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/EEX.2ACIB/739.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You are welcome. Anyone tracing this line with Philip Forbes in it would likely have great difficulty. He lived many years in Franklin Co, VA and listed himself as widowed on the census records, when in fact his wife, Emeline, was living in the home of Cluff Brooks and raised three sons George, Wiley and Charles as Brooks. She had a son William B who was listed on the 1860 census in Cluff's home also. On that census the three boys William, George who was my great grandfather and Wiley are listed with Forbes as their last name. Cluff had a son named William Daniel Brooks who is documented in records in Franklin Co. But his mother was Cluff's first wife Permelia Mattox. He accepts Emiline's boys as his children in his will. Phillip had a daughter Julia living with him until he was in his 80's and after his death she married the boarding house keeper where they had lived named Claiborne Wray in 1902. She had two daughters Cora A and Lucy P born in 1869 and 1874. They apparentl! y went by the name of Wray when they married. This is all documented in census, marriage and wills recorded for Franklin Co VA. Good luck in your searching. This has been a very interesting search. But as you may imagine very complicated also.