This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.adkins/2446.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Don't have much info on these, but you may have luck checking with Wicomico Library ( The Adkins, Perdue, Shockley, Holloway's of the Eastern Shore) I think that is what it is called. I do know all these names are in there and realted to one another. I had a chance to glance a this book a couple of years ago and there is a lot of information in there. I was looking for my great- grandparents and found all these.