This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.monroe/1640.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Foster records are from an legal affidavit done on 3/3/1955, so I don't have updated information on all the Fosters past then. What I have on the person you may want is: 1. Flavel Foster, 1801-1860 m Mary Hollingsworth, 1802-1864 2. James Martin Foster 1831-1900 m Ellen Long 1833-1910 3. Jacob Flavel Foster 1875-1910 m Margurite Crain 1875-1900 4. Jacob Flavel Foster, Jr. 1900 - ? m Ruth McKe Bratton Per my mother who is of the same generation, said he was a grad. of Ga. Tech School, 1921, as Electrical Engineer, address as of the date of the affidavit, 645 E 24th St. Brooklyn, NY You might want to check out the Hollingsworth Family website. There is an extensive list for all the Hollingsworths in the US. The line goes back to 1660's in the Deleware area, originally Quakers.