This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shook Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SSB.2ACE/997.1 Message Board Post: These Shooks certainly are hard to track. You mention that your ancestors had 12 children, starting in around 1843. I am looking for a Jonathan J. Shook, who woud have been born around the years stated in North Carolina, but haven't a clue about direction. He later married Frances (Fannie) Burton and lived in Arkansas, where they had a son James Dalton Shooke, who was my great-grandfather. An Arkansas census shows he was from North Carolina but gives no other helpful information. Do you know the names of all twelve children you mentioned? Thanks.