This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARKER, POLLARD, WEEKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/96.388 Message Board Post: What are the first names of your Barker and Weeks ancestors, and when did they live in Heard Co? I know of a group of families that included those surnames, who traveled from NC>TN>MO>TX between 1811 and 1827. They set up housekeeping at least a couple of times along the way. Maybe your folks stopped in GA instead of continuing with the others? I'm looking for information about Isaiah BARKER, William A. Pollard, and Mary Pollard who were listed among Heard Co. Citizens in 1840. Specifically if they were related to my family below: Seek parents & siblings of Permelia Ann POLLARD (b. about 1807 GA), and her husband John BARKER (b. 1790-1800 GA and d. between 1843-1860). Their children were all born in GA between 1830 and 1843. I don't know what counties, but possibly in NW Georgia. Children of John BARKER and Permelia Ann POLLARD were: Leonados William BARKER Mary Jane BARKER Harriet BARKER Pollard BARKER Betsy BARKER Josephine BARKER Since Heard is one of four GA counties that included both Barker and Pollard surnames in 1840, I hoped you might have run across my John BARKER while searching for your own BARKERS. Please let me know if you turn up anything. I haven't found this family on the 1850 census, but I believe they might have been traveling between GA, AL and TX in that timeframe. I have sometimes found my John Barker's family members in the same counties with the ones above who came from NC to TX, so it's likely that they are related - I just don't know how.