>From: Daniel Jenkins <dan_jenkins66@hotmail.com> > >Since you identify as African American and The Smiths I found , state or enumerator states Colored or Black >then you are likely thinking of an NPE , because of slavery issue . Since there were not too many people of Irish >heritage in Kentucky being slave holders in the early 1800s I would tend to rule that out . What's the basis for this assertion? From surname research I know that a couple of my gggrandfather's brothers owned a few slaves in Montgomery Co., KY pre-1830, and a Slavin family line in Garrard County also owned a few in the same time period. Both of these families would be Irish and M-222. I strongly suspect that one of my ggggrandfather's brothers in Tennessee was the father of a mulatto man who eventually served in the Civil War and settled in Kansas. So I don't see it as unlikely that the trail may go back to an Irish or Scot-Irish Kentuckian who had a small farm and two or three slaves. Larry