Hello, I just joined the Pike Co list. In Pike, I mostly research the Barnett family. I've been extremely lucky on this line as a remote cousin did a lot of work in the 1930's and 1940's and compiled his information into booklets that he had printed and distributed to the family. After I expressed an interest in genealogy as a young woman in the 1970's my grandmother gave the booklets to me. I've scanned them into pdf and they're available on my website at this url: http://www.katscelticroots.com/records.htm (at the bottom). Yes its primarily about the Barnett family, but other families did marry in of course. I'm pretty satisfied with my Barnett Pike Co research, but, about six months ago my husband and I went to Carter Cemetery which is in Pike (barely! but still) we had finished photographing the headstones for a complete photographic survey when I noticed a headstone outside of the cemetery fence. My husband went around the fencing through the undergrowth and got a picture of the stone. This stone does not appear on the 1971 survey of the cemetery which is the only one I've seen printed anywhere. The headstone states: Israel Alison Born at the Dickson Place near Orion Aug. 2, 1888 Died Feb. 7, 1907 I'm curious if anyone on the list knows anything about the "Dickson Place" or an Alison family. A search of the 1900 Alabama census turned up nothing on Israel Alison. Thank you, Kat Reece Owner / Head Moderator In the Hall of Ma'at http://www.hallofmaat.com Amun Owner / Moderator http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amun Contributing author to the book "Archaeological Fantasies: How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public" http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=97 Kat's Personal Page http://www.katherinereece.com/