This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kNB.2ACI/865.931.960.965.4.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Tom, Why I ask was because John H.Hays;Hayes, had a couple of brothers we are trying to find. What I am was wondering if there could be a connection. Sometime in about 1850 - 1855 John and some of is family from Madison Co.Tenn. came to Mo.And it is my understanding that they all ended up in Texas Co.Mo. And reason that I ask about your James is because John named is son James Robert Elisa Henry Hays. Some in our side of the family spells it Hayes also . I still have kin in Texas Co. I will see what I can find. Shirley

I don't know if your John H. Hayes is John Henderson Hayes, but he's one of the Hayes/Hays found in the John J. Watts Collection which is described at http://www.umr.edu/~whmcinfo/shelf2/r038/info.html Through interlibrary loan, I received seven microfilms...they are very time consuming to read but many of the names you all have been discussing in this thread are to be found there. Only one of the many, many lists in these 38 notebooks has been typed up and alphabetized, hence the time consuming and totally enjoyable task of reading more slowly than I would have done otherwise. Someone on this list recommended a few months ago that I find this Collection and I want to thank them for their suggestion even though I didn't find the information I thought I was looking for here. What I did find was one man's opinion of what family information was important to make note of in these counties and it was fascinating. I found myself making copies of some documentation simply because I know that the descendants of some of these people would have no idea to look here...from Germany, for example or even North Carolina. And some of the family stories were simply too interesting to leave there... Good Luck with your hunt, Saralie