Hi Geraldine King (gking@sierranet.net): Sorry, but was unable to find your Nathaniel King, b. abt 1840 in Athens, AL. I was born in nearby Huntsville, AL. From time to time I have noticed a lady in the Athens area working on a KING line. I too had colleced a little data from that area, but apparently not your Nathaniel. Sorry. The Tenn. Valley Genealogical Society has a genealogical bulletin board that works out of Huntsville, but I don't recall their address just now. (I found it: http://hiwaay.net/~white/TVGS/tvgs.html). There is also one in nearby Lincoln County TN genealogical BB. I suggest you post your Athens line there; since Athens is near the TN line and many people from Lincoln Co. settled in North AL. (stephenl@indiana.edu (Stephens, Larry V) operates several genealogical BB's in the southern states, including one for TN. Send him a message and he will send you a list of his BB's and tell you how to suscrible. I think it was through his TN BB that I learned about the Lincoln Co. TN board and the KING researcher in Athens, AL. Tom King, Sr.