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From: Douglas Beahm <>
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Big Combined Family Trees
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:09:21 GMT
References: <12b.1c2b88c6.2b193ca8@aol.com> <3.0.6.32.20021130102421.009079c0@ishipress.com> <3de99ee2.16093560@ca.news.verio.net>


I briefly looked at the database that you cited as your source for the Willis
family (http://www.ericjames.org/html/fam/fam41743.htm). I suggest that you
avoid this database as much of the early Virginia part of this family is
incorrect. For example, Richard Willis is listed with a death date of about
1717 and John Willis is listed with a death date of July 1715. Both of these
men left estate documents and the listed dates of death are not even close. The
will of John Willis was proved in July 1688 in Middlesex Co., VA. The inventory
of Richard Willis was recorded in February 1700 in Middlesex Co., VA.

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