Email From Gary Aden to Gary Aden
Email Dated 8/10/2001

      Insofar as as can be determined from all available data, no
progenitors emigrated from the old world to a destination other than
what was to become the continental United States of America as we know
it today. In addition, we have no data on any other pedigree immigrants
thus far suggesting that they chose a destination other than the
continental United States. I acknowledge that I do not have complete
data on the twigs  and, what's more, do not have a comprehensive list of
all twigs of my pedigree, let alone all the immigrants involved. 

      Twigs whose old world roots could not be identified and heretofore
discussed in the Section on OLD WORLD SITES will emerge in this section
with names, identities and sites associated with their contributions in
addition to the ones previously discussed in the same section. I must
remind myself to systematically review the special sections devoted to
each twig and any associated websites as I travel to the sites of what
really are the new world roots of my ancestors. Thus, I am adopting the
same format I employed in the Old World Section utilizing a planning
diary for an imaginary trip.       My journey will follow the
configuration roughly of a teapot with the handle being a line drawn
between New York City and Benson, Illinois traversing southeastward
through Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, and Georgia across to Texas curving
northwest to a  spout concluding at the Custer Battlefield in Montana.
Only the gravesites of my progenitors will be included as destinations
on the itinerary, but other gravesites of peripheral importance may be
mentioned along with points of interest as I go along in the narrative.
I also intend to include gravesites of ancestors, e.g. Henry W.B.
Mechling, whose contributions made them an object of national
significance, even if the individual is not of my direct pedigree, as a
destination point. I hope to summarize the importance of each site I
visit as I visualize how they finally arrived at their destination and
their subsequent settlement. 

      Let me reiterate my hope from the Old World Section that my
relatives and/or descendants should feel enouraged to take this trip or
a similar one even if I don't find the time or energy to do so, should
they acquire an interest in this subject. If any do, I hope my research
and planning diary are of benefit; and I also hope you will correct
factual inaccuracies in this treatise as well as subject the
shortcomings of my imagination to correction as you follow the paths of
my forefathers and foremothers.  

      Gary Carl Aden, M.D. 8/10/2001