This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RKT.2ACIB/1526.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.3.1.2 Message Board Post: Thank for replying. Happy you use to be a Certified Genealogist ,I only started in 1998 beause I had traced my husbands family Tilman/Tillman/Tilghman by to the early 1200ad. His grandmothers family Anderson/Norman/Morton/ Buck and our cousin Milton Burke traced TheBurke/Baldwin/Throckmorton/Childres family for my Mother-in-law I didnt have anything on my side of the family( I was put in the Childrens Home Society when I was 4yr.) I had one name Garland Dodson age 21.Thanks to the State Library of VA. I now have lots of cousins who invite to to the Christmas Reunion Party every yr. and keep intouch with a lot of Cousins in Richmond Co, Lancaster Co York Co VA. by the way My Grandfather Andrew Jertson/Judson Dodson was listed as A.J Dodson on his 1th child's birth Certifite., J A Dodson on the 2n'child's,Judson A Dodson on 3'd, Jergie on www1 record, Judie Dodson in 1910, Juddie Dodson in 1920, Juddie Dodson 1930,and was listed as colored, All the other records including B! irth Cert. SSN records he is listed as Jerry Dodson. Grandpa Jerdie was a Orcherman/Farmer/ Shoemaker but he couldnt read or write, and had a little list in his speech so people just put on paper whatever they thought he said. I just that has happen to a lot of People.Makes gett ing official records. hard to locate.