I am sorry there is some confusion, I am not in Tucson, Would love to be as my sister-in-law lives there and I miss her but I am in Washington. All I have on Lena GRAHAM: ( before her marriage circa 1833 - 34, no record to Riley HOLDMAN b. 1810, TN in earlier census and in later KY) is that per 1880 census, her father was born in Ireland mother born in Virginia. However every census shows her being born in Kentucky. But her name changes every census. From Lena to Leah, Lear to Leen and Leigh, mostly Lena though and on her son's death certificate it is my understanding her name is listed as Loyer GRABER/GRAHAM. Odd? Now I would say that our families are NOT connected BUT I would not be surprised if they actually WERE. After 3 days of constant GRAHAM research I have decided that the GRAHAM family had many connections all over. Have found similar names looked them up even being in LA and WA and just all over, KY VA, and mainly MO and the neighbors seem too have the same surnames and boarders too. What I am trying to say is that when researching GRAHAM there were SO MANY side roads to take and I would end up getting lost. I am thinking but this could take a while that maybe I would just enter every name I found in census into a gedcom and see if the computer could match everyone up at least I could make a report. Sandy http://www.geocities.com/scarletgen/index.html Grant County, WI Biographies ~ County Coordinator http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scarletgen/index.html Scarletgen's Elusive SCOTT Family http://www.rootssearch.net/mygensite/sscarletgen/ Searching for the Ancestry of John ATTEBERRY ----- Original Message ----- From: Vrgfdonna@aol.com Date: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:16 pm Subject: [KY] GRAHAM > Sandy in Tucson: > I have a James F. GRAHAM b. Ky. 1831 to James Newton GRAHAM and > Sarah > FORTENBERRY. All I know about the parents: Sarah was born in > S.C. about 1804. > Just wondered if your Lena GRAHAM could be connected to mine. > Thank you. > Velma > > > ==== KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== > The Registry -- NEW -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/ > Help defeat spam > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >