This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SWEAT SHELMAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdQBAEB/312.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, we're cousins, but not as close as I first thought, Your Hiram SWEAT is the uncle to my ggg-grandfather, Hiram Perkins SWEAT, son of Russell SWEAT. I have never seen your Hiram SWEAT listed with the middle name "Perkins", please get me some documentation so I can change my records. Do you have any idea where the name "Perkins" might have come from? The SWEATs usually used family names for middle names, but I have not made a connection. I look forward to getting the photo attachment of your side of the family, I am trying to find out if anyone has a photo of Russell SWEAT, son of Israel SWEAT, I found a tin-type photo of his wife, Mahulda/Huldah SHELMAN SWEAT, that my g-grandmother had, I am sorting pictures and doing archive-type mounting and labeling so I can scan them. When I get a little more computer literate, I want to set up a web site. Margaret