Hi Tracey,
The last few days I thought I would check to see if there was any new Alsman information, and just kind of poked around the Jessamine and Sullivan County boards which from what I can remember were the biggest sources of info. For some reason I didn't remember about the Alsman board, which I should have, because you and I had an interesting "discussion" on it several months ago.
Anyway as I now look at the Alsman board, nothing new is on it, and that may be due to what you say is a lack of any new information.
A couple of things have happened to some of my other family lines that I just want to share with my Alsman kin. It has nothing to do directly withe Allsmans, but should give us something to think about.
I am a Neuhart descendant, and 4 volumes have been written about the Neuharts, with lineage going back over 1000 years. As it turns out, I know the man who wrote these 4 volumes (that is an interesting "its a small world" story in itself). The point is, I could probably get some relevant insight into searching the German origins of Allsman/Saltzmans etc from him. From what I understand, German church birth records are very accurate and we could probably break through some brick walls there.
The other thing is that I am involved in the Clark DNA project. I really think this is the genealogy wave of the future. Although certain specifics will still allude us, DNA surname projects could give us some great clues and help out . Surname projects are limited to only males with the surname in question, ie, we would need males named Allsman(or the variously spelled), to participate and it would check his paternal line, the father of the father of the father, etc.
Anyway, I just wanted to share these thoughts with everybody and thoughtt he best way would be through the Alsman board as opposed to all the different County or state boards. I will be posting this e-mail to the Alsman board.