This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cole, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GJB.2ACE/934.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Vivian, Thank you for responding. However, I was not asking you for any information on the Blanks family. I was responding to your posting of September, 2000 of a deed record for William L. Cole and his wife Harriett. On that posting you stated a surname of Cole & so I assumed, between the posting of a Cole deed record & your listing one of your surnames as Cole, that you were a researcher of/had information on the William L. Cole family. If you will re-read my posting, I mentioned the Blanks family as an explanation of why I believe my Richard S. Cole may be connected to the William L. Cole from your posting. My question to you was whether you had additional information on William L. Cole's family that might extend to his siblings & their children, since I suspect that my Richard S. Cole might have been William L. Cole's nephew. Have I misunderstood--is Cole not one of your family surnames & aren't you researching the William L. Cole family? My apologies if I have misunderst! ood and you are not a Cole family researcher.