This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ely, Shackelford, Moore Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yAC.2ACE/844.1 Message Board Post: You may want to look at the following website I just found: http://members.tripod.com/~Bowl/ely/ely-gen.htm I found it was really helpful but there is some missing information there. My family is also from Thomas Ely - William Ely - William Ely, Jr. - John Ely - Caroline Ely & Isom Ely - James Shackelford (Caroline's son) & Lila Ely Shackelford (Isom's daughter). By the way James and Lila married and had one surviving child, Mary Elizabeth Shackelford Moore who married Mack Moore. They had eight children in which my mother Alice Moore Harrell who married Robert Jennings Harrell is the oldest living child.