The three main Thomas books are: 1) An old book which has many branches of the Thomas family - including ones that didn't come over by the time of writing. It's called The Thomas Book by Lawrence Buckley Thomas. Ancestry has it online. 2) There's also a Thomas family book by J. Montgomery Seaver. I have this - it's more like a booklet - 3) The Thomas Family of Hilltown Township by Edward Mathews. These are great places to start and get ideas - Lynn ---------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:12:53 EDT > From: Geniekin@cs.com > Subject: [THOMAS] Thomas Family Book > To: ntbrown@houston.rr.com > Cc: thomas@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c9a.f43d80c.335ec1a5@cs.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello ntbrown, it appears that you have hit the nail on the head with > your > answer to all the book questions. > The only Thomas book I've seen was a "History of Charlton County, GA". > (can't remember the author at this writing). It had my maternal > grgrandparents; did > not know her maiden name; had grgrpa's name spelled wrong which sent us > off > in another direction; had their children all mixed up with 2nd generation; > had > birth dates and deaths in error and basically was totally incorrect. I > finally got a listing from another source and they had my grandfather's > children > partially listed and all mixed up between his 3 wives., to say nothing of > not > listing his last 2 wives who gave him no children. > > My point is that there are a lot of "BOOKS" and "TREES" that are not > proven > and are horrendously inaccurate; don't trust these books, but dig thru > your > own family records, personal knowledge and take what you can from > rootsweb; > remember also that even census reports taken in the late 1800 - early > 1900's were > gathered by and given by persons with little or no education, names were > spelled in many variables and having worked in court records for 30 some > years, I > found many spelling variables even as recently as 1970's. I handled > documents > that were still signed with an X mark in the 1970's. My greatest point is > that when "books" are written and published it is for the purpose of > making > money, not necessarily for the purpose of accuracy. > > Happy hunting to all who are searching; thanks to those who have searched > diligently and found proof certain the facts they print and share with all > of us. > > geniekin@cs.com > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the THOMAS list administrator, send an email to > THOMAS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the THOMAS mailing list, send an email to > THOMAS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > THOMAS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of THOMAS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37 > ************************************* >