Earnie, Thanks for the address in Georgia and the name of the book by the Alabama people. The more references we have, the easier it is to sort people out. I have a copy of a manuscript written by the late Earnest J. Blankenship, Jr. in 1972. His descendant, Laurent Blankenship Roche of Lebanon, IN photocopied it for me. It contains records of the Southern Indiana Blankenship's who came after 1809. It is a treasure for those of us researching there, but tracing backwards, he hit the same brick walls as the rest of us. Pat T.