Hi Howard! Please forgive me for being so tardy in correcting a mistake - don't go back to the drawing board yet!!! I have been reading over that 1818 Twiggs County Tax Digest that I copied on Tuesday. I am looking for other names that might go along with my Daniel Pines. The copy is not that great for the old tax record was a bit blurry. The infuriating person who copied it abbreviated first names (my Daniel was Danl.). However, as I read each name over and over, I suddenly was hit by the fact that there were several men with initials JW. (5 on that page). That does not seem possible. I kept looking and did find one man who must have been James. If you can try to picture it, his name was listed as Ja with a high curly s at the end of the a. I have seen that before. Now back to the 5 JW.'s. I got my husband to study it with me and we can almost see Jn with the end of the n a high curly thing. Was the name Jeremiah so common that there could have been 5 in o! ne district? Or was this an abbreviation for John? Was there a John Busbee in Twiggs County, GA in 1818? Perhaps I should never have mentioned it in the first place. I raised more questions than answers. I am sorry. Kathy