This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/52.69 Message Board Post: I see that your lineage includes the following: Alexander Belar ROPER (b 13 Dec 1905, d 01 Jan 1982 - Fulton, GA) m Pearl --- (b 09 Jan 1904, d 06 Feb 1993 - Fulton County, GA) [your grandparents] Pinkney M. ROPER (b 20 Mar 1883, d 17 Aug 1966 - Forsyth County, GA) m Nettie G --- (b abt 1884, d 03 Apr 1956 - Forsyth, GA) [your great-grandparents] * * * And I see that there is a line from: William ROPER (b abt 1809 - SC, d 07 Feb 1892 - Forsyth County, GA) m Susan Masters (b abt 1809 - SC, d 07 Mar 1879 - Cumming, Forsyth County, GA) William Alexander ROPER (b abt 1839 - SC, d 24 Apr 1864 - GA) m Sarah A. TALLANT (b 24 Nov 1820 - Forsyth County, GA, d 01 Feb 1906 - Walker, GA) on 09 Sep 1855 * * * But I am NOT seeing how you believe your ROPER line connects from Pinkney M. ROPER (b 20 Mar 1883, d 17 Aug 1966 - Forsyth County, GA) to the PRIOR generation. You also mention a Pinckney ROPER (b abt 1863) as an ancestor. But it is unclear to me how you believe this Pinckney is connected to either Pinkney M. ROPER (b 20 Mar 1883, d 17 Aug 1966 - Forsyth County, GA) or to William Alexander ROPER (b abt 1839 - SC, d 24 Apr 1864 - GA). I would be inclined to place Pinckney ROPER (b abt 1863 - GA) as the son of John ROPER (b abt 1799 - NC) and Amy --- (b abt 1826-7 - GA). Based upon the 1860 and 1870 Census enumerations, it would appear to me that children of this couple include: Alfred ROPER (b abt 1848 - GA) Sarah A. ROPER (b abt 1854 - GA) John T. [or F.] ROPER (b abt 1858 - GA) Reuben ROPER (b abt 1859 - GA) Theresa ROPER (b abt 1861 - GA) Pinckney ROPER (b abt 1863 - GA) Larkin ROPER (b abt 1865 - GA) By 1880, this Pinckney ROPER is working on the farm of W. L. CHAMBLE and Larkin ROPER is a laborer on the farm of William PHILLIPS. * * * I would be interested in understanding what you believe your lineage to be! Incidentally, the is a ROPER DNA Project administered by Dr. L. David ROPER. It would probably be helpful to have a test subject from a ROPER-surnamed male from this family. Participation might also reveal whether the asserted lineage is actually correct.