Cold

From Los Angeles to Idaho to Iowa to Pennsylvania, I finally traced the Young family back to Cecil County, Maryland.  But here the trail went cold.

I found myself in Elkton, Maryland.  The town had originally been named Head of Elk as it was at the head of the Elk River.  Spent a few hours at the Cecil County Historical Society, but wasn’t able to disentangle the overlapping Young families.  The volunteer researcher I talked to also said that the Presbyterians were “poor record keepers” and that most of the church records from the colonial period had been lost in a fire.