In a message dated 10/31/1999 3:23:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << While doing my research for my Greatgrand father George M. Shannon, I have run across a JJ Shannon of Shannondale. Where is it and what connection do these Shannons have with the ones I've been reading about here for so long? >> Is the father of your George M. Shannon, David Shannon? And was George born abt 1833 in KY? If so, George is probably the brother of my husband's great-grandfather, Ignatius Shannon and JJ Shannon's full name is Joseph Jordan Shannon, also a brother. I have some info on the family and would be interested in what you have. Much of what I have I got from Karen Zach ([email protected]) and Beth Shannon ([email protected]). Lucy Folger