Valerie, Here's the 1900 census for Bird and Alice Wood: 1900 Heard County, Georgia census, Rockalo Dist., #126/131 (Ancestry image 13/31) ...Wood, Bird, head, WM, 36, Jan 1866, married 7 years, AL, GA, GA ...Wood, Alice, wife, WF, 30, Aug 1869, m. 7 years, 3 ch./3 living, GA, GA, GA ...Wood, Thomie, dau, WF, 5, May 1894, GA, AL, GA ...Wood, Dicie, dau, WF, 3, Oct 1896, GA, AL, GA ...Wood, Wheeler, son, WM, 7/12, Oct 1899, GA, AL, GA ...Wood, Nancy A, mother, WF, 60, June 1830, widow, GA, GA, GA Bird Wood was my first cousin, twice removed. Nancy Blake Wood was my great-grandfather's sister. We keep "connecting" but not "relating." How many connections does this make for us now? I've lost count. Judy