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/2UB.2ACI/302.657.661 Message Board Post: Several years have passed since your postings on this family. I know that there are still Basnight's (African American and non) in Tyrrell County, NC. There is a researcher in Tyrrell Co who has lots of info on the Basnight family. Check out the Tyrrell County Genweb site for good info. Also the Basnight message board. My husband is descended from the Basnights through several lines way back, though that isn't his surname & he isn't African American. I'm not from there but am always interested in learning more about that area. Have you ever read the book "Somerset Homecoming" by Dorothy Redford Spruill? She writes about the African-Americans who were on the Collins Plantation in Washington Co, NC adjacent to Tyrrell County. It's a great book detailing her search for her African American roots. The Basnights originally spelled their surname Basnit and Basnett in eastern NC.