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/VRB.2ACE/1516.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: All I have in the way of any proof is my grandmother Josey's family data records she collected. I am still trying to verify most of what I have. Some of my records have already be proven valid by other family members. However due to the lack of "valid" records for anything spelled out in black in white for a woman prior to 1850, other than the occasional land record, there isnt much to go on. Tracking a woman back then just did not seem a real priority as they are only counted as an age group, making real *hard evidence* a thing of "LUCK" if you should find something. I am still working on this family, and have been for the last 8 months. Should I come across something more concrete I will let you know. Thanks for the correction for Jesse T. Cole. I will fix that in my records. I had actually had the initial in papers as a B. until I found the one from census showing it to be the E. By the way, nice to converse with you as well cousin. :-)