Jan - Thanks for weighing in on this subject. And I am trully sorry about your family mispelling their Nevill name all these years. They say its never too late to change. Also I was glad to hear that it wasn't just the Walkers who recollected their own family history all wrong according the facts. Incidentally, in trying to reconstruct my own Nevill history, I mostly followed Joseph B. Neville, who did presumably look at Boogher's sources and accepted some of it. We got into the big discussion on Boogher mainly because he seems to be the only one who claims to have found the link between John, Sr., James and his son John via the Duncan Bohannan's deed (Liber 6, folio 549, Land Office, Richmond.) J.B.Neville and SoJUND bought into it for their work. Still, It would be nice to know if this deed, if it still exists, shows what Boogher claims it shows. Every once in a while he may have gotten one right. Without this link, or some other evidence, we will have to admit that the original John, may have been the first immigrant, but is probably not the founder the Nevill family in America. That mantle would then appear to fall on the shakey shoulders of old James, who has had more after-death citings than anyone except Elvis. According to Newman, our alleged leader would be, without James, the head of a Nevill family of one male member, his son William, who apparantly had no children to whom he could pass on the name. As Ren said, John would be just another immigrant. Ah yes, the evidence must lead us. If some member, who has access to the Richmond Land Office records, could try to find Boogher's reference, he or she would be doing us all a great favor. Perhaps your friend, the president of NGS, already knows the answer from her previous investigations of Boohger's sources. Thanks, Jan, for your input. I always knew that genealogy was a work in progress that had no end, but the situation appears worse that I thought. Maybe we need to rexamine all our sources, particularly on the earliest generations and weed out the ones that clearly wrong, and footnote the rest. Don't ask me how. Jim Walker