In a message dated 98-10-27 08:58:01 EST, you write: << Interesting that you are looking for a John W. Collins married to a Roark. There was John Wesley Collins in Letcher Co., Ky, b. 1825 who married Nancy Roark. Many of the Collins from Letcher are also found in southwest Va. counties. Louise >> I have ran across that one before. That John Wesley Collins is from the line of James Collins. At first I thought it was my John W.'s first son by first marriage but I finally found a person of that line and after comparing notes we decided it was not mine. It is really confusing when there are so many JOHN's & WILLIAMS. If anybody needs the line of James Collins I think I still have it. Brenda