I saw Mickey's reply to cousin Sandy regarding the familiarity of the surnames mentioned in her message. I am particularly interested in following up on the Majors surname. Sandy and my earliest known Majors ancestor was Thomas Majors, born about 1811 in TN. He married Phebe Leffew, who had previously been married to John Farmer, on 27 Aug 1838 in Grainger Co., TN. It's possible Thomas may have been previously married since two of the children listed in the 1850 census (James and Daniel Absalom) seem to have been born before Thomas and Phebe married, assuming the census records are accurate. (I guess the other possibilities are that they were Phebe's children by her prior marriage who took the Majors name, or the marriage date was not correctly transcribed.) Since Mickey's marriage books only cover the period from 1796-1829, I'm intrigued by her statement the Majors surname was one of several mentioned by Sandy that she had seen over and over. Could Mickey or someone confirm that there are Majors marriages in these books (and Leffew and Bowers for that matter). If so, I'll certainly want to buy them. I'd rather buy them than just get a lookup so as to help further Mickey's work. Robert Strong