Today I got determined to finally find my last missing set of great great great grandparents - all I had was that Granny thought Anna Morgan's father's name was Billy. This took some work. Finally located detah certificate for her first husband which explains that he was murdered, but doesn't list a spouse (he was cheating on her at the time with a married woman which led to his demise). But it did list Morris Morgan as the informant. I thought - must be either her father or a big brother. I then found a delayed birth certificate for Morris - yes, the right time and place to be a big brother. And his Daddy was, in fact, William J. Morgan. Mystery seems to be solved. Of course William J. Morgan was the son of H.P. Morgan & Margaret Galloway and married Mary Galloway. The rest got easy and I added two more connections to William Galloway, bringing my current total to 6 - not bad considering Mom is a closet Yankee from New Hampshire <g>. One thing anyway - connection number 6 - through Mary, is by son Robert by William's second wife. The others are one through dtr Elizabeth and four through son John. Cut down considerably on the number of great great great great grandparetns to track down. Just one more set to go -anyone know who John Wood's parents are? 1848-1900 married Rachel Bracken and had to go all the way to Tennessee to get murdered. And considering the frequency this occurs in my family, do I need a body guard? -- Linda Hoxit Raxter lraxter@citcom.net See Indexed Western North Carolina Cemetery Surveys http://www.geocities.com/~alextreehouse related to at least half the county - at least once ; )