Hi List, thanks for everyone's help on finding some of my SKINNER clan. I am going to try and finish what I have tonight, since it may be the last chance I have before we leave for vacation on May 2. Sorry for all the postings but it is easier to just send out one mailing. So I am putting out an SOS for some help on a few names: 1. I need the parents of John Richard SKINNER b. 1808 in Bakersfield Franklin County Vermont who married a Emily Ward Reid. I have info on John and his family but have been able to link him to someone on my tree. 2. Confusion on my Truman SKINNER b. ca 1825: he is shown being married on the 1880 Census in Valparasio Porter County Indiana to a Nester and with 8 of the children's names are listed.. But in a 1850 Census he is shown to be married with the spelling of his first name Trueman b. ca 1825 and a wife named Sarah Johnson living with it looks like his sister Harriet. Could Nester be a nickname? The Porter County Indiana Marriages has a Truman Skinner married to a Sarah Johnson on 16 Oct 1849. I have tried to find out information on Nester to find out if this might be a second marriage. Can anyone help? 3. I am still trying to place a link on my tree to a Stephen L. SKINNER who is the son of a William H. SKINNER b. 6 Dec 1809 d. May 1850 buried at the Hopewell Baptist Church, Perry Co., Ohio: married a Matilda Debolt. William H. SKINNER father is Robert SKINNER b. 1772 d. 1856 and mother is Elizabeth Spencer b. 1776 d. 1850. Here is where I am stuck.. Who is Robert SKINNER parents? 3. Ray SKINNER and Josephine NORTON of Chesterton Gary Inidana.... Who is Ray SKINNER's parents? I know of one son, a Robert Roy SKINNER is. He was b. 23 Aug 1931 in Walkerton Gary Indiana. If I can find a connection that links these 3 to my SKINNER clan tree, I will have no broken links for now.. Hope someone can help me out before 2 May.. thanks and God Bless. Pam in Kentucky