Linda thanks for your prompt response. Can you please send me your Benjamin's line[children] and your William's line by email to stephaxi@mindspring.com Our Benjamins are obviously not the same person , but either of yours might still be MY line. I am only sure of Barney, Elmer, and Ernest, my father. Barney was born in NC--- BUT NOT SURE AT ALL OF HIS PARENTs Thanks so much for your help. Also------Do you have any thing on Holly Adams' line.? I also have anNC Adams line that I can't trace back beyond 1825. Regards, Steph Powell Cecil