Going to try and address these three posts all at once. Hope I don't confuse anyone! Linda: We do appreciate you and your dedication to making the Marshall Co page the best one on the Genweb!! Christina: It wasn't me on those back roads in Marshall!!! I didn't have time to get down there from Wash. Co while we were on vacation in Pa last month (from TX!). I'm interested in your MEEK line. I'm looking for the parents of a Janetta MEEK b in neighboring Wash. Co PA abt 1830 b 1812 in Moundsville WV mar Rebecca Meek. For years >heard he was raised in York Ridge area but something I read makes me Christina and everyone else: This is just an old company with a new name. Today I also recd a letter from THE NEW WORLD BOOK OF WARTH's . It's a gimmick. Any of us could gather the info ourselves. The env included says "Heirloom Book Offer, c/o Halbert's (REMEMBER THEM?) Bath OH. Judy Warth Round Rock TX >Sorry to bug everyone again, but I know that you might like to hear about >this. My brother just sent away for a genealogy book, _The New World Book >of Burgys_, hoping that it would be informative and lead us to more >information for our gen searches. Well, as promised his name and my >father's name was in it, but the book is clearly a rip off. > >The first three fourths of the book contains information that you could find >in any genealogy or history book, such as chapters on heraldry, history of >migration in America, Ellis Island, etc. The only part of this thin book >that discusses the Burgys is the last 20 or so pages, and it is all >information that a novice researching could find with a little looking. > >So, beware of these new world books. I suspect that they are keeping a >template of the front information, and then adding the back matter to >personlize each book, but at a cost of over $40.