This is from another list, but if anyone is looking for slave ancestor, State Combined legal cases are an amazing source. The next time you are researching at a Courthouse or a library, see if they have the Georgia State Cases (legal cases) and search those by your surnames and the search term "slave". Or by County and the search term "slave". You will find slaves fighting for their emancipation, slaves named in Deeds, slaves named in disputes. IE the wife inherits the slaves and the bankrupt husband is being sued for her slaves. If her father was worried about his son-in-law, he might stipulate that the slaves go from his daughter to his grandchildren and place an executor in charge of them. In most of these documents, the slaves are named and less commonly the relationships between the slaves spelled out.All in all there is more information on slaves in these records than I have found in other sources, especially information that might benefit a genealogist. Perhaps your local law society or law school has them in online format and you can search. Remember that your ancestor may not have taken his owners name but a neighbor's name. DNA is going to be able to offer a new genealogical perspective to us all and and especially to help us get past brick walls. Best regards, Gaila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard E. Griffin" <hgriffin1@triad.rr.com> To: <GABURKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:39 AM Subject: RE: Nicknames > Hey! Thanks for the help! I really appreciate your time. I have been > searching for a long time, abt 20 years, and have come to a semi-brick > wall on all of my lines. I'm back to the early 1800's and as you may > know records of that period for slaves are pretty hard to find. My lines > are Griffin, McCullers, Williams, Chandler, Mars, and Ellison. All lived > in Burke and Screven county GA.