Does anyone know whether the outline below is L458? In the Beatty Project 2000 Lineages, there is no L458--it skips from L457 to L459. Was it merged with another line? I found an exchange in these postings between Donna Van Zandt and Laurel Baty that seems to indicate it's L458. By 1850, there were many Beatys in southern Indiana. L139 was in southeast and south central counties, L198 was in Bartholomew County, L299 (probably related to L198) was in Clay County, and this line was in Greene and Lawrence counties. I'm interested because there are suggestions of connection to L2b. My L2b great great grandfather Andrew Jackson Beaty (William I.3) (Andrew2) (Billy1) settled around 1862 in Orange Co IN just to the south of Lawrence Co. where this line was. Orange was already swarming with L139 Beattys; L139 and L2b must have known each other. Moreover, another L2b Andrew Jackson Beaty (Alexander 3) (Andrew2) (Billy1), my Andrew Jackson's cousin, may be the Andrew Jackson Bea listed in Owen County IN in the 1850 census. (He can't be found in TN or KY that year.) All the facts are right in the Owen Co., IN entry, and there are no other hits for an Andrew Bea in other years...perhaps the farmer who was employing him didn't know how to finish spelling his name. Andrew was working on a farm about 30 miles from the Robert and John Beaty in Greene Co, listed below. Andrew, who would die as a POW in the Civil War, may have been in Indiana scouting land, visiting relatives, earning money to get married, or all three. Anyway, the Robert Beaty below is a new addition to this line. Donna's source said that Andrew and Agnes Sitlington had 2 sons and 2 daughters, but it looks likely to me that Robert was a brother, too. He and John live next to each other in Jackson, and Robert's son Floyd is living with the other brother, James, in 1860. I'd be happy to share the full genealogy report with my notes pointing out inferences and hearsay.