This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wV.2ADI/1551.1 Message Board Post: Hello. If you would like a research person, I can suggest someone. She is quite good. As far as them being very poor people, most of the folks in the South were that way at the time he lived. It was what you called normal at that time. Good luck!