I've never heard of these people unless maybe Elizabeth born in 1805 was my great-great-great grandmother. Family tree research is a wonderful thing, but I just went through several months of one of my cousins pestering me about what I know about our common ancestors so she can get accepted into the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution).

I couldn't believe all the hoops she had to jump through: not only birth certificates, but marriage certificates and death certificates for people born in the 1700s. You can imagine how difficult it is to track all that down, and she harped on and on about what her grandmother's middle name must have been because all she could find was the middle initial.

It wore me out to read her emails about it, and then she sent this other woman to pester me via email.

This came today:

From: Katie

Hi Laura,

I emailed you a few months back about the H____ family bible. Thanks again for that resource! I am hitting a wall with several of the siblings of the Mark and Barbara H___ family. I am specifically looking for information on James b. 1794, George b. 1798, John b. 1799, Peter b. 1801, Elizabeth b. 1805, Mary b. 1806 and William H. b 1809. I found a record for a William H. H____ enlisting into the Army but I cannot find anything else about him so was wondering if you had any more information on him or any of these children.

Katie

From: Laura

Katie,

I’m copying my cousin Gail in case she might have come across any mention of the people you are asking about.

I spend all my time recovering from devastating floods that happened in my area in 2013, won’t be done until 2017 some time, if we are lucky and don’t have a wildfire on top of it. This doesn’t leave time to think about the H_____ family. All I have is that family bible and what Gail has sent me.

Sorry,

Laura