Have you tried Ancestral File at your local Family History Center? I'd be surprised if there wasn't a pedigree file for the Willie family in that data base. If you don't know where to find a FHC, go to the LDS home page (www.lds.org) and look under family history for a page listing FHCs. Here's a bio from LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 2. Doesn't give much on his family, but he did seem to leave a lot of descendants, so AF should have it. I found information on about 2/3 of the 9th HC Co. members in AF. Willie, James Grey, the second Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born Nov. 1, 1814, in Taunton, Somersetshire, England, the son of William and Mary Willie. He emigrated to the United States when about twenty-two years of age and joined the Church in February, 1842; he came to G. S. L. Valley in the fall of 1847, crossing the plains in Capt. J. B. Noble's Fifty of Jedediah M. Grant's Hundred. In 1852�56 he filled a mission to Great Britain, and on returning home in 1856 he was captain of one of the belated handcart companies which suffered so much that year in crossing the mountains in the snow. Many of the emigrants lost their lives on that memorable journey, exposed to hunger and cold. Soon after his return from his mission Bro. Willie was called to succeed William G. Perkins as Bishop of the Seventh Ward, Salt Lake City, which position he held until the spring of 1859, when he moved to Cache Valley, making his residence at Mendon. Here he resided until the time of his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1895. Bro. Willie held many important positions, both civil and ecclesiastical, which he filled with honor. At his death he left a wife, three daughters and two sons and upwards of thirty grandchildren. He died as he had lived, a faithful Latter-day Saint, and held the office of a Patriarch when he passed to the great beyond. ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: [HANDCART-L] J.G.WILLIE Author: DBR <danryn@bigplanet.com> Date: 7/12/98 9:35 PM Can someone tell me where I may find information on James G. Willie ancestors and relatives? .... His Genealogy? Thank You! Sincerely, Dan Rynearson