On Old Dobbers page under surname projects is a lot of information on the Bright family but you would have to work back to it as it is early. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~paday/dobbers/index.htm Rose Parks ----- Original Message ----- From: PAULANIN@BLUEMARBLE.NET Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:39 PM To: NCLENOIR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCLENOIR] Re: origin of Brights This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRIGHT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QUB.2ACE/383.481.485.1 Message Board Post: HI, JACK YOUR NAME CAUGHT MY EYE AS I WAS LOOKING FOR MY FAMILY TREE. I JUST STARTED ON THE BRIGHT SIDE SO I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF INFO YET. THE BRIGHTS IN MY FAMILY ALSO CAME FROM NORFOLK VA. (I WAS BORN AND RASIED THERE) MY MOMS MAIDEN NAME WAS ADDIE LOIS BRIGHT, HER PARENTS ARE GORDEN SYLVESTER BRIGHT(1903-1974) BALLANCE(1904-1975), THEIR CHILDREN ARE: MARLENE, ADDIE LOIS, EVELYN IRIS, ARNOLD EMERSON, GORDON JR., MARVIN THOMAS, AND JACK LEON. (THEY ALSO HAD TWIN GIRLS THAT DIED AND 1 YEAR OF AGE MELVA JEAN, AND MYRA LINDA. GORDON SR. MOTHER NAME WAS ADDIE UNKNOW MAIDEN NAME AND UNKOWN FATHERS NAME. JACK WAS BORN IN VA. MOVIED EITHER TO NORTH OR SOUTH CAROLINA AND THEN TO TEXAS.(HE DIED IN TEXAS MAY 17, 1959, BORN JAN,30 1930 OR 1931. JACK HAD A SON I THINK HIS NAME WAS JACK EDWARD BRIGHT. THANKS PAULA