Dear Sam Harris. Thank you Ms. Wallace.  I have Bennett, Bailey and Parks used as "unusual" given names through my line of Allen Bailey Harris.  I had thought the Bennett may have come from the attorney in Savannah Georgia but have no proof or reason.  I have not been able to find a significance of Bailey either.  I recently had thought Bailey (term for an English jail keeper) might be a nickname as well as Marshall for his brother, from their attendance at Richmond Military Academy.  This new info is a new line of thought me as to their source and I appreciate it.  My research is not as sophisticated as yours (and others) but I have found good info through associations.  Initially, years ago, I had thought I was from their (Chris & Agnes) line because of naming, but no Christophers or Agnes's in my line that I have found so I had abandoned that line of thought.  Maybe I need to re-look. Thanks for sharing Sam Harris Grp 6 #179994 To Sam Harris -- and others who are stumped (we all are from time to time) Suggestion:  How far are you from an LDS family history center?  Look in your yellow phone directory for the subject Churches and then see if there is *Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.*  in your neighborhood. Call them on a Sunday if you do not get an answer on a week-day.  Ask WHEN the center is open.  The FHCs are run by missionaries or volunteers and they do not work every day. Nearly ALL LDS FH centers have some microfiche labeled roughly AIS [Accelerated Indexing System].  If you have Ancestry.com subscription, see if they have bought AIS. What is AIS?  Years ago, some unskilled workers (I am told) helped the collaborator compile some indexes to censuses through the 1850 census--and for some mortality schedules and some western states [territories] beyond 1850.  (Check those mortality schedules--you may be in for a surprise.  I found two ancestors in different mortality schedules.  One was a female (a born Harris) about whom we knew little as she died when her children were young.  These searches are at the back of this vast database. Each census year is called a Search.  Search one, however, seems to precede the 1790 census and is composed (more or less) of tax payers.  The lecture given by a seasoned genealogist enlightened me.  How about this?  In that earliest Search one, find the surnames you are searching for.  Note the localities.  These same persons MAY appear on a subsequent search in a different place.  Note that too. Now, this is just a fishing expedition.  But the lecturer found her New England name in Search 1, but in Search 2, he was in a different place.  Keep in mind that counties/districts kept dividing, and, furthermore, these former Englishmen were enthralled with owning land, which they had not been able to do in UK countries.  Maybe the farming was better in another locality.  (Ah, those mobile Americans!!) Another way to use AIS--find the latest census on which you KNOW your ancestor was living and then move backwards in time.  I never studied social history in University, but one of our lecturers had studied social history.  Southerners lived mostly on isolated plantations, but New Englanders lived in villages.  I have visited one or two such villages in Vermont, and although they were close together (walking distance) each had a different name!  One was called East Barnett and another West Barnett, etc. Another tip about 1880 census (online at www.familysearch.org, I think) and some subsequent ones.  My common-named great-grandfather, the year before he died in 1881, gave this info to the 1880 census taker.  In some right handed columns are these two questions:  Where was your father born?  Where was your mother born?  Answer by my GGFa:  father:  NC; mother:  KY.  Since my ancestor was born in Kentucky in 1818, I surmised the marriage had taken place in KY (but not in the county his young widow specified.  In 1818 that KY territory still belonged to the Chickasaw Indians.)  But NC was a surprise to me--and was I lucky!  My ggfa was named David, but his eldest son was named Samuel, a name not known in the family of the boy's mother, so I guessed Samuel came from the father's lines..  (There is a 100 plus old genealogy for the mother's Germanna family, thank goodness, although Samuel's mother gave the wrong KY birthplace) I began collecting all records for I could, as we had hints in old letters that other counties in KY--and yea, in Illinois and even Kansas City, MO--were maternal cousins of my great-grandfather.  Using a great newspaper collection in Missouri, my researcher at the Missouri Historical Society found a detailed obituary of the wife of one of those cousins--with a great deal of genealogical info.  [How lucky can you get?] Genealogy is one great detective story.  An acquaintance of mine, who lectures, writes booklets about genealogy, has a degree in library science, tells me that by reading detective stories, she gets ideas for further research.  This hobby does take a great deal of time, and that is why so many retirees are attracted to it.  Maybe now is not the time for you to be solving mysteries.  But write ALL your living relatives and ask what stories they have to tell.  You may be amazed!!!  Don't wait until everybody is deceased.  Oh, three items needed in a query--names, of course, Places best guess) and DATES.  So many queries on the internet omit DATES.  Well, some of my folks were in Virginia in 1716 (land patent), and there have been a few centuries since that date. E.W.Wallace