This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.vance/1865.2.1.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Bonnie it is over a year since your reply to my poast, am so sorry but I never read it- I am trying to find the parents of William M Vance b.nov.27 1826 in the early census,he gives Va as his birth place but in the later ones he says w Va or that part of Va, Shenandoah valley that became WVa.Wm M married Nancy E Watham (family bible) Nancy E whorton Johnson county Tenn. marrage records(Lisence not avable-lost-burned?)Marrage dates in both place are in a few days of each other. I have taken the DNA test#54198 on the results page.Shows a close relatonship to Jamie Vans and that my family split off from his line later than the Andrew Vance-william Vance-colville line--I feel that if I can connect to Wiiiams M's dad I can at least get back on the boat. Fvance@charter.net