Hello Everyone - This is to those of us who are descendants of this particular Moses, the "hatched on a rock, dropped from the sky by aliens, appeared in a puff of smoke" Moses who appears to have no ancestors he can call his own. Many of us (and we know who we are) would love to give him ELIJAH CRAIG & AGNES HAWKINS (both born in VA 1774) as parents because that would really wrap things up nice and tidy and take us all back to John Craig in Scotland in the 1600's. So, to those of you who have already been down this road many times over, from one who has barely gotten her feet wet, I have the following questions: 1) Does there NOT exist anywhere a birth certificate for this Moses? 2) Where did the original information come from that he was born in 1800? 3) Does anybody have any inkling of his middle name? 4) What can I do that you already haven't done to try to find his parents? (I'm assuming there are those of you who have been at this for YEARS already and I can't tell you how appreciative I am for what you have already accomplished!!!) >From my own standpoint, I keep hanging on to the Elijah/Agnes connection simply for four reasons: 1) The name ELIJAH has come down through my line thusly: Moses>John Warren>ELIJAH PERRY>Isa Perry>ELIJAH JAMES (and there are all those Elijahs who have descended from Taliaferro - I count at least 10 or 12 beginning in 1738, thanks to someone else's hard work), 2) My line was in Kentucky the same time the other (dare I say it?) Taliaferro offspring were, 3) The handed down family story is that we were Baptist and the men were either Baptist ministers or tobacco farmers which seems to mirror what a lot of the Taliaferro Craigs did, and 4) An aunt clings staunchly to the story that the bottle of bourbon she has kept all these years with the label "Elijah Craig" is from a ggggreat uncle or somebody which would plant us firmly with the Elijah Craig who discovered the process for making bourbon. (There's that pesky Taliaferro connection again). Obviously, there is no way this can be substantiated so we must file this in the "Wishful Thinking" category. Oh, one more thing, and this is really out there but I just stumbled across it. My ISA PERRY CRAIG named two of his five children, MELVIN and PAULINE (along with an ELIJAH) and I just came across a MELVINA and a PAULINA in the descendant list from the Taliaferros. Ok, you have my permission to slap some sense in to me now for grasping at anything. Thoughts? Suggestions? Drug therapies? Barbara Barbara