TO Cindy in California...... I see your interests include..... >>LONGSTRETH Yorkshire, England>Greene Co., PA, early 1600s-present<< WOULD this by any chance include the Longstroth/Langstroth (the more common spellings of the surname) family, variously of Kirkby Malham, Hanlith, Arncliffe and Langcliffe in the Yorkshire Dales? One of them, STEPHEN LONGSTROTH or LANGSTROTH, bapt. Kirkby Malham 1726, married as his 2nd wife AGNES SHACKLETON (also known as Nancy or Nanny Shackleton) at Kirkby Malham in 1787. One of their descendants migrated to America. If by any chance you descend from this couple then we are very distantly related, since Agnes Shackleton's grandparents were JOHN SHACKLETON and AGNES BAKE, who married at Skipton on Christmas Day, 1713. I descend from this couple - they were my 6 x gt-grandparents. There is a prodigious pedigree of the Yorkshire Longstroth/Langstroths in Ancestral File, which there is probably a germ of truth in but I never believe anything in AF until I have checked every detail for myself! So if there is any connection I would be pleased to hear from you. BTW, I note you also mentioned interests in "Somersetshire". You may care to know that the county is normally known simply by its short version of Somerset. It is one of those English counties that occasionally have a "shire" added - like Devon/Devonshire and Dorset/Dorsetshire - but in my opinion this was largely a gentrification by Jane Austen! The suffix "shire" is normally only added to a county which has a county town of the name i.e. York(shire). Derby(shire), Nottingham(shire), Leicester(shire), Warwick(shire), Worcester(shire) etc. Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845)