Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Aaaargh! Frustration! How does one find the missing link?
  Just when I thought that I had found our missing great-grandfather Sherman, I realized from the dates that he would have had to be 80 years old when my grandfather, Samuel William Sherman (1861-1937), was born.  Not impossible, I guess, but surely not likely.  So it looks as if the Adam Sherman (1789-1868) I found could have been a gg-grandfather, but I am back in the databases available online, looking for someone with reasonable dates, probably named Samuel or Adam or William, and born somewhere on a continuum from Tennessee/Mississippi back to Rhode Island.
I  only wish that I could nail down this Sherman line, so that I can begin hunting for more of the fun stuff like tall tales and legends and homesteads and occupations. 

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