Hi Kerry, Last year I went to Salt Lake City and one of my main goals was to find the book by James Anderson Childress, I had tried to get it through interlibrary loan and had failed. I did find his book at Salt Lake and spent the first day there reading it. I was so disappointed that he did not talk about his ancestors, I was so hoping that he would mention Benedict Childress the father of his father William Marion Sr. who is my great great grandfather, but he did not. Your James Anderson would be the brother of my great grandfather William Jr. William Jr. is the father of my grandfather James Elbert Childress. I have one folder on Sarah Elmit but know very little about the other children of James Anderson. I would like to have the information that you have and I will gladly share any that I have. Also I would like to know which of the branches of James Anderson's children that you belong to. My line goes like this: Dorothy Hester White Harkins, Mary Edna Childress, James Elbert, William Jr., Wm. Sr. Benedict, and this is where the gap is. We know Benedict was the grandson of Jeremiah Childress and Martha McGowan but do not know who his parents were. Some of the information that Mary Ann did is in error and she will not admit it. She has William Marion Sr. married to a Nancy Hanks and that is wrong, he married Nancy Wilkerson. I have tried to make the corrections but for some reason Ancestry .com will not change, so there are errors in the record. Goodness knows there are probably errors everywhere but at least we try and keep it accurate. I am meeting a Mr. Garland Childress from Louisville this Friday at the Family History Center in Frankfort and hope that he can help me with my line. I am so glad to hear from you and hope to meet you sometime. I am a retired professor from Eastern Ky. University, we live in Fort Pierce, Fl. for 7 months and then come back to Richmond, Ky for 5 months where I get to have a garden. I grew up on a farm in Caldwell County and still love digging in the soil. I would like to know more about your family and where you live. Cousin Dot.