I agree with Traci Thompson's comments 100%. However, as an amateur researcher who has been researching black families (including my husband's in North Carlolina) in Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties for about 4 years now, I must say that the white folks (including Traci, Job Webb, Victoria Proctor just to name a few) have been VERY helpful to me and many other families. And, in many cases, I have found some black folks reluctant to talk about their pasts due to slavery, sharecropping (the new slavery for many after the Civil War) "family secrets", adultery, illegitimacy and cases of incest. Nobody asked, just my opinion......(this is a famous line that one of our local radio personalities, Peter Mead, uses up here in Yankee Land - Boston!!!!) Deborah A. Lancaster Boston, MA