RE- the IOW DANIEL family. For the first time, today, I saw something that really made a lot of sense to me. The researchers of the family of Owen O'DANIEL I (ABT 1660-AFT 1730) of Bertie County, NC state he was a son of Thomas O"DANIEL and Anna JONES and Owen had children named, Thomas ( born 1686 who married Elizabeth LANIER), Mary and John O'DANIEL. There was no documentation for this assignment but I do not know anything, offhand, that disagrees with this assignment and we know that 1686 Thomas was a son of Owen who in turn was a son of a Thomas. There may be some truth to this and what we may be seeing is exactly what we later saw with the O'DANIEL family of Fairfax County, VA -- they dropped the "Old English O'" at different stages and spelled their DANIEL name in different ways, still keeping their basic overall group of collateral families intact. John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA