Hey guys, I'm getting my forums mixed up, but has there been much discussion on the Youngbloods on this list? I've heard all my life that the Youngbloods have Cherokee lines, but most of the information I've found online says that is just a myth and most of the Youngbloods were of German descent. I, and I assume most of the Coffee Co. Youngbloods descend from Asa Youngblood, who I'm told appeared in the Irwin Co. 1820 Census (I haven't seen that one). His wife may have been Eliza. But his children were Elijah, b. 1824, Irwin Co, Mary, b. ca 1830, and Isaiah. Elijah married Margaret "Peggy" Davis, Mary married Raiford Metts, and I don't have anything on Isaiah. Anybody ever heard where Asa came from? I've also heard he may have left the area and gone to Alabama. Other tales are that he left his family and remarried and had a large number of children with 3 or 4 wives. But I have no idea where I got that from. The information I have on Raiford Metts is that he was born in Emanuel Co., 1820. There are a lot of Youngbloods who descend from the Emanuel Co. Youngbloods. They came to that area from the same area a lot of the Kirklands did in SC (Edgefield Co. or Old 96th District). That makes me think Asa might have come through that group as well, but I can't find anything about him. Would Asa have been his name or his nickname? If nickname, does anybody know what Asa is commonly a nickname for? Jeff