posted to a different rootsweb forum ............... Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:50:47 -0600 From: eeyore <eeyoresan@comcast.net> Source: PA-WELSH-EARLY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PA-WELSH-EARLY] James family Susan, I have a James line which married into a Cloud line. The oldest one is Susan James of Calne, Wiltshire, England, b. March 28, 1623. She married William Cloud, also b. 1623 in Calne, Wiltshire. They emigrated to Pennsylvania, but I have done no research on them. My direct line of descent is from Joseph D. James, (who is very probably no relation to Susan James, above), b. 1807 in Ohio, married in Maryland, died in Nebraska. From Nebraska the ensuing lines went to Missouri, then Colorado, then California. Most of the little bit of James research I have done focuses on the female descendants, including my great grandmother Margaret Almira James, b. 1881 in Nodaway Co, Missouri, granddaughter of the Joseph D. James mentioned above. I also have a Thomas James who married a Mary Goodwin, b. about 1694, married in 1712. I have no other info on this James, do not know if they had any children. I believe at least some of the Goodwins came from Wales and settled around Goshen, so possibly Thomas James was also from Wales. I offer this info, sketchy as it is, in case you have any connections that might mesh. I realize that DNA projects rely on the male Y chromosome, so I am not much help.