This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips, Reed, Vail, Emerson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/2008.1.1 Message Board Post: Could you tell me where your Phillips line came from.. Mine as far as I have been able to determine started in Maryland somehow wound up in Freestone Co. Texas and from there to Louisiana.. Haven't been able to find anyone with my ancestors in there family history.. Joseph C. Phillips is who I am trying to find information on. Thanks, Betty