My Hall brick wall is Benjamin Hall of Halifax Co., Va. He is in family #11 of Family Tree DNA, with two non-exact matches. The problem there is that the 2 semi-matches do not extend back as far as my Benjamin (he died 1803). The other 2 Hall researchers are stuck and not very active in their research, I assume. My Benjamin had 3 sons: 1. John Robins Hall moved his family to Carroll Co. & Weakley Co., Tn. 2. William lived in Pittsylvania Co., Va. and had at least one son: Benjamin, who married Martha Walrond, and moved to McCrackin/Ballard Co., Ky. William may have had other ch. who stayed in Pittsylvania Co., Va. 3. Thomas did remain in Halifax Co., Va. marrying twice: (1) Kitty Yeates with children: Susan; Chloe Irby; Mildred R.; Sarah; & Alexander T. (2) Nancy Tucker with children: Henry; Albert; Lucy; & Jackson V. I am hoping that someone from Pittsylvania and /or Halifax Co. Va. will recognize these Halls and share information with me. Circa 1778, John Hall died and the guardianship papers for his minor child, Mildred, are found in the court papers of Halifax, with James Purcell being the guardian. When the estate was finally settled there were 3 heirs of this John Hall: James Purcell (probably in lieu of his wife, Elizabeth), Mildred the minor child and my Benjamin Hall. It is assumed John Hall was the father of Mrs. James Purcell(Elizabeth), Mildred and Benjamin Hall. So far, I have not found where John Hall lived before his death. No will has surfaced anywhere that I can find. I do not know where Benjamin lived before 1765 when he witnessed a deed in Halifax Co. I do not know when or where he married Wilmouth Irby, daughter of Anthony Irby. Wilmouth fied 1808 in Halifax county. Any help or clues greatly appreciated. Grace Hall Upshaw roberta hall wrote: John, No problem. Jane had a specific request and I knew I was able to help. 20 odd years ago when I started this I purchased the Family Tree program. Back than you could order CD's. I am still using Family Tree as it's the program I'm used to. 20 years ago I was working on my father's Estes family, who were primarily in the south. I haven't purchased CD's in several years but I have several. If some one has a specific request, i.e. a specific CD # and party name, I can see if I have it and do a look up as time permits. I have to many to list here but in looking at some of them I do have Colonial Genealogies #1, Va. Genealogies #1, Book of Emigrants # 350, Mayflower Descendants # 203, WFT volumes 1-32 just to name a few. If I can help I will. Again it has to be specific. Just give me the CD# and a persons name and I will see if I can help. I was just talking to Cheryl about a roll call. The list is quiet and leads have dried up. If anyone has anything new out there I would love to hear it. In mine and Cheryl's case....Cheryl had a cousin of hers ( a known cousin) take the DNA test. To our surprise the DNA came back and was not a exact match to her as we expected it to be instead it was an exact match to me, my first exact 64 marker match in our family group #6. Do we know what it means. NOOOOOOOOOO! This ends up in the technical DNA mutation category which I don't think others on the list what to hear about. I sure would like to know what it means. I am also dropping my pursuit on the information Mr. Lew Lessler wrote about on the lineage of Jacob and Mary Charlesworth Hall. Unless someone from this line has done a DNA test to prove otherwise I believe Mr. Lessler attached my John and Mary Clayton Hall to this line by mistake. No proof has been found to confirm his theory and with our family # 6 history it appears the two line are not related, at least in my opinion. If something comes up to the contrary than I will look further into it. Anyone else out there willing to tell us what they have going on or stuck on? Roberta Hall ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lisle" [1]<gene@tqsi.com> To: [2]<hall@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: [HALL] Admin Message - Thanks to Cheryl and Roberta! Hi, Please let me personally and pubicly thank Roberta and Cheryl for the efforts that they have done to respond to a list member's request. Their actions are what I would like to see more of on this list. It would seem that this list is busy with lots of notes gateway'ed from the message board, but the list members have been exceptionally quiet. I know there are hundreds of you out there ... Nel does not even seem to be getting much new to report on the DNA project front. ;-) I could request a roll call to see if that will get some of the people lurking on the list to contribute. But the last time I did that it seemed that just the usual suspects bothered to pipe up. Maybe... what we are doing is enough for everyone... On some of my other lists, I encourage folks who have made a discovery, that they send me privately, to send the information to the list. The reason is that by sending it to the list, the data will get archived in the list archives for others to find. And maybe it will be the clue that breaks through someone's brick wall. I have an active Hall line that I do research from time to time, but Hall is not the center of my research universe. [I am still looking for a descendant of Thomas Hall (or one of his brothers...) and Elizabeth Sloan from Iredell county, North Carolina, to join the DNA project...] So... I do not have a lot of research discoveries to report, as others might. But, please, share with us how this list and community can serve you better. thanks, john. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [3]HALL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [4]HALL-request@rootsweb. com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:gene@tqsi.com 2. mailto:hall@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:HALL-request@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:HALL-request@rootsweb.com