List, It is an interesting, frustrating, and sometimes annoying phenomenon which drives genealogy adherents to adhere themselves and their families to lines of great accomplishment, or honor, or royalty, or wealth, etc. The reality, as difficult as it may be to accept, is that most of us are descended from simple indentured laborer/farmers, tradesmen, or small-time merchants. I descend from John Kellam of Bogerternorton Hundred, Maryland. He was a simple farmer. I can live with that. Don't be thrown by my e-mail address, Joseph Smith- Dedham, Massachusetts