At 11:05 AM 02/21/2004 EST, you wrote: >Is anyone researching either James Watkins or any Cross family who were >residents of Hampshire Co. 1800-1850? > >Linda G > > I have a great-aunt whose maiden name was Cross; I looked into her family until I ran out of informative census, useful newspapers, and was looking at doing (ugh shudder) probate work when I got caught up in another project. All, obviously, post-1850, but I have a nagging suspicion that the other reason I quit on it was that they seemed to have crossed the Potomac. :( Still, contact me off-list if you want to talk about it. Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://bottonycross.purpleflowers.net (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)