In a message dated 5/6/2001 5:03:31 AM Central Daylight Time, VAAMELIA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Rev. William Goode of the Methodist Church in Tennessee was probably born in either Amelia or Prince Edward County. He was born April 02, 1803, and died in 1870. . . >> Have you looked at: "Virginia Cousins -- A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby," (1887) is about the Goode family and was reprinted in 1994 by the C. J. Carrier Company in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is not always accurate, but it is a good place to start. Cleve Nashville