Robert, Good to hear from you. I'm still plugging away on these lines, and see that you are, too. Have you made any headway in determining James PILES' father (even if it's just speculation); or in linking James PILES to Conrad(us) PILES of Orange County NC. To me, that one still seems like it could go either way, i.e., 1) they were brothers or cousins, or 2) they just happened to be in the same region in the same early era, late 1700s. I don't know that I've ever seen a James records that is linked with a Conrad record. I think it's pretty clear that Conrad(us) PILES descends from Vincent Godfrey PILES, but what about James? Jim Smee