This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VS.2ADE/628.2.1 Message Board Post: We could possibly be related. We have the Pate's back to Arkansas in the mid/late 1800'2 and most likely Florida before that. The "family rumor" has that each generation has a James Pate (unfortunately there are some generations with MULTIPLE James Pate's).