Jan, The book Shaw's and Related Families starts with the 3 brothers I mentioned earlier.They were born in VA and moved along to surrounding states, so it is possible that you are connected, I just don't know how yet. :) It has all of the descendents until about 1970. The author was unable to locate anything further back at the time. Roy Louis Shaw, the author is now deceased and I have been trying to contact his children regarding any other information about the book. I know the book has information on the Descendants of Henry Shaw from NC, who came from Georgia, then to AL, and finally to TX. Several other Shaw's are listed, including a family of John Shaw from Mississippi. If your Shaw's are from these states or stopped in any of them you might find this book very useful. If you do find a link somewhere in the book please let me know because I would like to redo the book and include more lines of Shaw's that could be related. Hope this helps someone out there. Jaime