Linda, I also wish more people from the line of Group 1 would get involved in the search and share as much information as possible to solve this mystery. My Nathaniel Coats/Clarence Alexander Coates line has some really shady characters in it. It seemed that a lot of this family had scrapes with the law and some spent time in prison for murder in the early 1900's. I have court records for Clarence Alexander Coates who is the grandson of Nathaniel. Numerous descendants, now living, of Nathaniel Coats do not like to discuss their heritage but it's all history and most of the family are great people. I know Nathaniel Coats had relatives in East Texas (Rusk and Nacogdoches Counties) even though he is on the Brazos County, Texas census for 1870. His wife left him and took their four year old son from Brazos County to Nacogdoches to stay with relatives about 1899 - 1900. She supposedly went to Galveston in a wagon for supplies and perished in the hurricane of 1900. I hope I'm not writing too much but maybe someone out there knows something about this line. Thank you. Martha On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:25:25 -0400 Linda Coate <lcoate@ancestrees.com> writes: > Well, It appears we have another interesting problem to solve. The > > member that's been writing with all the alluring tidbits about a > possible lineage to Charlotte Coats's James, John, William group is > > related to the 1st group on our DNA page at > http://www.ancestrees.com > which is called Alex/James for TX/TN according to another > researcher. > The good news is that they are obviously both Coats lines. So > anyone > out there that knows you are related to Alexander Coats, we sure > would > appreciate you joining the group to ascertain which line is which. > I > thinks it's the mystery that keeps us all involved in this. :) > > Linda Coate, admin. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________ Criminal Justice Degrees Online Programs for Busy Adults at University of Phoenix. Info Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=30dggDmkoVhb5IWs3OwwkQAAJ1De3P0Jc6Dm8x4V29vIdl0iAAUAAAAAAAAAAABvAT7eer-qCRUVJPPNExQh2DoSAAAAAA==