In a message dated 3/25/2006 7:38:13 PM Central Standard Time, aa501step@hotmail.com writes: http://www.geocities.com/lockettensil/index.html Dear Pat, We share a Cloud line down through Robert Cloud and Magdalen Peterson. Robert & Magdalen are my 6th great-grandparents. Robert's parents, Joseph & Sisley, are my 7th great-grandparents through my Carter line. Joseph & Sisley (Chamberlain) Cloud Robert & Magdelen (Peterson) Cloud Joseph & Margaret (Cloud) Carter Daniel & Elizabeth (Parker) Carter James Parker & Frances Ann (Barcus) Carter Alfred Barcus & Lillian Ann (Murphy) Carter William George & Alverta (Dunning) Carter Charles George & Mabel Marian (McCullough) Carter -- [my grandparents] Ironically, Mabel McCullough is ALSO descended from Joseph & Sisley (Chamberlain) Cloud. (Though after so many generations and one line moving to MD and the other to DE, I'm pretty certain they never knew they were distant cousins!) Robert (husband of Magdalen) had a brother named Joseph who married Sarah Pyle. They were my 5th great-grandparents. Thus, on this line, Joseph and Sisley (Chamberlain) Cloud were my 6th great-grandparents! My second line of 'cousinship' to you goes like this: Joseph & Sisley (Chamberlain) Cloud Joseph & Sarah (Pyle) Cloud Joshua & Ann (Mercer) Cloud John Mercer & Sarah Ann (Kibbler/Kibler) Cloud William H. & Ann Elena (Cloud) McCullough Harry Disston & Hannah Elizabeth (Walton) McCullough Charles George & Mabel Marian (McCullough) Carter -- [Again, my grandparents!] Ergo, my grandparents were 5th cousins, once removed. I was trying to figure out our degree of cousin relationship, but I had to give up. Are you