Dear Harkeys, The introductions and reintroductions are great! I hope everyone will get around to posting. One item intrigues me. Sandra Glenn mentioned a John V. HARKEY Sr. The probable birth date and the date of his will (1821) suggests that he is the same person as the John HARKEY Sr. who is the son of Martin HARKEY and Catherine BARRINGER (and the father of my ancestor, Daniel David HARKEY). I have never seen the name John with the middle initial V. I have a copy of John HARKEY Sr.'s 1821 will, and it doesn't have a middle initial. Nor do I see a John V. HARKEY in the censuses. Is there a document in which the middle initial V. appears? If there is such a document, is it possible that the V is not a middle initial but an abbreviation for "Vater" (father), to distinguish him from a son John? Alma Johnson [email protected]