Mike, & Ragan roots, I just am getting started on the web with the geneology research. Thats kind of amazing in its self because I am a computer programmer and freqently surf the web. My known geneology has been written down from inquiries to my dad, aunts and uncles for some time. I started I think when I was a early teen. Anyway here I am now pushing 40. I haven't had much luck tracing my dads side yet. However the Net has help me hit jackpot on my mom's side. Going back 11 generations to 1710 with a Martin Loy from germany. Other decendants include Isabell Moser and Tom Brooks amoung others. Any way getting to why I am here. My name is Ronald 'Ron' Joe Ragan (b1960). My dad's name is Josheph Thomas Ragan (b1922 in Coweta, Oklahoma). He married Sarah Montine Brooks (b in Mt Pleasant AR). My dads dads name was William Joe Ragan (d.1931 in Coweta OK.) He died when My dad was about 9. He was a poor sharecropper in the area of Bixby/Coweta Tulsa area. The burried him in a cemetary I beleive to be called shayhan in Coweta OK. (I'm not sure of the spelling yet). I do know when I was last there a small concrete (yes concrete) headstone was placed upon what was beleived to the the gravesite. Anyway William Ragan married Margaret Elizabeth White of Izard Co. AR. William's father was Dickerson or Dixon Reagan. There seems to be come confusion about the spelling pronouciation from my dad. However another geneologist on the Whites side spells it Dickerson Reagan. He was married to a Sally Roberts. I have to check my records because there was also some confusion about the Sally part of her name could be Sara Ann Roberts. They also had a daughter Amanda Ragan (Hughes)(d.in OK) and Tom Ragan. I remember visiting Amanda Hughes in her later years. She lived to be in her 90's. I do have some dates to go with some of the name, but not alot to go on. Hope someone may know something. Thanks Ron Ragan. - ----------------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://www.switchboardmail.com