I'm writing in regard to a couple of messages that have appeared on the list recently. The first, which appeared on October 28, listed James Collins, who married Mary Doolin in 1802 in Clark Co., KY, and appears in the 1850 Knox Co., IL, census, as a "most wanted." I suspect that my great-great-grandfather Albert G. Collins was James and Mary's son. He was born in KY in 1803, and although I don't know that he was born in Clark Co., he was married there, in 1831. Some circumstantial evidence of his being James and Mary's son is that he named his oldest son James - and that, according to the October 28 query, James and Mary's daughter Tabitha apparently had a son named Albert (perhaps named for her brother). Albert G. Collins and his wife, Permelia (Foster) Collins, moved to Missouri in 1838, then eventually - in 1845 or 1846 - became two of the earliest settlers of Dallas, Texas. Tragically, three of their sons - Joel, Billy, and Henry - were killed because of involvement with the Sam Bass gang (although it's not clear that Henry was guilty of any crime). (A query on October 27 mentioned these three brothers as "most wanted" - an unfortunately apt term in this context!) Other sons - James, Joseph (my great-grandfather), and John Foster - were apparently quite respectable. Albert G. Collins died in 1888 or 1889. I'm interested in information that would further link Albert G. Collins to the James Collins mentioned in the earlier query - or that would identify any of his siblings. John Glenn