Maybe a common story, but the truth is that every family in America started with a few original immigrants/families from somewhere - a shipload of them didn't just show up on the "SS Jones" one day - ...just a question of figuring out exactly who these earliest settlers were is the challenge, is it not?... -----Original Message----- From: Brenda Overstreet [mailto:stonephoenix@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 4:16 PM To: JONES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Jones] The Early Jones' in America --- Paul Ogle <paul@ogle.net> wrote: > I have heard that the Jones line started with 3 > individual immigrants. > Does anyone have a history of the very early Jones' > in America? > This is highly improbably in any surname and even more unlikely with Jones, the most common surname in Wales. Sounds like the old (and false) three brothers story. Kathi Jones-Hudson JONES Listowner ******************************************************************** I think this story is a very common one with ALL names. The story is that the Overstreet family started from 3 brothers, interestingly enough so did the Heck family and now the Jones family. Brenda Overstreet [researching Overstreet (VA), Heck (VA), Jones (MS), & Jester (MS) lines] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 ==== JONES Mailing List ==== Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at jones-admin@rootsweb.com For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this site: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones search the archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES Unusual JONES given names, http://members.aol.com/stjones/jones/oddnames.html