Thank you so very much for this information. I was recently told that John Ratlff (Ratcliff), if he existed, was probably a John Sicklemore? If I am not mistaken, it would appear by your list that Captain John Smith sighted him as having been on either the Sarah Constant, the Godspeed or the Discovery. In several different papers I have come across the Discovery seems to be the ship most mentioned in reference to the name John Ratliff (Ratcliff). Do you know any thing about that, or have you a direction to point me in? Do you know if he used an alias as suggested by the information recently given to me? If so where did you find this information? Might you also know about any of the Ratliffs that may have moved into North Carolina from Virginia, as my own family I feel may have been there too, but what county and where to start searching, I am not sure. My family left Virginia by way of Tennessee having one son while there and then as far as I know on to Illinois, yet the 1st child born in Illinois was a Guilford, most likely named after the battle of Guilford in North Carolina, leading me to wonder about the family possibly migrating from Virginia, to Tennessee and, or, N. C. and then on to Illinois. Finally resting in Texas... opps, I forgot, they did have a generation or so in Arkansas too. Once again thank you for your information and the sources of that information. Kelly ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]