For the Learned family, I thank the following contributors: Betty Dunn, Bob Tate, Karla Casper-Jennings, Gerald H Johnston, Chris Knight, Helen Flach,Charity, Earle Peckham, John Sprague, Samuel Coy, Jackie Ginn, The Darrel LaMarWakely Family, Tim Raper and Karen Blagg, Adam Dewing which were downloaded from Ancestry.com   I also thank Michael Holland and Richard Wise whose data was downloaded from World Connect, and the Genealogy of US Presidents.

For the Smithers family, the vast majority of the data came from the website of Glen S. Lavey.   For the Stone and Felter family the information came from family sources, and from Judy Felter Dosh, whose data was downloaded from World Connect.

For the Brackney family, there is a family website, which has not been updated since 1998, but is quite useful.  There were family Brackney papers, which included a long list of references used by Herbert Brackney in compiling the book, referenced below, as well as his application for the Sons of the American Revolution.  I thank the following contributors of Brackney data, which were downloaded as GEDCOM files from Ancestry.com: Sandra Dorey, Dr. P. Scull.  Jeffrey Cavender, Kurt H Pickering and Patricia Applewhite. Also, Richard Allen, Alice Marie Beard, Jacqueline Carpino, Mary C Shaw and "Freckles". 

I wish to acknowledge the books "The Learned Family in America" by Eugenia Learned James,
and the Brackney book, which was prepared in 1969, by Herbert W Brackney and sent to all Brackney cousins.

I welcome additional information, especially in GEDCOM format.  Please contact me.   GEDCOM information will be provided to family only and then it will be limited to the appropriate branch.

I just completed a major cleaning and revision of the data.   I merged duplicate individuals, eliminated those individuals where I did not have any real data.   I added counties to US data, when I could determine (or thought I could), which county a city was in. When a city and county have the same name, if the original data did not specify county, I assumed it was the city.   I have been working with source data and have made some corrections. Any remaining errors are mine. Please contact me with any corrections and additions.--Sarah