Hi, From the informatioon that I've found there is no infication of this family being German other than the name being spelled tailor in some early research. Pass down information from the older family is that there ancestors came from England. An interesting thing about being german, Frederick's wife's family might have German ancestors. Some information found on her brother was in German and the settlement was mostly German. Jeff Carr and Mary James, your names are very similiar to mine. The places doesn't match. The earlist my group might have been about 1650. In the Orangebourgh District, SC, some of the families Were Taylors, Murrays, Baylors, Jones, Williams, Jackson, Griffin. What I'm trying to do is to take John Taylor, find out who his wife was and the name of the children and work back to NC or VA. One family that I forgot about yesterday is Nathaniel ( N F) Taylor and wife Harriet. They had ten to twelve children. After 1860 a lot of the people could not be found. Thanks for the replies. Happy Holidays, Murray