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/510.531.3 Message Board Post: sorry it has taken me so long to reply but my father got sick and passed away nov of 2004 snd between work and going back and forth from tn to ky to help my mother i haven't had much time to do much research. But I am still interested in anything on the Gentry's. This is all I know. My great-grandfather was Malen Gentry marr. Elizabeth Shepherd. Her fahter and mother was Henry and Mary(polly) sparks. Malen and Elizabeth children were Henderson(Hence), Harim, Andrew and Dora who married John D Carmack. Dora and John were my grandparents. I need the Gentry line. thanks for any info. Cathy