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/5AB.2ACE/429.1443.1470.3 Message Board Post: Hi there. Ive been following your posts about the Sams family and I am quite interested in them because Orlena Sams mother was the sister of my g g great grandmother Martha Susan Carmack. I have been looking through the census and I did find Orlena married to a James McDowell either in the 1920 or 1930 census. In the house is a Daniel Floyd, a Delbert Floyd, and a Brackett Floyd. Is that your Delbert? It says born about 1912 or so. Maybe its possible the boys changed their names to Sams for some reason. Orlena has been a hard one to trace. I think in the 1900 census she is living with her parenst and is listed as Mrs Orlena Floyd. With at least oone son named possibly Lemuel born about 1894. Do you by chance have a complete list of Delberts siblings? Would love to know more about Delbert. Kim