Upgrade installed and going great -- I am still searching for MASTERS family ancestry -- preferably in the Alabama, North Carolina, Texas areas. I would truly appreciate any information from these states and of course others with same connections. My maternal ggfather, Mason H. Masters, was born in 1844 in Alabama. He was the fifth of 6 children born to John Masters and Zilpha Johnston. John Masters (1792 - 1857) born in South Carolina, married Zilpha Johnston, born in 1815 in N. Carolina, on 18 May 1834, in Montgomery County, Alabama. Little is known about Mason"s parents. My maternal grandmother, Maggie Arvizna Masters, was the third child in the family of Mason and Mattie Harverston. Maggie was born Oct. 7, 1877.