Subject: RE: Elizabeth Waters Cook(e) - http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00000zh.htm#I16170
From: "ronhaley"
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:25:01 -0800

Hi,
The genealogy I have is one of the real questions/conflicts regarding the Lawrence line.  I don't remember where I determined this particular line.  I have attached a pdf file that throws the 1609 John Lawrence into doubt.  Let me know what you think, because this is the big mystery I would like to solve.
Ron


From: admin@ojibwe.info
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:49 PM
To: ronhaley
Subject: Re: Elizabeth Waters Cook(e)

ronhaley wrote:
Hi,
I am intersted on where you got the genealogy of the above person at http://www.ojibwe.info/Ojibwe/HTML/people/p00000zh.htm#I16170.   Is there any way of verifying this, as it conflicts with other variations of John Lawrence - 1609 - ancestry - Either married to Elizabeth Waters of Elizabeth Cook.  Both my scenarios have different parents for Elizabeth to the ones you show.
Thanks,
Ron Haley

Hello Ron

Sorry not to get back to you earlier.

The information on that particular family came from the LDS Ancestral File database, accessed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  We were compiling a database for Red Lake Indian Reservation - everyone on the 'tribal rolls' - and when I had the opportunity to do some research at the L.D.S. library in San Diego, I spent several days downloading branches of the Ancestral File database that 'tied into' Red Lake.

The focus of our research was Indigenous and Métis people at Red Lake; with limited research time and funds, we never did get around to further researching and documenting the medieval European ancestors.

Because of the limited capacity of the genealogical databases that I was using at that time [DOS versions of Personal Ancestral File], I coded those sources by using the 'Ancestral File' number as the 'record identification number' - and, unfortunately, the RINS did not transfer into the HTML web-pages that are currently online.  If it's important to you, I can retrieve the information from my original databases, or if you have not already reviewed their genealogical compilations, it might be more helpful for you to look at the current version of Ancestral File, accessible online at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp - since I'm sure a lot of additional information has been added in the past twenty years.

I get a fair bit of 'traffic' to the Ojibwe.info website; if you'd like, I can add a 'link' to your genealogy.