This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Franklin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0UB.2ACI/436.438 Message Board Post: A great website is www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4665. It's called the Cooke Connection and there is a section about Franklin Genealogy. Hope this helps. My great grandmother was Eliza Jane Franklin Poteat, daughter of Samuel Poteet and Nancy Ervin.