Hi everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that I have found some "live" RENSHAW cousins. One is in Ohio and two are in Virginia. What I did was use the http://www.switchboard.com website to find RENSHAW surnamed people in the Richmond and Petersburg, VA area. I have received two replies in just two weeks from snail mail. One was a phone call from a first cousin once removed. The second letter reply is from a cousin that is a 2nd and 4th cousin. The first cousin is a man, and he was very pleased to know RENSHAW family was trying to find him. He has pictures of my grandmother Martha Louise RENSHAW. His father was her brother. My cousin never met my grandmother. He had his niece find letters from the cousin in Ohio so he could give me her address. The cousin from Lima, Ohio is a sister of the 2nd and 4th cousin. These two ladies are from a family of 15 RENSHAW children that were all born in Petersburg, VA. As a result of the cousin in Ohio giving me one more generation on my ANDREWS lineage, I found another set of grandparents in the ANDREWS line. I went to the Internet after talking to her and found a 3rd cousin once removed doing research. We have now learned that two ANDREWS brothers married PERKINSON sisters. That gives us dual relationships with may family members. This is amazing. Thank goodness for my Family Tree Maker. It helped me identify their relationships. I could never do it by myself. I now have added two more surnames to search: GISH and BELCHER. So far I don't have any PERKINSON ancestors. That would really complicate things if I find some. I have learned that my DAVIS cousin through my LUFSEY side has the name BELCHER in his lineage on his DAVIS side. The story goes on and on. I now have 5 more ANDREWS cousins with whom I need to correspond. The cousin in Ohio gave me an ANDREWS cousin in Florida. The cousin with the ANDREWS website gave me email addresses on two more ANDREWS cousins that are researching also. The past week and a half have my head spinning. I must say...hanging in there pays off. I have been searching using the Internet for almost 4 years, and all of a sudden, I now have 5 cousins that are researching also. One is a RENSHAW cousin. She was able to add another child to the list from the 1880 census that Gwen, our RENSHAW listowner, found for me. I now have a Hester RENSHAW, my great grandaunt, that was born in Petersburg, VA. Now I also know where my great grandfather William James RENSHAW I is buried. He is in Danville, Pittsylvania, VA in the Leemont Cemetery. I got that off his death certificate. Some kind researcher in Danville went to the cemetery to get a picture of the headstone for me, and found no headstone. William James' first wife, Susan E. ANDREWS-RENSHAW, is buried in the Vaughan Burial Grounds, outside of Petersburg, VA. My cousin in Ohio and her daughter went to Virginia searching for family, and found that one in a forest. The nice little old lady that lives there on the property turned out to be a relative of ours on the ANDREWS side. Just wanted to pass on my excitement to everyone. I'm still trying to find out who the parents of William Thomas RENSHAW, my gg grandfather, are. I know he had a brother named Henry. This past week while surfing on the Internet, I found a site that has the 1870 census for Montgomery Co., MD. In that census there are a Henry, a Thomas and a William. I'm hoping that the William is my gg grandfather, and Henry is his brother. Do you think I'll get real lucky, and find Thomas to be their father? We will see. I need more pieces to this puzzle to solve the mystery. Henry was a minister in or near Baltimore. William Thomas' youngest son Charles E. RENSHAW was also a minister in or near Baltimore. I hope everyone is having as much luck as I am. It's not easy work, but it sure in interesting. The nicest people in this world must be genealogists. Take care, Tina Ellis