In a message dated 10/6/2007 1:53:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bjreece@bellsouth.net writes: I might suggest you all find a Johnson based web site and offer them to the site manager for permanent posting. If any of them are based in Tennessee I'd be glad to post them on the TNLHN web site at http://usgennet.org/usa/tn/state/ or send them to the proper county for posting. This is not only a wonderful and POSITIVE suggestion.......... to post information that was undoubtedly gathered and shared already with good intentions and a 'giving' attitude......... but it also demonstrates how 'trickle down' theory DOES work in genealogy...... I read this post........ thought it a great idea....... remembered that it had been some time since I'd visited the USGenNet.org >>>TENN site and so I went there...... many new things have been added and I found a link which clearly outlined how each county in Tenn was formed - when and from which other county; it was something that I'd either overlooked or had just not noticed HOW CLEARLY this laid out the history of the formations. Not only is this the history of the divisions but a very clear view of what might be perceived as 'migration' when the family could have stayed put but the records might intimate moving.... I know - simple but basic!!! IF......... I got it right...........Knox...... comes from Greene and Hawkins...... which come from Sullivan...... which comes from Washington......... and guess what.......... Washington Cty. TENNESSEE comes from Washington District, NORTH CAROLINA............ I DID NOT KNOW THIS! I'd not done ANY research in NC...... so see ---------- even the simplest of posts can lead to a water fall of information, implications, innuendo, and ideas of what direction to take to maybe find that long lost soul that IS YOUR BRICK WALL. Sometimes you have to 'corner' an ancestor..... can't find them going 'up' --- you hope to luck out with a name that runs in your line historically and try to make a match coming 'down'. It's sooooooooo much luck many times...... and patience is truly a virtue in genealogy research!!! To research............ means to dig, hunt, sift and wade through all sorts of goodies...... and if you don't have the time.......... well, sadly - YOU don't have the time. This is a GIVING community and like with any gift....... YOU TAKE IT GRACIOUSLY. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.... ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com