DEAR CUZ... ID LOVE TO TAKE A TRIP TO MONORE CO. W.VA AND LOOK AT THERE RECORDS.... ME AND CELIA AND CAROL ALL HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE ERSKINES AND MASSEY'S AND THE GULLETT'S OF THAT COUNTY....THESE ARE THE THREE MAJOR ROAD BLOCK'S WE HAVE LEFT IN THAT COUNTY TOO SOLVE COMPLETELY.....THE THING WITH THE GEOGREGULLETT IS FIGURE OUT WHY POLLY EGNOR WAS LISTED WITH HIM IN THE 1850 CENSUS FOR MONROE CO. W.VA.WHY WASNT SHELIVING WITH ARCHIBALD OR ELIZABETHAT THIS TIME... I FOUND OUT OVER THE SUMMER IN BOOK ENTITLED THE HISTORY OF MONORE CO. W.VA.. THAT THERE WERE THREE ERSKINES FAMILIES IN MONROE CO... TWO BRANCHES OF THIS FAMILY CAN BE TRACED BACK TO GOOD OLD CECIL CO. MD..... ONCE THERE ONE BRANCH WENT TO ALABAMA AND THE OTHER TO TEXAS... THERE WAS A THIRD BRANCH THERE AND NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THEM AT ALL...ACCORDING TO THIS BOOK... GUESS WHAT WE THINK THAT ALEXANDER ERSKINE AND ELIZABETH COME OFF THAT THIRD BRANCH BUT ARE NOT FOR SURE YET...THE ARCHIVES HAVE THIS BOOK TOO... IVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH A FEW PEOPLE OFF THE ERKSINE GEN FORUM PAGE TYRING TO HELP US SORT THEM OUT TOO... WE KNOW THAT SOME OF THEM WENT TO HIGHLAND CO. OHIO... WE THINK THAT MAYBE ARE ALEXANDER ERSKINE TIES IN WITH THEM... BUT ARE FOR SURE YET... I HAVE ALEXANDER ON THE 1850 AND 1860 CENSUS FOR MONROE CO. VIRGINIA.. HIS SON ARCHIBALD MADISON FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR..... IM NOT FOR WHICH UNIT IT WAS....WHAT HAPPEN TO THIS FAMILY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR... I HAVE CHECKED DEATH RECORDS FOR MONROE CO..AND CANT FIND EITHER ALEX OR ELIZABETH. LATER... PATSY ===== HTTP://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/richard/755/index.html my genealogy page on the net.. check it out.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com