In a message dated 11/7/2001 10:05:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I have RICHEY connections through my JEFFERYS, as well. I presume that > these folks are the same family, just differently spelled names? > Jean My fist guess is that they are NOT the same family. There were two separate families in the Sharp County area and so far they have not been linked. One came from Kentucky and mine came from Tennessee. Of course it is possible that they linked in Virginia before 1810. Marcia