Lisa, I don't believe that my Malones are tied to the ones that you mentioned. The farthest I have been able to trace mine back was 1822 in Tennessee. To me, the best place to start looking in the census for the area that you believe they were in. RootsWeb has an excellent Tutorial. <A HREF="http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/">RootsWeb Guide to Tracing Family Trees indexes</A> Ken