This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IMJ.2ACEB/793.1204.1.1.1 Message Board Post: wow thanks for that info I started to get worried because I thought that the shells and cochrans were related . a marriage like that would be a bit too close in my mind , if it was what I think it is. meaning I think some of the shells come from shoeboots and the cochrans or some of them are from his twin sister or a sister . so you see this is kinda too close if these are native and cherokee/with a creek twist families . so being adopted just might work here if what I think, is true. so who is this ollie and what years born died etc I think I am hunting way back behind this line of cochrans I think . renee