This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AlB.2ACE/277.279.1.1 Message Board Post: I have the following on the David Bates/Effie Jo Bishop issue. Descendants of David Newson Bates, Jr. ********************************************************************* David Newson Bates, Jr. b: Sep 11, 1906 d: Oct 24, 1975 Robertson County, Texas ### married ### Effie Jo Bishop, b: Jul 07, 1916 Robertson County, Texas m: Jul 15, 1933 in Robertson County, Texas -------------------------------- children ------------------------------------- Martha Sue Bates b: Jul 21, 1934 Robertson County, Texas Norman Mack Bates b: Apr 02, 1936 Robertson County, Texas Ina Jo Bates b: Nov 13, 1940 Robertson County, Texas Edward Eugene Bates b: Jun 06, 1942 Robertson County, Texas +Janina Jager, b: 1947, m: Mar 24, 1968 in Robertson County, Texas Stephen Conrad Bates b: May 18, 1949 Robertson County, Texas +Dowana S Youngblood, b: Oct 08, 1953 Robertson County, Texas m: Oct 06, 1973 in Brazos County, Texas ********************************************************************* I didn't have anything on Norman Mack Bates. Do you know if he died in infancy or was just not recorded in Texas Birth Records? Hal Balthrop ghbalthrop@att.net