[Clinging Bitterly]

>> ...to the Mormons

Funny, we are discussing connections with early settlers, who ostensibly came here to avoid religious persecution, and I have connections to the Quakers and you seem to have Mormon history (or was that material donated to them just for their interest in geneology?).

In my father's bloodline, he was the last observing Quaker, and his sister became more of a Unitarian. His sister's offspring ignore religion altogether, and I am a believer who does not participate in any religious organization. The last church I went to was a Southern Baptist congregation, and when the pastor said I should continue attending regularly or I would probably go to hell...

[patriciaruth]

No Mormon background. I have a friend who is Mormon who brought a truck and took a lot over to a local Mormon library, and they sorted it and sent a lot to Salt Lake.

At my father's request I tried the San Diego Library genealogy division as he had used their resources quite a bit, but they never returned calls. He had also used Mormon resources, and I felt they would be most respectful of his work and reference books and magazines, so I called them and my friend.

Salt Lake got a copyright release later from my brother to put Dad's research into their computers.

We had a lot of ancestors in Hartford and environs of colonial Connecticut. Probably you and I have a distant cousin relationship. I most remember the sister of an ancestor writing her brother on his settling in colonial Connecticut, that she feared for his life in the Wilderness.