I know what you mean by interesting characters in ones tree. Take my Huffstutler family. My grandfather was married 3 time, the first to a woman who later married in 1946 to a Robert Lee Perrin. The same person that Jim Garrison of the Warren Commission hearing concerning the President J.F.K. assassinations suspected as being the person in the grassy knoll who fired the fatal shot. He believed that Perrin's suicide death in 1962 was faked (that one is still out as there are physical discrepancies on autopsy report and lived to fire that shot as he was mixed up with Jack Ruby and ran guns to Cuba. Another colorful character is a Huffstutler great.... grandmother Elizabeth Roberts married one of the notorious Harp Brothers - America's first and most brutal serial killers. After he was caught and hung and the women escaped jail time, she remarried to John Huffstutler. Eric S. Huffstutler Richmond, VA Original Message: ----------------- From: Fern [log in to unmask] Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:58:03 -0600 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Fading interest in Genealogy Mickey, I think we all have the various Rogues and a few mis-fits dangling from our family trees. It takes a good mix to make a strong family tree... One of my cousins killed an appeals court Judge on the "Ladies" entrance steps to a Frankfort, KY. hotel. One of his brothers killed a sheriff who managed to kill him before he died. Maybe I should have left out the gory details when I wrote my book but I wrote it all down and it is there for generations upon generations to read about. I got a kick out of reading the newspaper articles about it and figured others would too. On the brighter side I have a cousin who fired the first shot at Gettysburg. The Gettysburg story is here: http://www.bufordfamilies.com/Gettysburg.htm The rest is in my book.. Take care everyone and stay cool. Our summer here in Colorado has been VERY pleasant without one single 100 degrees day. YEH!!!! fern www.bufordfamilies.com To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html