Erin, Jan never told me that we communicated before. I remember now. I really don't think I'm as "blocked" as I once was. I have been getting some "scores" lately and they are leading me to either the Francis or the Richard Pile side of the family. I don't know where they came from, but I think they stem from Gentle John Pile from Maryland. John and seventeen other gentleman arrived here from Wiltshire on "The Ark and The Dove" with 200 servants in 1642. Where ever they came from, I believe they all branched from the Wiltshire Families. It's funny how this works, when you go back into your files to help some one else, little things pop out at you that make you say "Duh," why didn't I see that before. Rachel and I studied the Benjamin, Richard and William thing until we tired of it and all of a sudden the other evening I'm doing a lookup for a new member and find a print out from LDS that gives me William Pyle, born 1761, son of William Pyle II of Maryland. This explains some of the William's in Washington Co. KY. and opens up a lot of possibilities. Oh yes! I also came across a lot of people in my files that I have been Querying for a long time and your name was among them, but I did not put two and seven together. When Jan mentioned her daughter was doing the Pyle thing, I just said to myself, "Let me at Her!" Thanks for your help.Just like you, I have been working on my other branches and trying to do a book by Xmas for my ingrate offspring, that couldn't care less. They don't realize that it will be important one of these days! By the way, have you noticed that Spectral U has been doing a class on writing your family history? Their contention is that the crazy Indian, while he was drawing all those horse pictures on the cave walls and trying to leave something to future generation, did not realize he would be one of a few that told us his story. Ron |