Shirley asked: Have you ever found anything about a BAILEY/LEE connection. Weren't you looking into that? Several Bailey women had LEE for a middle name. --- That's a different line altogether. (I think.) On my father's side I have an incredibly intertwined group: Around 1800, 3 LEE siblings (children of Thomas LEE) married 3 BAILEY siblings (children of Thomas BAILEY) and the Baileys' widowed mother married the Lees' elder half-brother. These people all lived in TN and then settled in northern AL (Birmingham area) before it became a state, ca 1820. In the next generation, there were 22 LEE/BAILEY double cousins. Three sets of them married, and six more of them married six ACTON siblings. Subsequently, there were a bunch more cousin marriages. As far as I know, both the LEEs and BAILEYs were of sturdy stock, so the inbreeding had pretty good outcomes. Don't forget, inbreeding can strengthen good genes as well as accentuate bad ones. I've never heard of any physical or mental defects in the LEE/BAILEY/ACTON lines. Some of them were a mite peculiar :), but no more so than my other relatives! The RUSTs were on my mother's side. I'm not sure where in VA the BAILEYs originated, but the LEEs were from Nansemond Co and then went to NC. They are not (as far as anyone knows) connected to the Northern Neck LEEs descended from Richard LEE or to the RUSTs. If anybody can tie them together, I'd like to know about it. Kathleen Much kathleen@casbs.stanford.edu