This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARSON, HOLMES, BAKER, LOUNSBURY, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DiH.2ACEB/1749 Message Board Post: It is with great empathy that I read the postings puzzling over so many Carsons with the same given names of William, John, James and the like. My ggrandparents were William and Sarah Carson who came from somewhere in Co Tyrone to Boston in the mid to late 1800s. They raised four children: Harold (my father born in 1917), Roberta, Frank and Donald. >From an elderly relative, now deceased, I learned that one of the Carson girls married a William Phelps in the Hartford Ct area, and another Carson girl married into the Crawford family, perhaps in Pittsburgh PA. One would think these last two links at least would be helpful, but the sheer numbers of Carsons who share a given name is overwhelming. I am hoping for some help in connecting the dots and in sharing some information re the elusive Carson clan of which I am a member. Thank you so much! Sandy (Fairhaven, MA)