Previous message Subject was: [KING] Where was this line from before Monroe County AL around 1800? etc. To Lorrie, Rex and Brenda who offered specific suggestions and leads on how to continue my research into this line: Thanks much. I am following thru with your suggestions and recommendations one by one, delayed by the detour reflected below. For you and for anyone else who might be interested: Right after I submitted my previous inquiry to the King list, I acted upon my promise to myself that I would attempt to find out what I could about the link between my Dohahue/King line and Frank and Jesse James. I 'googled' and came up with an fascinating website containing an enormous amount of genealogical information called "Stray Leaves, A James Family in America since 1615" maintained by Eric James at: http://www.ericjames.net . The information there reflects an enormous amount of research that has been done by the descendents of the JAMES family going back as far as possible and coming forward to present times, and contains information on lines going back to the first century AD. When put together with the information I already had on this line, the site shows that my line traces back to common ancestors with Frank and Jesse James thru several lines of descent to my 5X great grandfather William KING's wife, Mary "Polly" WOODSON, who has at least two lines of descent from English ancestors who immigrated to the Virginia colony: Dr. John WOODSON, Sr. b. 1586 in England who d. 1644 in Virginia "by Indian attack" m. 1619 in England Sarah WINSTON, b 1595 in England and d. 1669 or 1670 in Virginia Frank and Jesse were descendants of Dr. John and Sarah (WINSTON) WOODSON, Sr. thru their father's (Reverend Robert Salee JAMES, b. 1818 in Kentucky, d. 1850 in California) mother (Mary "Polly" POOR, b. 1790 in Virginia, d. 1826 Kentucky). There may be other lines of connection (for example, the surname BROWN occurs in the JAMES brothers' lines as well as my own) that I have not been able to clearly define or determine as yet. The records at Eric James' site show that Mary Polly WOODSON had a sister named Nancy who married a Phillip KING who died in Warren County Tennessee (not dates). ( I believe that Phillip may be William's brother, but I need to follow up this possible lead.) (It appears that my links to Frank and Jesse JAMES are NOT close enough to add to my collection, but, in addition to my general interest in furthering knowledge of my maternal ancestors, I was quite curious about what facts lay behind this bit of family oral history because I am already a multiple qualifier for the International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists (IBSSG), another list here at rootsweb that can be a lot of fun if, as many of us have, you've found rapscallions, rotters, social outcasts and other no-goodniks among your ancestors.) Maura in Maryland, IBSSG, who has found the answer to one of her questions about her beloved Alabama grandma and looks forward to discovering more