Sherry - this sounds like the typical family story from your grandmother's grandmother, etc. However, remember your history from school. The Mayflower was 1620. I don't know when "shortly thereafter was". Georgia was founded 1832 which was considerably later than the Mayflower. My understanding is that Georgia was largely settled by convicts or those in the prisons in England. They may have been imprisoned for minor crimes (ie, stealing a loaf of bread) or something less then a misdemeanor today. Anyway, the English wanted to get rid of their prison population so they released many of them if they agreed to go to their colonies. I suggest that you may want to get some source documents on your Hodges, like death certificates, birth certificates, marriage records, military records, census, land, etc. to substiate your claims. Who knows you may even be a cousin of mine. Gerry Hodges Hackley in Houston From the line of Jesse,Jr., Jesse, Isaac Allen, Dennis Newton Hodges, Isaac Hodges, ?Abel Hodges Note that my HODGES family used the typical naming patterns or traditions of the time. first boy - paternal grandfather first girl - maternal grandmother second boy - maternal grandfather second girl - paternal grandmother third boy - after his father third girl - after her mother Some of these people had more than a dozen children. Nobody had only two unless they died young. Keep checking. Remember they did not have birth control and besides they probably needed an extra hand or more in the fields or whatever they did to earn a living. At 10:11 AM 8/10/1999 -0500, you wrote: >The story in this family goes like this: 2 brothers came to America from England, not on the Mayflower but almost immediately thereafter. Both settled in GA. One brother died childless. The other brother populated the US with his offering, therefore, anyone who can trace back to the surviving brother is related. Only one problem, I can't find out who either brother is. > >I am researching in my husband's family. Very little is known about the ancestors according to the living children. My father-in-law, Vernon was born in the early 1920's in AR. His father Clyde, had at least 2 brothers, Claude and Ross but the rest escapes me now. They all lived in AR. Clyde m. Ethel Debow who had 2 brothers & 2 sisters. Clyde's parents were John R Hodges and Margaret Goad. There are many Goad's in AR. There is some dispute over John's father's name, it could be E.A. Hodges. > >Does anyone have anything that might connect with this sparse amount of information? Is so, please email me. > >Sherie Hodges > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Searchable Archives at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >Archives help at: http://www.shelby.net/shelby/jr/robertsn/rwsearch.htm >New threaded Archives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > >