Pete, You got to be related that's all there is to it. You got the same route my husband does. Hope Farris ---------- > From: PFARRIS01@aol.com > To: FARRIS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FARRIS-L] Re: FARRIS-D Digest V99 #80 > Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 8:04 AM > > Hi Mary; > Your names don't sound familiar to me. I was born and raised in northern > Calif., I can remember while I was growing up everyonce in awhile I would pull > out the phone book and look to see how many Farris' I could find, and I could > only find my emidiate family, uncles and cousins and I knew all of them. The > ones that are there now migrated there. When I moved to Phoenix in 1977 I had > one relative and she was married to a Porter. So I believe the ones that are > here now are from another family and I don't know any of them.My family > started out in S.C. just like most of the rest, went to Ark., Missouri, > Oklahoma, one went Ill. and died and my grandfather Johnny Thomas took his > brood to Calif., and some of his sisters fallowed him out. So you can see Mary > this Gen stuff is like crakes in a dry river bottom they go everywhere. It > takes a hell of a lot of work and 95% luck to find someone, you need full > names intials help but are not good enough to pinpoint someone, one wrong bit > will mess you up for a long time until you find something that puts you back > on track. The people on FARRIS-L help you do that, so don't give up keep > asking because we're out there you not alone trying to find someone. > > Pete > > > ==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== > You may search the Farris-L archives on the Rootsweb web site at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > In the surname field, type in Farris