Hi Wanda, It is really nice to meet a Thomas that is "close by". How is the weather over there? It is rainy and windy tonight, but actually it hasn't really been to terribly bad. I remember it being damp and cold when I was a kid but I guess a lot of people here don't. I also remember when we moved back out here I wanted to get over the pass before the end of October. ( I didn't do snow then and I still don't). We made it and if I remember correctly it started snowing sometime in December and it stuck around for weeks. At least you are further back than I am. I cannot get past 1820 for sure and possibly to back to 1783, both in Virginia> I have one "Reuben", William Reuben Thomas son of Ephraim Newton Thomas. He was born in 1899. His father (EN) is the brother to my gggg grandfather, William Robert Thomas. I also stumbled onto something this afternoon about a Seaborn Jones Thomas on the Rootsweb Trees, There was similarity in the fact that I had read somewhere that my WR Thomas (born 1820) had been the owner or partner in a Grist Mill and Salt Mill. This Seaborn Jones had come back from the war and he had a Grist Mill in Georgia. Now, I may be shooting at straws (and don't we all start doing a little of that), but it seems to me that in those days a lot of skills were handed down. I will have to look at it a bit closer sometime. William Robert also had a cousin, Christopher Columbus Thomas, that was also born in 1820 in either Virginia, Texas or Georgia. Don't you just love multiple choices like this!!!! Anyway, no one from the CC side of the family has done any DNA testing to date either. I was so disappointed when nothing really matched up after I had it done. It has been only a little over a year, so I guess there is still plenty of time. Good luck, maybe there will be a connection. Where did your Thomases go when they left Virginia? Mine went to Tennessee and then, supposedly, Kentucky,. I say supposedly, because I really wonder if they moved to the other state or if the state came to them??? Gotta go, Virginia in Seattle --- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Flesher" <w.flesher@gmail.com> To: <thomas@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [THOMAS] Black Irish > Virginia, I'm in Tri Cities WA. Hi! From what I've been reading on the > List, I don't think I connect to the same Thomas family, at least with > Kathleen or Sue - yet we never know. I'm dead ended with Reuben Thomas b > abt 1730/40, and he was in Washington Co VA about Rev War times. I've > always thought he was b. VA, but now I'm wondering if he could be from NC. > I need more research. > > I have a few male Thomas cousins who could do the DNA test, but so far, they > aren't interested. Will keep trying. It just takes one break to get things > rolling. > > Wanda > >