Mr.&Mrs. Reagan, The book sounds interesting, I would like to take you up on your offer of looking up some infromation. My brick wall is John Walter Bowles. He had two wife and total of 5 children. His first wife name was Georgeanna they had teo children Mary Elizabeth Bowles and John Bowles second wife was Bettie they had 3 children. ??? if you could help break this wall down I would be most grateful. Patti Dana & Barry Reagan wrote: > Recently there was a posting about getting the book, "OUR KIN - Bedford > County Virginia Families" republished. Our computer has been playing > tricks on us and for some reason our e-mail in-box just wiped itself > out, so I can't give you the e-mail address of the man who sent the > posting. I have a borrowed copy of this book and I am encouraging > everyone with ties to Bedford County to buy this book if it is > republished. It is a wealth of information. I found numerous other > family surnames that tie into my family through this book. When I opened > this book, it was like someone just dumped a load of information in my > lap. The names and dates were there and all I had to do was verify > them. I very much enjoy the research process, but when you are "given" > so much great information, it leaves more time to work at breaking down > the brick walls that we, as genealogy hobbyists, run into. Hopefully the > gentleman who did the posting about republishing the book will post it > again and give EVERYONE with ties to Bedford County the opportunity to > get a copy of this valuable resource. In the meantime, if anyone would > like for me to look up anything in the copy that I have, please let me > know. I have been so fortunate in what has been shared with me by other > researchers on the 30 family lines that I am doing, that I am most > willing to help others in their efforts. > > Dana E. Reagan > reagan79@roanoke.infi.net > > ==== VABEDFOR Mailing List ==== > To signoff this list, send a message with ONLY the word unsubscribe > to: VABEDFOR-L-request@rootsweb.com OR > to: VABEDFOR-D-request@rootsweb.com IF in digest mode.