About four years ago, I started some miscellaneous posts about the Lawrence Thompson family, which continued on into 2022. [To access those posts, scroll down the topics on the left side of this blog.]

There was one resource that wasn’t available online, nor locally, but I finally found a copy of the book for sale online for a reasonable price.

Thomas Thompson and Ann Finney of Colonial Pennsylvania and North Carolina: Lawrence, Closs, and John Thompson, Allied Lines of Finney, McAllister, Buchanan, and Hart by Jane Buchanan is an oldie but goodie published way back in 1987.

Before I purchased the book, the closest copy to me was in the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. Comments about the book online indicated it was well-researched and documented and I really really wanted to read it.

The work I did used digital record sets available, mostly on FamilySearch, but at times through state records, especially county tax lists, and I pieced the various families together with the clues I had available.

After some of my posts appeared on this blog, author Jane Buchanan contacted me and said some of the people were in the wrong families. This happened before I had the hot little book in my hands.

It’s been on the shelf now for quite a while as I’ve been busy with many other genealogy projects. Having arrived in the dog days of Tucson’s summer and not wanting to venture outside to my mailbox at the end of the driveway, I decided that a re-examination of the Thompsons would be an excellent choice for August in my 12 for ’25 monthly series.

I’m not one to blindly accept information and I need to review my own findings on the Thompson family, especially since my husband is descended from two Thompson daughters and to re-familiarize myself with the nuances of the five Lawrence Thompsons who all lived into the early 1800s.

This will be an interesting deep dive!