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/SaB.2ACI/1658.1.2 Message Board Post: My Cantrell branch only begins during Civil War times and goes backward from there. I haven't traced them forward. You might check with other Cantrell family researchers or with the Maxey, Goad, or Dodson family researchers. A lot of them have done extensive research on the family.