Hi Karie, Thank you for yours. Will be posting my findings, as I go along, on the Colby site. However my main aim is to put the research into some kind of printed private publication as I already have over 500 photos of Colby portaits, churches, monuments, mansions and estates. I always think that illustrations make genealogical writing a little more digestible! It can be a rather dry subject when one is confronted with endless variations of the same name! I also have much research to do on the early American Colbys. Just come across yet another branch of the family from Great Hale in England. The honorable trade of Blacksmith seems to have been this branchs' particular profession. The records start in 1751/2 with STEPHEN COLBY, blacksmith & Ann his wife followed by records of a further 10 Colbys who were blacksmiths right up until the late 19th C. The skill must have been handed down from father to son. A second shoot took up the craft of shoemaking. NON OMNIS FRANGAR (motto from the Coat of Arms of Colby of Great Torrington, Devon, England. Some what apt, as I believe it means 'Dont be discouraged by everything,! But, no doubt, I stand to be corrected by some Latin scholar.! Best wishes Tristan Colby Salazar.