This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AKB.2ACI/17.2 Message Board Post: I am researching my wife's family (Swindoll) and can take them back to a William C. Swindoll. In doing so, I found 3 seperate people with that name in Pontotoc MS in the census from 1850 thru 1870. I initially lumped them all together because my W. C. Swidoll and yours are very close in birth years and both some origins in SC. I finally figured out that W.C. Sr and Jr were not the same family as mine. Your Sr moved to Williamson cy, TX (the Austin area) btwn the 1870 & 1880 census. Once I figured out it was a different family I stopped working on it. Jr married Susan Plant in Pontotoc in Dec 1862. My wife's W.C. moved to Hillsboro, Hill cy TX in the same time frame. They very well may be related but I do not know at what level. I have 9 children listed for W.C. Sr to include Jr if you don't have that information.