Hi,
I have not entered any new data just because of a lack of information.
I see that you, my readers, look at the blog about 2 times per week. I have never had anyone tell me why you are interested in the McDowells who lived in Tennessee. Someone in Germany looks at this blog, which interests me. A McD descendant stationed in Germany, perhaps?
Some readers use a query about George Hamaker and Nancy Ann McDowell to find this blog, but no one has ever left me a comment telling me how you connect to them.
Possibly someone could suggest a new area that I could research. You may have a great idea that never crossed my mind. What I have left to do now is locate the place John McDowell came from when he arrived in White County, Tennessee by October 1810. His daughter, Elizabeth, was born in South Carolina in 1795 or 1796. I am not sure her father was born there.
I have gone as far as I can figure out what to do with the information I have, so I have not written anything. I have the feeling that I could go county-by-county through North and South Carolina and still not find which family John McDowell came from when he left the Carolinas about 1810. I might have a better idea, though, where he came from.
A Love family researcher did that in Pennsylvania and found the county his ancestor was from. Then he generously gave me the files he had accumulated on his tour of Pa. It helped me with my Robert Love of Bedford County. Then I was able to share the files with others at a Love research conference.
I will leave this blog on blogspot so others can find the information, and possibly contribute. I have had carcinoid cancer since 2007. I should still be around for 5 to 10 more years. It would be wonderful if I can figure out how to pay for touring the Carolinas in the future, and I will let you know if I do that. Maybe someone can tell me which counties would be the best to search.
Thanks,
Sharon
