Hello Michael! With regards to your inquiry, I hope you find this information useful: I belong to a nation wide group with about 400 active members, called the Pennington Research Association (PRA) whose purpose is to gather and exchange data on the Pennington family. The PRA web home page address is: (for PRA membership info including snail mail address and application) ---- http://users.aol.com/SPRIVETT/prahome.htm OR, for additional PRA info, you can email Steve Privette at: eqretrodr@earthlink.net (Steve Privett) OR, you can send regular mail to check a name to: Mary A. Kirby, Editor, PRA, 1722 Spring Lake Dr., Arlington, TX., 76012. Sometimes they can check right away for you. Other times they will publish your inquiry in their semi-annual publication (Pennington Pedigrees) as a query. Be sure to include your own name and address and information about the ancestor you are researching. OR, to join the PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION send your application and check to: PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, C/O Chuck and Barbara Pennington, 6800 Raldina Court, Carmichael, CA 95608-4561. If you wish to join, the dues are $23 per calendar year (you receive two issues of Pennington Pedigrees and two issues of the Pennington Courier free of charge). Make check payable to PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. I hope this helps. Gene Pennington (GenePenn@aol.com or GenePenn@msn.com) ---------------------- Just for information, the following is a short listing of my immediate Pennington ancestors: PENNINGTON, Benajah (or Benagah), b. 18 AUG 1770, Grayson Co., VA.; d. 12 OCT 1855, Stockton City, Cedar Co., MO.; married Matilda HEMBREE EMERY, b. 25 JUN 1779, SC, d. 20 AUG 1878, Stockton City, Cedar Co., MO. CHILDREN: Joel, b., c 1815; Sarah S., b. c 1834; Eber, b c 1818; Andrew Jackson Monroe Pennington, b. 30 OCT 1824, d. 11 FEB 1863; John, b., ukn; Isaac, b. ukn; Newton, b. c 1825, d c 1875; Jordan, b. ukn; I am related to Andrew Jackson Monroe Pennington. I am gathering data on my ancestors. I have records to share with anybody doing research on this family. I have data on related family names of: WANN, TANKERSLEY & STICKNEYs.