will have to get around to asking some day. Grandma was the daughter of Emily Bailey and John Elim. No one knows if there was a marriage between Emily and John Elim or not. She died before I was born but I remember as a small boy visiting the shack of her husband, John (Jean?) DuChene where the North Fork meets the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in Idaho. Emily was the daughter of Gabriel Bailey and Paulina Taulbee. My aunts remember them, but they were long before my time. Paulina was the daughter of Jefferson Davis Taulbee and Tempy Hill. Tempy was the daughter of Nancy Taulbee and who knows who. Have no idea if there was a marriage here or not. I suspect there was not, and that would have been more of a problem for Nancy and Tempy then than it would be now. Jefferson Davis Taulbee was the son of William Ashford Taulbee and mary Birchfield. The rest is well known to all of us, William Ashford Taulbee < Samuel Taulbee < William Hitchcock Taulbee < Samuel < Edward etc. It is after William Hitchcock that the name more or less standardizes itself. There is certainly no standardization to the way William's name is spelled. This is the only one of my four lines I have been able to get an extensive handle on. My paternal grandfather dropped off the face of the earth about 1944 or so. Maybe space aliens took him or something. I only have a photo of 3 half siblings and a dog taken in the early 1940s with the children's name on it as a clue. I dont know much about my paternal grandmother except she was the daughter of George Cumberland Brady and Emma Lee. I have a picture of Emma about the age of 5 taken in Herfordshire England about 1875. George was the son of George Brady and Mary Dressback, and probably came out of the line of Martin Dreisbach. And that is really all I know about my lines. As for me myself, I was born at Camp Hood, Texas in 1944. I did most of my elementry schooling in Pasco, Washington where my father worked at the Hanford Nuculear Reservation. I attended college about 3 years in Mexico City, got tired of studying and went into the Air Force in December of 1964 and got out in 1973. I was sent right back to college at the Defense Language Institues at Indiana University and later at Monterrey, California where I learned Russian and French. Never did use the Russian much and remember enough to order a beer and get arrested. The French I learned well enough to marry a young French woman. We parted friends about 14 years later and my current wife, Betty, is a RN here in the Phoenix area. When she is at work, I still have a boss at home in the form of Billy, our King Charles Spaniel. I was a teacher in both elementary and secondary for many years then in 2000, I had to give that up altoghether when I developed a tumor on the brain stem. It is not cancer, but its location makes it just as dangerous. I think they finally have it under control and it will leave me alone. Anyway the government now says I am disabled and I am not going to argue with them as it gives me medical goverage through medicare years earlier than I would otherwise be able to get. I don't know if I will ever be able to really go back to work. Unless I can do it in a big way, I am hesitant to risk the loss of Social Security and Medicare. Still almost 5 years before I am 65. A moot point unless I improve a lot more than I have, but things are looking very good for me and I am much better than I was at this time last year. That's enough for now. Someone let me know if this came through the list. My last posting, of yesterday, did not come back to me like it is supposed to. Bob I jsut accidently sent this from another screen name so the list manager will get a bounce probably from that name. Sorry