>message to. I do not know of any other members of the above mention >organizations that have e-mail addresses here in Franklin,Pendleton >County, WV. Koren's note reminds us all of an important perspective to remember. Not everyone who might help you has a computer, much less Internet access. Sometimes we still need to use paper and word processor and write a real letter, remembering to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope for their reply. The cousin who might have known your grandmother or attended church with Great Aunt Bessie will probably not be available via Internet chat rooms. My last visit to Pendleton County was two years ago and I was in many homes. Not one had a computer, but we forded North Fork to view a tombstone from the 1820's, had a guided tour to a Civil War-era cemetery (a chapter in "'Twixt North and South" is devoted to the skirmish were they died and the bodies laid over the rail fence), a carved peg leg from a Civil War veteran! and the largest tree in Pendleton County (a site of wonder to the locals). We saw the house where the soldiers died which still does not have plumbing but our guide lived there as a child and related that the blood stains are still in the wood floors "because you can never wash blood stains out of the wood." If it was not up a 4-wheel drive road and through locked gates ("to keep out the hippies") the entire upper meadow and farm site would make a beautiful historic site and far exceeded those tourist areas of the flat lands. An item of perspective if you should visit North Fork, the river has shifted its course. The road originally ran on the east side of the river (it is now on the west) which explains why all of the old farm houses are on the east side and need a means of crossing the river to get out. A branch of the Hinkle Family moved from Pendleton County, stopped briefly in Iowa and in 1853 led a wagon train to Oregon. The valley of their farms near Philomath looks exactly like Germany Valley. BTW, I live in Oregon, although my family came to this state in the 1930's. Nedra Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board.