This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IMi.2ACEB/536.780.2 Message Board Post: HELLO DEVIN ! I DESCEND FROM A LONG LINE OF HELTONS, ONE OF WHICH, IS MY GG GRANDFATHER,ARNOLD HELTON, WHO WAS MARRIED TO NANCY ANN TURNBULL ,IN 1844, I BELEIVE YOU SAID YOUR WILLIAM WAS BORN IN 1841,ARNOLD COULD VERY POSSIBLY BE WILLIAMS FATHER, I'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT HE FATHERED A SON OUT OF WEDLOCK BY A MARY KNUCKLES, BUT I HAVE NOTHING TO DOCUMENT IT, NOW, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED DNA TESTING WITH SOMEONE FROM ARNOLDS DIRECT LINE. DNA WILL PROVE WHETHER YOU ARE CLOSLY RELATED TO THE HELTONS, OUT SIDE OF THAT I HAVE NO SOLUTIONS. GOOD LUCK IN YOUR INDEAVORS. I AM THE G GRANDSON OF ARNOLDS SON JOSEPH AND THE GRANDSON OF JOSEPH'S,SON WILLIAM ARNOLD, AND THE SON OF WILLIAM ARNOLD'S DAUGHTER ETHEL LEE HELTON, REPLY IF YOU'D LIKE CLICK ON MY NAME IN THIS POST AND YOU'LL SEE MY EMAIL ADDRESS SINCERLY GEORGE WOOD