To Meg Barnett and Jan Gardner Kuykendall It looks at first glance that both of you are part of our Ritchie family. I descend from Isaac Hill Ritchie of Ash Flat, AR. He married the Armstrong family so yes I descend from some of David Mastin Armstrong's family too. Those Ritchies and Armstrongs married four times in Arkansas so there is a lot of double cousins going on there. I notice the Gardner name and yesterday I was typing up some deeds from Marshall County TN where Mary C. Ritchie (dau of John Ritchie and Caseyann Williams) married Thomas A. Gardner. They had a son John H. Gardner. Did John come to Arkansas with the rest of my Ritchie migration? Please tell me more about your Gardner family. I am off to work now but will anxiously look for more info on both your families. I am going to a Ritchie reunion of my mom and seven of her siblings a week from today in Texas and am gathering all kinds of stories and new information for "show and tell" <grin> Marcia in California