I don't think that I can honestly tell all of you how much y'all have aided me in finding my Dad's HOLT line! I am deeply endebted to all of you. Those with whom I have corresponded personally and shared your HOLTs: Craig Kisabeth, Barbara Fahrlender, Dixie Chase, Helene Pockrus, Pam Howard, The Turners, Robert Nicholson, Brian Evans,Nell Reynolds,Mary Lou Pendergrass, Sandra Perry,and all ..I could go on and on ...but you know who you are and you have my eternal gratitude. My Dad died in 1985 and before Mom died in 1995, she gave me a scrapbook she and Dad had started where he was trying to find his parents and relatives. He had one piece of evidence from the GA Archives showing an Uncle's marriage in AL. I didn't really look at the scrapbook until I retired and unpacked some of the boxes I had of my parents things. Then three years ago, I went to GA for my 50th College Reunion with my best friend. She was/is heavily into her Mother's genealogy for at least 20 years and her books on her maternal family were fascinating. She encouraged me and so I took another look at Mom and Dad's Scrapbook. Of course, here I am now in NH and all my HOLTs are down South! To make a three year story short I've done most research online thru -Lists, thru FHC and correspondence both email and snail mail with yearly trips Down Home checking, finding original documents. But the major breakthrough was when I was made to realize that Michael HOLT was NOT his line..and the sharing of Robert's genealogy by several of you convinced me that in Robert was where the truth lay! I felt I had to do this for him. It was a Quest, as I explained to one person, a tribute to Dad. And now I have linked him to his past..all his HOLTs, Granddaddies and Grandmoms ..back to Robert of England...and I know he is smiling.. Thank you all, and God Bless you. Betty Faye (Double first name..ole Su'th'n custom) Searching for paternal:HOLT, LINDSEY, CARSWELL, TURNER; maternal:CLOUD,CHILDRESS, WHEELER, HARMON. Also: PLUMMER website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=fuzdawg