>From: Katheo2@aol.com Any others of you out there willing to share surnames you are working on to continue the Roll Call? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Researching associated names with Smothers, Smeathers, Smithers-Grass, Berry, Statler, Foster, Greathouse, Fitzpatric, Goodman, Moore, Butler, Hinch, Kerr, Clark, Oldham, Kelly, Taliaferro, Stribling I choose to connect our Smeathers family as is, 1- Strong family stories and beliefs 2- Strong family resemblances/social traits 3- possibility of it occurring being possible. 4- people in the right places at right times. A research librarian-"How could a family have such detailed story if there was no truth" My gggg grandfather William Smeathers http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/smothers.htm Brazoria Co Hist Museum-Wm Smeathers Will/Obit http://www.bchm.org/Austin/panel14.html Migrations of Wm Smeathers http://www.migrations.org/individual.php3?record=21943 "Life ain't in holding a good hand, but playing a good hand well." Fr Law of the Heart by Dorothy Gentry as told abt Wm Smeathers **I am genial genealogist, I seek to the secrets of the past whether squeaky clean or scarlet lettered, I want my Past Unmasked. A friend told me - "My Mother paid a Genealogist $500.00 to research her family tree... then pd him $1500 to 'shut mouth'...** _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus