Dear Linda, In no way was I faulting you for the information. You made it very clear what the source was and that's why I tried to validate the information against what I had in Ms Hutchin's research. Please don't stop offering things you find to share with us. It's the only way we can separate the wheat from the chaff and I think we are doing a really great job of that on this List. In checking back I have found instances where I have made double entries and other errors. This is helping me get my data base better and better and I appreciate everyone's input. If you notice, I am always about two days behind everybody else and I never have time left over to do research on the Internet so I am very grateful that the rest of you share your finds with me. JYG wrote: > Wilma, > > I agree fully. That's why I sent in the information and cited "ancestry.com" > as the source (which is not a true source in the sense of the word, perhaps > a different word is needed here?) Anyway, I hope I made myself clear that I > post what I find and it always needs further proving by all of us > individually and colectively. It is doubtful that a person was married to > someone at the same time (but I have found a few scoundrels-ha! oh, they > weren't Youngers btw.) > > Using sources such as World Family Trees and Gedcom files found in various > places do not always give us the person who sent it in, and many times the > email address is no longer valid. In cases of this kind we are unable to > find why the person cited names and dates. Unfortunately most often than > not, these files do not have fields using sources. So, there we wrw at > square-one, with a name and date to look for. In posting these finds, it is > my hope that someone will either recognize a name and place or have > resources to look them up for further documentation. Didn't mean to be so > long in this reply, but sometimes it is hard to state your purposes on paper > rather than in a face-to-face converstaion. -Linda in KCMO > > Wilma Hillman wrote: > > Just because I have it doesn't make it right, but these differences > > should be checked out before someone goes off on the wrong line. > > > > > > ==== YOUNGER Mailing List ==== > > As we get older, we find out we are YOUNGER (Submitted by Karen Yerby) > > > > ============================== > > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > > ==== YOUNGER Mailing List ==== > As we get older, we find out we are YOUNGER (Submitted by Karen Yerby) > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!

Wilma, I did not think you were faulting me, but thanks for the nice note, you made my day. I was hoping I was helping someone, that is my goal. On one of the forums I was somewhat chastised for something I posted on Humphrey Younger. (I think I explained about loosing a lot of my sources in a pc meltdown and in a GEDcom transfer that lost the sources field.) Anyway, to make a long story short I have thought that Humphrey came from Scotland from the records I had. I am having to backtrack to try and find them once again. I also noted many descendants of Humphrey used the name Alexander. Cole Younger is of that line and had red hair and I guess that has stuck in my mind as well, as most of my family were Scot-Irish, hence the red hair. A German connection has never shown itself to me. In my making this statement I realized that there were two groups on the forum: those who connect to the German side, and those to the Scots. I never meant to offend the Scot side with my reference to Humphrey. The Younger research I had done up to this time was purely on my own and this was my first attempt to join in any group discussion. I meant no harm nor to step on any toes. I also am not trying to make Cole Younger a Scotsman, whaever he was I want only his true heritage. Anyway, forgive me if I seem a little thin skinned right now, but that is why. I have a lot of notes that my mother wrote down since 1964 and there are no sources. At that time we did not comprehend anything like the interest in genealogy of today and certainly never dreamed of computerized exchanges! So, she left me in 1995 with boxes of paper and reams of legal pads of jotted notes that some make NO sense at all. I am still going through boxes. Most of her work was done thru the US Post office, hired genealogists and family members. Most of which did not recite their sources either. :( Hopefully this can be put behind us now and we can get on with more research! Thankyou again for the encouragement, I was beginning to feel a little unwelcomed in a new place. Linda in KCMO