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/0VB.2ACI/6243.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for answering my e-mail. My father was raised by great aunts as he and his brothers were orphans. My father always said that they (McCollums) were no Irish that they came from Scotland and that they came to kentucky from North Carolina.Somewhere along the way he had been taught that by one of the old timers. My aunt gave me a paper with Danniel McCollum, Revolutionary Solider b. 1760, came with his son David born 1779 to Kentucky. Married Rachel Morris 1804 and had 12 children. 4th son George McCollum born 1811, had son Richard b 1856, had son Joseph b 1886 had son Vernon b 1912, Vernon was My father, patricia Hawkins mcCollum b. 1937. Danniel is listed as one of four men living on Island Creek Kentucky about 1796. In Manchester (Co. seat) historical writings. and in 1807 Danniel was made captain of the militia of new formed Clay County Territory of Kentucky. The Kentucky census was started also in 1807 and Tax collected. Danniel, Danniel senior, David , W! illiam, and Issac all land owners listed in 1807 in Clay co. They are listed in every census until they died or moved up to 1850, when two moved to Indiana. Rest of family listed until present day in Clay and Owsley Co., Ky, as Owsley was formed out of Clay territory in 1840. I am constantly reading Clay Co. records for McCollums. One of the problems with the McCollums is naming everyone after a brother or father. I thank you very much for you're information. I'm new at this business, since I retired as a school coordinator. My data has come mostly from family bibles, and Kentucky state records from Clay Co. Historical Society. Also from the Revolutionary War records. I guess you and I might share some DNA somewhere along the line! I think the Danniel that left North Carolina for Kentucky in 1795, might be the one I am looking for. Anyway, Thanks very much.