This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jc.2ADI/94.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Ralph! It is good to hear from you. Johann Nicholas Cope was my great-grandfather's great-greatgrandfather. The lineage goes from: Johann Jost Cope (from Germany) to Philadelphia (died in Pennsylvania), Johann Nicholas Cope (born in Germany 1717) to Philadelphia, PA, married & moved to North Carolina, Georg Philip Cope, John Andrew Cope, James Cope, Robert Wilson Cope, Everard Wilson Cope, Jack Wilson Cope, and me, James Wilson Cope. Johann Jost Cope had a son, and a grandson, also named Johann Jost Cope, Johann Jost Cope the 2nd, died at an early age, leaving Johann Jost Cope the 3rd, as a young boy. Johann Jost Cope the 3rd did marry and move to Illinois. If you can ask Ron to e-mail me any information he has, I can compare it with what I have. To date I have over 1,600 names and am still working on it. Let me hear from you soon, OK? Jim