This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RKT.2ACIB/1526.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.3.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Lillie, thanks for posting this info. It will be a big help. At one time I was a Certified Genealogist and did research for others...some for membership into the DAR...you have to be accurate to do this kind of work, and I quickly developed a low tolerance for the kind of lineages you find on the internet. I am familiar with Ralph Jones' research on our Dodsons. He made some errors because he sometimes would fell back on "preponderance of evidence", and he would fail to correct his work when accurate records were later found. However, he often did fair work in a day when it was hard to find the records you needed. It would be wise to compare all his work with actual records. I ran a little Ancestry.com search on Judith Hagger, and found where some say she was married to Jesse Dodson, some say to John Dodson, and some say to Thomas Dodson. However, I did not find where she personally made any records on her own...i.e. her father's will? Or even where she was a Ship-Bride, etc. If your Grandfather Juddie Dodson was listed as colored in 1900...then he must have lived in Virginia? I have heard of this before in Virginia census....if the person had dark complexion. Perhaps he was part Native American?? So, welcome to the Dodson Clan...:-) MaryE