This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ll.2ADI/37.1.1 Message Board Post: Candy, Is your mother Inez M. PROUT, daughter of James Earnest PROUT (1881 -1957) and Helena Belle HOLMES (1889-1933). Helena's parents were Phillip Edward HOLMES and Sarah Belle TROSPER. Phillip was an older brother to my great great grandfather, Fredrick Raliford HOLMES, who married Sarah's sister , Ludora TROSPER. That makes us double cousins, but I don't know how to exactly calculate how . I have Trosper family history back to the mid 1700's and Holmes information. Please contact me at txfischers@aol.com. I would love to talk with you. I have names of 4 siblings of Inez PROUT, but very little on their descendents. I am anxious to hear from you. Debra Spearman Fischer