Tommie, Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! I feel like such a klutz sometime trying to work this thing! I am going to take some time tonight, and make you some copies of data we discussed. There is a little story I don't think I ever told you; When I first got started in my genealogy, I phoned every Shannon in our phone book to see who was possibly kin. One elderly gentleman told me he knew he was kin to Conway Shannon in Galveston, but that was about all he knew. It seems his maternal grandmother broke up his parent's marriage, his mother and he went to live with her, and the Shannon name was never mentioned again. I told him we were definitly related, and when I could tie it together I would get back to him(Conway was my grandfather's brother & my Granduncle. He was sheriff of Galveston), I finally did tie it all together, and was able to hand George Shannon and his sons all the family history they never had; family tree letters etc. George was related through my Grandfather's uncle, Joseph Franklin Shannon.Joseph Franklin had a son Alvan, who had George's father Edwin Carroll Shannon. Shortly thereafter, George passed on. I was so glad that I could give them all I did. I haven't looked at that material in some time, but I think the Shannons in the Richmond-Rosenberg area tie in here. Later I'll write you another tale George told me, but now it's time for Wheel of Fortune, gotta go! Mike