Hello Leslie and welcome back. How was your trip? I hope you had fun for all of us. I have been searching the area of middle TN lately as I, finally, found my Robertson line there. My French, Moore, Anderson and Martin lines are of that area. There are many Bridges in middle TN and from observing the families with whom they travel, they could be from the Northhampton, Nash, etc., area of NC. I would love to have a descendant of these middle TN Bridges in our DNA testing. If we keep getting pieces of the puzzle from all over, perhaps we can figure out the whole genealogy picture. It looks like there are no living males from Joseph Bridger of Isle of Wight, VA, as I have sent query after query to find one, stating that I am willing to pay for the testing, but have had no takers. We need to get some British Isles, Bridger / Bridgers / Bridgers / Bridge / Briggs into our DNA Project. Put on your thinking caps. I had more Briggs join our DNA testing last night after I announced our Briggs match. The concept of DNA testing is become more accepted as everyone hears about our successes. I have turned over every rock that I can find in looking for where my John Bridgers who arrived in Hancock Co., GA in 1801 and died there in 1802 came from. I feel, from all my searching that he was from Edgecombe Co., NC. Many clues point that way, but who were his parents? John's wife, Cherry Powell, witnessed the Will of Elizabeth Culpepper in Nash Co., NC in 1784 or 1788. He was a sister to Hugh Powell, but I can't find more than that. My cousin, Johnny Bridges, made a couple of trips last year to NC and VA but found nothing definite. Julia, still searching In a message dated 5/2/2004 3:33:24 AM Central Daylight Time, Aug67@att.net writes: Before I went on my recent trip to Belgium and Holland, I had copied some information from a book titled, "Tennessee Records, Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts", which is housed at the West Valley Genealogical Society Library here in the Phoenix 'Valley of the Sun'. Here are the BRIDGES I found therein: