I am not sure what the FHC is.  Maybe I have not encountered them yet --
which may be just as well.  I have not found much about my family except
from "primary sources"  like courthouse documents and newspaper records.  I
suppose it would be easier to take someone else's work and use it but I have
so many tangles in my tree that I have to see it in the original form and
find all the related forms to understand where any of it fits.
After hearing it all my life and actually getting it on paper for the last
4-5 years, I am sure I am not my own grandma but am pretty sure I am my own
cousin.
I love the research because of the stories that come with it and flesh out
these long gone relatives.  Unlike some people I know, I claim them anyway
whether they are in-laws or outlaws -- what they were shaped the people who
eventually made me what I am.
The point is, what good is a list of names and dates if you know nothing of
the people they represent.  Research is not just about who is whose son but
how they came to be where and who they were at that time.  I don't know
about the rest of the world but VA was (and is) full of interesting and
'colorful' characters.
Brenda Overstreet
(Overstreet, Heck, Ruff, Carter, Jeter, Crawford, etc.)

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