I am working on Clarkes from mainly the Tidewater Virginia area... have seen no others on this list researching these except my sisters. There is a "slight" possibility there is a connection to North Carolina, Kentucky, or Tennessee... Don't know of a northern connection. Charlotte (Clarke; Hoover) Geier http://www.gencircles.com/users/chargeier/2 http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=charlotte_g eier http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/lothlorien/artists/charlotte/charlotte.html http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/zone47/artists/charlotte2/charlotte2.html http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/library/writers/charlotte3/charlotte3.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.