This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland, West, Alston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ikJ.2ACIB/1182.2 Message Board Post: I just discovered today that Joseph Copeland was my ggg-grandfather. His son Hilliard (my gg-grandfather) was living in the home of Hezakiah & Nancy Copeland at the time of the 1870 Census, which had led me to conclude - erroneously - that they were Hilliard's parents; today, however, I found the 1860 Census data which indicates otherwise, although Hezakiah and Joseph Copeland were likely to have been related. Hilliard's son Maryland Copeland (b. 1889) was my great-grandfather, whose daughter Thelma Marie "Jennifer" Copeland married Joseph J. Kennedy, Jr. and produced my father, Joseph J. Kennedy, III. I don't have anything yet on Joseph Copeland's parentage, but I do have quite a bit of census data on this branch of Copelands, so PLEASE e-mail me directly if you discover any connections or are interested in exchanging data.