Larry One thing you can do is take Mary "Polly" Nall out of the mix. She wasn't born until 1768 and was married to an entirely different Thomas Younger. The Thomas you are referencing seemed to have at least two unknown wives. Possibly Sarah Ferguson and possibly Mary Northern. As far as I know, none have been proven as yet. If we could only find a marriage record, it would greatly help. I'd love to see the mess cleared up and wish I had some concrete proof to offer, one way or the other. One of our big problems is that there are so many Thomas Younger's. Wilma ----- Original Message ----- From: "L S Y" <lsy.genealogy@gmail.com> To: <YOUNGER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [YOUNGER] Thomas Younger ... > All - > > I'm trying to sort out a pretty nasty mess in some files for Thomas > Younger > (son of Alexander and/or father of William) of Essex/Halifax. > > We've gone around on this once or twice, so I'm going to try and phrase > this > correctly. > > What do we KNOW about Thomas? The stuff that can be reasonably proved > (there's alway a little bit of "educated guesswork" involved). > > Here's some of the clutter that's been created in this file (much of which > I KNOW is incorrect): > > Birth Date: 1700, abt 1700, abt 1706, 1710 > Birth Place: Halifax, Virginia; Essex, Virginia > Marriage Date: 1725, 1730, 1735, 1745, 1750 > Spouses: Mary Northern, Mary (Polly) Nall, Sara/Sarah Ferguson > Death Date: aft 11 Aug 1725, frm 1753-1792, 1759, 11 Aug 1791, 24 Oct 1791 > Death Place: Halifax, Virginia; Essex, Virginia > > In the interest of full disclosure, I'll tell you that I'm trying to clean > up the records in the newFamilySearch interface that the LDS church is > working on. If that means you don't want to help me, I'm used to that - > but > please understand that I'm trying to clean up this mess, complaining about > it hasn't made it any better yet for anybody, and now I have an > opportunity > to really clarify things for the next generation of researchers to look at > this database. > > If you are willing to help, I truly appreciate it. > > - Stephen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YOUNGER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message