This genealogy research methodology is interesting reading from the side lines. Now my little story about research in the Lewis county area. My wife and I are traveling back home from walking cemeteries when we make one last stop some where north of Kelso. I spy a tall impressive looking spire with lots of inscriptions so I get out to go read them. the man has survived a ship wreck on the Columbia River bar, gives a date, day, month and year. I copied them down and head for home, Astoria, OR. Our little library doesn't have much but what it does have is lots of info on ship wreck in the Columbia river the Pacific Ocean and up the River to Portland and Washington ports. to shorten this story there were no ship wrecks, boat sinking or any other happenings in or around the date on that tombstone. Now when I couldn't find one on the bar I started checking for ship sinking in the area up river and on the ocean. none, nada. thinking the year may have been wrong I made sure there were none on that date with different years. Any way i did a lot of work looking for a ship wreck that may not of happened for some one I have no idea who they were. So even if it's chiseled in stone don't always believe it. looking for Maley, Schmitt, Cox and Wright all in the Lewis County Washington area Boyd Lopez e-mail lope@pacifier.com web page www.pacifier.com/~lope