Hi Jean,   I did post a source. It was Gary Boyd Roberts who has written books on the English settling America incuding Virginia and the immigrants who settled them. He is very well known for his research and connecting the immigrants who settled places like Virginia and the Northeast states..   I have been doing genealogy since 1982 on both my Mother and Father's lines the hard way. That means starting at cemetaries, courthouses, making out of state trips to state archives and state libraries, plus regular genealogy libraries. I have many books and I don't post my lineages to Rootsweb where there are so many errors and they only know how to do genealogy by internet.   I am not kin to the Truman's but  I sent Craig Kilby the website so he can check it out for you. I hope he finds something to prove your line. :)   Marianne Dillow --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Jean Suddarth <jsuddarth@earthlink.net> wrote: From: Jean Suddarth <jsuddarth@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line To: vaculpep@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 4:19 PM I don't care if you or I descend from Obama or Joe Blow. What offends me is the fact that things are posted without sources or documentation and presented and accepted as fact. If someone is going to copy and paste and use other's work as their own or as fact, they shouldn't be doing genealogy. I have been doing genealogy for 30 years, and I can't tell you the amount of erroneous information that people swear is fact. PS-I have been searching someone going back to President Truman. They barely touch on it in his genealogy on the Truman Library site. I asked a question of them: Whether the date used was the date of a will or recording of the will. They couldn't answer. You would think they the reference person could check the documents presented to them by the genealogist who did the research. But I guess that brings up another question---did this person present them with the documentation? All I'm saying is BEWARE what you accept as fact. -----Original Message----- >From: "Haynes, Patricia A." <phaynes@fulbright.com> >Sent: Dec 23, 2008 5:01 PM >To: mdillow31@verizon.net, VACULPEP@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line > >You have not offended me and you were not the one posting politics. Please look at the first e-mail I sent. It was not directed towards you. It was directed at Fern's e-mail which was responding to your first e-mail. I found all the info from your post and that of others quite interesting even if it isn't my line. Keep up the good work. > >________________________________ > >From: marianne dillow [mailto:mdillow31@verizon.net] >Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 3:58 PM >To: VACULPEP@rootsweb.com >Cc: Haynes, Patricia A. >Subject: RE: [VACULPEP] Barack Obama Descends From Eltonhead Line > > >I'm sorry if you are offended but I have received many emails that descend from these lineages that do appreciate the information. I am not talking about politics only genealogy. There are sources on this as William Addams Reitwiesner and Gary Boyd Roberts does genealogy on all of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents. They are people too with family and lineages just as well as everyone else does. That is because we all are human beings and genealogy belongs to all of us. . I posted this as genealogy not politics. I repeat, this has nothing to do with politics but genealogy only. And there are many desecendants throughout Virginia and Maryland that descends from the Eltonhead, Sutton, Thacker lines that I mentioned including myself. If we share a grandparent with someone in politics it is called genealogy not politics. > >I talk about genealogy period as I have been involved since 1982 on both my Mother and Father's lines and this one is my Mother''s in VA. I also have other lines in Culpeper of Graves, Parks, Pulliam and before that these lines were is Orange and Spotsylvania of Pulliam and Holladay, etc. > >Marianne Dillow > >