Board: Message Boards > Topics > Religions and Religious > Huguenots > Huguenots-Walloons-Europe URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.religious.huguenots.huguenots-walloons-eur/1520.1.2.1.1. 2.1.1/mb.ashx Subject: Re: Beauchamp - possible Quaker connections? Author: Korvis_Albion Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Classification: Query Surnames:
No one is upset about anything, but it is unfortunate that your library doesn’t subscribe to either of the internet data services - Ancestry or HQ. You might be able to access them elsewhere at some later time. But there is no question of the BEAUCHAMP presence in Indiana. Wayne Co. marriages show four listings in the early 1800s. [Do you have them already?] There’s surely no need to go visit the LDS, unless you had something specific in mind. With contributed listings there is basically no depth. Pretty much everything relevant they have to say is right there on the net. You would mainly go there if you wanted to view their microfilms of various documentary sources. They do have an extensive library and some information has been scanned. http://www.lib.byu.edu The problem here with LDS online is what the search interface will and WON’T do. That’s just how it works. You can use parents’ names to search for children [Mother needs at least a first name.] and find some data from other researchers that is apparently relevant to this family, but I didn’t see any documentary references to follow up on. The same general rule applies, specifically in regards to the ONLINE transcriptions in the LDS database and to the availability of Huguenot and other genealogical data online. That is that information is still quite spotty with many sources not currently available. LDS has closed its IGI contributions and does not add to its extracted listings. The flowering of internet genealogy that occurred a few years ago has generally dried up a bit since then as far as the introduction of new data sources and service providers. While general researchers, such as Google Books, occasionally do bring good things to light, much archival information (parish registers etc.) that was difficult to access previously remains just as difficult to access now. Specifically in the case of English Huguenot research there is much information that is not available online and no changes are expected. So while the surname BEAUCHAMP does exist in the London aid lists, http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~frpayments/Index.htm it is simply not possible that a few Huguenot immigrants were the surname source for all the Beauchamps in England. Just look at the number of extracted listings (LDS) for William Beauchamp in England 1740 ± 20. Beyond that, all I can say is that there is no mention of the persons you are researching in the limited references for English Huguenots that I have been able to find. http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/history.html Alternatively, the book by Hepen on patriots of the American revolution from Maryland has a good number of BEAUCHAMP references. It's available to read through Google Books. Sometimes one needs to check on the validity of current information by locating its sources and references. Genealogy is a compilation of other people's lives, it has no guarantees. - - That sounds so good, I hate to spoil it, but documentary evidence can be really close. Regards, KA
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