This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AB.2ACI/6976.1 Message Board Post: Hello, I am not related to your family so far as I know. However, from census and some other records, I believe I do have some information on your mother's side of the family. First from the KBI, I found most of your siblings and the missing ones may simply be because of spelling errors or just not recorded. All births were in Harlan County to Thelma ESTES (but in some cases, the name is spelled incorrectly). The Fed. Census records go only up through 1930 so there will be no census records for them together. I think it is important for you to ask if anyone has a record of the marriage in Harlan Co. between Thelma ESTES and Andrew LANKFORD. There may be some parental info on this marriage record which will help you confirm some of what I am going to give you. LANKFORD, Loretta J. b. 3-16-1936 LANKFORD, James D. b. 11-16-1940 (recorded 11-28-1940) LANKFORD, Barba J. b. 6-29-1938 LANKFORD, Roger D. b. 3-27-1943 LANKFORD, Wanda S. b. 2-11-1946 LANKFORD, Kenny D. b. 3-16-1951 LANKFORD, Gary E. b. 7-7-1958 LANKFORD, Andrew A. b. 11-5-1955 LANKFORD, Teresa b. 8-27-1953 LANKFORD, Billie F. b. 8-9-1948; Vol. 096; Cert 47726; maiden name of mother: Thelma ESTER (assume this is you) From the census records: 1930 Harlan Co., KY Dist. #6 Fifth Row, Chevrolet Mining Camp Dwelling 19-23-79 BOLES, George W. head, 59, mar. at 19, b. GA; parents b. GA - coal miner . .Rachel, wife, 54, mar. at 14, b. AL; parents b. GA . .Alpha L., dau, 18, single, b. AL . .Earls___?, son, 14, single, b. AL DUCKWORTH, Ralph___? F., _____24, mar. at 21, b. AL - coal mine laborer . .Bertha E., 21, mar. at 17, b. AL, father b. GA; mother b. AL ESTES, Thelma, border, 16, single, b. TN; parents b. TN * * * . Wiley, border, 47, "widow", b. TN; parents b. TN - coal mine laborer * * * WOODWARD, Berniece, ____, age 22, single, b. KY; parents b. KY - teacher, public school Going backwards to the 1920 Fed. Census: Morgan Co., TN - lst Civil Dist. Dwelling 139-139 MYERS, Lum, head, 55, b. GA; parents b. GA - coal miner . .Nancy, wife, 40, b. GA; parents b. GA ESTES, Wiley, widow, 39, b. TN; parents b. TN - coal miner * * * . .Thelma, boarder, 6, b. TN; parents b. TN * * * NOTE: There is a Dick BOLES family living next to them so probably some connection to the 1930 BOLES family where they are living in 1930. As of the 1910, they are not in Harlan Co., KY. You need to know that there are several Wiley ESTES out there running around in different time periods. I will tell you there is a Wiley ESTES on the 1910 Claiborne Co., TN Fed. Census who looks as follows but THERE IS NO WAY I COULD TELL YOU THIS IS YOUR WILEY!!! It might be and it might not be. Claiborne is very close by to Bell Co. and Harlan Co.'s though. Dwelling 197-220 ESTES, Wiley, head, 24, mar. 1, mar. 6 yrs, b. TN; parents b. TN . .Looks like Patsy??/ Saley??, __, b. TN . .Dicie, 7, dau, b. TN . . Ruthie, 5, dau, b. TN . .Paul??, 4, son, b. TN Living next dwelling is an older Calvin ESTES, age 56 with wife, Eliza and several older children. As of the 1900, I did locate Wiley or "a" Wiley ESTES in Claiborne Co. but not with Calvin but with someone whose name looks like Callaway or something like that and they live next to a Calvin ESTES so probably some close relationship. On the marriages for Claiborne Co., there is: Wiley ESTES to a Sallie ENGLAND in 1905, Book 7, Page 50 Again, I will tell you there are several Wiley ESTES around and this may or may not be the correct one. The marriage record for Thelma ESTES could very well give you more information. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA