Betsy Ross on the Lenoir County list told about the following url. It really is a lot of fun to see how your family spread thru-out the US. Also scroll down that page and visit other links. This website that lets you have some fun locating your surnames geographically (and otherwise). Thought you might find this entertaining as well as useful. You can enter the surname and select US Census choice from the following: 1850, 1890, 1920, 1990. You will see a map of the US showing the distribution of the surname selected. If you select all years, you will get an animated spread of the name thru the US. Here is the url: http://www.hamrick.com/names Carol Pridgen Martoccia 903 East Fifth St. Greenville, NC 27858 PRIDGEN Homepage : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 PRIDGEN Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl List manager for the Pridgen Family and for Wilson County, NC (NCWilson)