> Hi Chad,
>
> My name is Tom Daly and I live in Oakland, CA. I'm a total novice at
> genealogy, but I do know that I am a descendant of John Putnam. My
mother's
> maiden name is Beverly Putnam. A number of years ago one of her aunts
sent
> her a long scroll of paper tracing the family through John Putnam and back
to
> England. I've only been on the Internet now about a year, but when
the LDS
> Church's Family Search Ancestral File became available online last year I
> went to it and entered my grandfather Arthur Lloyd Putnam's name.
>
> I also subscribed to johnputnam@onelist.com.
I enjoyed your joke about
> Beethoven, by the way.
>
> Looking at your list of John Putnam descendants and the LDS site, my line
is
> John-Nathaniel-Benjamin (same as yours up to this
point)-Cornelius-Cornelius.
> Your page shows Bridget Nevins as the wife of this second Cornelius.
But
> the LDS site has her married to his grandson, also name Cornelius. It
shows
> Aaron Putnam as the son of the second Cornelius and the father of the
third.
> I know I am descended from the last Cornelius' son Orlin. I found the
> obituary for Orlin's wife Caroline Brown through the USGenWeb project site
> for Calhoun County, MI. Their son John was my gggrandfather. My
mother as a
> child knew him, as he died when she was 10 years old. John's son Guy
was my
> ggrandfather whom I remember form my early childhood. He died when I
was 10
> years old.
>
> My mother was born and raised in Calhoun County, MI where my line were
> pioneers. And I have male Putnam cousins who are carrying on the
family
> name. My grandfather (Arthur) Lloyd Putnam and his wife Elsie
Hollabaugh had
> four children and about 25 grandchildren.
>
> I know this is somewhat sketchy, but I had to reply when I saw
ggggrandfather
> Orlin's name on your web page. The spelling "Orlin" is from
both the LDS
> site and his wife's obituary.
>
> Tom