I don't have a rootsweb account so I can't reply to this there, but maybe Robin Hall will read this some day: Robin- If I were you and you suspect that your Hall's descend either from Lyman Hall or the Wallingford Hall's (or both), then I would try to find a male Hall to do a dna test. Sooner or later, the Lyman Hall line and/or the Wallinford Hall line will be established through their dna markers, and you can then determine if your Hall's are part of those line(s)... I suspect that many people would like to believe that they descend from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but proving it is another thing altogether. Given the amount of time that has passed, and the fact that your ggg grandfather's father's origins are now unknown, you need some major breakthrough in the paper trail. To determine if you are searching in the right direction, a dna test by a living male Hall member of your line would certainly help. There seem to be a lot of Tennesseean and North Carolinian Hall's who appear there from parts unknown, and using dna to sort them out is certainly one tool that should be used. Paperwork is a richer, more interesting, more educational method of research, of course, but dna is like using a nail instead of paste to hold your family tree together! Best, Jeff RE: HALL Rootsweb site: Author: itsabird1 Surnames: Hall Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.hall/2295.2343.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Do you have an Amos Hall, Garland Hall, or Patcye Hall in your family line from the late 1700's? My great-great-great grandfather, Garland Hall moved to Tennessee, and married a Penelope Strickland in Tennessee, and they later moved to Menard County, IL, where they died and are buried in Blue Mound, IL, in the Hall Cemetary. Garland seems to have been an orphan, with a sister, Patcye Hall, apprenticed to a local planter at around 11, whose father was an Amos Hall. We do not know the name of his mother or an exact death date for his father. We can't seem to definitely pinpoint his father, Amos', origins, although we are supposedly related to Dr. Lyman Hall, later of Georgia, but originally from Wallingford,Connecticut. And he had relations named Amos Hall from about the right period of time. Do you have any information that might connect your Halls to ours? Robin Hall Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.