This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bratton Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.bratton/349.5.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would suggest contacting the Robertson County KY library. The researcher was Bill Wheaton. That is where the book is. I am currently working full time and going to nursing school. Marilynn Wood Armstrong, one of my Wood cousins, has also transcribed a tremendous amount of information for Robertson county. My Minerva Bratton (of John Bratton and Nancy Hitt)was a sibling of one of her ascendants. Since your Bratton was in TN you might check the states of VA,NC,SC and GA as your persons ascendants might have come from the south as opposed to the north. If you feel the census taker switched up the info, check out RI, NJ, MD, VA. My Scot-Irish ancestors came from these states initially. I will try to recall if I see your Bratton in what I have on hardcopy.