http://www.shahall.com/alpha.html

In one hour I filled in the entire background of my paternal grandmother, Myrtle Viola Snyder by perusing this magnificent database. It focuses on Pennsylvania and North and South Carolina. This is an INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, and it is accessible for Free!

It took me about an hour, plus doing a little bit of googling, to pin down two Revolutionary War ancestors, and establish a link to Willam Bryson, who emigrated from County Antrim in around 1740. A family tradition, documented in a family bible says that William Brysons mother was Scottish.

So I now have two validated links to Northern Ireland...

William Bryson, who emigrated in 1740

....and John McKnight, who emigrated in 1733

By starting with that database, I went from knowing my paternal grandmothers name (Myrtle Viola Snyder) and her date of birth and state of birth and my grandfathers name, to a family history going back over 200 years.

WOW....just WOW.