Ellen Picard, I am blown away that someone else has an Anderson marrying a North! What line of North family? Mine came from England to Ireland, to PA in 1729, then to VA in 1790. I think almost all of the Norths in America came from two or three lines, all coming early to America. My George North and John Anderson were bet friends in VA, their sons Thomas Jefferson North and David Anderson were close friends, and Thomas Jefferson North had two daughters who married David's son, Robert Ferguson Anderson. I think the activity on this list is really interesting. I am seeing a pattern emerge somewhat and am wondering if there aren't a lot of family lines that are really connected but we can't find the pieces yet to make it happen. There seems to be a movement down the Eastern states to either the South or the South and then the Midwest, or in some cases, directly to the Midwest. My line left VA around 1850 or earlier and went directly to Illinois. There seem to be quite a few who went to Illinois. Does anyone know what was happening at that time to draw these families in these patterns of movement? We might be able to connect up some of these lines if we knew more about what was influencing them to move in these particular directions. Susan in Milwaukee