In a message dated 98-03-11 13:45:49 EST, you write: << can find no lists or groups for the Francis family. >> In Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, PA on pg 755 - 757 there is quite a write up on a line of the FRANCIS family. Some exerpts "The American ancestor of the Fracis family of Connellsville was Robert Francis, who frist appears upon the records of Wethersfidld, Conn. in 1651." "The FRANCIS family of MA descends from Richard FRANCIS born in Eng., while FRANCIS of Troy NY descends from a Welsh ancestor" "John, son of Robert FRANCIS, was bone Nov 6, 1658, and was a resident of Wethersfield, where he died Dec 28, 1711. ...He had 13 ch. of whom 6 were sons...." another family "This family, of Eng descent, is first found in W PA in Westmoreland county, where Joseph and Isabel FRANCIS of Uniontown, lived and died." There is more, very interessting, I love browsing in this book. Madora (Matboyd@aol.com)