The posting of your Smith and Walker families interest me. Do you have any record of either of your families moving to Missiouri? I have a Hugh Smith who was born in Kentucky about 1817, and moved with his parents to the north central Missouri County of what was then Ralls, in the 1820's. His parents both died and he moved with his brother south to what was then Greene County, MO. This Hugh Smith married twice, and of his second wife, Hugh had a son named Walker D. Smith, born in 1856 in Taney county, MO. I have always thought this was an interesting combination of names that I had not seen before in my Smith family records. Do you know of any connection of these families?. My Smith family also were in York County, PA as early as 1743. Also, do you have any families named Donaldson in your Smith and Walker familiies? Thank You, Judy Smith/Colorado -- People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson