Need advice/help; I'm sorely confused...

**Downix** · 11th November 08, 08:51 PM

Hear hear! We are Mutts and Mutts we are all!

**Kilted Surveyor** · 14th November 08, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Downix

Hear hear! We are Mutts and Mutts we are all!

Amen to that, Brother!

**Carolina Kiltman** · 14th November 08, 07:03 PM

Like the Kilt Addiction, Genealogy can be addictive also. If you go in for that, then the only way is start with your parents, and move back.

Also remember that spellings change over time, and if you get far enough back, may be very different from the current! Just remember that the city of Rolla, Mo., was named after Raleigh, NC!

In any case, it can be a lot of fun.

**SteveB** · 14th November 08, 10:30 PM

There is the Noah Downs (age 23 in 1800) family that moved to Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine that continued naming their first son Noah through to the 1940's that I know of. A branch moved to Vassalboro, around 1920 and is keeping up the Noah tradition as well. This same family is doing well in Auburn, Maine today. A part of the family had stayed in New Hampshire, then moved to Arkansas in the 1950's. I have lost touch with that branch after Dr Downs passed away in 2005. I believe that Hist-Gen has a copy of his work and his papers are in the manuscript collection. He also filed some of his work with the genealogy special collection at the University of New Hampshire Durham Dimond Library. Some time ago I transcribed a lot of this into a folder here, but have forgotten which project box it is stored in. I must index these boxes........
I will look for it after church on Sunday.
Slainte

**Downix** · 15th November 08, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by SteveB

There is the Noah Downs (age 23 in 1800) family that moved to Frankfort, Hancock County, Maine that continued naming their first son Noah through to the 1940's that I know of. A branch moved to Vassalboro, around 1920 and is keeping up the Noah tradition as well. This same family is doing well in Auburn, Maine today. A part of the family had stayed in New Hampshire, then moved to Arkansas in the 1950's. I have lost touch with that branch after Dr Downs passed away in 2005. I believe that Hist-Gen has a copy of his work and his papers are in the manuscript collection. He also filed some of his work with the genealogy special collection at the University of New Hampshire Durham Dimond Library. Some time ago I transcribed a lot of this into a folder here, but have forgotten which project box it is stored in. I must index these boxes........
I will look for it after church on Sunday.
Slainte

Oh my goodness. We're decendent from Noah's son Thomas, who named his son Noah who begat James who begat Delmar who begat Lianne, and I am Lianne's son.