Having the same families in several states was the usual. Life was hard. Travel was rough. Groups of family and neighbors would usually move or travel together. If you lived in one area and land became available in another many groups got together and moved to claim land. Faye At 10:50 PM 03/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Faye; I can't tell you for sure but I belive that I have a cousin I think >his name is George Hodge that married a Mcfadden girl around the early >1960's but he is decended from Shadrack from the Meshack Shadrack and >Abendgo Hodges from Kentucky. We ran around with some of the McFadden girls >when I was younger. I always heard some of my hodges went to Ga. To have >both family's in both states is kind of strange. Bill Moore > > >==== HODGE Mailing List ==== >Faye Dyess fdy13@home.com Listmanager >DO YOU OWN A COPY OF A CENSUS?? THEN VOLUNTEER TO DO LOOKUPS!!! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~uslookup >Thou shalt not rely on the privacy of e-mail, especially from work. > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library