First Post!!!

O.K. I am new to this but I figured this would be a great way to keep track of all of my research that I do on our family lines. I am constantly finding new cousins and new information so this way anyone who is interested will be able to keep up with the new finds!! I guess I will start with my most recent find.
The STRIPLIN line has been one of my most challenging lines. I started researching in October of 2006 and I had very limited information on my G,G,G Grandmother. I knew of course that she had married into the Neal line but that was it. Mary Ann Striplin married Joseph Devers Neal December 4th, 1845. They are both buried in Jerusalem, Georgia.
Then I came in contact with our cousin from Michigan, Darin. He is Mable Neal Pettit's great-grandson. He emailed a handwritten document where someone had written down Mary Ann Striplin Neal's brothers and sisters. I thought that would crack the Striplin line wide open, but it did not. You see, there was a lot of confusion because Mary Ann had half siblings too. Then there was the duplication of names and that's always hard to sort out. I took a break on this line and settled back in with the "familiar" lines once again. Until.........I got in contact with another Striplin researcher, her name is Debbie King. She did not have any info on my Mary Ann Striplin but she provided me with info on Mary Ann Striplin's brothers and sisters. Debbie is from the Rial B. Striplin line. That is Mary Ann's brother. Debbie tried to put me in contact with Ann Davis, who knows a lot about the Striplin line, but the email came back to me. So I waited some more. One day while I was searching on-line I came across Ann's new email address and contacted her. By this time I knew Mary Ann Striplin was connected to this particular Striplin line because of the document I came across on-line. Chad Williams had posted it. (We will talk about him in a second.) It was the pension packet of William Stripling (Mary Ann Striplin's father) War of 1812!!! Wow! What a wealth of information. I will post a link to it soon, once I figure out how. William Stripling married Mary Taylor first. That is where the half siblings come in. She passed away and William married Sarah Findley. This opens up a whole new line! Sherry Osburn has done a lot of research on the Findley line.
When I finally contacted our cousin, Chad Williams, I found out for sure that this was Mary Ann's correct line. She was in the Striplin/Stripling/Striblin family bible. Chad has done a ton of research on this line, he emailed me his report and it is 189 pages!! I am still reading through it. He has some interesting Neal info also.
Well, now that this is started, I will try and keep up with my new findings and post them!
Happy Searching!!!!