In a message dated 5/19/03 8:58:40 AM Central Daylight Time, SHOKE2253@aol.com writes: > Well then maybe you can help me. Do you know which parents belong with this > George Smith. No, I'm stuck on that, but here's what I do know. I have a Mary "Polly" Ann Smith who married my James B. Thompson. Her father William H. Thompson had a brother named George W. Smith with a daughter named Mary Jane Smith. Mary Jane Smith married George W. Thompson (blacksmith) and they had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Thompson (wife of Wesley Newton Taylor). Polly Ann's parents were William H. and Caroline Louisa Smith. I only know that William H. had a a brother George W. through family lore. To confuse matters even more, our other Thompson (Benjamin Franklin) married Martha Ann Smith ... she was supposed to be another cousin to Mary Jane and Mary Ann (Polly Ann). I haven't figured out if that's accurate or who Martha's parents were yet. This gets so confusing because the same first names show up in both the Smith and Thompson line! Donna