This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jc.2ADI/524.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Ralanda, The problem is that there have been a multitude of Nicholas REDDICKs. Your likely ancestor (very likely) Nicholas Moses REDDICK was the son of Jacob Lewis and Nancy WIGGINS REDDICK. Nichols Moses was born October 29, 1802 in Screven County, Georgia. He moved to Dooly County sometime in the 30s and then moved to Brooks County and Colquitt County later in his life. He died July 11, 1888. He was married three times and fathered 16 children. Nicholas Moses had an uncle named Nicholas REDDICK (my gggg-grandfather - who moved from N.C. to then Burke County, Georgia following the Revolutionary War). Portions of Burke and Effingham Counties were transformed into Screven County in 1793. Nicholas Moses' father Jacob Lewis and his uncle Nicholas were then residents of the new county. Jacob Lewis and Nicholas also had brothers named Francis and Peter who also lived along the Burke and Screven Counties line. There is also a possible fifth brother named Shadrach REDDICK (not proven as a brother, but suspected to be a fifth brother). Further, Nicholas Moses' uncle Nicholas also had a grandson named Nicholas (my gg-grandfather). So, there were these three and some other REDDICKs provided with the given name of Nicholas or Nichols. This can appear to be very confusing to anyone looking at the first three or four generations of REDDICKs within Georgia. Have a look at the following webpage for more information on the early REDDICKs of Georgia: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Reddick::ga/screven::90.html Or, go the following URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Screven::reddick::565.html Now, the real expert on the REDDICKs of Georgia and adjacent states is Mrs. Shirley Reddick of Pensacola. Shirl has compiled & produced seven books on various REDDICK lineages that passed through Screven and Burke Counties and then onward across the Southeast. She has books on both the families of Jacob Lewis & Nancy WIGGINS REDDICK and their son Nicholas Moses REDDICK (and his three wives and sixteen children). Shirl has to charge $20 apiece for her books. But, they are well worth the expense if you are trying to put together your REDDICK ancestry. You can contact Shirl via the following: Mrs. Shirley Reddick 3247 Fridinger Dr. Pensacola, FL. 32526 850-944-3200 creddick@worldnet.att.net I hope that all of this helps. Dale