Hello, Regina.

It's been quite a while since I spoke to my cousin Gerry. He's been a lawyer in Washington since the early '80s. My cousin Rita, my uncle Harry's daughter, is the Lynam scholar in Wilmington and is on several Ancestry.com threads concerning family history.

If you can get to Wilmington, the Delaware Historical Society has a thick file, along with a book chapter, on the Lynams. In the book my great-grandmother (the Mangan or Manning) is called a gold-digger. My guess is that my g-grandfather was a charming man despite the 36 year age difference.

I've found items on Lynams in 19th century Delaware and Wilmington histories that a Google search turned up when I looked for an early James Lynam. What intrigued me was discovering that a branch of the family emigrated to Kentucky before the 1750s.

My e-mail is FRPALYNAM@aol.com. Send whatever questions you have to that box. When I figure out how to get Skype- connected I'll send that along. I live in East Lansdowne, PA, just outside Philadelphia.