>"On the other side of my family from the Uptegroves I have found >that my gggrandmother was a Vye. As this is an unusual name it >has been very hard to trace. I am asking the members of the 13 if >they have any trace of this family? ... > >Roy Hello Roy, My STREEPER line has descendants named LINKENHOKER/LINKENHAGER who settled in Botetourt, VA. I have just run across a LINKENHOKER who married a John VIA. While looking in the census indexes, there ara a number of people named VIA in Virginia. There might be a connection there. Maurine Ward