In a message dated 6/8/2005 11:57:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, skydancer1st@netzero.net writes: ..I also have Lees in my families. Let me dig out what I have. Sky Sky, It wouldn't surprise me if they were related. Ours were peculiar (in relation to the Anglo settlers in the fact they repeatedly married into the same families)- ie: in my lines / branches: STRICKLAND + LEE; STRICKLAND + STRICKLAND; LEE + LEE; WESTBROOK + WESTBROOK; WESTBROOK +LEE; WESTBROOK + TART; TART + LEE etc... AND it seems that the next gen married their cousins and so forth. I have been told they did not trust "outsiders". My theory is it was due to the Native Am-Cherokee lineage, keeping it going. Nancy