Jane - Not sure if I'd call myself a Bradley researcher but I am related to the General and have done some work on some of the family lines. Quite a bit of my information came from my cousin Helen Alderson Boswell who is an excellent researcher. Like you I grew up hearing that my family was related somehow to Gen Omar Bradley but my mother could not tell me how. Eventually I got my uncle to cough up a few family group sheets that my grandfather had and then he gave me Helen's address. My connection to Omar Bradley comes thru his paternal grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis b. abt 1847 in Missouri daughter of John F. Lewis and Margaret. She married Thomas Minter Bradley (son of Thomas Smith Bradley and Barbary Ellen Cruse) on 30 Sep 1865 in Moberly. I am descended from Sarah Elizabeth Lewis' aunt, Hester Ann Lewis, b. 25 Sep 1819 Madison Co., IL daughter of John W. Lewis and Patience Davies. Hester married Thomas Williams Pate on 25 Sep 1834 Boone Co., MO. Thomas died abt 1854 and she remarried to William C. McCullough. Hester died abt 1876 in Linn Co., MO. Given the large family sizes of the Bradleys, I'm sure quite a few people in Randolph Co can claim kinship of some sort to Gen Bradley. There were a number of marriages between various Bradley lines and some of my extended Lewis family lines - too numerous and convoluted to go over in an email. I'd be glad to take a look in my database and see if any of your surnames link into the Bradleys I have. You should know that there is more than one Bradley line that came to Randolph County. Some suspect a relationship between the lines but last I heard this could not be proven. Carole In a message dated 3/30/2006 10:51:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Here goes a new topic for the evening. I have been told on numerous occasions by my mother (and possibly her brother) that General Bradley was a cousin. My younger sister asked this again of me and I related to her that it is possible but I have not been able to find any link to the General. I have long surmised some connection through the Foreman (or Forman line) as there are several of my great-grandmothers sisters I have not accounted for. The other lines for maternal great-grandparents are all well accounted for and at least through Bradley's grandparents no matches are apparent. It could be more logical that rather the link is through the Ragsdales or Stipps who were in the Randolph County area long before my great-grandmother and her sisters came to Randolph County. If there are any Bradley researchers out there with additional information I'd love to hear it. I'm not strongly attached to this relationship so debunking it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all.