Hi Earlene, Any interesting breakthroughs lately? I have been writing to a descendent of William Arch Atkins, and found out a bit of their descendents. Still no leads on the mystery of who were the Atkins boys' parents though from this end. One of these days, maybe. I have been going through three FTM CDs of early VA records, but nothing too likely yet. It's all too early to connect at this point. Karen