This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Copeland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ikJ.2ACIB/1583.2 Message Board Post: Hi Christine, we are from the same lineage. E-mail me and I will tell you my line.John (Joe) Copeland and Sarah Ratcliff are my 13th generation back. I will be happy to share what I have and we have a Copeland Site that you can get a lot of info from. It is by invitation only. So if you are interested I will get you on it. look forward to hearing from you. Linda

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