What an interesting question!!! No doubt about it, I would invite my great-grandmother, Ann T. Anderson, who appears with a mother and no other documentation in Williams ?County, TX, sometime prior to 1860. Somehow I have "identified" with this ancestor since childhood, although I know very little about her. So I would ask her: Did you and your mom really make he journey to Texas from Kentucky alone? Where in Kentucky? There is no record of you two anywhere that I can find. How did you cope with two babies on that little farm after your first husband, William Bennett, went to war? Were you frightened when there Indian raids all around you? And after your father in law came and took you to Limestone County, TX, before the war was over, how did you feel? Did you really love Thomas Sharp when he limped home after the surrender, or did you marry him for someone to take care of you? Sure, I would like names and dates about her parents and her grandparents, etc. But I really would like to know about her. I was named for her -- my name is pronounced in two syllables. love Joan