This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: sanford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4FFBAIB/670.785 Message Board Post: hi my name is tammy spain-mcbee, i was looking thru all the messages and saw yours. john rufus sanford is my 3rd great grandfather... john rufus and elizabeth jand smith had a son named james larkin sanford and james had a son named samuel meek sanford, my great grandfather. then samuel's daughter dorothy sanford had my mother virginia ann banks, and here i am. i have some dates and names of that link to the chain if you would like them. just let me know. also if you dont already know, you can go to http://www.geocities.com/coh41/41stALalbum.html and see a picture of john rufus sanford.. i have gotten as far back as the 7th or 8th ggfather's on the sanford side to the point of where the name was changed from samford to sanford.