This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gV.2ADEB/2397.2411.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: D. Biggs, Practically everything I have on the Alexander family comes from Internet sources, the quality of which it is often difficult to gauge. Hence my query about the parents of the James Alexander who married Elizabeth Reid and was the father of George. So I sympathize with your search for the parents of your James W. Alexander. My files do not contain him, nor do they contain Jane B. Nash. The only Nashes I have lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. In my files, the only James Alexander who lived during the time span of your great-grandfather, and about whom I have nothing but his name and parentage, is a grandson of my James and Elizabeth through their son William, but he was born probably in Elbert County, Georgia, possibly in the 1790s. He would have been in his fifties in 1843, when your great-grandfather married, and so by place and date of birth, he is unlikely to be the one. I notice in the 1850 census of Charlotte County, Virginia, an Archibald Alexander, born about 1774, who might be related to your James, perhaps his father. This Archibald is also in the 1840 census. Have you checked him out? Is the James Nash in the 1840 census of Charlotte County related to Jane B. Nash? My connection to the Alexanders is direct but remote. Sarah, daughter of the George mentioned above, was the grandmother of my great-grandmother Piety Gaines Everage, and so I have no personal knowledge of the Alexander family. I don’t mind sharing with you what I’ve found on the Internet, if you want it, but could you direct my responses by more specific inquiries? Hoping that my response has been of some assistance to you, Rex Everage