I recently received several gedcoms to fill in the blank spaces for our family Thomas tree. However I have some Thomases listed for our line through Aaron the Elder Thomas from the Toe River Valley, Yancey County, North Carolina... that don't seem to fit. One is Pleasant Thomas b. 1804, listed as one of Aaron the Elder Thomas' son. I do not find him in the History of the Toe River Valley. I believe he is the brother of Thomas Calloway Thomas. And that both are from a different Thomas line. Another is Thaddeus Thomas b. 1853 born in Union County, GA. listed as the son of William H. Thomas. Thaddeus is not on any of the census information I have encountered. Next, Monroe Thomas born about 1902, lived a short but productive life. He is featured in the June 1958 issue of National Geographic where he states that this Thomas line originated in Spain as TOMAS through Joe aka Joseph W. Aaron Thomas. He was the father of Aaron the Elder. Monroe's ancestor is John McDaniel "Mac" Thomas, son of "Water" Aaron, son of John (son of Aaron the Elder). Monroe was prolific and wrote about many subjects, especially regarding Public Education in the Mountains. He wrote many poems and at one time someone in the family thought they had been printed up. We recently visited the area and unfortunately none of the local libraries were aware of such writtings. Does anyone with this line know if and where the writtings of Monroe Thomas are? Have they been transcribed? Its one thing to list the names of hundreds of ancestors and descendants in our files, but to have someone's writtings and thoughts is a blessing, for it captures their soul for us to know them. I have several of the handwritten sermons of our direct ancestor Joseph Monroe Thomas, who was a circuit preacher in North Georgia. Postcards to him, thanking him for prayers or asking him for his assistance. Notes he wrote. All give a better glimpse of him - since those staunch pictures tell us he was such a stoic person, we now know otherwise... Leslie