This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PORTER CAMPBELL CARROLL JETER PALMER SANDERS WOOD TAYLOR Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kEB.2ACI/334.1 Message Board Post: Dear Linda, et al., I'm pretty sure you're looking for an Andrew Jackson PORTER in some branch of my PORTER family since one of the children was named "Shedrick" [sic]! My 3rd great-grandfather was Shadrach PORTER b. 10 August 1780 in Union County, SC d. 17 July 1827 in St. Martin Parish, LA. I have 5 Andrew Jackson PORTERs in my database, but with very little information on any of them - a Jr. and Sr. in my own line, a Jr. and Sr. in Shadrach's Uncle Jedithan's line, and another one I'm not quite sure from where.... I'm afraid modern researchers get them (and a few more...) very mixed up since Shadrach's uncles, brothers, and children often named their children the same names, all the way from South Carolina, through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and on to Texas. I, also, am VERY interested in anyone who is SURE they have correct information on any part of this family, but I have become VERY confused through the last 5 to 7 years with supposedly "authoritative" information that turns out to be info mixed with two, three, four, or five of these people by the same name. What we really ALL need to do is get one of our relatives in each of the states this family has passed through, or settled in, to go directly to the record sources, copy the information exactly, and put it on the Web so everyone can "get his or her ducks lined up in CORRECT rows", so to speak. There are MANY researchers on this family, and quite a few are still arguing about this or that detail! If you, or anyone else, wants any of my info (which of course has often come from many kind sources whom I list in my records...), almost all of it can be found on Rootsweb's WorldConnect database site at: http://wc.rootsweb.com/~bcvs It is downloadable to your own computer in up to 10-generations-at-a-time chunks. PLEASE, though, SHARE with me any corrections or additions, if you would be so kind so we don't keep spreading incorrect stuff around! I am partially-disabled from an old car accident, so I often can't reply to your notes unless you copy them daily for a week or so ;-) and keep resending them until I get the energy to remember to try to answer them. It certainly isn't because I'm not VERY interested in what you have to say; it's just very difficult for me to type a worthwhile reply and/or go through my heavy original records in order to check information... A chronically-dislocating shoulder and resultant chronic-pain syndrome make it very problematic for doing genealogy. Still, I am a former public-high-school history teacher, so I DO TRY to be as accurate as possible with notes and sources, etc., despite the fact that being stuck in Ohio most of the time makes me very dependent on other kind relatives to do the travelling to SC, Mississippi, and Louisiana, or even my own wonderful hometown of Cincinnati's library and LDS FHC. My direct line is as follows: Edward PORTER b. England>Thomas PORTER>John PORTER b. 1695 Lancaster Co., VA>Edward Sanders PORTER b. 1720 Lancaster Co., VA d. 1792 Union Co., SC>Landlot (Lancelot) PORTER b. ca. 1744 Lancaster Co., VA d. 1831 Hinds Co., Mississippi>Shadrach PORTER b. 1780 Union Co., SC d. 1827 St. Martin Parish, LA>James Monroe PORTER b. 1819 St. Landry Parish, LA d. 1870 St. Landry Parish, LA>Jamie "Jimmie" Evelina PORTER b. 1864 Coldspring, San Jacinto Co., TX d. 1936 New Orleans, LA (this last woman was my maternal great-grandmother)>Ashton Michael CARROLL b. 1883 Bay St. Louis, Mississippi/registered in New Orleans birth records>Patricia Bruce CARROLL VOLZ b. 1929 Cincinnati, OH>me b. 1951 Cincinnati! Linda, a last favor - tell me about your "BRUCE" surname; as you can see, it's my mother's middle name, and comes from somewhere back in her family's history, but we haven't located the connection yet... Warm regards and hope to hear from you, Barbara Carroll VOLZ SMITH barbara@frognet.net Athens, Ohio