My friends - Greetings from Bowling Green, KY. We stopped here today so that I could visit Western Kentucky University's Manuscript collection. hey have had, for some years, a an original docket book from the 1830's for Calloway County - an item which does not exist either in Calloway County, or in the KY Archives. I spent about an hour perusing the contents of this group, and found it to be a ledger of sorts, showing the plaintiff and defendant in certain cases and how the judgement was rendered and paid by one or the other of the parties. How this came to be in the holdings of WKU is a mystery. There is nothing of great genealogical import in this material, and it is too fragile to be photocopied, except in the case of a few pages. I will have to go back and copy the entire book by hand at some future date. But, we do now know what this item contains. I thought we would end this week's data postings with a "relationship puzzler" - this is not a "regular" Skills Puzzler - it is just a little item with which to have some fun and to see if we can determine the exact relationship in some of the cases we see in which families married and intermarried over several generations. What follows is an actual family situation, from my own line, and all of the names in the case of this scenario are the actual ones. My ggg-gf, Richard Skaggs(1792-1855), married, in 1811, to Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Samuel Wells and Anna Hamilton. Richard's elder brother, William Skaggs, had married, in 1809, to another Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Philip Wells, who was the aunt of the Elizabeth Wells who married Richard, even though they were only a few years apart in age. Richard and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs had a number of children, one of whom was Manerva Jane Skaggs, who married, in Calloway County, to Elias Meshach Skaggs, son of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. Another of Richard and Elizabeth Skaggs daughters, Polly Ann, married Isham Charles Wells, son of Isaac Wells and Betsey Ann Skaggs, daughter of William and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. Isham and Polly Ann had a son, William Hamilton Wells, who married Selina Ann Skaggs, a great-granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs. The question we wish to tackle is this: what is the relationship of William Hamilton Wells to his wife, Selina Ann Skaggs? If you want to give this one a try, you can send your thoughts to the List or to me. I'll return sometime over the weekend with the solution. As is customary, we will not have any data posts per se over the weekend, especially since I am away from my resource materials. Have a good weekend. -B ============================================================