I'm a member of the very large tree you mention by way of his son Ripley COPELAND...I have heard that there were several Nicholas COPELANDs in the Virginia area in the early to mid-1700s but I have not had the time to research further than my gr-gr-gr grandfather Ripley COPELAND. Ripley's father was Nicholas...I believe I've read that this COPELAND line not only moved into NC/SC but also into AL, MS, and LA. But my line is here in SC... Regards, Fred Copeland Rock Hill, SC -----Original Message----- From: Jean Mattox [mailto:jeaninnapa@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:45 PM To: COPELAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COPELAND] Re: My Copeland Lineage - Beggining w/ Maternal Grandparents For ages, now, I've been hollering that there's no Nicholas in the Copeland family - I apologize. Did some digging in SLC and came across the Nicholas branch of the Copeland tree. Which is, BTW, a very large tree. He shows up in the Carolinas and doesn't happen to be in my Copeland line. For those of you that are descended from him, I didn't pursue his line. The FHL is overwhelming and it's necessary to narrow one's vision, so to speak. There were a lot of Copelands entering Virginia in the early colonizing years. BTW, has anyone bothered to look into our ancestors behavior when they were moving into this country? I was appalled to find out how brutal they were. jean "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra ==== COPELAND Mailing List ==== To contact the List Admin: mailto:COPELAND-admin@rootsweb.com To unsubscribe from List Mode: mailto:COPELAND-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe To unsubscribe in Digest Mode: mailto:COPELAND-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe AOL USERS: Send an email to:COPELAND-L-request@rootsweb.com (In Digest Mode change the "L" to a "D") with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx