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/SNE.2ACIB/1099.1.3.3.1 Message Board Post: An Obituary of John Blackburn of AL, printed in the New Orleans Christian Advocate in 1854, gives his place of birth as Buckingham Co Va. His father was William Thomas Blackburn who migrated from Va to South Carolina about 1765. William Thonas's descendents are in NC, SC,GA, Ala and Texas. I think that the common thread is Buckingham Co Va and the Blackburns living there around 1760. Ron Blackburn