Hello List Members, As most of you are aware, we have a diligent, "dig to the bone" researcher in our midst. Most of us do genealogy as a hobby, while he also does research as mostly a hobby, he does it full time, at the best research facility in the world. I'm speaking of Wilford W. Whitaker, who spends most of his daytime hours at the LDS library in Salt Lake City, UT. In the past I've seen numerous postings from him, which have helped different list members at different times. Most recently, I've been the lucky recipient who gained from his postings. Richard Daniel WOOLSEY and Ruth C. ROBINS are my great great grandparents. They came from New York to Wisconsin, to Iowa, and went back to Wisconsin and finished their lives there. Their son, George W. WOOLSEY, is my great grandfather, and his daughter Agnes Ida WOOLSEY is my paternal grandmother. In 1992, for a Christmas gift, a cousin sent me a copy of some genealogy work that had been compiled by another mutual cousin. Lois Mildred WOOLSEY ARD died in 1993. Since that time I've found some of the information in the book to be factual, while some of it appears to have been "crystal balled." My WOOLSEY and ROBBINS lines were two of the lines, that definitely were crystal balled by the compiler. Wilford has determined that Richard Daniel WOOLSEY was indeed NOT the son of George and Jane HALL of Kentucky, and most recently also determined that his wife Ruth C. ROBINS (note the difference in spelling) was not the granddaughter of Rev. Chandler ROBBINS, but rather the daughter of William L. C. ROBINS, granddaughter of Aaron ROBINS. This information has allowed me to make the necessary corrections, and I've already made further connections back beyond those names. One of the best parts of all of this is, I've never been able to positively determine who the real parents of some of these folks really were. With Wilford's assistance, I've realigned my lineage, gained several generations, at least two of them with mother's maiden names! And, the information came from a Bible! I've been at this for 10 years already. Moral of the story is never give up. And in the "for what it's worth" department, about two months ago, I finally overcame another brick wall and extended my TAYLOR line back another two generations. So I say again, never give up. There are answers out there somewhere. You simply have to stick with it long enough to find them! I sincerely hope that everyone's research is as successful this year as mine has been so far. Year 2000 has turned out to be simply wonderful! If this small book has bored some of you I apologize, but success stories need to be posted to encourage others to keep going, specially when they're going through one of those "dry" spells. We've all been there to . . . . . .(at one time or another) Happy researching and best wishes to all, Chuck Taylor Austin, TX E-mail: AusChuck@aol.com Rootsweb Supporter/List Manager: WOOLSEY-L@rootsweb.com http://hometown.aol.com/AusChuck/index.html http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5689 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/a/y/Charles--L-Taylor