Hi Vivian, I have heard about the book " The Shoe Cobbler's Kin" but I don't know if it has my surnames PUGH in it. My brickwall is the PUGH's. They were from TN. to KY. to MO. A lady told me that my GGgrandmother was kin to her line of PUGH's which were in Bollinger and Dunklin Counties. Some of these names were William Thomas PUGH, William Washington PUGH, Birdie Alice PUGH, Elzora PUGH, and Emma Lou Frances PUGH. My GGgrandmother is Elzora PUGH b.1875 KY who married William Henry LANE b.1858 ILL. I found them on the 1900 census in Cowan, Wayne Co,MO. other than that I know nothing about my PUGH or LANE line. :( I can't seem to find either of them before 1900 and I have posted everywhere and nobody seems to connect to them. Going by info or clues I have I think some of these PUGH might of died in Bollinger and were married in Bollinger in the years late 1870's - 1920's ? I am/was posting about the other surnames who were married to the PUGH's or have connections to them in hopes maybe someone searching the other surnames might have info on the PUGH's and maybe with the tid bits I have I can break through this brickwall. Some of these PUGH are in Bollinger in 1900 and 1910 census, but need obits, marriage or something to get more clues and prove my line. My Elzora died in her late 20's after the 1900 census, her son never had any children and her daughter my Ggrandmother died age 22 in 1918 so all the family info was lost. So I'm twirling around in Missouri trying to find something. Theresa Theresa, good to hear from you. Have you come in contact with any of the books that Lorena Shell Eaker has written? She has covered a lot of ground which includes much of the Bollinger family and their families. She has published "The Shoe Cobbler's Kin, Genealogy of the Peter Eaker Sr., Family" - Vol 1 covers 1701-1976 and has 1040 pages and 42,000 names. Vol II brings the story through 1985, with 1145 pages and 1900 names. She has also published "German Speaking People, West of the Catawba River in North Carolina, 1750-1800, And some emigre's participation in the early settlement of Southeast Missouri, Copyright 1994, 596 pages and approx. 25000 names. She has just finished "One Wise Man", A genealogy of Frederick Wise of Lincoln County, NC and His Descendants. All of these books include a lot of the Bollingers of our family. My husband and I drove down to Dexter in Stoddard County a couple of weeks ago to sit in on a meeting Lorena was having about this latest book which is about the Wise family, but I came down with a cold and after I bought her book, we headed home where I am just now feeling like a human again. I haven't been able to page through it yet. You can contact Lorena S. Eaker at P.O. Box 2125, Church Hill, TN 37642. (She is a Missouri girl and has probably moved to TN since her husband passed away.) She will be glad to talk to you about her books. She is getting up in age -- and it is my guess this is probably her last book, She is having book review meetings around different libraries in Southeast Missouri. I'm really sorry I couldn't stay for the first one she had in Dexter. Bedtime == gotta go. Vivian