This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Willis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3385.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the information! The James Willis you have in your files is the same one I'm looking for. (My g-g grandfather James A. Willis was married to Birdie Pearson, daughter of C.C. Pearson and Eliza Jane Trent.) Do you have his parents listed in your files or were you also stuck trying to determine who his parents are? I am also researching the Willis, Pearson, and Trent families in addition to the Burton and Lawson families.