Glad to hear the list is off and running! You've all been a big help to me, since I live near San Francisco, and even though the Mormon Family History Center in Oakland is one of the biggest outside Salt Lake City, it still has little information from eastern Kentucky. Nothing beats having help right in the neighborhood you're trying to study..... I'm a descendant of John Haymond and Cassandra Wilcoxin NICHOLS/NICHOLLS, who are said to have arrived in Greenup around 1800. Like Carolyn Kemp in Michigan, I believe our line came through Reuben or Joseph R. NICHOLS born about 1814, in Virginia or Kentucky. who married Rebecca Stevens or Stephens about 1835. The family appears in Morgan County for the 1850 and 1860 census - under the incorrect spelling in their case of NICKELL - but later records show most of the family in Greenup County. Much of the family mystery surrounds Rebecca STEPHENS. She is sometimes said to have been Indian, part Indian, or perhaps a captive of Indians. One researcher believes she may be a descendant of a Stevens family from early Jamestown, VA who were shown then as "mulatto." We wonder if they may not have been Melungeon and Powhatan or Pamunkey Indian. But, my GGrandfather was Riley NICHOLS - in younger years often shown as William R. - who married Maggie BROWN of the Morgan County BROWNs 27 Mar 1876 in Greenup County. My BROWN family cousins tell me that the family freely acknowledged that they were Melungeon and Lumbee Indian, and family photographs make it quite credible. I believe Riley was born Mar 1850 in Morgan County. He died June 15, 1922 in Greenup and was buried at the Caroline Cemetery in Russell. Maggie or Madge was the daughter of Alford T. and Sarah or Julie FANNIN BROWN of Morgan and Magoffin counties. I gather the relationship between Riley and Maggie was a stormy one....Maggie was granted a divorce from Riley in 1906, and a year later, she married Hiram or Henry MOORE, but it appears she and Hiram/Henry already had three daughters ... Maud, Nanny and Dovie May MOORE. My grandmother was Dora Bell NICHOLS, born 26 Nov 1878, apparently in Greenupsburg. She traveled with other family members to Michigan, and while there, married her cousin Jesse NICHOLS, son of her uncle, Jessie NICHOLS, Sr. on 27 Feb 1900 in Antrim County, MI. The couple appears to have had two sons ... Emery Jackson NICHOLS, b. 1900, who may have died young, and Cecil John Rhodes NICHOLS, born 1902. Family notes say Cecil was born in Jackson, Ohio, but no one has ever been able to find a record of his birth there. I'm wondering now if it might have been Jackson, Michigan or Jackson, Kentucky? We also have no idea what happened to Jesse, Jr. - he appears to have left that area of Michigan in 1902. But, in 1906, Dora Bell married again, to Ebenezer - "E. E." - PETERS of Kanawha County, WV and the couple settled in Washington state by late 1908. Ebenezer, born 1878, was the son of John W. and Virginia STANLEY PETERS of West Virginia ... the family seems to have been in the Cabin Creek area for many years before the 1880 census. I need to explain that my mother, Virginia Lee PETERS, who died earlier this month, was estranged from her family as far as we knew from the late 1920's, and suffered from a severe dissociative disorder. She apparently had psychogenic amnesia for most of her childhood ... it was so horrendous that her mind had just blanked out most all of her memory up until the time she married our father. After her death, what papers and photographs she had not destroyed in those last few weeks seem to show that she carried on a secret correspondance with at least some distant family members, but that seems to have stopped sometime in the 1980's. But, when I began attempting to research her family several years back, she could [or would] tell me nothing more than her mother's name of Dora Bell NICHOLS and her birthplace as Green something, Kentucky... which as you locals know, could be at least half of the state! Her half-brother Cecil NICHOLS died in the 1960's in Portland, OR, and she never saw or heard from her older sister Edith Irene PETERS after about 1927 ... we located Edith's last address, but she and her husband had both passed away ... and their one daughter had known absolutely nothing about her mother's true background ... she'd even had her name legally changed when she was 18 from Edith Irene Peters to Dawnaline GRAY. We know that some descendants of Maggie and Riley, through their daughter Amanda NICHOLS, live in the Chicago area and have been there since the early 20's, at least, but they will not answer my letters. I understand that members of the family still live in the Greenup area, or across the river in the Portsmouth area, but have not been able to gain any information from those I've tried to contact. I believe that the children of Riley and Maggie NICHOLS were Dora Bell, Minnie, Edward R., Amanda and possibly Anna S. [Mrs. Harley GATES of Cincinnatti]. Would be happy to share what I have found in my searching with anyone else researching these lines. My main research is for AUXIER, BROWN, CLAY, COFFEY/COFFEE, FANNIN, HAYMOND, NICHOLS/NICHOLLS and NICKELL - 2 different lines, PETERS, PRATHER/PRATER, STANLEY, STEPHENS/STEVENS and WILCOXIN as well as CHRISTOPHER, EDMONDSON/EDMONSTON, GOLDSMITH [1630], HORNBECK, LACEY, MARTIN, NEVILLE, ROSS, WALKER and YATES [abt 1670] Jeannie Vaughan PO Box 365 Byron, CA 94514-0365 _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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