Love your name, (Bettye), always loved the actress. I have only been at it 5 years but I am at the proverbial Brick wall. canot get anyfurther back than my GGf. My line hails from, I think??? the UK-NF- Boston, MA USA Robert Freeman THOMAS b. Liverpool, Lancaster Eng. May 22, 1817. Set to sea as a 13yr old to 1853 a Master Mariner. m Mary Ann Anderson Lilly b. Eng? 1853 Quebec Canada, had several children , one of which is my GF Robert Henry THOMAS, b. St Johns NF Aug 8 1857. My mother Alice Theresa THOMAS born 3/19/1897, Boston MA, USA Any incite greatly appreciated. Jini Dau of Alice Theresa Thomas, Connelly, West Roxbury, MA US of A