In a message dated 10/26/2004 6:32:54 PM Central Standard Time, tasarb@bigpond.net.au writes: > Hi Karen, That puzzled me to for some time, I thinks its to cover where > some > clark/e's for their own reasons(maybe educational) wrote it as it sounded > By the way where is your Clark? > Kind regards > Tas > They started in Ireland, arrived in WV (then VA) in the 1700s, maybe the 1790s. Went to Coshocton Co., OH, in early 1800s. Some lines stayed there. Some went to Indiana about 1840. Some of those went to other parts of Indiana and some to Iowa. Some of the other parts of Indiana family went to Kansas and some of them back to Indiana or Colorado. Some of the Iowa folks went to Washington state and some of them came back to Iowa. There seems to have been a good deal of contact among the various groups for a while since an Iowa ancestor kept a family tree (largely undocumented!) which has been pretty accurate as we current generations attempt to document them and uncover new branches and twigs! Where is your clan? Any of those places mine were in? Karen Austin, TX