If one has a surname like Jones or Smith or Harris, it helps to have an unusual given name, and perhaps that is how Estes got her name!!! On another rootsweb list, we had a discussion about unusual given names, and a lot of people wrote that an ancestor--or even a living relative--was named for the family doctor. I spent a good deal of time trying to determine why one of my ancestors, with a common surname, had a middle name of Farrar. I did discover that in a previous residence in Virginia, one of the tithables in his grandfather's home was a person named Farrar. There may have been a relationship, but to date, I have not discovered it. When the third baby came to my family's home, my parents pulled a name out of a hat. No relationship but... they had worn out family names on the first two children!!! E.W.Wallace ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.