Hello everyone, I haven't had a chance to write to the list often, but have been reading for sometime now and have found everyone to be very friendly and helpful to one another. I'm trying to get my website up, but wanted to do more research into my surnames prior to the finish of it. I'm posting this to several groups (counties) so please forgive me if you receive it from different lists. I'm also on digest version, so I will answer any posts when I get my digest :-)) My email is: fahenus@yahoo.com Most of my family is from Pike County, Kentucky. Many came to Pike Co. from Va and NC, etc.. My question is that I'm trying to find some websites or additional information on my surnames, does anyone have any information on these families or know of any websites? I would also like to make connections to family members and invite them to Lisa & my list called: PikeCoKY_Ratliff_Spears@yahoogroups.com. (61 members already there with information on these families) They are: Ratliff (down from Marion Columbus born: July 20-1890 & died: 10-13-1940 and Ellie Adkins born: 4-11-1904 & died: 4-4-1992), Spears (down from Silvester Spears born: 4-26-1866 and died 2-19-1929 and Melvina Cox born: 4-30-1866 & Died: 3-13-1942), Childers (Pleasant Childers & Sarah Jefferies), Roberts (Corneilous Roberts & Mary "Polly" Benton), Damron (down from Lazarus Damron d: 1749 in Albermarle County, Va & Elizabeth Smith), Tackett ( down from Dulcenia "Dull" Tackett b: 10-20-1872, d: 12-13-1953; & James Smith Roberts b: 1868, d: 1944), Lambert (from Lucinda Lambert born: 4-10-1881 in PCK and died: 5-5-1948 in Pck & Wilburn Roberts b: 9-24-1868 & died: 1-18-1942 in PCK), Branham (from David Branham, Jr. b: 1780 and died: 1849 & Elizabeth Little born 1780 in Virginia), Newsome (from: Harrison Newsome born 1775 in NC and died: 1798 in NC & ?), Stewart (from Andrew Jackson Stewart born: 8-11-1865, died: 2-18-1946 in PCK & Nancy Caroline Newsome born: 4-22-1867 and died: 7-17-1952), Sanders (from Thomas Jefferson Sanders born: 1801 in Virginia & died in 1865 in PCK & Elizabeth C. McBrayer and they were married on 4-13-1820 in Floyd Co. Ky.), Cantrell (Isaac Cantrell born: 5-1832 in Wise Co. Va. died after 1910 & he married Artemisia Sanders on May 14-1854 in PCK) & Adkins (from Amanda Judy Adkins who married John Cox). I have had the most trouble with the Ratliff and Spears lines and those are my main lines. However, several sources have said that my set of Ratliff's are down from a Silace Ratliff. We have found conflicting information about Marion Columbus Ratliff's family, as we know his father is Jefferson "Jeff" Ratliff, however several different people have found different wives for Jeff. One such person is Nancy Hamiliton and the other was a Nancy Mullins, who in the 1900 PCK census it said they were married for 10 years and lists most all of the below children, so I'm confused as to that facts with that. Unless he was married more than once. I know Marion Columbus had these brothers: Phillip, John, Harvey, Joe and Jeff. Now the Spears is about the same as we have Sillvester's parents as: William Spears and his mother as Elizabeth Colwell and I believe they are buried at Hurricane, Ky. However, we have no information behind them. One story that my great grandfather, Elkana Spears (Sil's son), told my father was that either his grandfather or greatgrandfather killed a man in Va, I think, and at that time he was a "Sparks" and moved to Ky. and changed his name to Spears. I don't know if this has any truth to it or not, but has left me guessing. Any help or connections or websites about this family would be of great help... Thanks, Alta Fay Ratliff Henderson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com