Where does the A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopalian) fit in to the matrix of Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, and Methodist Episcopalian? And, why is this interesting/important to genealogical researchers? Are we getting too far afield? While all the Dubose/DuBose/Dobois/DuBoise, etc. seem to be very sincerely of some religious persuasion or the other, there is always the underlying current of why the clear philosophical differences appear to divide the North/South branches and the very questions of whether or not they are branches of each other. Could there be long standing dividing lines fracturing along differing forms of the Reformation in Europe, Protestantism in America, Baptizing or Sprinkling, slave holding or many other subjects that the religion question -- when placed in context of the social changes of different times -- might help to resolve? Lloyce West (through Isaac, the two Peters, Amos, Milton Hampton, Neighbor Furman, Donley Neighbor Dubose and his daughter Verda Dubose West) LloyceWest@aol.com (202) 479-0673 voice or Fax