Sue, You are right, I have only done a small amount of looking at time periods after I got the email from Eddie Davis and will take more time to ponder it further. I do believe that the Palatinate part is correct and the family did come to England from some part of Germany. What I meant about blowing the theory out of the water, was my perception of the journey the Kornegay family took in route to North Carolina. I also feel like Latvia may have been part of the Upper Palatinate. I guess that since I didn't have a clue to where Talsen was I was searching in the Lower Palatinate and now that theory no longer holds true. I now have a new direction to search. Ya'll keep in touch. Sheila