I found 1 Holmes listed in Starr's genealogy of old Cherokee Families. It was a Nannie Holmes who married a George Washington Benge. There is a surname index of this old book at http://members.aol.com/rarebk Once there, go to booklists and scroll down till you see the Starr book, and you can invoke the index from there. The site also has a Cherokee genealogy tutorial you can read on-line, showing how to do Cherokee genealogy research (and the most common problems associated with it), as well as the 18.. (forgot which) Cherokee census list, and other rare general genealogy resources. Jimbo ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]