Debbi, it was interesting to see your census' listed and being so many Thomas'. This doesn't have anything to do with anything I suppose but it is a question I need to ask and hope someone has an answer for me and maybe you. I have been searching my wife's line, William Lewis, sr., Major, who settled in White co. Tn abt. 1800, after leaving SC. His wife was Mary John, both having lived in Leesburg, Loudoun, Va. My point is in searching for Mary John I was hoping to find something. Someone once told me that I may be searching backwards(?), yep. They said that when the first generation of Welch that came to this country would reverse their names, ie. Thomas John to John Thomas, then the next generation would turn it back to the original. Has anyone ever heard of this????????? Need to know. Thanks, Cecil Kendall