Dear Cathea, I have taken the liberty of cutting and pasting your query into the Harris-Hunters list and the Madison co., KY list. Why? Because someone on one or both of those lists may have more information than I do about your Christopher Harris. Maybe you can post some other events which occurred in his life--like the name of his first wife, and the names of his children. I have no knowledge of Harrises in Pulaski Co., KY although I had some relatives who later married into the Harris family at a later date--Stoner was their name. But the Stoners were in a part of Pulaski which became Wayne Co. Here is your query: Hi fellow Harris searcher Do either of you have any information on a Christopher Harris who married Rhoda Hudson on 18 Jan 1823 in Pulaski Co KY? The name Wm Carter is on the marriage index maybe as surety. (?) We believe this was the 2nd marriage of Christopher. I know you specialize in the Madison Co Harris' but we believe our Pulaski Co Harris' are an offshoot of the Madison Co Harris'. thanks for any help you can give. Cathea (Cat) Curry [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) This is my suggestion: You may have to do as I was advised to do a number of years ago when I was trying to help sort out two men of Revolutionary era in adjoining NC counties who had an unusual name for the time and the place. The DAR staff genealogist told me I had to do this to help the applicant: 1. Determine on which watercourse the families were located. (This is the way we have to do early Southern research--even as late as when the Model-T Ford was beginning to make inroads.) 2. Determine who his associates were. Neighbors, in-laws, who the kids married, etc. Fortunately, I had a list of the children's marriages, so I concentrated on the names of the sons-in-law. They had to be hanging around the neighborhood for the girls to meet them. (Roads were poor, there were no streetlights, and one was lucky to have a wheeled carriage of any sort. Besides one could not carouse all night when you were expected to do farm work the next day. I know my Christopher Harris, who died testate ca 1798 in Madison Co., KY, had a son named Chrsitopher, but I don't believe Chris II migrated elsewhere. Chris II, as I understand it, became a Baptist preacher. I think he officiated at quite a few Madison Co., marriages. Perhaps Ira can help you. I do not have a great deal of time to do research for myself lately--family illnesses, etc. If you are near an LDS family history center, you probably could order a film of a kind of history of many of the families of Madison Co. authored by a fellow named William Harris Miller. The shortened name is Genealogies and Histories--- The title is much longer because it encompasses MANY families of that area. Much of the Harris material is correct. Some of the other material is incorrect. Too bad Mr. Miller, who married into the Harris family, if I remember correctly, did not go to the county courthouse and do some research before he lumped a whole bunch of Oldham families together. Search the FHL catalog (online) for the full name of the author--William Harris Miller--else, you will be staring at the catalog for a long time!!! Sorry I don't have time to help you sort out your Harrises. One lecture I attended recently emphasized that for those of us doing Southern research, we HAVE to use land records. That is how you find the answers to the questions which the DAR genealogist suggested. Unfortunately, I see that Pulaski had some destruction of some of its records. Take a peek at Wayne Co. records, many of which have been transcribed and published lately.