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Hi Jennifer:
I've been trying to find ways I might learn more than the initials of those who supplied the depositions/affidavits for Margaret Lindsey's widow pension. Ditto, wanted to pull the notes from John's service records. Sorry if I missed this otherwise, but it you know the full names of the deponents, might you include those in a reply at Most Wanted. Ditto (again, sorry if I missed it), I see that John served in the First Alabama Calvalry ... do you have the company number? --GJ

Yes! Those are the kinds of things that we may find as we search for evidence.
The timetable suggests there are two marriages -- it's our challenge to determine if there were two Ralphs, and in either case, to determine what happended to "Mary."

Ralph did not live long, and his children were all small when he died. Tend to think George knew or came to know he had a nephew, Ralph, but when and how that connection was made we just don't know yet.

From the evidence we can locate, we need to carefully document the Bacon and/or McFarland events appearing in those church records (for births, marriages and deaths)--and from other San Antonio and Kerrville records. (If we can link Ralph back to his parents, it'll be interesting to learn if he was raised a Catholic; McFarland has a Catholic ring to it.)

I know I need learn more at the known records about John. Right now, however, I'm about to turn off my PC and move it to the side ... then start installing software onto the new computer. More later, even if sporatically. --GJ

Hi Jennifer:
Separate from the reply I just left on "... John Bacon," I still hope to follow up on your comment about Ralph Bacon's, "Civil War" records. Did he serve? For which side? If for Union, is it a pension file that you have reviewed?

Hi Jenn: ...thought you might.
Okay if I delete the other, now duplicate discussion. --GJ

Hi Jenn:

You have two options; both involved EDITING one or both of your existing challenges (discussions).

Editing a Discussion
As the author of a discussion, you can EDIT the text of your _original_ posting anytime. Open one of the challenges, and you'll find a series of "Admin Options"--clicking on "Edit Discussion" will open the "Edit Discussion" dialog window. Make the changes you want to that disucssion then click on the green SAVE button at the bottom.

Your two options:
(1) You can EDIT your original challenge, "John Lindsey, who's your daddy?" (just love that title) to ADD the information from your second challenge .... [your comments about his children could be easily added at the very end of your existing comments, just start a new paragraph, "Hoping perhaps sharing ...." and continue with the information for each child] (If you go this route, then we'll just delete the second, more recent, challenge.)

(2) Edit both challenges to include a cross link; you'll probably want to have two windows open to do this:
Probably at the _start_ of each discussion, add a paragraph, "See related discussion, "[title of other discussion]." With your mouse, select the words in the title, then click on the "links" icon in the bar (looks like two pcs of a chain link, fifth icon from the left [follows strike though.) When you click on the chain link, a dialog box, "Please enter a website address" will open. Let it sit open while you open your second browser window to the your "other" discussion. Copy the URL of that second discussion to the open dialog box on your other window. Then click OK on the dialog box and SAVE the edited discussion.
Once you've got the first cross link posted, make the same addition to the other disucssion.

Have I made that as clear as mud! --GJ

Hi Jenn...
Saw your new discussion -- great. You might consider EDITING the two related discussions to include the link in each to the other (cross link). --What do you think? --GJ