My gedcom files are at three internet sites: rootsweb.com's WorldConnect, geneanet.org, and gencircles.com. All three sites make reasonable efforts to omit information about living people.

• gw.geneanet.org/alicebeard
• worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=alicemariebeard
• www.gencircles.com/users/alicebeard

Each site uses its own format to display information. I update the sites periodically as information is added, evaluated, and corrected. This system will allow my genealogical research to survive my death.

At the gencircles.com site, there are two gedcom files:

• AMB research
• The Alice Lake file

The "AMB research" file has the names of over 10,000 people. Common surnames in the file include Hufford, Cripe, Payne, Hukill, Beard, Brevard, O'Neal, Hooker, Keim, Todd, Griffith, Grannis, Holly, Bull, Doyle. Much of the information from the 1909 "The Hufford Family" can be found in this gedcom file.

"The Alice Lake file" deals with Alice (Mrs. Henry) LAKE. In about 1651, near modern-day Boston, a mother of five lost her baby to death. After her baby died, she imagined she saw the baby. Because of that, she was accused and convicted of being a witch, and she was executed. The claim in the town of Dorchester, MA, was that the devil was coming to her in the form of her deceased, beloved child. The Alice Lake file shows many of her descendants and many families intermarried with her descendants. The common surnames in the file are Lake, Borden, Butts, Earle (Earl, Earll), Corey, Stafford, Brayton, Cornell, Sanford; the file has names of over 900 people. For the Alice Lake story, check my research: Alice (Mrs. Henry) Lake

Previously, my "Carroll County Connections" (CCC) file was at gencircles.com. However, the CCC file has been removed from general access. It was based largely on "The Hufford Family" book and on research shared by many other genealogists. Easy access to census records as found on ancestry.com has revealed too many errors in the CCC file to keep the file posted for general use. The file has been removed from the arena of the casual genealogist so as not to perpetuate errors. As time permits, information from the CCC file will be verified, corrected, and added to the "AMB research" file.

Any genealogist is welcome to the fruits of my research and to the results of my best genealogical guesses, but please remember to verify with primary sources.

Best wishes, good hunting, and remember this:

You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends.
You can even pick your friend's nose.
But you can't pick your ancestors.

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