In a message dated 12/19/99 8:18:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, jbusby@knology.net writes: << My grandfather was William Harvey Busby, Pike Co, MS; his grandfather was William Ezekiel Busby, born in NC, where unknown. >> This is interesting, the many Busby men with the name William H. My grandfather and father were named William H. For the longest time I thought the surname Busby was relatively unknown and its membership very small. I was amazed at the number of people with that name cropping up on email daily. Just the other day, out of curiosity, I counted the number of William Busbys on the Social Security death index and came across 122 William Busbys that had died between 1965 and 1995. While that may be small in comparison to the Smiths and Wongs of the world, it is still a large number considering my previous assumptions. By the way, my grandfather and father were both from Mississippi as well. Howard