In the interest of the Georgia Poythresses looking for something in Mecklenburg County, VA, to connect you back to Francis, I did word search of my FTM database, and came up with the following people who had a Mecklenburg Connection: Thomas Poythress Atkinson Edward Jones Archibald Algernon Campbell James Murray Sarah Bolling Tazewell Grief Green John C. Knox Theoderick Bland Ruffin Susan Murray Not all these folks are that closely connected to the main family, but perhaps one of them will strike a chord or get you looking at your families:) My current strategy to find some of my missing Virginians is to analyze all the children's names and see if any don't seem to be in the known families, and then search the web and library for similar names. And when I find them, I work back to see if a case can be made for why they might be related. Location is of course a big factor. My database, based on the index cards of R. Bolling Batte, is located at WORLDCONNECT http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=poythressp1 or if you prefer to access it from ANCESTRY.COM http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SRCH&db=poythressp1 Diana __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/