Posted on: HALIFAX CO, VA QUERY FORUM Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Va/Halifax/12342 Surname: Power ------------------------- I saw responses to my posting on the Halifax County, Virginia webpage. All of my information was compiled by a distant cousin Craig C Emmerson he is a genealogist for the western region of Virginia... My webpage is www.freeyellow.com/members8/powerfamilytree/ it is lengthy some dates, some without dates. Genealogy is very time consuming. I have 2 young daughters (one 4yrs, the other 4 months). I'm an operations engineer for WTVR TV6 and that eats up my time as well... The only time I have is mid-day before I head to work, and overnight. Plus I can not forget my wife...gotta make time for her too!!! So, time is something I have to work around in order to find my roots... I became interested in my POWER family (about 20 years ago) because nobody knew anything about them. It was always the CARR (my Great Grandmother's side) family reunions my father would take the family to, and I would ask about the POWER side...again ________(blank)... It was within the past year that I was given the POWER familytree on paper, via my Great Aunt Pauline Power. She did not know who compiled the tree, just that it was done by a relative. It was throught the internet that I discovered that cousin... Craig C. Emmerson... I responded to a webpage link to a researcher... turned out to be him... That research he did is on my website... I have to keep working and fill in the blanks... 20yrs ago I ran into a brickwall in finding anyone past my 5th Great Grandfather James Power (s)... It turns out that Craig had the same problem... and some members of the POWER family added the S (POWERS)... James may have been one to do so... So I'm stuck, searching for eather with/or/without the S... I hope that my webpage is helpful to you in your quest... =) any response is helpful thank you, sincerely Louis Power