In our Fulton research, we often are faced with the challenge of separating multiple Johns, James, Alexander Fultons located in the same area. I highly recommend the following article to help us with the problem. It outlines a lot of good solid advice on this topic. SEPARATING MEN OF THE SAME NAME, by Patricia Law Hatcher http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/903.asp Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York 10926 Fulton web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm\ Search Fulton-L archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl