In a message dated 5/1/00 10:27:23 PM Central Daylight Time, wwwhit@integrityonline3.com writes: << Also by this time, several are married, bringing their wives and children out "west", following the "main Chance" and putting down lasting roots. Let me know if you can add to the ‘49´ers´ list. I had some footnotes with this but I guess they got stripped when I copied it over to this file. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker >> Hello again, When I was a teenager in Kingman Arizona, we were acquainted with a WOOLSEY family. This is still a prominent Mormon family there, and my dad was a friend of the patriarch of the family, Ardell, who later moved to Utah or Alaska. (my dad is now deceased). Since he is LDS, could this person possibly help us in putting this WOOLSEY line together? Back in 1997, my dad called him and they chatted about this coincindence. But dad didn't have enough about our WOOLSEY ancestry at the time to connect, and this man was away from home on a Mission and didnt have his genealogy handy. When I learned that I was related to the WOOLSEYs, I had one of those "Hunch" feelings that these people were relatives of mine. I do believe Auschuck has found ancestral WOOLSEY's in our line with names similar to "Ardell" or "Ardella". Am I correct, Chuck? I would love to find a connection to these people...but on the other hand, since I dated one of the WOOLSEY boys, I really don't want to learn that I was out with my "cousin"....LOL Val