This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Butt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xd.2ADE/843.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Hi Allan, Hope you're enjoying the rain today! It's been awhile since we were in touch. Your earlier posting is very helpful, and I really appreciate it. I received a genealogy from Noah Butt, the uncle of John Campbell Butt of the Atlanta area, back in 1973. My dad plotted the text in tree form later. This genealogy repeated the "William Moses" myth, which I have, unfortunately, had previously accepted. I need help in sorting this line out, which is apparently, not especially accurate. I can tell you that I persuaded John Campbell Butt to participate in a Y-DNA study. He, Marshall Wingfield Butt, of Portsmouth, and my brother have participated. Their DNA indicates a degree of relatedness that is consistent with a Portsmouth origin for all of them. Marshall's father was a local historian--he authored two local histories and the official history of Gosport Naval Yard. Fortunately for us, Marshall's ancestry included a cousin marriage that grafted into our line. So Marshall is a descendent of Richard and Thomas Butt, two of Robert, the original immigrant's sons. He is "Richard" on his father's line of descent, we are "Thomas". Some of the stuuf I've looked at might be consistent with the Moses Butt line being descended from "Henry". What information do you have, and can you help me correct my mistakes! Thanks, Peggy