This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jackson, Bestaday, Brown, Massingale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/7728 Message Board Post: I'm trying to track the lineage of my great grandmother. Her name was Nannie Mae Brown b. Sept 21, 1907. Her mother was named Bessie Jackson. Bessie was born on Oct. 19, 1877. She died on September 11, 1964. She was married to an Unknown Williams at one point in time. She was also married to a Tom Brown. It should be noted that Nannie was not Tom Brown's child, but was adopted by him when he married Bessie. Her other two children, George and Wilma, were not adopted by Tom. Nannie told us that Bessie's mother's name was Idella Bestaday, but we can find no record for her. Nannie married Campbell Massingale and had two children, James David and Wilma. That's all the information I have to work with. Any help in finding who Bessie's family was would be greatly appreciated.